idk man, I don’t think Arthurian stories are the best example to make your point.

A lot of Arthurian titles more akin to revamps than remakes and/or sequels. For example, T.H. White books are basically the writer grabing the original legends, turning them on their head and make the case that might doesn’t make right, while the originals are all about honor and chivaric values.

But anyway, speaking more generally, in my opinion a lot of remakes and reboots in recent memory have been a let down. Disney work for example has been very underwhelming and clear nostalgia baits. I would rather they focused their efforts on making new things (including things based on stories that already exist, that’s fine as well. A lot of their movies are basically adaptations of old stories)

Better specs sure, but I would sooner cut my wrists than to try to work on an iOS device

Insert here the meme “some of you may die, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make”

I’m not a dictator of a country. But if I was, the moral lesson I would be learning is that it’s better to have nuclear weapons than not, because the US will invade me regardless

I don’t really know about this one. There are 3 things that kind of bother me:

1. Skimming through the main page and goal page, there isn’t any mention of how they plan to propose this to the EU. (Or maybe I missed it, someone correct me if I’m wrong please) So… What’s the plan exactly? Stay put and hope someone at EU parliament notices you?
2. I like Fedora, in fact it’s one of my two distros of choice. That said - considering the point of this is to make EU independent when it comes to OS - why Fedora? It’s from Red Hat, which belongs to IBM - a big tech american company. In theory we could fork Fedora and make our own developments on this new fork, but why when readily available options already exist? Like Opensuse, Ubuntu* or even Debian.
3. The name… Look, I know it’s superficial but it matters more than we think, because optics are important. Think of every major app or OS in the world. How many of them are named after their country or union? Imagine if Windows was called “United States of America OS”. It’s cringe. Why not use names closely related to EU instead? Like Elysium OS, from Ode to Joy anthem, would sound a lot better and would make the project look more serious

*I know Ubuntu is from UK, but it would be better than an american based distro

Edit: just checked their FAQ page, they touch on my point 1 (although not as much I would like) and 2.
https://eu-os.eu/faq#eu-project

I’m a simple man. I see endeavour OS, I like

If they elect Orban again, either EU reforms veto’s or it need to kick hungary out. We can’t have a bad actor that keeps sabotaging the union over and over again

And also spy, no doubt. Considering how the recent administrations are hellbent on introducing mass surveillance

I don’t think that will go anywhere, but hopefully I’m proven wrong.

Copy pasting a comment that I saw on Reddit

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Link to the original study (with a less sensationalized title):

https://zkae.io/

A few important notes:

• the study is about Bitwarden, LastPass, Dashlane and 1Password. Proton Pass isn’t mentioned.

• the study presumes that they’re working with a malicious server (read this as compromised server, controlled by an attacker). The attacks they talk about in the article would not work on a normal server. Here’s their quote:

No need to panic: all of our attacks presume a malicious server. We have no reason to believe that the password manager vendors are currently malicious or compromised, and as long as things stay that way, your passwords are safe. That said, password managers are high-value targets, and breaches do happen.

• Here’s another quote, about other password managers:

You can ask your provider the following questions:

1. ⁠Do you offer end-to-end encryption? What security do you provide in case your server infrastructure were to be compromised?

2. How do you check that public keys and public-key ciphertexts are authentic?

3. How do you authenticate security-critical settings, such as the KDF type and the iteration count?

4. Do you provide integrity guarantees for a user’s vault as a whole? Can a malicious server add items to your vault?

You can also ask your favourite password manager to commission an audit checking for our attacks in their products.

• If you still feel unsure/unsafe, then adopt an offline password manager (I highly recommend keepassXC).

Latin. For no specific reason, it would just be cool

You’re right, this is normal. Off the top of my head:

• tempura originated because of the trade between the portuguese and japanese

• portuguese monopoly on cinnamon trade with Sri Lanka and India, allowed Europe to get it for cheap and it became a main ingredient in a lot of desserts and confections

• the UKs tea culture came from a portugese noblewoman, who learned it from China

Cultures are constantly taking ideas from each orher

I’m firmly against what Discord is doing (and what governments like UK, Australia - and soon others - as well).

The main reason is distrust. I do not trust that they - or anyone - would use this data responsibly and only for its intended purpose.

While I do not doubt that these measures could protect more children - I also do not doubt that these measures will be abused. Businesses will violate whatever privacy we still have left in order to get more money from info-brokers/ad-companies, and governments will use it for control. The US has been proving this with ICE, where they’ve been using Flock to target people.

That’s why I always roll my eyes whenever these kind of measures are introduced. They’re always introduced with “think of the children!” right beside them.

There’s a reason why Apple - years ago - refused to develop a backdoor for iPhones when FBI requested/ordered them to do. There’s just no proper way to prevent abuse with backdoors. Yesterday they wanted to check a criminal’s phone, tomorrow they may want to target an annoying journalist.

Same principle with this tracking. Once Discord (or any others) can tell that your account belongs to you (IRL entity), there’s nothing that you can do to prevent them from abusing that knowledge. Let’s assume that today they use this new system for its intended purpose - who’s to say that tomorrow they will?

Not mention the data breach discord suffered last year, where around 70k proof of age IDs were leaked. So not only you have to worry about Discord, you also have to worry about others that may get their hands on your info.

Don’t get me wrong, we NEED to improve the safety of children on the internet. I fully support doing this via education, improving parental controls, maybe even banning children from social media apps until a certain age, etc.

But abusing our privacy rights is not it.

I don’t have much experience with that community, but from the little I’ve seen, agreed. It’s not good.

A good forum design will only get you so far, the rest is up to the moderators. If you let bad actors in, it doesn’t matter how you designed your forum, they will poison the well and drive other people out.

The best communities I’ve been in are in independent old-style forums. One of them is Tildes. Most of these don’t feature downvotes (or upvotes for that matter) and are honestly the better places to have discussions IMO.

Dogpile on them

It basically just turns a discussion forum into Disneyland, where everyone is happy all the time, because there’s no other option

In my experience, that’s not what happens

Yeah, something that is becoming very clear in these replies is that people got used to Reddit way of things.

Perhaps it’s one of those things that you have to experience for yourself.

Yeah you’re right, I was just making a joke.

But it does create some silly situations like you said

I could’ve told you that for free, no need for a study

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