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Apparently there is no GNU/Linux support at all.
Pornography is illegal in China and Korea, yet their populations are in decline, too.
Re:Now That Information Is Free, What's a College Campus For? on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:07PM (#50073962)
It has not been that many years yet. Habits die hard, but in time, perhaps that will change.
Re:Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @07:54AM (#49991480)
These days I favour lossless WEBP instead of PNG. I often save around 30%~40% of file size compared to PNG, especially when the PNG is encoded with lots of bits per pixel (i.e 48 bits or 24 bits).
Re:U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective on Friday August 28, 2026 @11:08AM (#49479702)
They will become pariahs financially speaking. Nobody will be authorized to wire money to/from them. It's brutal.
You're right, my original question was poorly worded.

My point is to distinguish what young children do with their screens: they could be learning things through educational games or videos for example.

"Screen viewing" seems very vague. What did they do with their screens? Did they read an encyclopedia, or did they watch entertainment content videos? It's an important distinction.
Re:One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @12:30PM (#49348196)
A computer is paid for and/or run by at least one human being.
These are the same people who want to identify you whenever you interact with a "social media" website.

I will never comply.

What about the BSD kernels? Other libre/open source operating systems? These laws should be canceled altogether. They make no sense at all.
Re:Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R. on Monday May 18, 2026 @10:41AM (#48180587)
"Human Resources" department.
Will they also find liable all the companies that produce addictive food by injecting sugar into everything?

What about the "infinite" broadcasts found on all television channels?

This is ridiculous and pathetic.

It's not only the united states of America. These tyrannical views have been brewing everywhere for years, and there was not enough public counter-narrative to these ideologies.
If "dis-information" is the core of the issue, then perhaps we ought to start banning religions? Despite doing that, China is a champion of spreading "dis-information" within their own walls. Hostile actors are not foreign, most often they are domestic. The biggest offenders are governments. Only freedom opposes their power, which is why they want to restrict it.
Sadly it's not only the UK. There is a global push to restrict communication world-wide. The future is very bleak for fundamental freedoms.
Taxpayers' money used to track taxpayers and finance the advertising industry.
Re:Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood on Thursday March 05, 2026 @10:44AM (#47262974)
It makes us dumber and dumber.
Re:Ask HN: Share your productive usage of OpenClaw on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @09:36AM (#47152077)
Thanks for sharing. Can you share an estimate of how many tokens it uses over time? Would love to know how much it costs in terms of money.
Re:Discord Just Killed Anonymity on Friday February 13, 2026 @04:51AM (#47000903)
That does not mean everybody systematically is "hurt" like you were. That is a very dangerous extrapolation.
Has anyone managed to run Matrix over I2P or other similar overlay network technologies?
Why would Slack not be affected by the same stupid laws?
Re:The state of Linux music players in 2026 on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @04:25AM (#46777553)
All these players will never dethrone DeadBeeF's interface. Foobar2000 simply has the perfect layout - and it's customizable.
> psc uses eBPF iterators to read process and file descriptor information directly from kernel data structures. This bypasses the /proc filesystem entirely, providing visibility that cannot be subverted by userland rootkits or LD_PRELOAD tricks.

Is there a trade off here?

Overlay networks + libre and open-source software only (preferrably with reproducible builds).
It's not even about "piracy". It's about "unauthorized copying".
Tor is nice, but I still prefer i2p.
Re:SecretSpec: Declarative Secrets Management on Monday July 21, 2025 @12:43PM (#44637297)
What's wrong with committing encrypted secrets? That's how I use `sops`.
A for loop in a shell script may sometimes look like this:

`for ((i = 0 ; i < max ; i++ )); do echo "$i"; done`

Here this is essentially a "while" loop, meaning it will keep executing the commands as long as we don't reach `exit 1`.

(; flock -n 9 || exit 1; # ... commands executed under lock ...; )

It's a "for" loop.
Re:Zorin OS on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @12:33PM (#44501623)
Strongly disagree on the "unethical" part. Maintaining a distribution is a lot of work, and the infrastructure also costs money. Paying for the distribution of software is totally fine. You are not even forced to pay anyway.

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