BrikoX

BrikoX, 1 month ago

I guess he didn’t see that coming…

BrikoX, 1 month ago

Not familiar with case specifics, so not sure which statutes were used, but the scheme of pretending to be someone you are not is illegal.

Under his scheme, millions of people received letters from Runner and his associates falsely claiming to be personal correspondence sent by well-known so-called “psychics” Maria Duval and Patrick Guerin.

BrikoX, 1 month ago

So give more weapons to Israel who is committing a genocide and killed 13000 children, but sanction Iran who hasn’t killed any civilians in their attack. That is a very logical and sane approach… Fucking morons.

BrikoX, 1 month ago

The issue is not so much Microsoft, but governments using taxpayers money for proprietary solutions in general.

Public Money, Public Code is the solution.

BrikoX, 1 month ago

With social media, we are kind of moving back to the forum era with added federation. Where everyone can host their own niche of the internet and be interconnected via Fediverse. But unless the abusive players get punished, the normies will continue using the platform with the least resistance, even if their experience there is horrendous. They see more value is shouting into the void than looking for a potential solution.

Linux got a boost with Valve releasing Steam Deck and by them investing into Proton layer, but even then most people are not even aware their Steam Deck runs on Linux, and they see no need to go into desktop mode. Linux still has a big usability issue, and they don’t seem to be willing to solve it. Linux “fans” also doesn’t help the situation with their distro flaming wars. Or whenever someone asks for help, they get different answers due to a number of distros doing the same thing differently (inherent pro and con of open source development). Linux adoption is basically nonexistent on the government level.

Android Open Source Project is a joke. It’s not open source, it’s source available. And that is as useless, as Chromium. Technically, someone can create a fork, but without resources they won’t be able to develop it, and we all know people are not willing to support open source projects as they are willing to pay for proprietary stuff. So in the end Google has full and complete power over it since they decide what gets merged into the project, and they get the advantage of other people fixing bugs for them for free.

I don’t know the reason native ODF support was added, but if I had to guess, it was probably due to anticompetitive laws instead of them considering ODF “big enough”.

So while there are some small moves, in totality they are not significant. The people’s mentality is still the same. Just look how many billions were invested in the last year into “AI” hype, and how half of those companies are already in bankruptcy. And compare that with open source projects/libraries developers that the same for profit companies rely on still being maintained by single devs who can’t even get average salary.

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/1e5def02-f90b-41ba-8eb2-701a4834dffb.webp

BrikoX, 1 month ago

I think there are plenty of areas where the EU says one thing and does another, but in this case they purely object to a death penalty, which is the universal EU stance.

And the western world could learn a thing or two about what punishments for financial crimes should be. Instead of a slap on the wrist and a fine, it will make others stop and think before doing the same again in Vietnam.

I’m firmly against the death penalty and I hope that the appeal court overturns it and makes it life without parole, but when I see proper punishment for those that ruin millions of lives by stealing money, I feel envy.