Mordikan

In California Jan 1st 2027, effectively yes. Please read AB-1043. All of this information is present there. It functionally forces any systemd‑based OS to populate it in order to comply with the law’s mandatory age‑collection requirements. It’s literally in the bill. Next time, just fucking read it, damn. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043

California’s AB-1043 already passed, so we get to bitch about it now. Thanks for your support.

This is what I do as well. Process inheritance helps prevent any game that Steam runs from misbehaving outside it’s whitelisted directories.

Imagine being a dev and having this happen to you. Still, MFA is a thing.

Install and adblocker and then you can read the handful of paragraphs of actual content they posted. Also, get an auto reader mode extension. Unless you are really into all the distractions on page, that will help with sketchy gaming sites.

Qutebrowser

Yeah, I think it’s best if you stop talking too. I seriously just do not have the time to correct you and then read through your comments where you say the same misguided shit again. Unfortunately, you are too stupid to understand how you are wrong. This is something that it is not my job to correct.

I’m sure it would be argued and the RIAA would try to file a lawsuit against publishers doing that saying it is contributing or enabling piracy in some way. Personally, I would think that’s a stupid argument, but publishers I’m sure would do their best to avoid any legal drama if they can.

Yeah, that’s not how any of this works. I apologize for the caps, but just so I can make this clear for you: YOU DIDN’T BUY THE MUSIC

The devs/publisher licensed the use of certain music in their games for a specific duration. I feel like I’m just having to tell you this again and again. Your idea of “well, they could have just…”, no. It has nothing to do with bugfixes or security issues. It has to do with the license expiring. If they don’t have a valid license to the music it must be removed (ex. GTA4).

If the music license expires, the game cannot be sold with the music still in it. If the developers or publisher wants to keep selling the game, they need to either remove the music or renew the license. If the developers decide to not sell the game anymore, they should still be allowed to update the game without having to remove the music.

AGAIN, THIS IS NOT A THING. Please keep comments based in reality and not your “perfect world” thoughts on what reality should be. Reality.

A game can be updated after a music license expires AND after the game is no longer being sold. The update should not be forced to include music removal if the update happens after the expiry date of the music license, but only if the game is no longer for sale.

Ok, so this is literally just your own wishful thinking. So, based on what you are wanting, the anti-SKG lawyers have a REALLY good point:

A game goes offline officially and private servers or something fan-made pops up. The devs STILL have to pay for the music licensing for all time now. Thankfully, that’s not how any of this works or will work. That’s crazy stupid.

Ok, you said licensed music should be removed for games that continue to be sold and then later said music should not be removed even if they choose to make updates:

this clause only applies to games that continue to be sold

even if they choose to make updates to the game available, music removal should not be mandatory

You then go back on the second comment:

Whether the game is updated or supported beyond the music expiry license should not be part of the license agreement, and should be only based on whether it continues to be sold or not

Maybe I’m getting confused on sold vs updated as in either case that’s a product being maintained. And I think you can already license music indefinitely, but you have to pay the copyright owner a lot more money. But to say expiry should not be part of a licensing agreement is a wild take.

Not that I’m complaining, but that’s just piracy.

I would imagine that 40% is saying that hoping for a best case scenario to occur. Prices haven’t even plateaued yet, they are still rising, so at some point regardless their enthusiasm they will be priced out of the market.

The thought that hardware prices will drop to normal levels in the next few years is just wishful thinking.

The subscription model exemption is interesting. Blizzard could shut down WoW and that would be it (I know private servers exist - I’m talking in terms of their responsibility). I wonder if that would push more publishers into subscription models to bypass the law if it passes. Like ARC Raiders could be $1 a month and then when they kill it, they kill it without legal objection.

To be fair, the ESA does raise a good point about licensed music, though. That’s like GTA4. A lot of the music was removed on PC because of license expiration and people were mad, but they can’t legally keep it in the game if it’s expired.

Will be interesting to see how all the chips land in the SKG movement.

I ran into the same thing. Nix store got up to 57GB in size for me. I have lots of generations and upgrades ran which just continually fill up. Figured out you have to run garbage collection or use the optimizer (which takes a LONG time to run for me): https://nlewo.github.io/nixos-manual-sphinx/administration/cleaning-store.xml.html

“Have you tried enabling multi-threading? Did you turn on optimizations?” Ugh…

I’ve used Arch as my daily for so many years now, it is a little tricky moving from imperative to declarative configuration. I’m treating my NixOS machine more as long term maintenance, so I’m not using the most bleeding edge packages. You can do that though by pointing to nixos-unstable.

I plan on using flakes for pinning and home-manager for writing ~/.config configurations, but I don’t think I really need it, more just to learn how. With home-manager, I could rebuild this machine from scratch (including individual application preferences/settings) just with the backed up configs. I can at any point rollback to any saved previous generation though, too, just by restarting the machine.

I’ve really been impressed with it though. To the point, I will probably be moving my Arch DIY router over and converting it to NixOS.

NixOS for fun:

powerManagement.enable = true;
services.logind.extraConfig = ''HandleLidSwitch=suspend'';

AI PR is absolutely correct: https://www.flyingpenguin.com/freebsd-cve-2026-4747-log-suggests-mythos-is-a-marketing-trick/

One user pointed out that Claude “wrote code to exploit a known CVE given to it” and did not “crack” FreeBSD.

This is the definition of a zero effort post.

You don’t want to put forth the effort to bug hunt, you want an AI agent to bug hunt for you. You don’t want to learn to even setup the agent, you want other people to explain step by step how to do that for you.

I’m assuming you aren’t even going to review before it submits. Honestly though, how would you review it given you don’t know anything about the topic its submitting on.