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This is a general, but non-politics, account covering everything from computer programming to supermarket meal deals; any politics will be taken up by @ JdeBP . For # senryu and # SlowLife tasks, see @ JdeBP . For the command-line and system tools (including # nosh and # djbwares ), specifically, see @ JdeBP .
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This is a general, but non-politics, account covering everything from computer programming to supermarket meal deals; any politics will be taken up by @ JdeBP . For # senryu and # SlowLife tasks, see @ JdeBP . For the command-line and system tools (including # nosh and # djbwares ), specifically, see @ JdeBP .
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@reallyflygreg@mstdn.ca @toddalio@mstdn.ca
I'm inclined to believe that it is indeed the people who don't understand technology (specifically: they think that everything works like their smart 'phone or Microsoft Windows 11 PC do) making policy; or that they did understand the technology and were just crap at drafting legislation such that it could distinguish the Microsoft Store, Google Play, the Apple App Store, et al. from #Ubuntu's package repository and #OpenBSD's ports tree.
And that distinguishing criterion is not #FreeSoftware. Given the aims, the #California legislators would want #FDroid to be required to hand over #AgeVerification data to free-software apps that F-Droid allows, that themselves want to impose age restrictions (on, say, showing certain content to minors) via the route of getting the account holder's age (bracket) information from the operating system via a 'signal' from the 'store'.
https://monitor.f-droid.org/anti-features
#FreeBSD #NetBSD #Debian #CaliforniaLaw #USLaw
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@Walker@infosec.exchange I'm sure they have their own proprietary AI models, but compared to corporate ones they're smoking on the sidelines :) I was actually writing an article about F-Droid today and I use it too. Since I'm a developer, I've reviewed all my past mistakes and now I want to create more open source. But since I have obligations to myself and to my partners, and I'm a person who loves keeping my promises, we have projects I can't open because it would violate signed agreements. So for the future I plan to write only open source code. Happy to meet like-minded people—already subscribed, the content is great.
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Radfahrerin, Stadtbewohnerin im Rhein-Main-Gebiet, Musikliebhaberin, angelt gerne Forellen und neue Sichtweisen, wandert gerne, reist gerne.
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Radfahrerin, Stadtbewohnerin im Rhein-Main-Gebiet, Musikliebhaberin, angelt gerne Forellen und neue Sichtweisen, wandert gerne, reist gerne.
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(What's so funny 'bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding Former Silicon Valley code monkey. 46 years with *nix, GUI, etc. Unix 1979, Sun, Ubuntu. Emacs 1977, Java Swing/FX until 2016. Now free of big tech, big oil, etc. Social media: from Usenet to Mastodon with no commercial sites in between. # EV 2014 # Humanism # Science # Antitheism # DEI # ProportionalRepresentation # OpenStandards # RadioParadise # ItsTheClimateStupid # VoteGreen # KärnkraftNejTack # noai # nobot # nobridge
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(What's so funny 'bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding Former Silicon Valley code monkey. 46 years with *nix, GUI, etc. Unix 1979, Sun, Ubuntu. Emacs 1977, Java Swing/FX until 2016. Now free of big tech, big oil, etc. Social media: from Usenet to Mastodon with no commercial sites in between. # EV 2014 # Humanism # Science # Antitheism # DEI # ProportionalRepresentation # OpenStandards # RadioParadise # ItsTheClimateStupid # VoteGreen # KärnkraftNejTack # noai # nobot # nobridge
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