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News - Proton 11 Beta arrives to bring enhanced gaming compatibility to Linux / SteamOS
By Persephone the Sheep, 17 Apr 2026 at 4:28 pm UTC
By Persephone the Sheep, 17 Apr 2026 at 4:28 pm UTC
Improved support for Kodi media player.This confuses me so much it's so random and out of place.
News - Nintendo 64 emulator Gopher64 adds RetroAchievements support
By such, 17 Apr 2026 at 4:19 pm UTC
By such, 17 Apr 2026 at 4:19 pm UTC
Personally... achievements are the one thing I really don't want in old games. Don't need that dopamine.
News - METRO 2039 gets revealed for release this Winter
By Liam Dawe, 17 Apr 2026 at 4:19 pm UTC
By Liam Dawe, 17 Apr 2026 at 4:19 pm UTC
Quoting: RedjeWil this game have native build like the 3 other metro games?Nothing on that has been announced yet.
The native versions of those games worked very nice for me!
News - METRO 2039 gets revealed for release this Winter
By Redje, 17 Apr 2026 at 4:09 pm UTC
By Redje, 17 Apr 2026 at 4:09 pm UTC
Wil this game have native build like the 3 other metro games?
The native versions of those games worked very nice for me!
The native versions of those games worked very nice for me!
News - Death Stranding 2 patch 1.4 should make it look better on lower settings
By Arehandoro, 17 Apr 2026 at 4:01 pm UTC
By Arehandoro, 17 Apr 2026 at 4:01 pm UTC
Improved image quality for various textures when Texture Quality is set to Medium or lower.I wonder how many titles could benefit from this or how many do it on purpose so people are "encouraged" to have more high-end components.
News - Mozilla announced "Thunderbolt", their open-source and self-hostable AI client
By rcrit, 17 Apr 2026 at 3:55 pm UTC
By rcrit, 17 Apr 2026 at 3:55 pm UTC
I'm no fan of AI but making it easier to run locally is IMHO a decent idea. I occasionally use ramalama to run cli models but having a GUI could be useful for coding. You'd probably want to get a smart plug so you can calculate how much local models cost you. My 3090 Ti regularly goes to 400W when asking complicated questions.
I always feel a little weird commenting on Mozilla stuff when their namesake is my avatar.
I always feel a little weird commenting on Mozilla stuff when their namesake is my avatar.
News - Mozilla announced "Thunderbolt", their open-source and self-hostable AI client
By Ehvis, 17 Apr 2026 at 3:23 pm UTC
By Ehvis, 17 Apr 2026 at 3:23 pm UTC
The positive thing that I can see here is that if it helps knowledge go around that running local models is possible and easy, it might reduce the stranglehold of a bunch of companies on the market. I highly doubt the "general public" does anything with LLMs that is outside of the capability of open models. Of course I may be overestimating that "general public"'s interest in consequences of giving multi-billion dollar companies power.
News - Proton 11 Beta arrives to bring enhanced gaming compatibility to Linux / SteamOS
By Liam Dawe, 17 Apr 2026 at 3:19 pm UTC
By Liam Dawe, 17 Apr 2026 at 3:19 pm UTC
Quoting: EhvisDid Proton 10 ever release out of beta? Don't remember ever using it except for one recent game where I had to use Proton Experimental.Yes, it was initially in November 2025.
News - Proton 11 Beta arrives to bring enhanced gaming compatibility to Linux / SteamOS
By Ehvis, 17 Apr 2026 at 3:12 pm UTC
By Ehvis, 17 Apr 2026 at 3:12 pm UTC
Did Proton 10 ever release out of beta? Don't remember ever using it except for one recent game where I had to use Proton Experimental.
News - US operating system age verification bill "Parents Decide Act" gets published
By LoudTechie, 17 Apr 2026 at 3:07 pm UTC
Letting the services collect the data themselves is only worse, because they will still know when you crossed the 18+ line(as ordered by you they've obtained this information themselves) and now they will also know whatever information you was provided to them, so they could figure this information out themselves.
The EU app blocks the transfer of the second set of data by centralizing this information by a party that already must have access to this information(this same database is used for the production of your id and all kinds of other government services reliant on date of birth). This is data minimalisation.
Your first point was that minimal data was too much, your second point is that everybody should collect minimal +1
On the pretending to be a kid thing:
Yeah, duh that's out of scope and thus part of the data minimalization.
