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https://www.alberta.ca/system/files/ec-examples-of-sexual-content-in-school-libraries.pdf

Well heres the reference they cited in the law.

Everybody has their own unique internal world, so obviously you do you. All I can tell you that from my point of view it looks very confusing when you talk about "pornographic material at schools" in one comment and then provide references that, by anyone looking for pornographic material could at best be described as "incredibly disappointing".

I mean, seriously: If you were a bookshop owner and someone asked you for some good porn, would you hush them, look around fertively and then genuinely recommend any of this?

Users shouldn’t have to care about jurisdiction if the servers cannot ever read their messages in the first place. Any app that fails to meet this requirement should wholesale be disqualified.

What madness is this? Surely this is not about the servers reading a message, but about the user having or not having legal recourse against a server abusing whatever it is they can read. Metadata is data. Someone somewhere will know how much and when and in which patterns I communicate with who. And how much control I have over what they do with that knowledge simply depends on the jurisdiction. Technical considerations are irrelevant for that 🤷

Thank you, I'll check it out! It's great that they have a raw .apk download available, I don't have access to a Playstore.

Is there any solution to getting DOS games to work on Android? There seems to have been an old DOSBox version but all information I can find at a glance seem to be outdated. I feel like all the old 90s adventures would be great to run on my phone. Maybe even much earlier stuff like Zork. Or is this a fool's errand?

I was an idiot and bought a high end TPLink router, I can’t even use Vlans without signing up for their back door service.

Hm, at least with their enterprise equipment you can completely disable Omada.

There are lots of traditional crafts channels from all the corners of the world, if that scratches your itch. How about something like this?

On windows at least, Arma 3 uses battleye which is absolutely kernel level anticheat. It may be different on a Linux install, but I wouldn’t expect it.

You get to choose whether to use it or not.

Off the top of my head: Anything Valve (CS2, Dota 2, Deadlock, TF2), the entire Civilization series and Arma 3. Last time I played them Starcraft, Overwatch 2 and Valorant worked fine as well, though it has been a while and I don't know if they've gone the way of Apex Legends since then.

There is no "dilemma" here. There is no solution or compromise to be found here. Kernel level anti-cheat systems are simply not needed. While the games the tout them figure that out I'll simply play all the other ones that already have figured it out.

Relevant Brennan Lee Mulligan sketch

Driving a car and doing it regularly is the most dangerous task most anyone living in any number of western societies with service-based economies will ever undertake. There is nothing wrong with treating it accordingly - with awe, care and a healthy portion of respect and fear.
But whether the decision not to do it is a good one depends on your life circumstances. Do you live or plan on living in a big European city? Yeah, you don't need a car in your life, good riddance. Do you live in a North American suburb or rural area? Er... not using a car is probably not an option unless you relocate.

I had a pretty bad car accident due to failing to yield the right of way (I struggle with multitasking)

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something here. It should go without saying that when one is driving, one's attention should ideally be focused on nothing else and multitasking therefore shouldn't be a factor.

Thanks, that's a lot of pointers!
I'm fine with not the absolutely latest and greatest. In fact, since basically all of this is still cutting-edge I'm mainly trying to weed out the hype, the scams and the malware and at least find the somewhat well-trodden paths. It's all terribly fascinating but casually downloading month-old programs from random github repos and running cryptic docker containers with instructions that are half in Chinese and half in LLM-generated English (which still ends up too technical for me to fully understand) is kind of... stressful for me. That's just not how I usually use a computer 😅

How do you know? Statistics reported by websites… which are recording user agent strings?

If you randomly stopped people in the streets and asked them what a user agent was, you'd get a certain percentage of folks that give you the correct answer. That percentage is the upper ceiling for any possible error margin that websites recording user agent strings have in attributing those strings to actual browsers, since nobody unaware of that term will know how or be interested in changing their user agent.

Do you think it likely that this percentage is going to be in any way, shape or form... impactful, considering that most people won't be able to tell you what a browser is? 😜

Enshittification is inevitable for all free services (services as in with a server component).

No, it is not that bleak. It is only inevitable when there is an active push for a short-term maximization of user base monetization (which is very much in the nature of VC). It can usually be avoided with products that are wholly under the ownership of all users (such as a cooperative or a government-provided service) or - only if one is lucky - with products of financially independent private enterprises under vaguely benevolent and unhurried leadership (such as Steam, to some extent)

I used to have a (high-ranking and well-educated) foreign colleague who used to think that the "Main" indeed signified that this was the bigger and more significant of multiple Frankfurts.
I honestly can't blame him, it was a deceptivley plausible misconception.

Could I get a fairphone that won’t suffer from obsolescence after a few years? I swear I was just looking at the 4 and deciding against it because I heard people were having issues sourcing parts for older fairphones.

Can I get a forever phone where I can upgrade and repair module by module until I’ve thesiused and frankensteined every piece into a whole new phone?

I'm not having trouble sourcing parts for my FP4, maybe that's a regional issue or it's still too new. I intend to keep it for at least 10 years, but the most worrisome thing for me is that there are simply no aftermarket components. Maybe the market just isn't big enough for that, but it means we'll be stuck with whatever number of original parts the manufacturer provides.

You have met your sq quota

At this point you're only adding to the pile of questions I have 😜

Because it would remove the offending information from being viewed by his sensitive eyes.

But... you said it was obvious to you that the information wasn't offending them. So what problem would this solve?

Thank you captain obvious.

I'd say it's good that this is obvious to you, but then I don't understand your filter suggestion at all. Is it a reference to something?

You could filter it on your end

I'm going to go out on a limb here and suspect that the implied problems with holocaust denial and Nazism aren't that they're offensive to individuals but that the ideas are allowed to continue to exist, be practiced and eat away at society. "Filtering it out on one's end" wouldn't really address that.
@tfm@europe.pub may correct me if I'm far off.