You people have gone insane.

Stop trying to control every atom of existence and every move people make.

You're sick in the head, not visionaries, not thought leaders.

Go plant a garden and get back in touch with the real world.

No, NOT FARMVILLE!

> genuine question - why was this code pushed now

Zuckerberg has aggressively been bribing politicians to enact this at the State level.

Several news stories about it though you have to search for terms like 'lobbying' and 'Meta' as fig leaves.

An exception is the Zeropatch technique where they dynamically update machine code of the OS in memory on the fly for folks who can't tolerate downtime.

It's certainly not common on unix systems.

Or an IoT device running a 2.6 kernel that is never going to be updated. :)

Did Dolby break any countermeasures of Snap's copyrighted code in what would appear to be a significant reverse-engineering effort to make this determination?

Or do they only have a suspicion?

This scenario reminds me of the SCO lawsuits when the progress of technology made that company obsolete.

Count the number of "former" intelligence officials on his company's board.

Then search for the many photos of him mouth-kissing his father and son (RIP).

They use both carrots and sticks to control compromised people.

I took mine apart and there were two separate display modules for the 4K screen with ribbon cables I didn't recognize so I just put it back together and stuck in an HDMI streaming stick flashed to LineageOS.

I got one around 2008. They were the best of the non-premium 1080p HDMI screens at the time.

The one I got had slightly better test review scores on display quality than the LG that year. The Sony was 20% better for 3x the price.

It lasted about twelve years and by then a bigger 4K with much brighter colors was half the cost in nominal dollars, so probably 1/4 the cost in real terms.

And by then cheap flashable streaming sticks were available as was pihole and fairly easy outbound NAT rewriting rules to keep the beasts contained.

>"Would be nice to be able to use it for actual work."

Would it? How would it be better than existing Linux distros with tons of high-performance native apps AND the ability to mimick whatever GUI the user is familiar with AND use WINE to do better at running MS-Windows programs?

ReactOS development has been going on for decades and still doesn't have much to show for itself. I see ReactOS as a kludge to try and make a free and open version of inferior technology. We already have a free and open OS with superior technology and with a tremendously larger installed user and developer base.

>"If anything will get people to move to Linux, increases in gaming performance will."

Maybe? I know few people, personally, who have much interest in gaming at all. Even fewer who are seriously into gaming. Gaming is an important market, for sure. But there are tons of people who don't game under MS-Windows. They use it because that is what they know, that is what was loaded, or that is what is required for package XYZ to run needed by work, school, or hobby.

As long as it is easy, "free"/included (it isn't free, in any sense of the word, but consumers don't know that), and not too painful or annoying, Microsoft will be able to carry on as always.....

But recently, Microsoft overplayed its "control" hand and it is biting them in the *ss. They are scrambling to try and undo some of it in time to save what is left of their eroding platform. I was kinda hoping they would keep doubling-down.... it has been one of the best boosts for people to finally seriously explore non MS-Windows options.

>"The problem is multiplayer. Very few games run under Linux with multiplayer because of the anti-cheat software."

If people start flocking to Linux, there will be so much pressure to drop anti-cheat or to have it use Linux-friendly methods, it won't last or be a barrier.

>"If anything moves people to Linux it's going to be America turning into a fascist hellscape"

Yawn. There is little difference from that perspective of now compared to a few years ago. Or a dozen years before that. The word "fascist" is mostly meaningless, like so many other words now, since it has been twisted to be whatever is needed to suit whatever political view you believe. And it was never really a great term in the first place. As for Europe, they are no bastion of freedom in comparison. They have plenty of their own issues.

Moving to Linux *is* about freedom, and all countries could benefit from more of that, including ours (USA). I wouldn't want the USA reliant on EU software control anymore than I would expect than to be reliant on ours.

Well nothing we think of as "critical infrastructure" is using consumer routers - and if it were that could and should be remedied quickly without a ban on consumer routers.

So ... this leaves us with an open question for this to make legal sense.

The best fit is probably an Internet Drivers License and mandatory packet signing for a surveillance control grid and CBDC coming down the pike rapidly.

When in the course of Human Events....

Yeah, not sure if you remember the Vegan Crossfit Pythonistas.

Instead of saying, "we could write a program to..." they would dogmatically intone, "we could write a Python script to..." in almost every situation.

Not sure who taught them the NLP but their dedication was a fervor.

A whole lot of rewriting of fast, debugged, working code got rewritten by them just because Perl, Ruby, and Bash felt like heresy.. For a while python stacktraces were the error message of common use on Fedora.

Now that we know that Meta lobbied for all of these simultaneous "age verification" laws he's losing what little support he still had.

Have you seen that interview where he just has a bottle of barbecue sauce on his bookshelf?

To make him "relatable" they say?

There's a decades old cartoon that asks, "how would you like your tyranny wrapped, in 'stopping terrorism' or 'protecting the children'?

2025 edit: 'stopping antisemitism' as that's all DoJCRD seems to know about.

OK, the way you describe it, it could be useful for some. Still not sure I would ever use it, though. I don't think it is a bad thing to have (and wasn't implying that).

To me, having the duplicated controls and taskbar icons is a benefit. As is making them different sizes independently.

>"Split View puts two webpages side by side in one window, making it easy to compare, copy and multitask without bouncing between tabs.

Yeah, that is called "open another window". It really isn't that hard. I have an ultrawide monitor and I always have at least two Firefox windows open at the same time, side-by-side, each with many tabs. You can drag tabs between windows, you can drag windows into tabs or tabs into windows. I thought people knew this.... oh yeah, I guess most people just freaking MAXIMIZE everything, sigh.