So one of the biggest businesses in the world that serves by far the most consumers in the non-smartphone computing department does something incredibly harmful and it seems like the main thing Linux users are picking up from this is "oh neat what a great new recruiting tool!"
@eniko@larsmb Sounds more like a business policy or parental control or such. Seriously, anyone with some time can get into Desktop Linux, there are lots of low-threshold books, magazines, even YouTube channels and when you don’t want to ask in the interwebs for help, there are Linux groups in bigger cities. The only real factor is free time.
»New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC - Recall uses AI features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds."« 🤦♂️
@kuketzblog Ganz ehrlich, ich finde das rein technisch reizvoll, aber als proprietäre Software, die einfach nur behauptet, gaaanz sicher nichts weiterzugeben, natürlich völlig inakzeptabel.
Es ist eigentlich gar nicht so schwer zu verstehen:
Xitter ist eine Faschoplattform geworden, das kann keiner beschönigen, man kann dort den Diskurs nicht mehr 'gewinnen'. Es ist vorbei und fast alle Medienschaffenden, die dort noch senden, können sich nur nicht von ihrer (scheinbaren) Reichweite trennen.
Bluesky wird mittelfristig eher nicht überleben können, Threads ist anti-politisch, was bleibt, ist das Fediverse. Das ist der Ort, an dem öffentlicher Diskurs stattfinden sollte.
Mich hat gestern ein Problem bei #Oracle#OCI überrascht: Komme nicht mehr per HTTPS auf mein Blog. Es gab 2 Tage zuvor ein "linux-firmware"-Update, danach hab ich nen Neustart gemacht und die Instanz lief noch wie gehabt.
Ich komme per IP noch auf mein Wordpress, zwar ohne Zertifikat, ist aber kaputter als normal ohne Zertifikat.
Beim Versuch, einfach mal Zertifikate mit #Certbot zu erneuern, sagt es: "Timeout during connect (likely firewall problem)"
just had a webpage try to display a video ad, but for some baffling reason they DRM'd the ad so my browser asked if I wanted to allow playback of DRM'd content and I just said no. amazing design, no notes.
Is it me, or is it a huge conflict of interest for corporate executives to be on the boards of other corporations? Things get especially complicated when they do cross-promotions or collaborations.
If I as a shareholder were paying an executive literally tens of millions of dollars per year, I think I’m justified to insist that they spend 100% of their professional attention on their one employer, and not on another, ostensibly unrelated corporation.
In other news: As a no-name individual contributor, I would be in breach of corporate code of conduct if I were to join the board of directors of an unrelated corporation, no matter how small. Why are executives exempt from this rule?
“Tim Cook sports Nike sneakers custom made for the iPad launch”
@nixCraft No, it is not. Everyone seems to misunderstand the situation: Only tabs you click on are loaded in your session, the others are just placeholder tabs in the UI without actual websites loaded. That’s why several thousand open tabs aren’t a problem at all.
»Since we're talking about icon theming, I recently stumbled upon this gitlab issue. Apparently they now want to remove icon theming support in #GTK 5. The way the GTK devs started the description really infuriated me: "i. themes are no longer a thing". Really? Who said that? Since when "i. themes are no longer a thing" became a consensus in the Linux desktop space? It seems like you just made up this claim and posted it as undeniable truth for you own comfort.«
@matzipan This is the typical baffling arrogant #GNOME mindset: We want to dictate the theming and everyone else is WRONGWRONGWRONG!!!1
Your themes not being #FDO compatible makes the programs using them look alien on other desktops. But GNOME just doesn’t care. KDE does! And the other way around too!
And what about people with sensory issues who cannot use themes anymore? Are they a collateral damage for GNOME for a hypothetical Apple-minded issue not really existing?
@dusthillperson@thomholwerda BTW, found this new gem via the Phoronix forum: #KDE dev arguing with #GNOME folks about their arrogant icons handling which is breaking on other desktops:
GNOME: »Icon themes are not a very prominent feature in current app development […]«
LMAO
KDE: »If this breaks GNOME, it's because you folks chose to repurpose an FDO icon theme to be something it wasn't designed to be which breaks its non-GNOME consumers.«