Ladybird is pretty much dead to me, firstly because the dev has some really bad right wing vibes (he said gender inclusive language is too political for his docs and retweeted a Nazi on Twitter). And secondly because the started using AI to move the code to Rust to make it more secure, which is insane if you know anything about AI or security.

My current hope is in servo, because they have much more capable maintainers and the project seems to make some good progress. Also they have daily builds on their website for every operating system, so you can already try it out easily (but don’t expect everything to work right now, they still need some time).

Genuinely asking, why would you use FreeBSD when there already is Linux?

I think they have their own action system (https://codeberg.org/actions/meta), but I’ve never tried it. Maybe you can look into that?

My point about Microsoft was mainly because AI is harmful and often used in a hostile way against open source. Also the fact that Microsoft tries to own the whole free software ecosystem.

That looks amazing!

I don’t want to bother you about that or anything, but Microsoft (who owns GitHub) is a company that’s actively hostile towards open source devs and is actively using GitHub to scrape insane amounts of training data for their own AI models without regard for consent.

Have you considered moving to an alternative platform? Codeberg for example is quite good, all their code is open source and self hostable and the interface is quite easy to understand for someone, who is used to GitHub. It’s also managed by a nonprofit and it’s pretty easy to transfer you repo from GitHub to there.

What did he say, do you still have your job?

Yeah, don’t get me wrong, this is an insane law. It makes no sense and it is utterly ridiculous and dystopian.

I am just saying, that it is still manageable to continue, we shouldn’t give up. We should continue to fight against this law, but we can also realistically keep distributing our software regardless of this law.

I think, the age thing only has to be implemented by the operating system, not by every piece if software. We as app developers can then choose to use an API to age restrict our apps, if we want to.

We just have to make sure our app isn’t recognized as an operating system in itself.

But they could still just request the age bracket that is stored on the system at the time of download, no?

It’s not at all impossible, it just has to be implemented.

No, you’re just wrong. The law just says, there needs to be a local API, that apps can use to ask, what of 4 age brackets the user is in. That’s basically it. There is nothing about some online server that needs to hold that data.

Hetzner Storage Box Costa 3,81€ per month for 1TB and you can acess it via SSH or WebDav.

Or just prosecute them criminally, like they do with the pesants

It would be great to see them supporting democratic alternatives aswell and start posting on Mastodon, but they probably don’t even know that it exists, which is a bit sad.

Yup. And also we should advocate for our rights more locally. Organize with other people, raise awareness and do direct action.

I think the most effective form of resistance is relationships and new local organisations and new structures that resist the forces of the state and of capitalism.

If you are looking for some ideas, maybey you can look here or do your own research.

Yeah, I don’t think it’s reasonable to give up in the face of it.

You should make it as hard as possible for them to track you, use private OpenSource software, advocate for it and don’t be afraid if direct action, like destroying these cameras. The more people that do it, the harder it will be for them to do something about it.

Oh no, haven’t thought of that, thanks!

Thanks man ;)

I understand, but wouldn’t the same problem occur, if the server for the website you download your software from or the server for your package manager would be compromised? Even if you would buy your software physically on a CD, there would be a chance someone has messed with the content on a CD.

So I don’t really see this as a flaw unique to browsers. Am I wrong?

This comment shows that you know less about computers, than you may think. You can definetly make end to end encryption work using a Website. JavaScript runs client side. So as long as you trust the encryption algorithm (which in elements case you definetly can, because it is OSS), the encryption is safe and your unencrypted data never leaves the device.

They aren’t walking back anything. They just repeated their claim, that “most people won’t even have to give their IDs, because our AI will read all your messages and decide if you’re 18”

I haven’t quite understood, what LiveKit has to do with video conferencing. Isn’t that just some weird AI thingy?

Liberapay, Kofi