Don't give up hope just yet! Last month a ban on conversion practices got nearly 1 million signatures in the last week!
From an email I received from the ECI recently:
In a stunning final push, the initiative for a ‘Ban on Conversion Practices in the EU’ gathered nearly one million signatures in its final week - closing with over 1.24 million in total on 17 May.
https://github.com/zotify-dev/zotify I haven't used it in a while but it worked perfectly when I did.
Soulseek is another great option
Greg didn't even add it to the Taskmaster Book of Quotes, I was very disappointed!
I don't have an Nvidia GPU so I don't have any experience with it but a quick search brought me to Nvidias website and the instructions seem to line up with users answers on other forums.
Disable it here https://docs.nvidia.com/ai-enterprise/deployment/vmware/latest/nouveau.html or apparently installing Nvidias proprietary drivers automatically blacklists Nouveau.
I had this issue: failed to finalise remaining DM devices. Which led me to here https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/15004 and Skinner927 mentions your issue in that thread
I'd try uninstalling nouveau completely and see if the issue persists for you
The ePrivacy Directive from 2002 already covers this so each EU country should have their own laws regulating cookies with regards to this directive.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32002L0058
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Users should have the opportunity to refuse to have a cookie or similar device stored on their terminal equipment.
So this should have been a thing since even before GDPR was introduced. Cookie banners or some other form of informed consent like Do Not Track should have been standard and enforced at a country level even before Facebook, Youtube and co even got off the ground.
The story above says its a violation of the German TDDDG law that seems to be based on the ePrivacy Directive so this is them finally using the regulations of cookies that was established over 2 decades ago.
The legislation does exist, it just looks different in each country and no country was bothered to really enforce the law but now it seems GDPR has enabled countries to throw around the whole weight of the EU as opposed to just one country's weight since its unified across the EU.
I've only had to complain to 2 websites (One pretty big website and one small local website) about not having an explicit option to reject specific cookies as outlined in the ePrivacy directive and both websites are now compliant. So it does exist and it does work but nobody is willing to or doesn't know they can make complaints about websites that don't comply with cookie consent.
The EU can't monitor every single website, its just not realistic so its up to users to be informed of their rights and be willing to complain to these websites and then to their local regulator if those websites don't comply.
Cookies can be divided into subcategories and depending on what type they are, they may or may not be covered under this ruling.
Heres a nice breakdown of what does and doesn't have to be included in the reject all option https://gdpr.eu/cookies/ and also a bit of info about the ePrivacy directive that seems to be what the TDDDG law is based on.
So websites with competent cookie management shouldn't break if a user "rejects all"
Link to where the archive is https://zenodo.org/records/15170676 but its been restricted from downloading
Note: Download access has been temporarily suspended at the request of the ICWSM program chairs.
EDIT: lol I love the Internet Archive Its 120GiB if anyone wants to try download it and see if it works.
I loved The Talos Principle! I haven't played the remake, I didn't realise they added new stuff I thought it was just updated graphics which didn't interest me.
The Talos Principle 2 was great, the puzzles were fantastic, some of the new concepts totally broke my brain for ages and had me trying the dumbest stuff because I was fully lost lol but it was so fun! I recommended the DLC too, I loved the Hexahedron in the Isle of the Blessed and I hope they do more puzzles like that in the future.
I just wish the world was smaller and there was less emphasis on the story, when it comes to puzzle games I just want to get to the puzzles asap I don't want to run back and forth across the world just to sit through cut scenes. I do kind of get why it was so big for the bonus stuff outside the main puzzles and also
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on my first playthrough, I did manage to finish the whole game without completing any puzzles, which was pretty funny.
I've been playing Balatro for what feels like the last 84 years and I constantly rage quit and say I'm done with the game when I know my run is over then stare out the window for a minute and start the game again, its painfully addictive.
I've also been playing Angry Birds on the 3DS its so fun. I haven't played it since it first came out on mobile 15 years ago, I didn't realise how old it was! I've needed games like this for the past few weeks with life being so busy, they're so easy to pick up and then just pause whenever I need to.
Huh I thought the right were blaming gamers for taking benefits from single mothers, the elderly and disabled.
"No one has talked about cutting one benefit in Medicaid to anyone who's duly owed—what we've talked about is returning work requirements, so, for example, you don't have able-bodied young men on a program that's designed for single mothers and the elderly and disabled. They're draining resources from people,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson last week.
"So if you clean that up and shore it up, you save a lot of money, and you return the dignity of work to young men who need to be out working instead of playing videogames all day."
Get back to work gamers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQLMo2A1ous
Men aren't finding their home in the political right because of their love of videogames, they're being manipulated by companies like Cambridge Analytica and losers that complain about not having sex on their weirdo podcasts
The website uses google services while promoting a phone that advertises avoiding google services... And it seems to be completely broken for me on any android browser I use. Also his main website seems to use the Microsoft store logo for his store logo lol
720 display?, it doesn't say it has a removable battery? and can somehow promise years of software updates when they rely on third party custom ROMs for their software..
Also I don't know of any android phones that block replacing the battery?
The website says 6GB RAM and the indiegogo page says 8GB RAM
The hardware seems meh and the software is based on FOSS ROMs that support a wide variety of devices that actually exist. Ubuntu touch is advertised as Coming Soon™
The BraX3 phone offers the most privacy-friendly location service through the Lunar Network
Please anyone who can find the Lunar Network website, link it because right now to me it seems they're using a now defunct minecraft server for location services
I've got scammy vibes from this guy for years, even when I was new to privacy I never felt like he was reliable. Did he dub himself "the internet privacy guy" lol
Overall, I think the phone will probably come out at some point, it'll be kinda sucky from a hardware perspective for anyone who is used to mid range phones and the software could be fine or it could be buggy AF but I don't think it'll be anything special or offer anything unique enough from a privacy perspective to bother with.
I don't think he can guarantee software updates as he has no control over the ROMs he relies on and I would not expect any sort of support for bugs etc. I don't think he is knowledgeable enough to trust not to have privacy/security issues with the phone, especially when his whole shtick is "privacy"
It sucks that headphone jacks and sd cards are so hard to find in phones today but I'd prefer to use a dongle and external storage or self host and have a better refurbished phone running LineageOS or any other degoogled ROM than trust this guy.
Yeah fair, its just sad that we seem to be giving up with over a month left when this has been in the top 3 most popular initiatives this year.
Hopefully this video and the non-english sponsors he has been working on get more people talking again and hopefully talking in different languages to capture the people who have missed this because of a language barrier.