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vwbusguy

@vwbusguy@mastodon.online

Do you use your powers for good or for awesome?

Senior #DevOps Engineer at a major research institution (views/opinions my own) and a severe #Linux and #opensource enthusiast. Also into #retrocomputing, #fountainpens, #Volkswagen, #music, and #cooking. #fedi22

Hoosier currently living in California.

Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/vwbusguy
Firefish: https://easymode.im/@vwbusguy

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bitchypersonalitydisorder, to Meme
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amy, to random
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Boost if you still remember how to use these 😭

johns, to random

Bad enough that Wired @willknight continues to call Llama 3 "open source", spreading Meta propaganda. Error is compounded when it's in the context of an article where at least one of the other models discussed actually is open source (taking Mistral's Apache 2 license statement at face value).

https://www.wired.com/story/metas-open-source-llama-3-nipping-at-openais-heels/

https://opensource.org/blog/metas-llama-2-license-is-not-open-source by @ed

https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3?tab=License-1-ov-file#readme Llama 3 license same problems as Llama 2 license

dansup, to fediverse
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https://loops.video is a very promising ActivityPub platform for short form video, and could use your financial support to help fund and sustain this initiative!

Donations can be made via @pixelfed

https://pixelfed.org/support-our-project

Let’s build a new TikTok that’s federated and better for humanity! Boosts appreciated!

Karlitschek, to random
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Nextcloud Hub 8 is here. Biggest release so far. What is your favourite feature or improvement! And what do you think about the release video? https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-hub8/

rbreich, to random
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Between a new federal rule that will make 4 million more Americans eligible for overtime pay, the FTC voting to ban "noncompete agreements," and the DOT expanding protections for airline passengers, there's been a lot of good news for workers and consumers in the last 24 hours.

cassidy, (edited ) to fedora
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TIL Fedora is packaging a web browser app I developed for elementary OS, stopped updating over three years ago, and marked as end-of-life two years ago—yet it happily shows up in Fedora 40 if you search my name. It crashes on launch, so it doesn’t even work…

WHY??

Edit: I guess the package is being EOL'd in Fedora due to it no longer building and this thread, huzzah! My recommendation to distros: don’t package random apps and then not maintain them/communicate with upstream.

carlwgeorge,
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@cassidy @adamw You don't have to create a bugzilla account. You can email <package>-maintainers@fedoraproject.org to reach the maintainers of a package.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EmailAliases#Package_maintainers_email_aliases

javi, (edited ) to random

offf, this story about how Google made google search into a pile of seagull shit hits me hard:

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

Around the time of this story, I was living through a similar situation in my work life (on a much smaller scope, of course, WordPress.com first, Tumblr later).

Back in 2019, working on WordPress, I started finding myself, almost weekly, arguing against people who wanted to take the product we were working at and made it worse if that mean they could squeeze 0.1% more revenue from it

The 0.1% figure is not even a random number: I remember this speciffic A/B test on WordPress.com that was declared a success and shipped to 100% of the users because it increased the free-to-paid conversion by 0.1%. Soon after it was released, I found out that as a side effect, it increased the churn of free users by 20 something %,so I called for an urgent rollback and removal of the change. So I was promptly explained that we didn't care about free-users churn, because finance had calculated the average long-term value of the free users to be something like $2 per year, and the increase in conversion was bigger than what we could get from them.

Everything became about growth hacking. Everything became thinly-veiled dark patterns. In our private dev slack channels, we joked that since it was impossible to make it smaller or less conspicuous, the next thing the growth team was going to ask us to do was to make the 'free plan' button flee away from the mouse pointer when the user tried to click it. We kept making our product worse, we kept consciously crippling the cheaper versions so we could force people to move to the more expensive options.

Back then I was the lead of one of the two dev divisions working on WordPress.com, so my job was mainly to discuss what we were going to be doing, when and how. And I was getting drained by a constant state of fight against a constant wave of shit they wanted us to build. So much than by the end of 2020, the CEO quietly told me to follow the growth team plans and shut up or step down.

So I requested to move to tumblr, because I thought the pastures were greener over there. But it was all the same: Adding login walls to what we were pretending to be "the last bastion of the free internet", cramping in embarrasingly obvious money-making schemes disguised as features, and making them silently opt-out instead of opt-in so the less people the possible would deactivate them, having to fend off the pressure from the CEO to make everything algorithmic timelines because, you know, tiktok makes a lot of money and why aren't we, etc etc.

