I am certainly convinced that TV, being purely passive, is more likely to have negative effects on cognition than online communities, which are something you can actively engage in and be creative.

I do use it, but you are quite right I don’t tend to mention it unless asked.

Correction: you can do that. You shouldn’t because it’s beneficial for young people to have social contacts and belong to positive communities, which is very much enabled by social media!

Also the claim is that the reason this particular child is “stressed out” is:

He said girls especially are barraged with unrealistic and sometimes AI-generated images of women’s bodies at a time when they’re feeling especially self-conscious about their own bodies.

Now I was never a girl nor especially conscious about my body, I am a male nerd who quickly learned in school not to care what others thought of me too much…

But I remember around 15 to 20 years ago reading similar claims about youth magazines and advertisements, that they were promoting unhealthy and unrealistic ideas of an ideal body image. So the beauty and fashion industries or whoever didn’t need computers to do those things.

In both cases, “promoting an unhealthy body image” is literally just free speech which in the US enjoys broad constitutional protection. So the government has no business doing anything against it.

Probably just ask it for the seahorse emoji or something idk

Yes. If vendors in those states want to then preinstall Linux on a device they would have to find a compliant distro…

Doesn’t matter much. At least those of us who aren’t engaged in the business of selling computers are unaffected.

Considering SteamOS includes Valve’s proprietary bits for the Steam client, this likely still applies to Valve and any hardware shipping with SteamOS

Where is the line? Most Linux distros have some nonfree software too, does it apply to them?

IMHO the correct legal and constitutional analysis ought to be: distributing software, in either source or binary form, is free speech protected under the US constitution as well as state constitutions. Therefore the government cannot pass laws requiring that operating systems, in general, implement certain features, doesn’t matter which.

What the government can do is engage in product regulation. It can require that operating systems preinstalled on devices sold in their jurisdiction have certain features. The correct thing to do wouldn’t have been to distinguish FOSS from nonfree operating systems, but operating systems preinstalled on devices from those distributed on the Internet which the user needs to install. That would have covered Android, iOS, macOS and Windows, which is obviously what the legislators were thinking of.

IRC prank from the 2000s: if you type /quit playing games with my heart you’ll hear a cool pop song.

2020s: if you type quit into Google it will understand this as an AI prompt.

It just has more of the web in its index than competitors do, so there are good practical reasons on occasion.

When I first became familiar with the existence of free and open source software, GitHub did not exist yet. The most popular similar website was SourceForge. (Do many people much younger than me even know that exists?)

If things could change once, they can change again.

On the terminal yes.

On GUIs I generally use an IDE or VSCodium with vim keybindings.

I see. Not familiar with any good interface for that.

No, I thought that was a separate question precisely because I don’t see a connection between merge requests and mailing lists.

I don’t currently use mailing lists but when I did, I found Thunderbird very usable. Just set up a filter to move each list’s messages to a separate folder.

For merge requests, doesn’t the default GitLab web interface do those things already …?

Do electric Pokémon need to be charged? I never got that impression, they seem to generate electricity out of nothing.

That’s why IntelliJ shows you, in these kinds of cases, the names of the parameters where the function is called…

There are also languages, like Scala and Swift, with named parameters, which also solve this problem.

Windows becoming a Linux distribution.

not what I want, I want Windows (as in, the existing Windows codebase) to become FOSS, if that happened, we would no longer need to care about anyone switching to Linux, in fact I might then install a FOSS Windows myself

I remember already playing it through Wine in like 2009 or so, so all that is new is that it’s now a decompiled version.

I haven’t seriously used it myself, but maybe Qt Quick is somewhat like you’re looking for?

https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qmlapplications.html

die Grammatik ist nicht wirklich besser