TIL GNU Affero General Public License it a flavor that closes loopholes that were used to extend open software without actually open sourcing your contributions.

In some countries, corporations and government are basically the same entity. Free countries distinguish between them in a meaningful sense.

Is it not already a propaganda mill by convention? I assumed that was part of the deal to continue operating.

A strong message at sentencing only goes so far. People have to also believe they have a reasonable risk of getting caught. Otherwise, they don’t care how harsh the sentence is when they don’t believe it will happen to them.

Russia has received a truly outstanding return on investment with their American influence campaigns.

It’s some sort of weirdo purity thing not a safety thing.

Why would nobody say such a thing?

The cloud is just somebody else’s computer.

Instead of bundling all available security patches into the next ASB, Google now prioritizes shipping only “high-risk” vulnerabilities in its monthly releases. The majority of security fixes, meanwhile, will be shipped in quarterly ASBs. Google defines “high-risk” vulnerabilities as issues that are crucial to address immediately, such as those under active exploitation or that are part of a known exploit chain. This designation is based on real-world threat level and is distinct from a vulnerability’s formal “critical” or “high” severity rating.

Reckless behavior! You cannot adequately rate a vulnerability’s real risk, and we have a very limited view of what’s being exploited in the wild. Threat actors don’t exactly publish their successes, and even the smallest bugs can be used to build powerful primitives in ways that can be really surprising (e.g. a single off-by-one null byte overflow that seems minor can lead actual code execution with sufficient control of the heap). Picking and choosing is a direct security compromise that makes Android less secure no matter which way you slice it.

This reads to me as sugar-coating a cost-cutting measure. “Prioritize fixing and patching the highest-risk ones first” my ass. When you know of a bug that could have security relevance, you fix that bug. This just says you can’t afford the developers to actually fix your broken code.

This sounds to me more like they had a gripe with a WordPress plug-in and that was about the extent of the issue.

Don’t they have a bunch of kernel changes that they can’t merge upstream?

Ah, it appears that it’s indeed a work in progress. If I was going to try it, this is definitely the distribution I would use. But I don’t think a whole lot of people are able to run Ubuntu for example. It’s going to be a more limited selection because of the hardware.

I did this over a year ago. Man, I love that my computing is boring again. No distractions. The machine does what I tell it to do. It’s lovely! Boring is lovely.

Yes. However, it’s not super difficult to get a signed image to meet the requirements. To my knowledge they aren’t actively trying to prevent the installation of other operating systems. The bigger issue is the software supporting their unique hardware.

I understand there’s quite a few missing drivers on the latest Macs. It’s possible to run Linux but I don’t think it’s especially user friendly at the moment. Apple does a lot of custom stuff and not all of their hardware has open source drivers available.

It’s such a dumb strategy too. Why bother with Android if it ends up being the same product?

I’d just buy an iPhone instead because Android is working hard at becoming a closed platform anyway. Wouldn’t I rather have the original instead of the imitation?

I don’t know why Google wants to be a worse Apple.

I think the poster meant to write “glitch art” because FFglitch seems to be a digital art tool.

This reads much like an advertisement. Could we use a better source?

I feel like it’s been forever since I used a truly 32-bit desktop environment, and even then over a decade ago it was only because someone mistakenly installed the 32-bit version on a 64-bit capable chip.

It’s the “just us!” system, where “us” doesn’t include you and me.

I’m very concerned about GIGO “garbage in garbage out” because AI needs humans to write the code it “learns.” This isn’t sustainable.