This app is supposed to provide proof that you're an adult. Not that you're underage and/or trustworthy.
None of the age gating laws require anyone to proof a maximum age(and none of kids group apps do either), because we know kids harm each other just as hard as adults harm them, so we provide them with adult supervision instead. It's just that adults should know better than to harm a kid, while kids don't have to.
Fundamental issues with the EU age gating method I admit to .
The one thing I have a problem is that the government receives information about private activities of its citizens these citizens often would love to keep private("adult" consumption isn't something everybody is proud of), which is why I made the design I made before.
An alternate design that doesn't have the issues I admit to either:
The requirements for a privacy respecting arbitrary static property verification system are that:
System abuse and it's prepretators can be detected.
The way it's used isn't detectable to the verifier of the static property.
The identity of the user isn't revealed to the ones who make the uses possible.
The hashsing algorithm I will be using is sha256, because I can assure that ids will be unique and unrelated.
I will be using the proven slow prngs, because the qualtity of this protocol falls and stands with the qualtity of a prng
The verifying party randomly generates n ids.
The verifying party runs each of the id's through the pseudorandom generator and generates (n-1)*p codes based on it.
It divides this set up in (n-1) subsets, one for each other ringmember.
Each of the subsets is labeled with a within the ring shared pseudonym for one of the other ringmembers.
The codes are send to the individual.
After which it's added to a pool of similarly labeled sets of the other ringmembers, here they are pooled together without saving to which member they originally belonged.
In total n*(n-1)*p=np(n-1)=n^2+pn-n-p codes are generated.
For each receiving server a seed is generated by the verifier and each of the codes is hashed with this seed as pepper.
This set of hashes, labeling and the seed is send to the receiving server, but not the original values.
When an individual connects to an age verifying server the server sends its seed and the individual randomly picks a value from the received ones and hashes it with the seed and sends that hash to the age verifying server.
If it matches the received hash with one of the hashes that hash is removed and the age is labeled as verified.
To determine potential abusers of the system the age verifying servers can simply check whether some of the n labeled subsets are getting abnormally underutelized.
If this turns out the system abusers are apperantly the ones in the underutelized sets.
After which not only the abuse, but also the abuser have been identified and appropiate action can be undertaken.
Many of these could involve reporting the abuse to some authority like the verifier.
This authority would need some proof of appropiate conduct at the side of the reporter.
The best I can offer is pseudonymous labeling for the subsets, so the reporter can't know who they reported.
To avoid birthday attacks p should be at least as large as n and probably larger, because accidentally matching a p row isn't a problem, but an n match allows one to blame other people for sharing codes.
p = 1.000.000
(n-1) = 1000
total storage use is
3 8bit bytes par sha256 hash
order can communicate subcatogrisation, since every other user has the same redundancy
n^2+pn-n-p
10^3^2+10^6*10^3-10^3-10^6=10^6+10^9-10^3-10^6=10^9-10^3=1,0000003*10^10
1,000003*10^10*3=3,0000009*10^10
around 10gb usage for the client
the servers store the hashes everybody and the seed, thus around
(n^2+pn-n-p)*n+1
1,0000009^10*10^3+1
is around 10 terabyte par server
On GNU Taler
Yeah, that's a very smart and experimental system [as such the European commission is directly funding its development through NGI.](https://www.taler.net/en/news/)
[They also launched their own version.](https://www.taler.net/en/news/2024-01.html)
Edit:
On your criticism of my proposed in app solution
Yeah indeed small precision costs are the weakness of latency methods.
Yet A. these first precision points are also where the biggest strides can be made(you can't personalize birthday adverts, you can't scam somebody by claiming to be a relative with proof that you know their birthday, you can't pretend to be them by their doctor who uses it as part of their confirmation method, etc.)
B. Yeah, that's the issue with the principle of least privilege we can't hide more data without significantly harming functionality.
Extra in app solutions to improve confidentiality
Also something that might help a lot in this case is some form of rate limiting of requests like required user interaction and once a day.
This will amplify peoples own infrequency in adult consumption into uncertainty for the services.
