Do you really think

Yes, yes I do. They know you can't control everyone. And Linux is a rounding error in the context of desktop market share. They don't care about it, and everyone else is "good enough."

Lawmakers don't even know or care what Linux is. They don't know what a router is or that it runs an operating system. The bill doesn't affect routers because they don't have physical users with HIDs plugged into them. They're not targeting them. Captive portals have been around for decades. What on Earth are you talking about?

I don't see it catching on at all... I think forcing people to record themselves is asking way too much, and not everyone uses the command-line or the same application/machine for everything. Plus they acknowledge that it can be faked and that LLMs can/will get better at faking it.

Proving a request came from a human is a many-billion dollar task right now, and nobody seems close at all to coming up with a workable solution. The only thing even remotely feasible (IMO) that I've seen so far (and which still doesn't actually prove anything) is charging money for accounts. But tons of people still don't want to do that, even though it would lessen the amount of bots and make it easier to ban bad behavior if everyone needed an account to access a site. I don't like that option, but it is an option. Making payments on the web easier (and less tied to the whims of Visa et al) probably also needs to happen.

When I try to save files from the Media tab from this site, all of them fail

Doesn't explain how to use it at all. Tried clicking on the extension in the toolbar, nothing happens.

I need something that works on lazy-loading carousels and automatically grabs all the images that are linked through another lazy-loaded lightbox you have to click on for each one.

Just having alternative options anywhere near the performance of even several year old nvidia cards is worth it for the competition IMO.

Compared to DDG-noAI: zero 3rd party requests.

No need when they're already selling your search habits from the backend.

Companies don't like legally-questionable (in their mind at least) licenses. If you look at the people who use this license, it's mostly very small personal projects.

I think that assumes that people are actually auditing all the code, and carefully enough. I think most people greatly overestimate how much code is actually ever audited.

But if the definition of viable is merely "open source"... there are many other such operating systems out there.

21st century

still requires manually editing complex config text files

lol ok

At the same time you also have many people who will claim that software with government contribution is automatically compromised.