the recent California law seems to be better. what it requires is the parent to be able to configure the age for an OS account. browsers can then check the age bracket, and enforce the limit instead of having the website do it.

1st picture: monitor has 3 wires on the right side.
2nd picture: 2 wires
3rd picture: the keyboard now has a wire too

people can learn from it with lots of effort, if they get access to the data. but it’s not so much effort (time) for an AI company (for a good enough quality), and since microsoft collects it it does not only affect what you willingly publish, but virtually anything on your computer

So, when Bitlocker stopped updating and the message appeared people just tied it into the things that were happening at the time.

I think you wanted to say truecrypt

The Internet doesn’t keep us in. We built the Internet because we never wanted to leave.

fediverse users tend to be more conscious about their internet usage, but I don’t think this applies to the more popular social media sites that are built upon attention economy

not really. It’s rather when you delete something you posted, you delete lots of things other people posted.

since the housing bubble collapsed

did it? it does not seem so. where I live to buy a house in good condition people need to take out loans that the bank may not even allow, but if it does they’ll pay it for decades. even empty plots are still very expensive. more and more people live in a rented place even though they don’t want to move, because their house is taken away.

In contrast to the housing bubble, where a lot of the value was in overpriced houses sold to individuals,

was?

Invidious won’t let you play a video that youtube itself removed

from my part even a text platform would be better, like a discourse forum, or god forbid, maybe even discord.

is it that it’s embarrassing, or do you also actually want it?

I guess lots of companies still use some ancient proprietary thing

yeah and possibly that’s microsoft’s plan

if they bother setting it up

if you have a good company culture you don’t use teams

oh, that’s what… no! no nonono. nope!

first I did not speak up because I was not an apple user.

then I did not speak up because I can use adb to install my apps anyway.

then I did not speak up because I have already switched to linux on the desktop.

at the end there was nobody to speak up against windows-only forced secure boot.

Well my plan was new device, email, phone number.

never give a website your phone number. and such sites are not worth buying a new phone.

if you still want to read some subs, check redlib and libredirect

Well my plan was new device, email, phone number.

never give a website your phone number. and such sites are not worth buying a new phone

this post was the first time I heard about UBIOS, so I’m not sure, but if the article is right then yes it is a specification. and if the documents are publicly accessible, then others could hypothetically make their own firmware that is (on paper) compatible.

but there’s more to it. the reason libreboot and coreboot support so few boards is that unless you can get technical documentation from the board manufacturer about how do the components on the motherboard work, its very hard to create a working firmware. reverse engineering this kind of thing is very hard and very time consuming. even the UEFI specification only tells what should the firmware present to the user and the operating system, it leaves lots of things undefined about how should it interact with the hardware, but that’s ok because that’s not the point of it.
then the board manufacturer is able to implement firmware verification that cryptographically prevents third party firmware from being used. on android, the boot process is a long chain of bootloaders, where the first one is stored in physically read-only storage and does not continue booting if the secondary bootloader has been replaced with an unauthorized implementation. when you unlock your phones bootloader to install a better android, you basically configure the secondary bootloader to accept booting a third party system. but if the manufacturer didn’t want to let you do it, they could just take this function away. also, the UBIOS specification could be incomplete, missing specification for some functionality that is necessary for an operating system to work with it. that can be a mistake or intentional.