By LoudTechie, 17 Apr 2026 at 3:07 pm UTC
Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneWhy your solution is worse than the eu app and violates your own "no data transfer" rule:Quoting: LoudTechieThat's the current design and is only hampered by the fact that not everybody celebrates their 18th birthday by doing online 18th birthday specific things.Oh yes, than you are non of the people at this one day, but one of the 28-31 days bracket. Makes it so much more unlikely that they collect this data. /s
[...]
A great way to limit the damage would for example be to make certain that age checks can only happen on a certain time interval.
Say for 1 day every month.
In fact, that blurs the data just a little bit, but it is still close enough that they can separate these persons from 99.9% of the world. So companies only need further information to find out who of the 0.1% of all people are that person. Without the one months idea it would be more like 0.01% (because as you say people are probably not online at their birthday). It is indeed better, but I think it is clear that "better" doesn't mean much more protection.
Edit:At least something EU learned (making such tools open source). Yes I read it before. But it does not help against any of the bad things. For example if I would be a bad person, I could create an account for "my child" that is not existing and use it for myself to get merged to kids chats more easily etc.
[It's open source, so adding this feature is feasable and legal.](https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui).
The only way that is really feasible is to not send any data to any service. The services should provide age data themselves, so that a local parent control app can manage app access without exposing information to the companies. There is still a chance that some apps can get the age, but it is more likely to avoid exposing data entirely.
That app feels like the stupid attempt for the digital Euro, which exposes too much information (unlike GNU-Taler). The EU commission may learned something about Open Source, but still not enough to design good digital strategies. They should learn about data minimalism before creating such plans.
Spoiler, click me
Letting the services collect the data themselves is only worse, because they will still know when you crossed the 18+ line(as ordered by you they've obtained this information themselves) and now they will also know whatever information you was provided to them, so they could figure this information out themselves.
The EU app blocks the transfer of the second set of data by centralizing this information by a party that already must have access to this information(this same database is used for the production of your id and all kinds of other government services reliant on date of birth). This is data minimalisation.
Your first point was that minimal data was too much, your second point is that everybody should collect minimal +1
Spoiler, click me
Yeah, duh that's out of scope and thus part of the data minimalization.
This app is supposed to provide proof that you're an adult. Not that you're underage and/or trustworthy.
None of the age gating laws require anyone to proof a maximum age(and none of kids group apps do either), because we know kids harm each other just as hard as adults harm them, so we provide them with adult supervision instead. It's just that adults should know better than to harm a kid, while kids don't have to.
Spoiler, click me
The one thing I have a problem is that the government receives information about private activities of its citizens these citizens often would love to keep private("adult" consumption isn't something everybody is proud of), which is why I made the design I made before.
Spoiler, click me
The requirements for a privacy respecting arbitrary static property verification system are that:
System abuse and it's prepretators can be detected.
The way it's used isn't detectable to the verifier of the static property.
The identity of the user isn't revealed to the ones who make the uses possible.
The hashsing algorithm I will be using is sha256, because I can assure that ids will be unique and unrelated.
I will be using the proven slow prngs, because the qualtity of this protocol falls and stands with the qualtity of a prng
The verifying party randomly generates n ids.
The verifying party runs each of the id's through the pseudorandom generator and generates (n-1)*p codes based on it.
It divides this set up in (n-1) subsets, one for each other ringmember.
Each of the subsets is labeled with a within the ring shared pseudonym for one of the other ringmembers.
The codes are send to the individual.
After which it's added to a pool of similarly labeled sets of the other ringmembers, here they are pooled together without saving to which member they originally belonged.
In total n*(n-1)*p=np(n-1)=n^2+pn-n-p codes are generated.
For each receiving server a seed is generated by the verifier and each of the codes is hashed with this seed as pepper.
This set of hashes, labeling and the seed is send to the receiving server, but not the original values.
When an individual connects to an age verifying server the server sends its seed and the individual randomly picks a value from the received ones and hashes it with the seed and sends that hash to the age verifying server.
If it matches the received hash with one of the hashes that hash is removed and the age is labeled as verified.
To determine potential abusers of the system the age verifying servers can simply check whether some of the n labeled subsets are getting abnormally underutelized.
If this turns out the system abusers are apperantly the ones in the underutelized sets.
After which not only the abuse, but also the abuser have been identified and appropiate action can be undertaken.
Many of these could involve reporting the abuse to some authority like the verifier.
This authority would need some proof of appropiate conduct at the side of the reporter.
