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by jmclnx 7mo ago
> the facts are simply that the systemd users database has gained an optional "date of birth" field, which the desktop environments may use or not as they deem appropriate OK, we knew this, but why have a field that the article
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by jmclnx 7mo ago
Text Doc: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-278A1.txt
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by jmclnx 7mo ago
The bill that is missing, tax the very rich as the US did in 1960
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by jmclnx 7mo ago
Sorry, I do not know how else to say this: Well hopefully when Trump is gone NY remembers this and tells Pouyanné to screw when they put out bids to restart the project.
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by jmclnx 7mo ago
I can say I hate all GUI programming! Luckily, all my professional programming deals with back-end processing, so I was able to avoid GUIs :) So I feel your pain. I did hear programming for Wayland is harder than X11, but I never did eith
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by jmclnx 7mo ago
clamshell, that is a name from the past. But has nothing to do with Apple >Clam is a Unix(tm) shell that has many features of tcsh, sh and improvements all its own. >Clam is copyright (c) 1988 by Callum Gibson. Clam is provided free
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by jmclnx 7mo ago
>but he still cannot stop talking about the Antichrist Well with the antichrist in charge of the US, I guess he has a good example to follow :) To me, all this shows is being rich still won't make you smart. With that said, I wish t
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by jmclnx 7mo ago
I moved to ssh signing a year ago. I was using gpg, but it started failing with Emacs under BSD. The issue was with pinentry. So, off to duckduckgo to find out how to move to ssh, was rather easy. Too bad this guide was not around back t
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by jmclnx 7mo ago
If you have to have age, then I agree /etc/passwd is the best place. But that means a user's birth date will be public viewable, for some people that would be an issue. In my opinion. bdate should not be stored anywhere in
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by jmclnx 7mo ago
Just move to a non-systemd distro and disable this madness. I am kind of hoping systemd succeeds in adding age validation. That will probably enable distros like Slackware to fly under the radar. My only worry is Firefox, Chrome will be c
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by jmclnx 7mo ago
Apple user does not like windows, color me surprised :) But he is correct, it is time to dump windows. But for all the reasons one would have to dump windows, half or more also applies to Apple. So yes, dump windows and move to Linux or a
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by jmclnx 7mo ago
of cource you can, but in the future ? Maybe you will be required to upload an ID.
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by jmclnx 7mo ago
And to add to this, proprietary OSs are about to get worse and can blame the politicians for it. With these new age laws, these systems can legally ask for personal information, and I am sure as time goes, information required will expand.
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by jmclnx 7mo ago
I agree, but this could be an issue with all distros based in the US. From my reading of these laws, I think the CA or NY or IL law could easily morph into a US National Law. So all US based distros may need to do something. I saw an arti
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by jmclnx 7mo ago
I believe most of the original committers and maintainers of X are long gone, if still around they could very well be in their late 70s and 80s. I would agree if you said many of the Wayland Developers people started with Xfee86. But I thi
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by jmclnx 7mo ago
people may remember 'Y' from many years ago, AFAIK it was suppose to replace X, but never got to the point were Wayland is now. >The original conceit behind Wayland is to only implement what is needed for a simple Linux desktop
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by jmclnx 7mo ago
Interesting solution and I really expected systemd would be were this age validation would be placed if distros what it. But if this becomes a thing in Linux for the distro I use (doubtful), I will abandon Linux after 30+ years. I am rather
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by jmclnx 7mo ago
Can it be upgraded ? I heard many newer laptops went back to soldered ram because people want thin. I doubt I will ever get a system with this type of ram, but if it can be easily upgraded then that is an improvement. I usually buy used o
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by jmclnx 7mo ago
> The bizarre thing is that our government still wants to close down the remaining nuclear power plants. That is very weird, even Germany stated recently that closing down their Nuclear Plants was a big mistake. For a very long time, I h
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by jmclnx 7mo ago
Again the US admin proves how dumb they are, even Pres. Bush II knew it would be real stupid to attack Iran. But one thing, higher oil prices may get the US to really get working to avoid Climate Change. Yes, some progress has been made, b
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by jmclnx 7mo ago
One thing to be aware of, pasteurization adds costs to dairy products. So it is being done for a real reason, not just "because". Companies will never pay to do anything unless not doing it will open them up to a law suit. So, r
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by jmclnx 7mo ago
I do not know if what the FDA that is true, but with RFKjr in charge you never know. With that said, I will always avoid raw milk or products from raw mike since there are known issues.
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by jmclnx 8mo ago
Worldwide ? Seems so from the article. But my guess is maybe Honda will wait for Tesla or another US based auto company with EVs to fail and buy that company. Seems that is how large companies do "innovation" these days.
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by jmclnx 8mo ago
>That is until now. AI unlocks that opportunity to upgrade, customize, replace, and frankly better access and use the data captured in these systems of record. Thanks for making my day, funnest quite about AI I ever read :) And now there
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by jmclnx 8mo ago
I moved my site to Gemini on sdf.org, I find it far easier to use and maintain. I also mirror it on gopher. Maintaining both is still easier than dealing with *panels or hosting my own. There is a lot of good content out there, for examp
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by jmclnx 8mo ago
I was a DR-DOS 6.0 user and it was great, 7.0 seemed to be worse. But by then I had moved to Coherent then Linux when MW closed down. I will need to give DR-DOS a try.
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by jmclnx 8mo ago
A better link: https://xcancel.com/BrendanCarrFCC/status/203285541423304717... BTW, the link is a waste of your time reading it, it is just the current US regime whining again.
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by jmclnx 8mo ago
Sounds like they are saying use a repo like git for your documents to help AI read/"understand" your docs. Is that correct ? I am all for using a source control system for your documents, I usually use RCS. But give AI acce
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by jmclnx 8mo ago
Needs to be here, from fortune(6): > THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #18a: FIFTH > .... > The many versions of the FIFTH language reflect the sophistication and financial status of its users. Commands in the ELITE dialect i
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by jmclnx 8mo ago
> Jef Spaleta, the Fedora Project leader, isn't sure of the legalities, but he thinks it might be as simple as mapping "uid to usernames and group membership and having a new file in /etc/ that keeps up with age.&quot

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