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Cake day: August 22nd, 2023

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  • I’ve been an Arch user for more than a decade and I’ll usually be first in line to defend it from dodgy claims about unreliability.

    But that forum response is bizarre. Literally the last two RSS items right now are about how splitting packages will require intervention for some users (plasma and Linux firmware). VLC is an officially supported package, and surely this change would impact almost every VLC user?

    New opt-depends is a nice pacman feature, but it hardly implies that things have been removed from the base package.









  • My government, my company, my former university and even my former highschool have all identified “understanding consent” as a significant social problem worthy of significant spending on PSAs and education programmes.

    But even as people are learning about how consent is like tea, they are being exposed every day to software and services that treat it as informed consent if you don’t dig into settings to disable something, don’t actively delete your account when they arbitrarily change their terms of service, or offer a “contract” with a piece of software you’ve already purchased that you can’t negotiate.

    It shouldn’t need to be said but…you don’t get to skip getting informed consent just because it would be difficult or time consuming or annoying or expensive.