The best I can offer is pseudonymous labeling for the subsets, so the reporter can't know who they reported.
To avoid birthday attacks p should be at least as large as n and probably larger, because accidentally matching a p row isn't a problem, but an n match allows one to blame other people for sharing codes.
p = 1.000.000
(n-1) = 1000
total storage use is
3 8bit bytes par sha256 hash
order can communicate subcatogrisation, since every other user has the same redundancy
n^2+pn-n-p
10^3^2+10^6*10^3-10^3-10^6=10^6+10^9-10^3-10^6=10^9-10^3=1,0000003*10^10
1,000003*10^10*3=3,0000009*10^10
around 10gb usage for the client
the servers store the hashes everybody and the seed, thus around
(n^2+pn-n-p)*n+1
1,0000009^10*10^3+1
is around 10 terabyte par server
Spoiler, click me
Yeah, that's a very smart and experimental system [as such the European commission is directly funding its development through NGI.](https://www.taler.net/en/news/)
[They also launched their own version.](https://www.taler.net/en/news/2024-01.html)
On your criticism of my proposed in app solution
Spoiler, click me
Yeah indeed small precision costs are the weakness of latency methods.
Yet A. these first precision points are also where the biggest strides can be made(you can't personalize birthday adverts, you can't scam somebody by claiming to be a relative with proof that you know their birthday, you can't pretend to be them by their doctor who uses it as part of their confirmation method, etc.)
B. Yeah, that's the issue with the principle of least privilege we can't hide more data without significantly harming functionality.
Spoiler, click me
Also something that might help a lot in this case is some form of rate limiting of requests like required user interaction and once a day.
This will amplify peoples own infrequency in adult consumption into uncertainty for the services.
News - Immersive sim boomer shooter Fortune's Run back in development as the developer is out of jail
By Purple Library Guy, 17 Apr 2026 at 2:49 pm UTC
By Purple Library Guy, 17 Apr 2026 at 2:49 pm UTC
Quoting: LoudTechieAh. Then I retract my point.Quoting: Purple Library GuyAccording to our favorite mediaoutlet.Quoting: LoudTechiecriminal dev: Most potential partners avoid me, because I've been proven to be violent in courtAssuming it was a violent crime. Even today, people do still sometimes go to jail for embezzlement as long as it wasn't a big enough amount to make you a new-minted oligarch . . .
He claimed he was jailed, because he was "a very violent person."
News - Proton 11 Beta arrives to bring enhanced gaming compatibility to Linux / SteamOS
By Jarmer, 17 Apr 2026 at 2:23 pm UTC
By Jarmer, 17 Apr 2026 at 2:23 pm UTC
This is so awesome! With the arm improvements, I truly wonder if sometime in the future, one of my desktop pc builds will be arm architecture and not x86 ...!!! I've had nearly 40 yrs of x86 pcs in my house, wow.
News - US operating system age verification bill "Parents Decide Act" gets published
By PlayingOnLinuxphone, 17 Apr 2026 at 2:18 pm UTC
In fact, that blurs the data just a little bit, but it is still close enough that they can separate these persons from 99.9% of the world. So companies only need further information to find out who of the 0.1% of all people are that person. Without the one months idea it would be more like 0.01% (because as you say people are probably not online at their birthday). It is indeed better, but I think it is clear that "better" doesn't mean much more protection.
The only way that is really feasible is to not send any data to any service. The services should provide age data themselves, so that a local parent control app can manage app access without exposing information to the companies. There is still a chance that some apps can get the age, but it is more likely to avoid exposing data entirely.
That app feels like the stupid attempt for the digital Euro, which exposes too much information (unlike GNU-Taler). The EU commission may learned something about Open Source, but still not enough to design good digital strategies. They should learn about data minimalism before creating such plans.
By PlayingOnLinuxphone, 17 Apr 2026 at 2:18 pm UTC
Quoting: LoudTechieThat's the current design and is only hampered by the fact that not everybody celebrates their 18th birthday by doing online 18th birthday specific things.Oh yes, than you are non of the people at this one day, but one of the 28-31 days bracket. Makes it so much more unlikely that they collect this data. /s
[...]
A great way to limit the damage would for example be to make certain that age checks can only happen on a certain time interval.
Say for 1 day every month.
