Privacy, Verification, and Possible Solutions

Age declaration and verification in Linux gathers pace, Google blesses us with some hoops to jump through to install the software we want on stock Android, the FSFE lost their payment provider, great new KDE Plasma and GNOME features, and more.

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Just over a month until OggCamp!

Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late

Age verification isn’t sage verification when it’s inside operating systems

The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux

A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date

When you tell me to just not implement age declaration, do you understand you’re asking me to risk thousands of dollars in fines?

I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who’s behind the age verification bills.

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Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety

450 FSFE supporters affected: Payment provider Nexi cancelled us

This Week in Plasma: Press-and-Hold for Alternative Characters

Introducing GNOME 50, “Tokyo”

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