kbal

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oops.. didn't mean to delete my comment with the edit. It was imagining that this would have the main benefits of Wayland without having to give up X, or something like that, which sounded good to me.

(edit: lwn has a comment that explains it. Sounds pretty good for those of us who enjoy font and geometry rendering from the '80s.)

[–] kbal@fedia.io 29 points 3 months ago (3 children)

A perfect chance for the NDP to do what it does best and completely miss another opportunity.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Why stop there? Ouija coding takes the "science" and the "computer" out of computer science.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago

Have you tried mastodon? Pleroma? Misskey? Akkoma? None of them have pointlessly complicated nonsense like "NFC" or whatever but all of them let you share things with a small group of friends and have control over who can see whatever you post. There are people using fedi like that. You may find it difficult to find them, for obvious reasons. But if you and your friends want to start doing it there's nothing stopping you.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 15 points 3 months ago

Only if they do something really crazy like willingly using Microsoft Teams.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 24 points 3 months ago

manufacturers could add support for the new key by updating the KEK database

Oh right, the KEK database. They are literally trolling us aren't they.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 12 points 3 months ago

All the major parties are hopeless on this issue, and the minor ones usually have nothing much to say either.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 9 points 3 months ago (5 children)

The morally correct course of action for an international Internet-based business facing this situation would be to cut all ties with the UK, make sure you have no business presence there at all, and then duly ignore their laws.

But that might make the shareholders unhappy I guess.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

https://bsky.social/about/blog/07-10-2025-age-assurance

Ha, so much for the idea of Bluesky being any better than the rest.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 52 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Pedestrians will need to pass an annual inspection to make sure they have the proper high-vis gear, flame resistant clothing, and signal lights.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There's legalism, and then there's legalism. There are intricate and restrictive laws that make it impossible for people to get both good and bad things done, and then there are intricate and restrictive traditions that form the basis for our system of government by keeping parliament from ending up with only the power to put a rubber stamp on whatever diktats came out of the PMO this week. Putting Poilievre and Trudeau so near the opposite extremes of your scale leaves very little room for anyone more legalistic or more autocratic than them.

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