In fact, that blurs the data just a little bit, but it is still close enough that they can separate these persons from 99.9% of the world. So companies only need further information to find out who of the 0.1% of all people are that person. Without the one months idea it would be more like 0.01% (because as you say people are probably not online at their birthday). It is indeed better, but I think it is clear that "better" doesn't mean much more protection.
Edit:At least something EU learned (making such tools open source). Yes I read it before. But it does not help against any of the bad things. For example if I would be a bad person, I could create an account for "my child" that is not existing and use it for myself to get merged to kids chats more easily etc.
[It's open source, so adding this feature is feasable and legal.](https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui).
The only way that is really feasible is to not send any data to any service. The services should provide age data themselves, so that a local parent control app can manage app access without exposing information to the companies. There is still a chance that some apps can get the age, but it is more likely to avoid exposing data entirely.
That app feels like the stupid attempt for the digital Euro, which exposes too much information (unlike GNU-Taler). The EU commission may learned something about Open Source, but still not enough to design good digital strategies. They should learn about data minimalism before creating such plans.
News - Proton 11 Beta arrives to bring enhanced gaming compatibility to Linux / SteamOS
By Leprotto, 17 Apr 2026 at 2:03 pm UTC
By Leprotto, 17 Apr 2026 at 2:03 pm UTC
Did they backport the dll loading order patch? 👀
News - Linux Mint confirm longer release cycles, the next release is planned for Christmas 2026
By PlayingOnLinuxphone, 17 Apr 2026 at 1:47 pm UTC
There are indeed reasons to chose Arch over Mint and you may have other special reasons that speak against Mint. Also you will have to wait little bit longer to get newest Mesa improvements as +30% raytracing performance for AMD cards etc. But every year those huge improvements will become less, so you will be affected less in upcoming versions of Mint.
For gaming in general it doesn't matter. Any game that runs on Arch should also run on Mint. If you value the overall user experience in Mint over other distros, it is probably the best option for you, even if you do not have newest drivers. Personally I am on Debian and backport drivers. I am also still waiting for raytracing improvements, but it does not really affect my non raytracing gaming experience (and I cannot even play most games with raytracing anyway).
By PlayingOnLinuxphone, 17 Apr 2026 at 1:47 pm UTC
Quoting: WanderdueneWill Mint's extended release cycles have an impact on me as a gamer?Yes and no ... it depends on your use case. Few days ago I helped someone switching to Linux and that person was using a VR headset and a flight simulator controller. For the special controller there is support in mainline kernal since February this year. So without an up to date kernel it does not work out of the box. For VR on the other hand it is better to have the latest drivers. A friend told me it broke more often on Mint than on Arch.
There are indeed reasons to chose Arch over Mint and you may have other special reasons that speak against Mint. Also you will have to wait little bit longer to get newest Mesa improvements as +30% raytracing performance for AMD cards etc. But every year those huge improvements will become less, so you will be affected less in upcoming versions of Mint.
For gaming in general it doesn't matter. Any game that runs on Arch should also run on Mint. If you value the overall user experience in Mint over other distros, it is probably the best option for you, even if you do not have newest drivers. Personally I am on Debian and backport drivers. I am also still waiting for raytracing improvements, but it does not really affect my non raytracing gaming experience (and I cannot even play most games with raytracing anyway).
News - Firefox v149 is getting a free built-in VPN and other new features
By LoudTechie, 17 Apr 2026 at 1:09 pm UTC
Google pays most of their income for having google chrome as their default search, since it lost a anti-trust lawsuit in the USA.
Also upsells.
Mozilla sells(actually pretty valuable) premium services including more VPN access.
Edit:
Okay more accurately they sell e-mail relay services where you can beg to be one day included in an extra premium option for phone relay services and vpn access.
By LoudTechie, 17 Apr 2026 at 1:09 pm UTC
Quoting: Pikolo50 GB is plenty for anything that's not video. My mobile data plan is 2GB and non-video calling and streaming applications don't use more than ~500 Mb a month.Google money.
But I can't see how they can possibly keep it free
Google pays most of their income for having google chrome as their default search, since it lost a anti-trust lawsuit in the USA.
Also upsells.
Mozilla sells(actually pretty valuable) premium services including more VPN access.
Edit:
Okay more accurately they sell e-mail relay services where you can beg to be one day included in an extra premium option for phone relay services and vpn access.
