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ocdtrekkie, 1 month ago to opensource

So fun fact about the #osi and who pays to decide what is #opensource : If you add the prices of their corporate sponsorship levels, and the sponsors they have, it accounts for $450,000 of the $524,000 in contributions they made last year. Their program service revenue was smaller than their program service expenses. So the extreme majority of OSI funding is a handful of big corporate cloud providers. If they lose just one big sponsor, they lose a staff member or two.

ocdtrekkie, 3 months ago to random

For #followfriday I just want to ask why more people aren't following @jbcrawford yet. They're the author of Computers Are Bad, which I assume you already know is at https://computer.rip because you are surely already reading it regularly.

Finally, please note that I also highly recommend the @jalefkowit cinematic universe. It's less of a person you should follow and more of an all-encompassing experience. Appreciation for cute cars is a plus.

ocdtrekkie, 3 months ago to random

Watch how fast companies will roll back chatbot initiatives when they realize they're actually liable to honor the arrangements they make. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/air-canada-must-honor-refund-policy-invented-by-airlines-chatbot/

ocdtrekkie, 3 months ago to random

Incredible top HN comment on a thread about how Google sucks now: "As a shareholder, user, and former employee, I think Google is great actually."

Like, at least you let us know how completely bought and paid for you are before letting us know your shill opinion?

ocdtrekkie, 4 months ago to random

When you're using a Radio Shack part for a project and want to get more... 😥 Wondering if anyone sells a modern version of this keystone jack: It's got little notches for these little plastic caps which cover the port.

You can get little fake RJ-45 filler plugs but they don't create as clean of a look.

#cat6 #rj45 #networking

ocdtrekkie, 4 months ago to Titanic

How is this dude not the patron saint of alcoholics, known by all? https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/how-a-baker-survived-the-titanic-by-getting-spectacularly-drunk

#alcohol #titanic #history

ocdtrekkie, 5 months ago to MandelaEffect

The only difference between Steam and Ticketmaster is that Steam hasn't tried to maximize value extraction yet.

#monopoly #steam

ocdtrekkie, 6 months ago to random

Basically a crime in three parts: At no point has Disney+ ever been consistently or fairly priced.

ocdtrekkie, 6 months ago to microsoft

What Satya fails to speak plainly here is that he's an idiot who handed two of the largest platform ecosystems, mobile and the web, to their competitor, for free. Switching Edge to Chromium and Surface phones to Android was a colossal blunder that will be taught in business books for decades to come.

#microsoft #windowsphone

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/24/23930478/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-mobile-windows-phone

ocdtrekkie, 7 months ago to android

I've always had Android Police in my RSS reader just to keep aware of the news in that ecosystem but the ramp up of blogspam garbage since it's acquisition has hit incredible levels. It's one of the noisiest feeds I have and it's all garbage, only half of which is tangentially related to Android.

#android #blogspam

ocdtrekkie, 8 months ago to Youtube

So far I've only noticed one effect of disabling WebP in my browser: YouTube thumbnails apparently can't fall back to decent image formats.

#webp #youtube

ocdtrekkie, 8 months ago to infosec

There are two clear takeaways from this article:

• The on-premise customers are the smart ones, always go on-premise when it's an option.

• Don't use Google anything for security anything, they still have zero understanding of security at an institutional level.

https://retool.com/blog/mfa-isnt-mfa/

#infosec #retool #google #cloud

ocdtrekkie, 8 months ago to random

@Rusty My understanding is that it's a work in progress. (A lot of things are example content, the same for every server, or aren't present, like the "receipts".)

But it's also logically inconsistent: mastodon.social is listed as a suspend for federating with mstdn.io, but mstdn.io is on probation and only a silence.

It'd definitely be nice if it had a methodology posted, but I don't think defederating the domain would do anything, it's just a website.

ocdtrekkie, 8 months ago to random

If you donate to the EFF, you really should consider not doing that. The EFF is now loudly complaining that a company has chosen not to serve Kiwifarms. These are radical free speech extremists at the point they are trying to force outright hatred to be served by private companies. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/isps-should-not-police-online-speech-no-matter-how-awful-it

ocdtrekkie, 8 months ago to random

You can't get more Google than selling a plan with two year device upgrades and them Google killing the plan before anyone gets a device upgrade. https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/30/23851107/google-graveyard-pixel-pass-subscription-phone-upgrades

ocdtrekkie, 8 months ago to random

Isn't this just... water? The store is selling the ability to wash your vegetables for $7 a bottle!

ocdtrekkie, 8 months ago to random

The full-text search is live on mastodon.social but it is opt-in only and you have to enable it in your Privacy and Reach tab to have your posts be findable! So if you're on a server running the latest nightly like .social or .online, #CheckTheBox

ocdtrekkie, 9 months ago to infosec

The fact that the default/only web browser on a Windows Server 2022 domain controller will happily load ads on first load from remote servers not run by Microsoft is actually something that Microsoft should be deeply, deeply ashamed of.

Microsoft literally took that whole "trusted computing" thing they did and threw the whole thing away in the last five years.

#infosec #windows #microsoft

ocdtrekkie, 9 months ago to random

Wow, this is a decision that couple cripple Google if applied globally: Brand extortion is one of Google's most valuable tools. https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/14/indian-court-ruling-threatens-google-advertising-revenue-model/

ocdtrekkie, 9 months ago to random

Not sure who in the #mastoadmin crowd needs to hear this: But brigading every new feature PR all week is exactly how you get small teams under a lot of pressure to talk less instead of more.

First it's "there's obscure ways fixing hashtags might break a post", then "my relay relies on spacebar heating to work" (xkcd 1172), and now we're back to "nobody can agree on search, so we need 5,000 checkboxes".

If you have something new to add to a thread, go for it! Complain by comment? Don't.

ocdtrekkie, 9 months ago to random

Chromebooks are so aggressively awful products it isn't even funny anymore. Google drops support for them while they're still for sale, putting users at risk. https://arstechnica.com/?p=1959002

ocdtrekkie, 10 months ago to random

I weep for the state of infosec when I get thrashed on HN for suggesting running Windows 7 on the Internet is a bad idea in 2023.

And to be clear: Windows 7 was released in 2009. It was designed with a 14-year-old concept of security. It stopped getting patches over three years ago.

ocdtrekkie, 10 months ago to random

@bitflipped @feditips If you think it undermines, you need to understand how the grift works. Because this is the exact style. Invent a conspiracy, and since there's no proof of it, ask about it! Followers who believe you're an authority will accept it as fact regardless of the fact that nobody ever said it happened.

Fox News has run a multibillion dollar enterprise on this model.

ocdtrekkie, 10 months ago to random

Just saying, @JF really buries the lede on the release notes for https://github.com/InfiniTimeOrg/InfiniTime/releases/tag/1.13.0

My watch has DAYS of additional battery life? That's WILD. #infinitime #pinetime

ocdtrekkie, 11 months ago to Amazon

As someone who subscribes and unsubscribes to Prime at least once a year, this has been a huge complaint for me, it doesn't shock me at all that #Amazon actually internally called their cancellation pattern the Illiad Flow. https://arstechnica.com/?p=1949330