The Dutch government has officially launched their own Mastodon server. In an accompanying letter, the State Secretary explains how this relates to the government strategy of supporting digital common goods.
Flatpaks are great for GUI apps, and have a sandboxing system that allow them to work well on any system that support flatpak. This allows devs to package once run anywhere, saving Dev time! It also has a portals system to allow for better system integration of the granular permissions needed for the app to actually work (nobody wants a truly isolated sandbox for every app).
Snap is less featureful for GUI apps, but work closer to how native packages do. The real issue is the proprietary app store required for it, making non-foss. If you want the same benefits of snap, check out Guix and NixOS both of which have a more cleaner design, and work better IMHO.
Only thing worse than free market capitalism is state sponsored. Decades of the fed flooding the big banks with capital to loan, taxes taken from everyone but the largest corps, and regulatory capture (see copy right for this topic), and we get corporations that demand difficult anti trust actions just to slow down.
Great a duoloply again. That’s what I want instead of independent game studios just making games and letting people play them on what ever platform they want.
Dang, Suse really coming in strong with this. I still wish they offered openQA too. Between Rancher, and Suse they really do go pound for pound against RedHat.
I hate to see what this could do to the very fledgling linux gaming rennace. Hopefully we see it get real teath before corporate Microsoft puts even more pressure on it.
A lot of us are pretty new to the fediverse and we've arrived just in time to grapple with what is easily the biggest federation/defederation controversy ever to hit it. I've put this thread together to hopefully help communicate some of the more complex ideas that we're trying to get our heads around....
I will say the fact you can wander from different parties is a cool feature that really sets #ActivityPub apart for me.
I do think automatic blocks and defederation for any instance using proprietary extensions is a good idea. Its just asking for a worse UX and unpredictable bugs. I hate working with Windows’s versions of standards for the same reason.
Guix/nix seem very powerful. The reproducibility is something ansible just isn’t built to same level robustness for, which makes them seem very promising to me.
Hello fellow lemmings! Fedora KDE user here, and quite happy about it, it didn’t break a single time and packages are up to date. The only thing that bother me is DNF’s speed… a single search may take up to 5 seconds, and if I’m dependency-hunting I may need several searches, summing up the delays. I’m asking if...
The upvote system is way too rudimentary to work efficiently. The upvote incite people to post to become more popular, not to post more interesting content....
Blocking is normally reserved for users and content that are so offensive that they ruin the entire UX not just because you dislike the current opinion they are saying.
Votes also give people a metric to see how currently popular an idea is to those reading it. This useful in seeing whether engaging to try and change other people’s minds or whether it’s just arguing the position people already agree with.
Homebrew insulin or diy 3D printed meat?
Which do you think we’re getting first?
Dutch government officially launches Mastodon server (fediversereport.com)
The Dutch government has officially launched their own Mastodon server. In an accompanying letter, the State Secretary explains how this relates to the government strategy of supporting digital common goods.
System76's first in-house Laptop Virgo will have a open source Motherboard design. Licensed under GPLv3 (fosstodon.org)
What replacement for each major social media do you use
As I see it:...
Behold a DIY VR Headset its Creator Will “Never” Build Again (hackaday.com)
I love this stuff. A bit beyond the scope of anything I could do, but nice to know it's possible.
Flatpak vs Snap vs Native Packages
So I know my way around Linux pretty well. However I never really got the gist of the difference between Snap, Flatpak and Native packages....
Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard (www.theverge.com)
SUSE Announces Free RHEL Fork to Preserve Choice in Enterprise Linux (9to5linux.com)
That Google memo about having ‘no moat’ in AI was real — and Google’s AI boss disagrees with it (www.theverge.com)
Defederation, Threads and You
A lot of us are pretty new to the fediverse and we've arrived just in time to grapple with what is easily the biggest federation/defederation controversy ever to hit it. I've put this thread together to hopefully help communicate some of the more complex ideas that we're trying to get our heads around....
What's the best way to restore your desktop environment after install?
I’ve been dual-booting since the early-oughts, but I’m only just now preparing to delete my Windows partition for good....
Posting: Hit and runs
How do you guys feel about accounts that post threads and then don’t ever comment in them?...
To switch or not to switch, that is the question (lemmy.kde.social)
Hello fellow lemmings! Fedora KDE user here, and quite happy about it, it didn’t break a single time and packages are up to date. The only thing that bother me is DNF’s speed… a single search may take up to 5 seconds, and if I’m dependency-hunting I may need several searches, summing up the delays. I’m asking if...
Danger for next 100 years: Cambodian PM urges Ukraine not to use cluster munitions (news.yahoo.com)
We need to either rework the the upvote/downvote system or to get rid of it completely. It's not fulfilling its task anymore.
The upvote system is way too rudimentary to work efficiently. The upvote incite people to post to become more popular, not to post more interesting content....