I get the reasoning, but this is pretty sad. My older parents are frequently more and more fooled by sponsored Facebook posts with some fake product they want to buy, then all of a sudden they have “YOUR COMPUTER HAS BEEN HACKED” notification spam that takes up half their screen. It’s not to a ridiculous degree, maybe 3 times a year on average, but it’s happening more often recently.

I use uBlock Origin to keep them safe. If this starts not blocking any ads, I’m not sure what else to do. Is Brave going to keep up?

“Get them off Facebook” isn’t an option. They’re old, and it’s how they connect with their friends and get fulfilment. As disgusting as Facebook is, it’s too far gone at this point, I can’t take that away from them.

I use Traccar, at least on Android the tracker is set and forget, and the web app can be installed as a PWA for easy viewing of all devices. Admin interface is a little clunky, but when you get it set up it works great.

The future of AI coding is dead until you don’t burn $20 in three minutes just by giving Opus a single prompt. I don’t know if you people are just rich, delusional, or both.

I’m not sure how much of this is misinformation I picked up, if it’s kinda true, or not true at all, but I’ve always thought the airborne lead poisoning from leaded gas certainly didn’t help. Made everyone dumber and more aggressive.

Sailor Mars canonically would love burning down Sam Altman’s house

What problem does this even solve? On Linux, what app would even be asking how old you are? Web browsers for sure, and maybe electron apps like Discord? But what else is there?

I’m on Bazzite (based on Fedora). I’m comfy with it, moving distros is a significant effort, so I’m very unlikely to ever jump ship. If I have to make a workflow that mirrors the official Bazzite images and neuters this age check, so be it. Not that complicated.

But I’m willing to bet the community will step up and maintain browsers/apps that don’t have these age checks in the first place. Firefox has many forks that definitely won’t, and Vesktop will probably stub this out when it inevitably comes to Discord. If there’s nothing to ask for age verification, it doesn’t matter what the OS can do.

I really don’t see a need to burn a distro I’m comfortable with, even if the upstream maintainers are a little dumb. There a ton of ways to bend a Linux distro to your will without throwing your hands up.

More taskbar customization, including vertical and top positions: Repositioning the taskbar is one of the top asks we’ve heard from you. We are introducing the ability to reposition it to the top or sides of your screen, making it easier to personalize your workspace.

You didn’t introduce shit. It was a feature all the way up to Windows 10 and then you removed it. Go fuck yourselves.

Wouldn’t it be nice if this was actually a heartfelt message from a developer instead of damage control? Wouldn’t it be nice if a large corporation had some self awareness for one goddamn second?

Interesting that the maintainer of Proton-GE personally closed the first issue. Keep an eye on Proton-GE’s quality over the next few months.

What happened to “reviewed and heavily tested over 2-3 weeks” from the release notes? Maybe Claude wrote that too lol

I really, genuinely, no sarcasm, do not understand why it’s not a real alternative.

I don’t think Mullvad is blocking anyone. I’m not sure if Archive . Today is still doing what they did in 2023, but if they are, it would be more correct to say Archive . Today is blocking you for using Mullvad’s DNS servers.

Why is everyone pretending the Wayback Machine doesn’t exist

https://web.archive.org/web/20260219185525/https://www.theverge.com/tech/881352/mastodon-default-server-recommendations-experiment

Here’s your alternative:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260219185525/https://www.theverge.com/tech/881352/mastodon-default-server-recommendations-experiment

unless there’s a serious change for the worse, I’m probably going to keep posting them. Sorry!

How is highjacking your traffic to maliciously DDOS someone without your consent not a “serious change for the worse” …???

Please stop using archive . today and its other domains.

In the past, they prevented Cloudflare DNS users from resolving the site, because Cloudflare didn’t forward EDNS data that would allow Archive.today to dox users.

And recently, they embedded malicious DDOS code into their captcha that would cause visitors to unknowingly DDOS someone.

They are extremely shady and no one should be using them.

Bazzite is amazing, nearly bulletproof even?

I had a few times where it booted to the grub emergency shell, but it literally just fixed itself. Just reboot and it uses the other A/B slot. And the next update attempt just fixes whatever the problem was. That’s only happened twice in the last 5 months since I switched. Most longtime Linux users should be very familiar with the grub emergency shell, but I’ve never been on a distro where it just fixes itself. I don’t ever have to think or worry about updates, it’s just a reliable daily driver. It’s sick.

As people have said, Bazzite is immutable. You can install system packages/libraries if you absolutely need to, but you really should run your custom stuff in a Distrobox instead. Distrobox is preinstalled, supports graphical apps automatically, and most of the time you won’t even notice it’s not your real OS.

I think Bazzite is more stable and usable than Windows now. I’m tempted to switch my parents to it, it’s been much more fault tolerant than Windows 11.

Vibecoded app or not, I really hope this refreshingly unhinged writing style is all you.

Looks like it’s behind an experimental flag, only applies to new rooms, and isn’t available on the public app.element.io instance right now (the Labs screenshot they showed doesn’t show the option on element.io+matrix.org when I checked just now):

https://github.com/element-hq/element-web/pull/31513

For it to work, looks like it needs another in-progress feature to allow new members to decrypt previous messages (Matrix can’t do that yet???):

https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/4268

(That one isn’t even in the spec yet, it’ll take a lonnnnnng time before we see any real movement on it, possibly a year or two. A year or two before you can see encrypted messages from before you joined a room. Insanity.)

A contributor calls this encrypted metadata feature a “partial prototype:”

https://github.com/element-hq/element-meta/issues/1214#issuecomment-3714132569

And that issue was opened in 2017. Pretty crazy they’ve been discussing this for nearly 10 years and it’s just now “a partial prototype,” but that’s Matrix for you.

So it was all of your messages?

Can you explain what bridge you used and how you got the whole history moved over?

Every messages in your server’s entire history, or just the channel layout?

I know the Mautrix bridge can create the channels for you, but their backfill feature was not designed for full archival, it can’t really do that.

Thank you!! Really looking forward to this, Movim is already pretty nice.