It is if you use cryptography or cryptographically secure hashing.

A magic fairy flew by and dropped this link here: https://www.gog.com/

Just saying! The world of truly owned games awaits you. (Well, second to fully open-source ones where you’d have the same rights as the developers.)

Still blocked. Europe, Wednesday 7 AM.

I agree. Specifically, it’s privacy AND freedom (free software development model).

If these two are against maximum security, GrapheneOS consistently chooses security. Which is unfortunate for me, because I would consistently choose freedom. (Especially due to long-term considerations.)

and distribute the apks on a different website

Or with distributed technologoes such as torrents. Then it’s cheaper to operate any required servers.

I think I can understand, especially if I categorize it as “data analysis” in my brain (could be the wrong terminology though, I’m not an expert). Possibly as part of a bigger actual research.

I agree that it’s helpful there. It’s probably also niche enough that AI-written websites don’t create 10 articles for every 1 legitimate as otherwise happens in 95% rest of the internet. You’re in a lucky spot.

I don’t know what kind of research you do personally, but for me, even purely for learning, AI is a total negative. Google and duckduckgo have essentially become unreliable. I can get “answers” to every question on earth so to speak, but I have no chance of knowing whether it’s correct, except if I already happen to be an expert in the area. That is somewhat offset by the fact that AI does good search and information retrieval if I can later verify for correctness. Also for learning, sometimes I can throw code/info at AI and it may do a pretty good job at analysis, which may help facilitating learning (“research”?). But the total, especially for research, is a solid, solid negative.

And then I remember all the problems that are currently attached to AI, and… Yeah. Good job SourceHut for focusing on one problem at a time, and the problem now being to continue to provide reliable code hosting and development services.

Of course it’s affecting everything. I’m not claiming that they’re evil. But either them or their positioning, seems to be somewhat weak when given pressure. They’re not standing on solid ground so to speak.

Also makes System76’s standing a little bit weaker in my eyes. Still *obviously* among the good forces, but they nevertheless gave in to the pressure around and were ready to comply.

… *slightly offtopic* I hate what the US / Donald Trump / Money power is doing with people and companies…

According to this website https://github.com/BryanLunduke/DoesItAgeVerify

System76 also planned to implement age verification should the law pass. They did not claim that they’ll relocate or re-register their company legally, or request their users upon installation to not use the OS in California/Colorado, or anything like that actually.

I think that’s noteworthy. I personally consider it half a fight. Like, you create noise, but if boss says it’s OK, you say “OK, you’re the boss after all”.

Among Ubuntu-Debian-ArchLinux, with whom I have actual hands-on and long-term experience, I’d rather recommend Arch if you can survive its installation process. Otherwise I’d think about Cachy or Ubuntu - based again on my limited experience in Linux, even if spanning 15 years and really liking it.

That’s an example of a good LLM policy, especially for projects like forgejo / sourcehut / codeberg. Happy to see this approach is getting adopted more and more. (The main Rust repo recently also got a similar policy, although a bit weaker still.)

The way I interpret it is that offline code review is fine. However, online AI-made comments or code suggestions on the platform are explicitly not allowed.

A policy I find very reasonable for projects like forgejo / sourcehut / codeberg.

I disagree. While it would be correct in some way, it would be a different political movement.

With “let’s introduce Linux”, it’s easy to stop mid-way and too early. For example, at 1 hour per week for 1 semester once during the whole school.

With “ban Windows [from school computers and as mandatory software]”, the political agenda is clear and the technical goal is clear. And the benefit is clear, too.

That actually makes a lot of sense, if you remove concepts such as “but Windows is already customary here” from your head. From scratch, you’d never want to do this.

If such a petition exists for the Netherlands or EU-wide, I’d sign and subscribe/support.

It is true that merely from the observation of old things, you cannot conclude that all things lasted long.

But as a matter of fact, from different observations by many people and areas, mid- to high- end stuff really lasted much, much longer. It was as an average rule more simple, less compact, and it lasted and still lasts really long without degradation.

Notable mention: Double Commander is excellent open-source software that also targets the UI of Norton Commander / Midnight Commander. On F-Droid, it’s Ghost Commander.

The initiative is great, hands-down. But… Is it only me, or it’s somewhat strange? The biggest prominent feature on the website is a video that doesn’t seem to be voiced by a real person. FSFE that supposedly backs the project in terms of reputation… what is it? I’m aware of FSF (Free Software Foundation, somewhat US-aligned) but not of FSFE. Reading about it from wikipedia, it seems legit. Did some people known in the Open Source community endorse them as well? I’m essentially willing to build my chain of trust to them, if it works.

Sometimes it’s fun to smash some AI in the game Feudal Tactics (or get wiped out). Not a thorough game, but it’s surprisingly repeatable if you’ll get along with its vibe.

And generally F-Droid.

What is the AI isage disclosure for this project?