Besides that there is the possibility to donate. And since the xz backdoor incident I would say it makes sense to keep an eye on end users trying to bully or overload developers. If I remember well I read that the developer of uMatrix stopped with that project because of annoying users filing bug reports with unfriendly and demanding discourse, which can be exhausting for a sole developer.
The Podcasts app is just the latest product to go through a process I’ve come to call The Google Cycle. It always goes the same way: the company launches a new service with grandiose language about how this fits its mission of organizing and making accessible the world’s information, quickly updates it with a couple of neat...
Do you think that the fediverse has something to gain with the enshitfication of discord? Are there voice chat programs in the fediverse that can benefit from it?
More than 30 public figures including Emma Thompson, Imelda Staunton and Greta Thunberg have written to Shell criticising its “callous and vindictive” lawsuit against Greenpeace after activists occupied a moving oil platform last year....
There is a difference between making money to survive as a human being and going for profit at all costs. After Shell and Exxon ignored the risks in Groningen for years, they recently wanted money from the Dutch government. reuters.com/…/dutch-govt-shell-exxon-ignored-gron…
I don’t know if it’s just me that find it highly interesting that they choose to run Windows for these kind of things? Anyone able to elaborate the reasons for this? Surely this just costs them so much extra having to buy licenses for each of these screens…?...
That mail client, lttrs, made by the developer of XMMP app Conversations, looks like a proof of concept to me rather than a full fledged email client. I’ve tested it with stalw.art mail server, which supports JMAP and it was not a piece of cake to make it all work together. Stalwart is more difficult to install and configure than Yunohost but it is expected to have an admin interface in a few months time. I have the impression that it would be possible to run Yunohost and Stalwart on the same server if you use non default ports for Stalwart.
We have 4 new open calls for funding for projects that contribute to an open, trustworthy, human-centered internet. Projects must be free and open source and papers published as open access....
Any idea why? I’ve been using it for months. I probably had to grant permission when I first installed it, but haven’t had to again since then, until just now....
"We, current and previous employees of Apple Inc., wish to express our disappointment and shock at the lack of care and understanding this company has given the Palestinian community, not only abroad suffering in Gaza, but also towards our own team members and anyone who supports them within our stores and offices. "
I used linux intermittently in the last 15 or so years, migrating from early Ubuntu versions, to Manjaro, Pop!_OS, Debian, etc. And decided to give Arch a try just recently; with all the memes around its high entry point, I was really expecting to struggle for a long time to set it up just as I want....
PS. “but what about GIMP, or Krita, or Inkscape, or OpenOffice, or using rsync for cloud storage, or <YOUR_FAVORITE_TOOL>?” you may ask. Trust me, I tried it all. Every last presentation, raster/vector graphics software out there. Regardless of how much I hate Adobe, their software is top tier, and until GIMP becomes the Blender of graphic design, I can’t really rely use it for most of my purposes :(
The Trust me, I tried it all. and mentioning OpenOffice in one paragraph doesn’t feel quite right. OpenOffice is obsolete. Instead there is ONLYOFFICE and LibreOffice as open source choices for Linux users, available as Flatpak, Snap and probably AppImage.
Actually, one other thing I should have mentioned, is that I also transited from using Premiere Pro to Kdenlive (and sometimes even Blender for very light video editing). Kdenlive is an amazing success story for KDE, hope that happens to Krita as well.
Okay. Your Arch Linux review ends with naming your favorite options which include Proton, Microsoft and Adobe. As you don’t seem to mind using closed source software, did you have a look at WPS Office (Some Linux distributions include this), SoftMaker Office (Available for Linux and Android), Zoho Office ?
As for The GIMP (People have complained about its project name, but developers refused any changes) : From what I read Krita and Inkscape seem more promising. Krita has David Revoy as open source advocate, vocal on Mastodon : www.davidrevoy.com
The Software Freedom Conservancy lawsuit alleges that Vizio’s TV products, built on its SmartCast system, contain software that Vizio unfairly appropriated from a community of developers who intended consumers to have very specific rights to modify, improve, share, and reinstall modified versions of the software.
