EastofEdson

No, he’s pretty much an idiot.

I found the O’Reilly Red Hat 6 book online and it came out in August 1999. I would have pegged it earlier than that but I guess not.

My first Linux distro was Red Hat 6 around 1996 I would suspect. It came with a Linux book that I bought.

I’ve stuck with Debian on my server and EndeavourOS (Arch, btw) on my PC. Both have been rock solid.

Interesting. I have yet to lose anything from my library on Bandcamp but that would piss me off if it happened.

I do download and backup my purchases though. I download in both FLAC and mp3 320 formats so I have my bases covered just in case. It is annoying to keep my purchases separate though.

Bandcamp is great. I buy albums on Bandcamp when I can. Too many artists are not on there though, or only have older albums available.

What a great read. I was going to try the what.cd interview one day but never got there. Now I wish I had just to experience what it must have been.

Google reCaptcha enters the chat.

This whole APK dicussion is important, but Google is taking steps to lock down the bloody internet if you aren’t on a verified iOS or Android device. This will be far reaching going way beyond the APK changes.

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I feel like that won’t be enough. Google is working on locking down the entire internet unless you can pass their reCaptcha with a verified device. See this article related to GrapheneOS and their reCaptcha concerns.

Sites need to stop using reCaptcha or we are all doomed anyway.

So you can use the website in your browser but still have the have their app installed for 2fa? That’s peak bullshit there.

Google reCaptcha is going to have a similar requirement for accesing half the bloody internet once that goes through. In summary, I think we are fucked.