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who @feddit.org 6d ago

Also, there's a well-known reason for this that is plainly obvious to anyone who has been keeping up on US news over the past year.

This doesn't belong here.

who @feddit.org 6d ago

The new AI controls panel will also enable users to manage five AI-powered features individually: browser translations, alt text generation for images in PDFs, AI-enhanced tab grouping with suggested names, link previews showing key points, and sidebar access to chatbots (including Anthropic Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and Le Chat Mistral).

I'm glad for that. I don't want most of these things, but the translation feature is very useful, runs locally, and only activates when I click it. I intend to keep it enabled and switch off the rest.

who @feddit.org 1w ago

Looks like that package was removed from Debian. I wouldn't be surprised if it was due to not following Debian policy.

Here are the first 100 entries:

        $ apt-cache show librust-winapi-dev |grep ^Provides: |sed "s/Provides: "// |sed "s/, /\\n/g" |sed "s/ .*//g" |sort -V  |head -100
    librust-winapi+accctrl-dev
    librust-winapi+aclapi-dev
    librust-winapi+activation-dev
    librust-winapi+adhoc-dev
    librust-winapi+appmgmt-dev
    librust-winapi+audioclient-dev
    librust-winapi+audiosessiontypes-dev
    librust-winapi+avrt-dev
    librust-winapi+basetsd-dev
    librust-winapi+bcrypt-dev
    librust-winapi+bits1-5-dev
    librust-winapi+bits2-0-dev
    librust-winapi+bits2-5-dev
    librust-winapi+bits3-0-dev
    librust-winapi+bits4-0-dev
    librust-winapi+bits5-0-dev
    librust-winapi+bits10-1-dev
    librust-winapi+bitscfg-dev
    librust-winapi+bitsmsg-dev
    librust-winapi+bits-dev
    librust-winapi+bluetoothapis-dev
    librust-winapi+bluetoothleapis-dev
    librust-winapi+bthdef-dev
    librust-winapi+bthioctl-dev
    librust-winapi+bthledef-dev
    librust-winapi+bthsdpdef-dev
    librust-winapi+bugcodes-dev
    librust-winapi+cderr-dev
    librust-winapi+cfgmgr32-dev
    librust-winapi+cfg-dev
    librust-winapi+cguid-dev
    librust-winapi+combaseapi-dev
    librust-winapi+coml2api-dev
    librust-winapi+commapi-dev
    librust-winapi+commctrl-dev
    librust-winapi+commdlg-dev
    librust-winapi+commoncontrols-dev
    librust-winapi+consoleapi-dev
    librust-winapi+corecrt-dev
    librust-winapi+corsym-dev
    librust-winapi+d2d1effectauthor-dev
    librust-winapi+d2d1effects-1-dev
    librust-winapi+d2d1effects-2-dev
    librust-winapi+d2d1effects-dev
    librust-winapi+d2d1svg-dev
    librust-winapi+d2d1-1-dev
    librust-winapi+d2d1-2-dev
    librust-winapi+d2d1-3-dev
    librust-winapi+d2d1-dev
    librust-winapi+d2dbasetypes-dev
    librust-winapi+d3d9caps-dev
    librust-winapi+d3d9types-dev
    librust-winapi+d3d9-dev
    librust-winapi+d3d10effect-dev
    librust-winapi+d3d10misc-dev
    librust-winapi+d3d10sdklayers-dev
    librust-winapi+d3d10shader-dev
    librust-winapi+d3d10-1shader-dev
    librust-winapi+d3d10-1-dev
    librust-winapi+d3d10-dev
    librust-winapi+d3d11on12-dev
    librust-winapi+d3d11sdklayers-dev
    librust-winapi+d3d11shader-dev
    librust-winapi+d3d11tokenizedprogramformat-dev
    librust-winapi+d3d11-1-dev
    librust-winapi+d3d11-2-dev
    librust-winapi+d3d11-3-dev
    librust-winapi+d3d11-4-dev
    librust-winapi+d3d11-dev
    librust-winapi+d3d12sdklayers-dev
    librust-winapi+d3d12shader-dev
    librust-winapi+d3d12-dev
    librust-winapi+d3dcommon-dev
    librust-winapi+d3dcompiler-dev
    librust-winapi+d3dcsx-dev
    librust-winapi+d3dkmdt-dev
    librust-winapi+d3dkmthk-dev
    librust-winapi+d3dukmdt-dev
    librust-winapi+d3dx10core-dev
    librust-winapi+d3dx10math-dev
    librust-winapi+d3dx10mesh-dev
    librust-winapi+d3d-dev
    librust-winapi+datetimeapi-dev
    librust-winapi+davclnt-dev
    librust-winapi+dbghelp-dev
    librust-winapi+dbt-dev
    librust-winapi+dcommon-dev
    librust-winapi+dcompanimation-dev
    librust-winapi+dcomptypes-dev
    librust-winapi+dcomp-dev
    librust-winapi+dde-dev
    librust-winapi+ddrawint-dev
    librust-winapi+ddrawi-dev
    librust-winapi+ddraw-dev
    librust-winapi+debugapi-dev
    librust-winapi+debug-dev
    librust-winapi+default-dev
    librust-winapi+devguid-dev
    librust-winapi+devicetopology-dev
    librust-winapi+devpkey-dev

