Absolutely.

This irony, however, is delicious.

And here’s a link to a local source:

https://www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11/13/80324388/harrell-concedes-the-mayors-race-and-wilson-takes-her-victory-lap

Public radio said 400 pages of Alan Dershowitz’s autobiography was included in the dump. It actually made me laugh out loud in traffic. Guess he can’t make money on that anymore. Maybe he can sue the Republicans.

For sure.

I am excited to see more arm-based Linux devices for consumers. And the Snapdragon-based VR is exciting on that front.

It definitely won’t change anything for tomorrow or next year, but it does make me hopeful that better support is in the relatively near future.

It’s beautiful!

Missed opportunity for jazz.

I run Bazzite and Garuda (with the cachyos kernel). Only the Garuda box is Nvidia and has been great since kde+Wayland+Nvidia stabilized a year or so ago.

I think any of them (including cachyos) is a good choice. Optimization is diminishing returns, so I’d be looking for a distro with the default settings and tools I like as a much higher priority.

For example, I like Garuda’s btrfs with automatic checkpoints on upgrade so I can just send a garuda update (which is pacman Syu with bells and whistles) and almost ignore the output even when I get lazy and don’t update for a month. Don’t take this as a recommendation to ignore updates on an arch-based distro. There will eventually be consequences.

With bazzite, updates really are in the same class because of the immutable base. But I’m also deep into containers and have no issue with the ergonomics of layering and management, which are improving, but definitely not very newbie friendly.

Anyway, give them test drives. You’d be surprised how much changing a package manager can impact your ability to do things for a while if you aren’t familiar.

Companies lay people off when the stock doesn’t grow the right way, even when they’re highly profitable.

The Jack Welch playbook has fucked the concept of business success so hard we can’t even recognize what a huge pile of shit it has become. It needs a reset.

Just from the top of my head:

• Permanent tax on corporations that layoff people until they rehire to the same level.
• An exise tax on AI use by businesses.

Both of these would of course get me labeled an antichrist by Peter Thiel. And since AI is propping up the world economy right now, has 0 chance of happening.

While that is true, Democrats get to campaign against Republicans using it. They can say things like “we fought for you last year and Republicans finally gave in; now they’re taking it away for good.”

Granted, without actually feeling the pain, and knowing it was Democrats that proposed the new end date, it rings a bit hollow, but I’m no political marketing person.

They mentioned it at the bottom of the blog: works ok Linux and macos. And they want you to enable it because there a bug they’re trying to reproduce.

Thank God for Mississippi.

I usually prefer “soggy flesh sack”, but I do admit the “meat mech” angle has me intrigued.

Oh thank goodness.

Same.

We’re quickly spiraling into a Star Trek evil timeline origin.

TRS-80 then IBM PCjr here. Both hand-me-downs though.

Mom wouldn’t let me on the 386 until I could touch-type and write a program in BASIC. She was a Cobol and IBM RPG programmer.

The law does not exempt server OS and non-interactive software or software that doesn’t need age verification for any reason (like a calculator or offline text editor). It’s a nightmare for those reasons alone.

2027 is way too soon for developers to need to implement this because operating systems will first have to decide on the shape of the “signal”, and there will necessarily be knee-jerk “fuck you” reactions. Then verification needs to be implemented in hundreds of different programming languages and paradigms. Then developers can start to implement. I guess all my little toy applications that are publicly available on GitHub are now out of compliance, fuck me though.

See my other comment on this post for a longer breakdown of why I believe this is utterly stupid.

As a politically engaged California voter, I didn’t hear a peep about this. My state assembly and senate reps will be hearing from me.

Yes, you are missing things.

How does this work with virtual machines that have service account “users” that I deploy?

The definition of application is so broad that it seems to cover any kind of software, even if it does not actually interact with a user, but merely provides system functionality (like your network device discovery daemon e.g. bonjour/avahi, or device drivers) just because you can download it.

Any software you can retrieve from the Internet and “launch” is required to collect user age data. Like your graphics card settings app, your PDF reader, a calculator. I can’t figure out what they’re supposed to do with it though, so it’s a lot of work for no reason.

WTF is “launch” supposed to mean? Install? Open?

I guess every little toy app I put on GitHub is now going to be subject to this? If I fork an old application that doesn’t provide the interface, am I now responsible for doing so even if I only use it on my own devices?

What about software developer by people that aren’t in California and don’t want to be bothered? Can I now not use their calculator or spreadsheet or text editor applications because they don’t collect age verification signals?

2027 is way too soon because there’s no way all the Operating Systems have decided on the shapes of their signals, so I can’t even start figuring out how to implement in any of the 5 programming languages I have used to develop apps.

Oh, and I’ve found SELinux easier to handle with podman, but that might be just more experience now.