News - Mozilla announced "Thunderbolt", their open-source and self-hostable AI client
By Samsai, 17 Apr 2026 at 12:51 pm UTC
By Samsai, 17 Apr 2026 at 12:51 pm UTC
Clearly in terms of AI and especially AI sovereignty, AI client #99992087 was clearly the best use of resources. Utilizing OpenAI compatible providers and MCP? How daring.
News - Proton 11 Beta arrives to bring enhanced gaming compatibility to Linux / SteamOS
By hardpenguin, 17 Apr 2026 at 11:56 am UTC
By hardpenguin, 17 Apr 2026 at 11:56 am UTC
Gothic 1 ClassicGlad to see classics getting improvements alongside new releases
News - Linux Mint confirm longer release cycles, the next release is planned for Christmas 2026
By LoudTechie, 17 Apr 2026 at 11:21 am UTC
By LoudTechie, 17 Apr 2026 at 11:21 am UTC
I just realized this is good news for me.
I maintain a Mint system for somebody else from a large distance.
The more stability, the better.
I maintain a Mint system for somebody else from a large distance.
The more stability, the better.
News - SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) ban AI / LLM code contributions
By LoudTechie, 17 Apr 2026 at 11:14 am UTC
[CC BY-SA 4.0 for posted content](https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing)
By LoudTechie, 17 Apr 2026 at 11:14 am UTC
Quoting: liloventStackoverflow has an official licensing policy.Quoting: elmapul"AI-generated code is based upon sources of unknown origins and may not be compatible with the Zlib license, or may introduce conflicting license terms if they include code from other projects."So, what license is then, when humans copy paste from StackOverflow?
finally someone quoted the licence issue
[CC BY-SA 4.0 for posted content](https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing)
News - Linux Mint confirm longer release cycles, the next release is planned for Christmas 2026
By Myne, 17 Apr 2026 at 10:49 am UTC
By Myne, 17 Apr 2026 at 10:49 am UTC
Mint is reliable and easy. If they need time, give them time.
And if you are impatient you can use another distribution with bleeding edge Cinnamon or use XanMod kernel, distrobox and flatpaks to have a reliable system and some bleeding edge packages.
Hope they can deliver one of the best LTS ever. 😀
And if you are impatient you can use another distribution with bleeding edge Cinnamon or use XanMod kernel, distrobox and flatpaks to have a reliable system and some bleeding edge packages.
Hope they can deliver one of the best LTS ever. 😀
News - SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) ban AI / LLM code contributions
By lilovent, 17 Apr 2026 at 10:47 am UTC
By lilovent, 17 Apr 2026 at 10:47 am UTC
Quoting: elmapul"AI-generated code is based upon sources of unknown origins and may not be compatible with the Zlib license, or may introduce conflicting license terms if they include code from other projects."So, what license is then, when humans copy paste from StackOverflow?
finally someone quoted the licence issue
News - Proton 11 Beta arrives to bring enhanced gaming compatibility to Linux / SteamOS
By WMan22, 17 Apr 2026 at 10:22 am UTC
By WMan22, 17 Apr 2026 at 10:22 am UTC
Deadly Premonition, if it works out of the box, is a very significant change.
That means it's a game that now runs better on Linux than Windows.
Hopefully it still works after DPFix tweaks too.
That means it's a game that now runs better on Linux than Windows.
Hopefully it still works after DPFix tweaks too.
News - Proton 11 Beta arrives to bring enhanced gaming compatibility to Linux / SteamOS
By LoudTechie, 17 Apr 2026 at 9:50 am UTC
By LoudTechie, 17 Apr 2026 at 9:50 am UTC
That's quite some improvement nicee.
News - After years in development v8 of the factory management RTS Mindustry is out
By LoudTechie, 17 Apr 2026 at 9:43 am UTC
By LoudTechie, 17 Apr 2026 at 9:43 am UTC
Eyy mindustry.
Always good to see development on the games I play.
Always good to see development on the games I play.
News - Linux Mint confirm longer release cycles, the next release is planned for Christmas 2026
By LoudTechie, 17 Apr 2026 at 9:20 am UTC
If you've a bunch a games on your wishlist that currently are badly supported by Linux gaming.
Then it might slow down your timeline when you might be comfortably able to play these games.
