Dude, it’s 2026. We don’t sell shovels, we sell shovel subscriptions.

Which problems are you referring to? None of the physical issues, nor the human behaviour issues are relevant here.

I’m guessing that they wouldn’t actually store that amount of data. Probably processing it on the fly and discarding a majority of it.

With modern high capacity drives, it’s possible to have that storage in a single rack. If would probably be about $500,000 worth of drives though.

Development cost is still a thing with software.

I don’t immediately hate it. It’s been a while since any laptops/prebuilds shipped with less than 8 GB, and there’s distros out there far better suited to running on low power or legacy hardware.

Hopefully it’s just AI tools for development they’re talking about (though that will be bad enough if RHEL becomes vibecoded slop) and not stupid AI “features” baked into the OS.

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.

What examples of post Industrial Revolution communism are you thinking of?

I specifically say post Industrial Revolution because the societal changes brought about at that time and since pretty much invalidates earlier examples. The genie is out of the bottle and there’s no way that the global society is going to go back to being mostly agrarian.

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

Calling that communism really doesn’t work. Family groups of a few dozen people sharing things doesn’t just scale up to modern societies.

This guy might just speak French. When he says “EU” he actually means “États-Unis”

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?