According to the lawsuit, a consumer of a product such as this has the right to access the source code so that it can be modified, studied, and redistributed (under the appropriate license conditions).
(Easy) ways to help struggling open source projects
step in and help review a few PRs...
Google Podcasts is gone — and so is my faith in Google (www.theverge.com)
The Podcasts app is just the latest product to go through a process I’ve come to call The Google Cycle. It always goes the same way: the company launches a new service with grandiose language about how this fits its mission of organizing and making accessible the world’s information, quickly updates it with a couple of neat...
With discord planning to show ads, how can the fediverse/lemmy benefit from another proprietary program making itself worse? (Like it was with reddit)
Do you think that the fediverse has something to gain with the enshitfication of discord? Are there voice chat programs in the fediverse that can benefit from it?
Message to my enemies (slrpnk.net)
Oldie but goodie....
Emma Thompson and Greta Thunberg among critics of Shell’s Greenpeace case (www.theguardian.com)
More than 30 public figures including Emma Thompson, Imelda Staunton and Greta Thunberg have written to Shell criticising its “callous and vindictive” lawsuit against Greenpeace after activists occupied a moving oil platform last year....
Running Windows on bus screens at Schipol Airport (slrpnk.net)
I don’t know if it’s just me that find it highly interesting that they choose to run Windows for these kind of things? Anyone able to elaborate the reasons for this? Surely this just costs them so much extra having to buy licenses for each of these screens…?...
JMAP support for YunoHost mail server
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/9044848...
The only two privacy firefox extensions you'll only ever need
I believe that the only two privacy extensions you really need to meet 90% of your privacy goals are uBlock origin + NoScript...
4 new open calls for funding for projects that contribute to an open, trustworthy, human-centered internet. (nlnet.nl)
We have 4 new open calls for funding for projects that contribute to an open, trustworthy, human-centered internet. Projects must be free and open source and papers published as open access....
f-droid just requested permission to update other apps?
Any idea why? I’ve been using it for months. I probably had to grant permission when I first installed it, but haven’t had to again since then, until just now....
research!rsc: The xz attack shell script (research.swtch.com)
hachyderm.io/
Apples4Ceasefire: Apple Employees Request Ceasefire Recognition (www.apples4ceasefire.com)
"We, current and previous employees of Apple Inc., wish to express our disappointment and shock at the lack of care and understanding this company has given the Palestinian community, not only abroad suffering in Gaza, but also towards our own team members and anyone who supports them within our stores and offices. "
You go to either Linus Torvalds's house or the Apple Store (lemmy.ca)
Switch to Container Tabs – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 157 (blog.nightly.mozilla.org)
Tried Arch for the first time | My experience and impressions (lemmy.ml)
I used linux intermittently in the last 15 or so years, migrating from early Ubuntu versions, to Manjaro, Pop!_OS, Debian, etc. And decided to give Arch a try just recently; with all the memes around its high entry point, I was really expecting to struggle for a long time to set it up just as I want....
1 Apr 1982 - Exxon greenhouse effect report (stories.workingclasshistory.com)
mastodon.social/…/112194524723632253
TIL about Karoshi, a Japanese word for "overwork death" (en.wikipedia.org)
mastodon.art/
AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them (www.theregister.com)
Lemmy did not warn that this was already posted days ago. Apologies. Here’s another take pluralistic.net/2024/04/01/human-in-the-loop/#mon…
A western bluebird perched on ... (lemmy.ml)
mas.to/
the future seems bleak (discuss.tchncs.de)
I hate antichrist meme template....
Luxembourg Reaches Earth Overshoot Day on 20 February (chronicle.lu)
…footprintnetwork.org/…/country-overshoot-days/