I haven't reviewed the relevant policies lately, but I suspect those should have been separate packages, not thousands of entries in a single package's Provides: field.

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who @feddit.org 1w ago

Ergo saying “it’s aSsAuLt” is missing the point and hysterical, preaching to the choir.

You're projecting a lot of tone and intent that doesn't exist in my comment, nor in my view of the issue, and you're doing it with a hefty dose of snark. That's unnecessary, unhelpful, and unkind.

In future, you might consider multiple ways that other people's comments could be interpreted, rather than leaping to assumptions that give you an excuse to criticise them and control the conversation.

Be well. Goodbye.

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who @feddit.org 1w ago

it’s wrong because the law enforcement agencies are illegitimate, so all uses of their power are illegitimate.

Ergo...

;)

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who @feddit.org 1w ago

explicitly authorized law enforcement personnel to obtain Natanson’s phone and both hold the device in front of her face and to forcibly use her fingers to unlock it.

In other words, physical assault.

who @feddit.org 1w ago

The need being served here is for an alternative to Google's spyware, not for an alternative to Android.

The Android operating system itself is not a significant privacy problem. (It might seem like one because most Android distributions include Google Play Services, but without that, Android is pretty tame and very useful.)

who @feddit.org 1w ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20260131150314/https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/30/st-peter-police-chief-intervenes-prevents-federal-agents-from-arresting-resident

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who @feddit.org 1w ago

It's important to recognize that Android distributions without Google's (spyware) Play Services are vastly better for privacy than the commercial Android distributions that ship on most phones. To overlook/minimize that difference by calling them "just" different Android distributions is misleading.

who @feddit.org 2w ago

Unfortunate headline. It seems to imply that Sanders would fund ICE if Noem and Miller were gone, but as we can see by reading the article, that alone would not be enough.

I'm glad Sanders is no pushover.

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who @feddit.org 2w ago

"glass houses"

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who @feddit.org 2w ago

In that example, Epic is the storefront and Rockstar is the publisher. It's exactly what I described.

Maddening, isn't it?

who @feddit.org 2w ago

For books, I got more use from Harbison & Steele's C: A Reference Manual than K&R. It has been a long time, though, so it's possible that a great new book exists now.

For online, I recommend bookmarking this site: https://cppreference.com/w/c.html

who @feddit.org 2w ago

No mention of Cantata, nor acknowledgement of Amarok’s recent revival. Whatever the reason might be for those omissions, this article doesn’t do a very good job of representing the state of linux music players.

who @feddit.org 2w ago

No mention of Cantata, nor acknowledgement of Amarok's recent revival. Whatever the reason might be for those omissions, this article doesn't do a very good job of representing the state of linux music players.

who @feddit.org 2w ago

Thank you.