problem is php 7 is about 10 years older than 6 7 :p

The headlines that can be answered in the affirmative are very much in the minority

Not according to several different studies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines#Studies

Demonstrably false, there are many cases where the answer is yes… it’s just that there’s also a lot of no.

I wonder if something like onion routing could be helpful?

I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgment and intentions are.

Good thing there aren’t any operating system vendors actually operating out of Illinois.

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I am boycotting all software authored by Kovid Goyal due to his long history of abusing users.

Grant Certiorari

Nice lawyer joke there.

it’s here https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major

Linux Mint does not adhere to the principles of software freedom

Why is distrowatch playing politics now? This is very sad news to me.

It looks like a vibe-coded version of some quite old tools:

https://github.com/keith-turner/qrcv

https://github.com/RedaOps/qr-data-reconstruct

I would guess the sudden influx of massive amounts of traffic would force them to charge for the service, and they don’t want to do that. Requiring a phone number, while invasive to some, does cut down on a tremendous amount of automated/bot/spam traffic.

7/27*

combine whisper speech-to-text with any one of the numerous local text-to-speech solutions like picotts, piper, kitten, pocket-tts, outetts etc.

Just because the baseline has shifted doesn’t mean the change never happened

There can and will be change, sure, but my point was that OP’s “smalls steps towards something much worse” typically never happens because of the shift.

I definitely stay far away from either freenet as they have a huge CSAM problem.

Wait until the cotton gin arrives, all the hand weavers will become jobless and no one will have experience anymore.

Wait until the printing press arrives, all the scribe monks will become jobless and no one will have experience anymore.

Wait until the computer arrives, people will become obsolete and no one will have experience anymore.

Wait until the steam engine, automobiles, planes, calculators, telephones, bla bla

“Slippery slope” arguments like these assume that once a technology introduces a specific risk, society lacks the agency to create counter-measures, new norms, or alternative uses for that technology.

History shows that when a “slope” appears, regulation steps in, technology evolves to solve the problem, or the culture shifts to reinterpret the tool.

In almost every case, the feared “bottom” of the slope was never reached because humans constantly built ramps or bridges along the way.

What defines “mostly”? What defines “tolerated”?

The staff, arbitrarily at their discretion of course.

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