Passwords suck, plain and simple. Passkeys are one of many better solutions, including local on-device biometrics protected by dedicated hardware.

Unless, of course, if the UK is suggesting some government-backed biometric system or app. “Send us your fingerprint, old chap. Then we’ll know which fingerprints aren’t yours.” That’d be a hard pass.

I’m not at all interested. But, Minecraft is popular and I’m all for bringing this community together! Go for it!

I’ve used Little Snitch on macOS, but I agree that a closed-source blob won’t fly on Linux. OpenSnitch exists, though I haven’t tried that one.

Can I just do an apt remove —purge systemd-ageverificationd and call it a day, or do I need to edit /etc/systemd/ageverificationd/birthday.conf and call it a day?

I don’t agree with this law, but having an age verification API as an open-source modular component is the best way to do it. Build in privacy controls and permissions so you know what’s being sent, where, and when. Make sure we know to edit $HOME/.config/systemd/ageverificationd/birthday.conf whenever we want (yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised if systemd handled this, too).

Don’t forget the off switch and don’t give it unnecessary dependencies. Let me be able to install it if I need it (spoilers: I won’t) and if you include it by default, let me be able to remove it without removing the whole GUI.

I wound up switching to Debian. It’s stable. It works. It lets me tinker and upgrade some packages without compromising the whole system.

My only gripe is that OS upgrades are a manual process. I miss Ubuntu’s do-release-upgrade command, though following a process isn’t hard.

A Spanish king sent a Genovese-born Spanish citizen westward? Roll with it. Conservatives in this country will fly into a rage thinking non-whites had any part in discovering their so-called holy land.

Columbus didn’t even “discover” (I use the term loosely) what’s now the United States of America. He found the Bahamas and Hispañiola, though he was convinced it was South Asia. The Spanish Crown named him Governor of whatever land he found, but he was stripped of the title after admitting to flogging and executing natives without trial.

“They [the Taino] were very well built, with very handsome bodies and very good faces,” Columbus wrote in his diary. “They do not carry arms or know them… They should be good servants.”

Despite being arrested, Ferdinand and Isabella did let him keep 10% of the gold he found, the Crown taking the remainder.

The style at the time was to transliterate names. In Spain, he was known as Cristobál Colón. I’ll mark the date as Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The shitstains in this country can have their Colon Day.