OldMatey

This is a fabulous ruling and the EU continues (for the moment at least) to be the biggest champion of holding corporations to account and pushing back on entrenched tech power. I know there are bunch of concerning things like chat control getting pushed through but at least there is a counterbalance in other areas as well.

I am very excited for this. 2.3 was excellent and I've seen clips from people who got early access along with reading their reflections on it and I think this will be the new SOTA for home use.

Given the time and effort that went into this, and the luck that one diligent person noticed, investigated and discovered what was going on before it could get further... it seems very likely to me that this has happened already in other libraries without being discovered.

Break free from Google*. As long as you buy a Google phone. I really want to use it, but the Pixel only requirement is a deal breaker

My Huawei P20 Pro did this in 2018. It was fabulous, turned the OS into a mini-computer with a taskbar, desktop, icons, browser etc. It was still the best phone Ive ever owned (and I used to work at Google). It was no wonder Google killed with GSM. It was light years ahead even back then and they really hate competition.

State of the art for Open Source. This is a nice improvement, but far out I cannot wait for a Sparc3D equivalent for local use. Its a step change in quality. I really hope Hunyuan3D-3 is the one to level up to that quality now

What a disaster this will be. The end of any really open phones. By the time I cannot sideload apps or torrent onto my device, I might as well move to an iPhone and at least get less data tracking and better security.

This looks great! Can I export my end code / app and host it elsewhere easily? Where else would easily be able to host it?

Fantastic. This is far overdue and looks like a solid start. I have been particularly surprised by how few options there are in the CS space that are open source and options like Zendesk are SO expensive and the pricing tiers and cost structures are prohibitive for many small organizations.

We have been in a period of post-truth. We are entering a period of epistemological breakdown

Is there an equivalent that anyone knows about for Podcasts?

I adore Timeshift. It has made my time on Linux so much more trouble free.

I have used Linux for 10+ years but over the I have spent hours, days and weeks trying to undo or fix little issues I introduce by tinkering around with things. Often I seem to break things at the worst times, right as I am starting to work on some new project or something that is time sensitive.

Now, I can just roll back to an earlier stable version if I don't want to spend the time right then on troubleshooting.

I've enabled this on all my family members machines and teach them to just roll back when Linux goes funky.

Well that's not worrying. /s

I am curious how long it will take for Sam to go from being perceived as a hero to a villain and then on to supervillain.

Even if they had a massive, successful and public safety team, and got alignment right (which I am highly doubtful about being possible) it is still going to happen as massive portions of white collar workers loose their jobs.

Mass protests are coming and he will be an obvious focus point for their ire.

Agreed. I remember the town hall meeting where they announced the transition to being Alphabet. My manager was flying home from the US at the time. He left a Google employee and landed an Alphabet employee. I know it was probably meaningless in any real sense, but when they dropped the Dont Be Evil motto, it was a sign that the fun times were drawing to an end.