Tetsuo

This is a conversation about the issue of proprietary formats in our institutions.

And I think PDF is a problem in that regard. It’s not fully open and the format still can break. Forms in particular are still very problematics. Forms are very useful in institutions…

* Only if you dont use the many still proprietary extensions of PDF I suppose.

Anyway I’m not sure following the Adobe standard in our institutions is the smartest move.

I did the switch to full time linux gaming a few weeks ago.

Initially I was on PoP OS but I wasn’t happy with it. I reinstalled everything on Cachyos and it has been very good so far.

Here are the main “hurdles” that I think I should not have encountered in my “liberation” :

• I activated FDE in cachyos but the LUKS decryption prompt was never on my keyboard layout so I could never decrypt with the original key. I should not have to handle keyboard layout issues when decrypting FDE. This would be fatal to any beginner.
• I still think the tinkering with proton is too involved. Some command line arguments should be activated automatically depending on your setup. Players should be able to anonymously opt-in to sharing settings for all the game they start.
• Mouse sensitivity is wonky on many linux distros for gaming. Mouse acceleration should not be a default if you target gamers. I dont care if original Arch has this default. 99% of FPS players avoid it.

That being said, leaving Windows makes me incredibly happy and I’m very thankful for the great opportunity the open source community has given me through great free software.

“Don’t use that proprietary format ! Use PDF instead !”

PDF is also an issue.

I wish they would support the fairphone.

I suppose it would be a good candidate for that.

Don’t worry, we will all be paying for it when the AI jenga tower will fall.

Businesses can make huge investments mistakes and then they will ask for help from the government that will have to save them to prevent total collapse and to save jobs. So we will pay for a few dumb CEOs like we always do.

Yeah, this article forgot about encryption.

And I doubt a military satellite would be launched without some very strong encryption from the get go.

Now if the enemy satellite docks or send any projectile to our own… Now that’s an issue.

Do juries decide who is in contempt of the court?

You are essentially saying the crowd has to do its own justice.

It’s a courtroom, not a voting booth.

Jailtime for wearing glasses that can record videos in the courtroom?

Maybe the death penalty while you are at it?

What if they have so much telemetry to send they could do a speedtest with its data?

Or Aaron Swartz…

I think you just contradicted yourself.

I rest my case about generalization.

Also what does their audience has to do with the fact that you equate a Veritasium channel to a MrBeast channel ?

It’s weird because you started by saying you didn’t understand Youtubers and now you are comparing the audience of entirely different channel.

It’s fine you had a stereotypical conception of Youtubers, you dont need to change the subject.

No it’s DM from people that are not in your friend list. I often receive scam messages on Discord and only notice them months latter.

The simple fact that they will be hidden deep in the inbox IMO is important. If a teen doesn’t see messages from strangers they had no prior contact with that’s good in my book.

I think it’s much better than just letting these nasty DMs stay in the dark anyway.

At least a teen will have to go out of his way and ignore the warnings to get in contact with some freak.

Also what better solution do you suggest to implement ?

So teen-per-default means that adults can freely talk to teens, which should be prevented.

That’s not my understanding.

I get your point but by default if Discord thinks you are a teen it also implies all the limitations associated with that status. Which means some media will be blurred and some commands cannot be done.

An adult can keep his “teen default status” but he also keeps all the limitations associated with it. Which I suppose doesn’t mean they can “freely” talk to other accounts as you state.

Notably the DM that a groomer would send will end up in a special inbox for all teens or for that matter “default teen”.

Please read the Discord official post.

one to access teen spaces,

That account will be tagged as a teen account until proven otherwise. Therefore any message or DM he will receive will go to a special inbox with most likely warnings to consult it.

Please, again, I understand that the pitchforks are out for discord, I’m just asking you to take the time to read the official discord post from top to bottom.

There will still be unknowns until they release the update but your question is already answered by their official post.

Basically, as long as an account hasn’t done an age verification it’s assumed to be a teen. And that means all the limitations attached to that. So you can create 10 accounts if you want either :

• You have proven you are an adult on that account you remove the limitations to what you can do but your messages towards teen accounts will most likely go to that special inbox they mention. No clue exactly how hidden and how much warning are attached to that inbox.

• You have no proven your age and your account is limited like any other teens account. You won’t be able to see “sensitive media” whatever Discord means by that I dont know.

What I really wonder is what they will allow in term of interactions between the two groups in details. They are very vague on many aspects of it.

But multiplying your accounts on discord doesn’t look like a valid workaround to their system.

Most likely yes.

But still I wasn’t the only one at the swimming pool.

to understand the appeal of YouTubers.

Come on, are you really putting all the Youtubers in the same boat as MrBeast ?

Take a look at channels like :

• Veritasium
• Technology connections

They only share a platform with MrBeast but it’s not fair to compare them to that prominent idiot.

It’s akin to saying all books are bad because you didn’t like your last book…

I dont have O blood type but mosquitoes do love me.

I once was in the swimming pool floating on my back with just my nose out of the water.

I saw a mosquito land right on my nose and start to sting me.

So even when only the tip of my nose is vulnerable to mosquitoes, they are there to sting me within a minute.

People in my family appreciate to have me in forest walks because I act as a permanent decoy for them.

Please read the end of my message.

If you are a teen “by default” you will have all the restrictions of a teen until you prove you are an adult.

So an adult with ill intentions should either be :

• A teen by default and therefore have many limitations.
• An adult that have limitations in reaching to teens.

Again it’s what the very vague statement of Discord says. We also have no clue how their “inference model for age classification” works either…