I found myself in a place where building something good that people enjoy using was no longer a priority, but tricking people into generating more money for the company was. And when I looked around me, I could see that happening everywhere else, not only in my company. Experiencing the start of the enshittification years from inside wasn't easy.

And, as in the article, the people who decided to turn the shit-metter up to 200%, have a name, in every case. And these people, no matter if they are called Sundar and Prabhakar or Matt and Mark, are destroying the internet. These people are milllionaires, or billionaries, and are destroying our shared, common spaces to squeeze some extra cash from us.

That's why the fediverse and its principles are important. Because that's how we take back internet from their dirty hands. That's how we make internet resilient against them. That's how we build the commons.

karabaic, to random
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Hey! US folks! Those noncompete clauses you signed? Just banned.

Celebrate!

Go work for a competitor. Go found your own competition.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-announces-rule-banning-noncompetes

i4cy, to retrocomputing
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Nascom 2 still working after 42 years. Apps include Bill Gates' personally written BASIC interpreter. Notice the Veroboard add-on daugherboard with 4k (4096 bytes) memory I designed and built all those years ago.


[22/01/2020]

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opensuse, to AdobePhotoshop
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Join this on ! Discover more about its features, inner workings & creation of https://www.youtube.com/live/qNGw8IKaqc0?si=YQ7PunQWcA0pueZc

fedora, to fedora
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Fedora Linux 40 is HERE! Check out all our latest variants for desktop, server, and more.

New features include:

  • @kde Plasma 6
  • @gnome 46
  • Fedora Atomic Desktops (rebrand for Silverblue et al)
  • PyTorch / ROCm
  • And more!

Learn more and try Fedora 40 today! https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-40/

#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource #Gnome #KDE

UniversalBlue, to fedora
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Universal Blue is generally available today! We're out of beta and ready to showcase everything a Linux desktop can be. Our work has been to show how many problems in client Linux are already solved from the cloud native world. We hope you'll join us on this journey!

Learn more: https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/universal-is-now-generally-available/1233

The uBlue maintainers also have a message they want to share for @fedora :)

Updates on Bluefin, Bazzite, and Aurora coming soon!

sesivany, to random
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is a great educational tool for kids. Our 4 year old daughter is used to touch screens and I just couldn't find a way to teach her how to use the mouse. Gcompris managed to do it in 30 minutes.
She is also learning letters, basic math, etc. in the process.

wikipedia, to random
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Here's how the Earth article looked in 2001 when Wikipedia was a month old, long before Wikipedians realized their fledgling online encyclopedia would be read (and edited!) by astronauts in space. Since then, the Earth article has been edited more than 14,000 times. It's a good day to read it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth

kwf, to fedora
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I think 40 shipped at 6:30 AM Pacific this morning.

canderson, to fedora
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What’s new in Fedora Workstation 40

https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-fedora-workstation-40/

vwbusguy, to openSUSE
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's OBS is some powerful and useful stuff, albeit a bit of a learning curve.

Conan_Kudo,
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@vwbusguy @hobyte @sfalken There are a couple of @opensuse videos done to explain this:

ChrisPirillo, to random
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genx still bringing the thunder

debugpoint, to linux
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Firefox 125 Released: Here's What's New and Improved
https://debugpointnews.com/firefox-125/

carlt4, to fedora
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Upgraded from 39 to 40 with no issues. How boring! Now what am I supposed to hack on?

chillicampari, (edited ) to android
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I have an Android (and Nokia/HMD) question. After updating to Android 14 my Nokia G42 5G lost AAC codec over Bluetooth support, which downgraded some of my headphones as they are falling back to SBC (more noticeable on some headphones than others and these are without aptX* support, which is still working fine). Developer Options doesn't change it. Has anyone else seen this? I already factory defaulted the phone and recently updated to the April 2024 patch with no change.

samwho, to random
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Made a dumb website so I wouldn't ever have to Google "tm symbol" again.

https://symbol.wtf

mekkaokereke, to random
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🔮🧙🏿‍♂️ Blackstradamus remains undefeated.

$4K may not sound like much to people that work in tech. But for some of the people that were targeted with the lure of getting into tech, $4K was crushing.

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-takes-action-against-coding-boot-camp-bloomtech-and-ceo-austen-allred-for-deceiving-students-and-hiding-loan-costs/

People thought I was unnecessarily harsh when I called the Lambda school folks out over the years. It would appear that I was not.

nanochess, to retrogaming
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The IntyBASIC Tiny Contest 2024 has five entries so far! You have this month to upload your entry 😉 https://forums.atariage.com/topic/364223-intybasic-tiny-contest-2024-entries-thread/

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