Here's my take on the Recall crapware that's been added to Windoze:
Recall will make use of on-device processing for some time, if/when "incompatible" Copilot+PCs receive support, the learning will be processed on a server.
Local processing will "become" an opt-in feature (because why not) and cloud processing (read: data-mining) becomes the default.
Local processing becomes a paid feature ( i.e the "Pro/Plus" tier) and is no longer available for regular users.
Users enjoy using Windows 11 despite knowing that literally everything they do on their computers (which IMO was never theirs from the start - if they've been using Windows) is up for grabs
now not only can Microsoft get access to all your data, heckers can too (how very generous of Microsoft)
And I forgot the important part (the part that I truly wish happens)
more and more users switch to #GNU+Linux. #Linux has only gotten so much better over the years, and even pain points like Nvidia, Wayland etc are becoming increasingly rare.
Switch to #freesoftware today! Use software where you're the user, not the used!
Forgive the recent apparent obsession (I’d call it a fascination) with the #cycloid but I’ve just discovered something I’d not heard of before. It is also called a #TautochroneCurve or #Isochrone curve, which means that a particle starting from any location on the curve will get to the #MinimumPoint at precisely the same time as a particle starting at any other point.
2024-06-15: CfP closes (BSDCan closes on 2024-06-01)
2024-06-22: PC finalizes speaker selection
2024-06-31: Early Bird closes
2024-07-15: Schedule published
2024-09-19—22: EuroBSDCon 2024 in Dublin
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#Firefox 126.0.1 is out now to fix issues with drag-and-drop functionality on #Linux, an issue with reading tagged PDF documents in a screen reader, and an issue causing high GPU memory usage on certain versions of #AMD GPUs. Get it at https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/download/thanks/
A lot of people say "all software is open source if you know assembly" this is obviously a joke but lets over analyze it
It is explicitly not Open Source (as in licensed in such a way) as the developers have not assigned it such a license, however if you stretch the definition of "source" to mean any code that runs the application rather than the actual source form of the code you could argue that all code by definition is source available.
@BrodieOnLinux people clearly have no concept over the legal theory behind "licensing" and "ownership", so no wonder they don't know the difference well.
I.e., in the #WinAmp news, it is absolutely no issue whatsoever, that the company keeps the ownership of a project, as if they wrote it, it's their IP (and if they made other contributors sign their ownership to the corpo). The issue is, how do you LICENSE the software, of which they say nothing.
Video of the interview with #guix founder @civodul is available. A great chat about the #nix deployment model, his interested in #guile and #free software. Lots of interesting chat about motivation in #freesoftware, #gnu and #linux - as well as the Plan9-ification of Guix!!
:opensource: :flag_un: Pleased to be able to announce my day job: The exciting new Open Source Ecosystem Enabler (OSEE), a collaboration between between the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Read more about the initiative:
Time, use and practice are key to switching OSes, platforms and apps: you get comfortable with what you use. A good start to moving away from Microsoft Windows might be to install Libre Office on Windows, and start learning to use that for your daily word processing, presentations and spreadsheets. Take some steps with open source software before you even have to tackle a new operating system. #floss#foss#freesoftware#recall#quitwindows#quitmicrosoft
Almost a year exclusively using GrapheneOS for mobile and (many years before that) GNU/Linux for all my computing.
How quickly one gets spoiled. Found myself obliged over the past few days to help relatives use Windows and iOS. It was deeply shocking.
Windows on newish hardware is so slow that I didn't think it was responding. To say nothing of the privacy and usability nightmare.
And the Apple ratchet has tightened down a few more clicks in a year. A very high quality third party app that I bought years ago now appears in a new version "with in-app purchases," and the splash screen requires me to sign in via Google or Facebook. Perfectly ghastly.