ganymede

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ganymede,

its not the actual money laundering they object to.

it’s that they didn’t get a cut.

ganymede, (edited )

this is the (un)fortunate reality.

unfortunate in that keeping a modern browser up to date is a serious task when you need to compete with the agenda and scale of google etc

fortunate in that its a relatively simple solution, the community needs to fund the software.

its tough though as i can imagine if they pulled the kind of popup shit wikipedia does, it will just drive people away. what people don’t realise ofc is that with chrome you are paying for it (with your data), but for some reason they’re not viewed in the equivalent light.

ganymede,

Could you give some examples for us please?

ganymede,

hashing is still a form of snooping tbh. especially when paired with other metadata

but ofc its not as direct

ganymede, (edited )

these are examples some of some fair criticism of geany

ganymede, (edited )

not customizable

themes, plugins, ridiculously easy custom configurations/build commands etc you can even control the window manager from config files if you want to, its insanely customisable

lacks support for a lot of things

edit: trying to sound less snarky, but do you have a lot of examples?

i could see these criticisms arising from a quick glance. or we may have slightly different definitions of these terms. which is fair enough.

imo geany’s ratio of features to weight is remarkable, perhaps singularly so?

ganymede, (edited )

why is that? it’s not punching down when its a billion dollar company

edit: no coherent thoughts then? just mindless downvoting? well you’ve convinced me with that persuasive logic.

it’s genuinely concerning to see the microsoft stockholm syndrome in the wild, but on lemmy it’s honestly baffling.

ganymede, (edited )

Microsoft is like the rich guy with the nice pool. Its looks nice. But then you learn they got rich by cutting corners and screwing over your friends. And are actively investing in making the public pool shit so they can grandstand their pool.

Noone is blaming you for going up to the rich guys pool to have a nice easy time. Or at least, I’m not defending the kind of linux zealots who might blame you for choosing that

But I equally believe it is right and fair for us to have the freedom to state the very valid reasons why we are choosing not to go up there.

ganymede, (edited )

it’s hardly a conflation, this hostile modus operandi is baked into the windows product itself with malicious and intrusive features. i’m not sure if this is news to anyone, but those user-hostile features were added to windows by microsoft. and the best defense offered thus far for that is basically “most or all tech giants do it too” - yes, thankyou that’s exactly our point. the fact that shipping this kind of abusive software has been normalised is part of the problem too.

i agree in as much as not everything about windows is bad. and it can be useful sometimes out of necessity. though its worth remembering that necessity may often be the result of hostility on microsoft’s part, either past or present. so it’s not really possible to have an honest conversation about what windows is, without an awareness of how microsoft has maliciously managed our perception of desktop operating systems in general. happy to explain what i mean by this in more detail if anyone’s interested.

and also agreed, i’d never pay for it.

Is privacy possible with smart TV?

I’d like to start a discussion about TV privacy in 2023. I’ve never been interested in having a TV, but recently I was thinking of getting one. Looking into it, the privacy implications seem horrible. All the major brands seem to have cameras, microphones, and content recognition software. I can’t believe how dystopian it...

ganymede,

nearly asked you for a tutorial, then re-read lolol…

ganymede,

librivox.org

ganymede,

expect they’ve found a way to ‘profit’ off the collapse already. might be one of the reasons they’re doing nothing to stop it

ganymede,

excited to see more users

welcome :)

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Planned obsolescence, and why Apple dumped thousands of working computers in a landfill.

There's a really interesting documentary up by The Verge that's a must-watch for anyone with an interest in the circular economy and tech waste.

It tells the story of how, early in its existence, Apple used to resell the working but obsolete computers that it couldn't sell to a distributor (who would sell them at a lower price).

But one day, that all changed. Apple decided to reclaim thousands of the still working old computers from the distributor, and dumped them in a landfill.

(For people with an interest in retrocomputing and Apple, it also tells the sad story of what ended up happening to the company's Lisa systems.)

Planned obsolescence is not an accident. It's a design choice.

https://youtu.be/rZjbNWgsDt8

@technology @green

ganymede,

and at the same time expect us to believe they want us to buy a separate charger with a new phone because its "greener" lol yeh right

ganymede,

or the top 30 comments were stupid circle jerk jokes

ganymede, (edited )

Which ML model, is it proprietary? which service would handle the requests? which servers would do the computation? etc

Most here are seeking freedom away from the corporate tech monsters, not to give them a seat at the table.

ganymede,

If you're in a position to get more euro funding, have a look around here there's projects listed which seem similar(ish) in spirit https://international-partnerships.ec.europa.eu/index_en so i think you might be in with a fair chance.

ganymede,

free speech ≠ hate speech

Be warned. The erroneous belief that “free speech” is a right wing concept is exactly the lie right wing lunatics want you to believe. it suits them very nicely.

right wing loonies have a long history of hijacking and destroying empathetic terms like this.

if they believed in freedom or free speech, why is it always them who are burning and banning books? why are they always the ones trying to control other people’s bodies? when they talk about freedom, they mean their freedom to take yours away.

should we let them kill yet another canary of a healthy society? that’s a different discussion. but it would be a substantial error to assume anyone who won’t let them hijack it are actually right wing.

ganymede,

i don't know about more notorious.

that may merely be the propaganda we're exposed to.

but for sure, noone has our back here, we have to have eachother's back

ganymede, (edited )

so true

ganymede,

for what? food? jail breaking your dishwasher?

ganymede,

with power, comes responsibility

ganymede,

easiest question we're gonna answer all year:

fuck microsoft and their stooges

opensource driver hackers ftw!!

ganymede,

fantastic start, would be amazing to see this field progress!

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