

It also starts to depend on how you define what a given service actually is. Plex has shifted from being a self hosted media server to essentially a streaming service that you can hook your own library to.


It also starts to depend on how you define what a given service actually is. Plex has shifted from being a self hosted media server to essentially a streaming service that you can hook your own library to.
I’m guessing that a good chunk of that usage is coming from the TrueNAS VM.


That’s not blocking the fingerprinting, that obfuscating the data. The fact that you are doing that itself becomes part of the fingerprint being built. Services like Tor or Chameleon don’t stop the fingerprinting process running, they just make it more difficult (but not impossible) to tie the fingerprint to your actual identity.


That’s not the fingerprinting happening client side, that’s just information supply. Fingerprinting is about what the server does with that information.


You can’t really “block” fingerprinting. You can obfuscate it a bit, but the fingerprinting process happens server side, not on your device. So whether or not your system sends whatever age verification signal becomes a part of its fingerprint.


I was expecting civil discourse and a level-headed response.
He may have been hoping for that, but surely he didn’t truely expect it. The FOSS community can barely have a civil discussion about filesystems.


We are talking about legislation. Unless it’s very specifically targeted legislation, the conversation always is about the general public.


Then why would they be relevant to a discussion about legislation that affects the general public?


You honestly believe that the general public is going to suddenly rush to chromium or Firefox forks?


That question was rhetorical. Apple and Google account for 95% of the browser market.


You mean the browsers all based on code from Google and Apple, who also want that info, and will be pressured to use that API to “protect the children” from adult websites?


App stores and anything else that makes a call to that API.


Nope. Most of these legislations are pushing for OS level.


I’m guessing one of the motives is to be able to get more data from non meta users. If the API exists at the operating system level, they can then use the code behind that stupid little Facebook button that every website has to get user age as well as the normal browser fingerprinting data.
What are you talking about? I absolutely want a way to block all current and future AI features. Opt in would have been better instead of opt out, but hey, I’ll take the wins I can get.



Lol, very first pair of comments. I love phoronix sometimes.


For Corsair RGB, there’s also OpenLinkHub. Supports pretty much everything Corsair now.


To answer your question anyway, raspberry Pi made the rp2040 chip, which is a microcontroller similar to the esp, instead of a full fat computer SOC


Many. But there too, I’m seeing many people move to VScode + platformio. I’m not saying Arduino is already dead, I’m just saying that the alternatives were already gaining ground.
Sweet. Soon I won’t be chained to shitty android boxes for 4k streaming needs.