Yeah fuck the video codec mafia and all these proprietary shits like HDMI

Heroic has slow download from GoG and Epic on my machine too.

Yes, sorry I was too lazy to provide any sources here are a few (mostly in french sorry). It was called the 8 December case or “L’Affaire du 8 décembre” in french.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_December_2020_case
• https://lundi.am/Affaire-du-8-decembre-recit-d-une-mise-en-examen-pour-association-de
• https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2020/12/11/sept-militants-de-l-ultragauche-deferes-devant-un-juge-antiterroriste_6063103_3224.html
• https://www.laquadrature.net/2023/10/02/affaire-du-8-decembre-le-droit-au-chiffrement-et-a-la-vie-privee-en-proces/
• https://www.laquadrature.net/2023/06/05/affaire-du-8-decembre-le-chiffrement-des-communications-assimile-a-un-comportement-terroriste/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20230607132838/https://soutien812.blackblogs.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/1922/2023/03/ArticleCamille_RevueZ.pdf

Edit:

• https://archive.is/https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2023/10/05/le-proces-de-l-affaire-du-8-decembre-2020-debute-dans-une-ambiance-tendue_6192573_3224.html

You forgot that french juges have used the facts that people installed Linux, Signal, /e/OS and GrapheneOS has evidence to charge them!

I think they were leftists activists charged for eco-terrorism but I don’t remember all the details but you should take a look. La Quadrature du Net has done some blogging and court things over this events of dark times.

If you’re comming from Windows and don’t want to be too much distabilized ZorinOS is probably one of the best.

Other great choice are:

• bazzite
• Linux Mint
• Pop_OS!

However CAD on Linux is not great, there is some free tools but they are so much more limited than the proprietary windows suite of tools. Maybe WinBoat could make your software run good enough.

I mean you cannot fit Monero in the same bucket as the rest of the cryptocurrencies. No foundation, no company, no VCs, no pre-mined, CPU-based PoW, no major on/off ramp accepting it but still a strong currency with real usage outside speculation made by a community of builders. Can be life saving for some high risks profiles and honestly is the complete opposite of the cryptocurrency market, I’m thankful it exists.

Monero is based though

As long as they don’t sell that to people as “easy money multiplier, invest you’ll become rich in weeks” I’m okay. Won’t buy though

In most Web3 blockchains ZeroKnowledgeProof aren’t proof. They often only have the succinctness of the proof and this is enough for the marketing team.

Also there is many things valuable in modern cryptography thanks to Bitcoin and other chains, blockchain and crypto are buzzwords for sure but that doesn’t mean that i’s 100% BS.

And that’s a real question!

1 USD is worth 1 USD because you can pay 1 USD of taxes. It is backed by political promises, oil, weapons and war. This can’t end well.

Crypto means cryptography. Cryptocurrencies are a variety of things from stablecoin (digital token backed by fiat money often by a private company ), company shares, community projects, scams, scams, ponzi, scams, cool technical experiments and technically bad experiment. In the other hand there is Bitcoin (and Monero to some extent) that is owned by humanity, no foundation, no company, no state. It is backed by a proof of past energy brining the most innovative security system in the history of IT, not based on restricted access and opacity but by economical incentive to play fair with others in a big game theory peer-to-peer network.

Bitcoin is not the money of the internet. It’s the internet of money.

Andreas Antonopoulos

Then what is money? State approved piece of paper backed by oil, weapons, war and slavery?

The private key was.

Criminals are often not the most highly intellectual people on this planet…

To keep it short there is two big families of wallets. Hot and cold wallet. Hot wallets are the one that got an internet connection wether it’s a constant one or periodically connecting. Cold wallets are never connected to the internet and often are dedicated hardware devices with the better ones having a Secure Element to store the private key or even sometimes sign transactions directly in it.

Victims of this attacks were using hot wallet on a not-dedicated machine which is consider bad practice. Hot wallets have to be consider more like a physical wallets for daily spends and cold wallet being privilege for long-term saving and monthly or yearly transactions.

I’m not an expert but desktop OS (especially Windows) are not as well contained than phone so I almost never use hot wallet on my computer. Often users are tricked to sign transactions to get stolen but I think if the wallet is unlocked a malware with the right privileges/permissions could easily steals money.

by reading some file in the computer Aren’t Steam games always executable for Windows?

Oh thanks, I’ve learned something thanks to you. I knew there was a link between the two but didn’t know what.

Yeah Codeberg looks great and is both European and non-profit.

There is also Forgejo and Radicle that might be worth looking at!

• https://forgejo.org/
• https://radicle.xyz/

We had local “AI” features for years, it’s just a glorify marketing term nowadays. Sure the advance made in LLM has changed the space but there was “AI” app on F-Droid for years before ChatGPT was public for exemple TIDY. I guess that if it uses an external non-free service it will be flag but if it’s 100% local and FOSS why complaining about tech people develop under free licences?

Not a fork but a similar app that is supported is OuterTune

LOL, they should patent video games in general to this point.