a curse upon these distros

It’s not the distros, it’s Flathub who provides those warnings.

I might be old but I seem to recall the French taught the proper way to protest this kind of stuff, rather than the soft protests we saw in 2020, let alone 2016.

As for me, fortunately I live in tbe Best Hemisphere so I plan to offer whatever housing space I have available so my friends from the US can flee over and nap the Trump Kingdom over.

GRRM is still writing his series.

That’s simple: have the earliest works released into the public domain, while he keeps squatting on the newer and promised ones.

How long do you think copyright should be?

No easy solutions but my general guideline would be that both copyright and patents should never last more than half the retirement age of a current generation, calculated via actuarial tables or some trustable scientific method.

The rationale is simple: the ultimate purpose of both is (or, well, should be) to promote creation so that society in general can be participant of the resulting effects. Half the retirement age not only is a good compromise between giving creator control and giving at least half of society the opportunity to enjoy the public good result of creation within their lifetime and within their fair opportunity to earn wages, in particular in such cases as eg.: big pharma and medications, but also promotes that big creators, such as corporations, act towards the public good of lengthening life and providing good living standards for the rest of society.

Oh, qué novedad.

And this is the reason I run infra on Debian Stable, or Oldstable, rather than eg.: Sid.

, where u can probably disable it if wanted.

these things should be opt-in, not opt-out. Opt-out is the way Microsoftism get (and have already gotten into) Linux.

Potterdung’s hand in it probably. That said, it makes it much easier to extract information about an error condition on a machine you might not have keyboard access to… assuming you do have screen access to, tho.

And they specifically logged and delivered data about freedom fighters and environmentalists, so there’s some bias on Proton’s hand there.