Ah, i see. Ye it can be interpreted in different ways, and reading the proposal might clear it up, but i doubt it. Its written extremely vague on purpose

Id need to look for it again, but i remember reading she was saying that the current proposal is vague in what it sees as required to prevent what she calls risks. I remember them asking her multiple times if she was against a law to prevent csa and the sharing there off, in which she replied multiple times that she was not, but that the law was too vague about what it constitutes as necessary to prevent it. Did i dream it? ><

Edit: found it!

Mevrouw Kathmann (GroenLinks-PvdA):
Het is niet per se alleen zo dat de huidige praktijk wordt voortgezet. Er zitten bijvoorbeeld ook zinnen in het voorstel die aangeven dat álle risico's moeten worden weggenomen. Het is ongelofelijk vaag, een heel grijs gebied, wat dat betekent. Dat is één. Dat is echt een heel groot risico. Daarnaast noemde de heer Van Houwelingen net al het punt van de leeftijdsverificatie. We hebben niet goed met elkaar kunnen bespreken wat daar nou precies in voorligt en hoe wij daar verder mee om moeten gaan. Dit zijn twee dingen die ik er nu zo uitpik.

I recommend reading the dutch debate : https://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/plenaire_verslagen/detail/2025-2026/17

And yes, the latter is currently a thing (but in a weaker form) but will no longer be allowed in april 2026, which is why this law is getting pushed so hard. Currently chats can be asked by police/interpol/… But they need good reasons, and the results can be varying because chat platforms like signal do not keep chat messages/stuff.
The new law forces them to have systems in place to catch or have data for law inforcements. It just allows for ‘any system to get the needed info’, it no longer says chat scanning is needed directly, but is rather indirectly which is as stupid and bad as before.

The later. However, they could still be fines for not doing what is needed to reduce “the risks of the of the chat app”, whatever the fuck that can mean when talking about illegal.content

I agree! It is ! Its clearly in pre release state and needs a lot of work but its basis is right there!

Played it, its timesplitters alright. Story is only ts1, arcade is a bit limited and ai isnt always the smartest, has bugs but the base is there. Its timesplitters, with all its awesomeness

Kathmann (GroenLinks-PvdA), see https://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/plenaire_verslagen/detail/2025-2026/17

Its “voluntary”. You can choose to not do it, but at the same time you have to " reduce any risk on your platform" and 'prevent it from being abused". So you can choose not to scan texts, but can still be fined under the law that youre not reducing risk of your platform being used for criminal acts.

The new chatcontrol is a piece of shit like it always was. Its also interesting to read the politicians in the netherlands talk about it and they were lucky to have somebody who understood the risk be there ( they were apposed due to the law being extremely vague and having paradoxes )

Eeehhhh, the us might take that record of no functioning government from us haha.

Either case, this person is right. Regardless, the party can fuck right off. If our far right party isnt right enough, something is massively wrong.

Alex horne? But why? Greg davies is so much better :')

Oh god no, fuck that useless arse haha

I disagree. Though both qwerty layout, uk english > us english/international layout.
The enter key alone makes it better as is :p

Yup. I have yet to play around with wayland since im a linux mint user but look forward to it. I know what xserver intended to solve and weve gone way past those times. Something new is needed, and i hope wayland can integrate ui a lot better than xserver can. From what ive heard there are things wayland cant do that xserver can ( like stitching 2 monitors together and make it act like 1 ) but that wont stop me from trying and looking for performance differences

Not really. Linux mint/cinnamon is lacking behind on wayland support. Im still waiting for them to finish it but its going very very slowly.

With debian and ubuntu switching by default, i think linux mint will have to change gears quickly

Right, so basically he removed the software aspect in his tests which removes systems to protect the battery. I assume without them, it is damaging, like what great scott found.

Ye, he should have continued his experiments then!

Ok, before i watch the video, no damage is not what great scott found from his testings… ( https://youtu.be/iMn2yVoEqPs ).

so i have no idea what to believe anymore, but my (based) experience is that it does damage it. Ill have to watch later.

Cant happen due to the end of zero 4 though.

Neither. Both games were run into the ground.
If i had to pick one, id go for an x ( or game based on x and zero ) game that goes over the elf wars that ties the x games to the zero games

Even if it isnt russians this time, theyve been probing around in brussels. Drones over military bases, ddos of one of the bigger isp’s in belgium this week etc etc. I think, personally, something is hanging above our heads but im also sure belgium and eu have their hands full with how to handle the situation. Its like defusing a bomb lol

You forgot an em dash in there :p