By LoudTechie, 17 Apr 2026 at 9:20 am UTC
Quoting: WanderdueneI really enjoy using Mint because it's stable and very user-friendly, and I also welcome the fact that planning and stability are being prioritised by the developers. Will Mint's extended release cycles have an impact on me as a gamer?Probably not, but I can't be certain.
If you've a bunch a games on your wishlist that currently are badly supported by Linux gaming.
Then it might slow down your timeline when you might be comfortably able to play these games.
News - US operating system age verification bill "Parents Decide Act" gets published
By LoudTechie, 17 Apr 2026 at 9:06 am UTC
That's not the only possible design though.
One can use rate limits and artificially induced latency to fight that.
A great way to limit the damage would for example be to make certain that age checks can only happen on a certain time interval.
Say for 1 day every month.
Also this assumes one can form a trustworthy pseudonymous profile of the target.
Edit:
[It's open source, so adding this feature is feasable and legal.](https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui).
By LoudTechie, 17 Apr 2026 at 9:06 am UTC
Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneThat's the current design and is only hampered by the fact that not everybody celebrates their 18th birthday by doing online 18th birthday specific things.Quoting: spacemonkeyonly the minimal required information is passed on to the app or website.Which is already the maximum amount of information passed to the app or website. If you are under 18 you will switch that date once you become mature, so they know exactly your birth. For us adults no issue so far, but for all upcoming generations it means a fully transparent birthday.
Can't we just begin to teach our kids first? Where is the talk about improving schools? They could learn stuff that is also useful as adult, not just as child.
That's not the only possible design though.
One can use rate limits and artificially induced latency to fight that.
A great way to limit the damage would for example be to make certain that age checks can only happen on a certain time interval.
Say for 1 day every month.
Also this assumes one can form a trustworthy pseudonymous profile of the target.
Edit:
[It's open source, so adding this feature is feasable and legal.](https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui).
News - Linux Mint confirm longer release cycles, the next release is planned for Christmas 2026
By vic-bay, 17 Apr 2026 at 8:55 am UTC
By vic-bay, 17 Apr 2026 at 8:55 am UTC
In the context of gaming, I think Linux matured enough, so you don't desperately need all the latest goodies as soon as possible anymore. Although I personally prefer a rolling distribution, I don't see leap distros as outdated on arrival anymore (I mean only for gaming). So slower releases are fine.
News - X.Org X server and Xwayland security advisory released for multiple issues
By LoudTechie, 17 Apr 2026 at 8:37 am UTC
When there's a weakness in the code that was added by mistake. I consider it a security bug.
When there's a weakness in the code that was intentionally added by people who in some way managed to impersonate the figure which approves code for that project; I consider it an unintentional backdoor.
When there's a weakness in the code that was intentionally added by the person who approves code for that project; I consider it an intentional backdoor.
By LoudTechie, 17 Apr 2026 at 8:37 am UTC
Quoting: PhlebiacSemi.Quoting: LoudTechieYou don't report backdoors to reviewers.Ah, you meant intentional back doors; sorry, I misunderstood. Dumb social media discussions are easily ignored, so that's ok.
They already approved them and thus presumably stand behind them.
You publish them on social media(as demonstrated by the xz-backdoor)
What it can result in is dumb social media discussions about when something is a backdoor.
When there's a weakness in the code that was added by mistake. I consider it a security bug.
When there's a weakness in the code that was intentionally added by people who in some way managed to impersonate the figure which approves code for that project; I consider it an unintentional backdoor.
When there's a weakness in the code that was intentionally added by the person who approves code for that project; I consider it an intentional backdoor.
News - US operating system age verification bill "Parents Decide Act" gets published
By LoudTechie, 17 Apr 2026 at 8:33 am UTC
It's 10 times better than the 10 most common ways to do age verification, but it's still scary. Although you won't hear me arguing it's impossible to avoid this porblem. It's still a problem..
By LoudTechie, 17 Apr 2026 at 8:33 am UTC
Quoting: spacemonkeyThe EU actually just released an app that enabled users to proof their age to an apps or website. This enables the user to stay completely anonymous, only the minimal required information is passed on to the app or website.But a lot of trust is still placed in the company that manages the national digital id system of your nation and your nation(they suddenly know which 18+ sites you visit by who requests it).
https://commission.europa.eu/news-and-media/news/european-age-verification-app-keep-children-safe-online-2026-04-15_en
US take not please. We don't need your BS.
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