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If you're aware of the mid October LLM policy change for Linux then you're all up to date.

Did I miss some recent news story? Or is this nonsense?

your barely maintained desktop

I understand your point, but did you really need to call me out like that?

Physical access is complete access. As it has always been.

These CVEs are for folks who maintain fleets, not your barely maintained desktop.

Gotta get clicks.

Dunno what counts as 'proper' patch but they exist from two days before the article was written.

In my previous jobs, we had to get the account setup first before giving it to the user. We would go in and sign them into all of their tools as we were transferring their data from older machines.

The point is that few things are the best case scenario. That’s the issue. They seem to think computers work like the government. They’re a tool. Like a hammer or a paintbrush. The idea of trying to attach an account or physical machine to a person is silly because it’s inherently transient. Locking them down further only serves to make the hammer less useful.

The law specifies that the age flag should be attached to the user's account, not the machine, so there is no need for anyone to attach their identity to the laptops. Likewise, in a server farm, it will be the account of the admin that's used when they are working on them, I'd imagine you would mark daemon accounts as the lowest level, as they would not need the extra access.

Something that keeps coming to mind with these laws made for industries they don’t understand…

How do they expect server farms and companies to function? Whose credentials are attached to a computer that’s used by a dozen people? And when a company orders a whole fleet of laptops, does one technician have to attach their identity to the dozens of machines that will be deployed?

There’s just zero thought put into this and we’ll yet again have a dozen leopard eating face stories from major businesses that lobbied for this administration complaining that these restrictions are crippling their productivity.

I have been gaming on Arch Linux for two years, albeit with the proprietary nvidia drivers, without issues. 😊 I'm just about to try out a non-systemd distro, namely Artix, and I wonder if having a dedicated init system will affect gaming somehow. 🤔

I personally think this stat is maybe a bit too high. Just maybe. But! I have successfully converted my small gaming coven to Linux so maybe it’s not entirely impossible either.

A reminder to check on what's going on with Postgres.

Oh, very cool. I do wonder what the price will come in at. The original is really cheap at $35 USD; I have to imagine this will be more given the expanded features.

troubling

I've personally seen similar in contemporary X11 spaces, it's weird.

Chudware for sure

That would be the year of the Linux Desktop.

43 % sounds like a very high percentage, though! I wonder how many of those 43 % will really make the switch. Because if they really do, that's an earth-shattering indication!

So simple!