Gamers are so fucking weird. Really enjoyed the show. Hope they make 2nd season.

In a memo sent to employees Mozilla says it wants to bring “trustworthy AI into Firefox”. To help it do this sooner it’s merging its Pocket, content, and AI/Ml teams.

Yeah, I'm not sure this is the "renewed focus" we're looking for, chief

Luckily I've changed my default OS to Linux

The only AI function I could see myself using is one that would summarize 15 minute youtube videos into coherent readable text in blog format. That would be nice. Especially when they're posted like this, just links without much context.

Once, not so long ago, streaming was more convenient than pirating. But, as expected the commercial services went through their Standard Cycle of Enshittification and now we either let ourselves get flogged by 50 competing predatory services or just take the easy way and sail the high seas.

The choice is not that hard. Yarr.

Of course this returns us to the state where the streaming companies who have literally "enshitted their own beds" now turn to legislators and policymakers (who they hated, just couple of weeks ago) to ask them to provide some "law and order" to this unruly mob and to defend the corporations right to put thumbscrews on the population for ever increasing profits.

And so it goes.

All of them have really bad audio and as such, they're completely useless.

Teaching kids good, healthy anticapitalist values is important. It's also good to teach them some basic computing and privacy skills, because they're not going to get that anywhere else. They're going to be under lot of social peer pressure to have the latest phones and being connected on social media, consuming information from algorithms.They need to understand how to minimize the harm from Meta and the big tech.

Same applies to the copyright industry and their practices (along with corps who are heavily anti-repair like Apple) - they need to understand the exploitation model of capitalism and lobbying - from there, let them make their own choices.

Someone being enraged about snap on behalf of Windows users was certainly a take I didn't know I needed.

That's not quite right. Mastodon does not have any privacy at all and it's not safe to treat it as privacy platform.

What makes Mastodon worth using is the federated model and lack of commercial engagement algorithms.

It would be nice if the entire world didn't consolidate into two mega corps. Good on CDR for having their own vision.
CP2077 + Phantom Liberty are excellent. I just started a new playthrough. I wish it had released in this shape.

I don't and the energy consumption of public AI services is a stopper for "testing and playing around". I think I'll just wait until it takes over the world as advertised.

Kinda tired of the constant flow of endless "analysis" of xz at this point.
There's no real good solution to "upstream gets owned by evil nation state maintainer" - especially when they run it in multi-year op.

It simply doesn't matter what downstream does if the upstream build systems get owned without anyone noticing. We're fucked.

Debian's build chroots were running Sid - so they stopped it all. They analyzed and there was some work done with reproducible builds (which is a good idea for distro maintainers). Pushing out security updates when you don't trust your build system is silly. Yeah, fast security updates are nice, but it took multiple days to reverse the exploit, this wasn't easy.

Bottom line, don't run bleeding edge distros in prod.

We got very lucky with xz. We might not be as lucky with the next one (or the ones in the past).

So, is this the type of SLAM you'd typically see in a moshpit? Or are we talking about wrestling slams?

Well, that article was a hot mess.

I appreciate the authors effort and they are correct about lack of "what is VPN" articles that are not written by VPN-vendors in marketing purpose. But I'm not sure if this was it.

Writing an article meant to "debunk" misconceptions and getting two core concepts, Security and Privacy mixed up right from the start wasn't very good.

A lot of time was spent on explaining HTTPS and how it somehow magically makes you and your data secure on the Internet and it completely missed to mention who the potential threat actors thwarted by HTTPS are?

Could have probably used a chapter on how actual threats (both security and privacy) work and how don't have much to do with the level of encryption your TCP/IP connection happens to encapsulate.

The last chapter with the first 3 bullets was pretty good though. That could have just been the whole article and it would have been alright.

Oh well. Attempt was made.

I don't think this one counts as a big win to be honest It was just freakish luck

Dr. Disrespect: I'll fucking own this problem!
Also Dr. Disrespect: Owns up to inappropriate message exchange with a minor.

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So other than the shock tabloid value of it happening, there's actually no substance to any of the talking points in the interview.

Yeah, well just go ahead and see if it works for you now. I doubt much has changed, but some bits are probably more polished these days.
Most distros support some kind of LiveCD, so you can try it out without having to reinstall your machine, it's painless and quick to evaluate before you take the plunge.

zenbook duo pro

A quick search reveals this. Might be helpful. https://davejansen.com/asus-zenbook-duo-and-fedora-linux/

!environment@beehaw.org used to be cool, but it's heating up!

Maybe we'll climb to 4% marketshare!

Yeah sorry - edited OP and added archive link, so no one needs to hit substack servers.

"the job market is so fucked up so but I've done a lot of open source work, here's my Github"

Well that was a well paid hit piece. For the record, I am happy with Firefox and its functions, I've been using it since the start.

I am rather worried about Mozilla's new laser focus on AI and the Corp CEO compensation bonuses are just bullshit.

I'm hoping we won't be forced into a completely Google dominated web because I thinking at that point it's time to abandon it and burn everything to the ground

It's the circle of enshittification

My next Windows PC doesn't need any RAM, because I'm not going to need one.

Huge respect for quality entertainment. 52 episodes a year for 10 years is just insane.

I hope his break is long and relaxing, it is certainly well deserved.

And I do hope he comes back some day. I would love to see episodic deep dives where he explores one topic in more detail (like let's say 5-10 episode series about one subject).

Well this is, shall we say, not surprising, but nevertheless disappointing.

Look. FOSS project fundraisers are cool and everything.. nothing wrong with that, but you could have given a bit more context instead of going for the "shock value" link. The project you linked to is a LineageOS fork as far as I understand - and I don't really see how Android ROM would have any relation to Mozilla Corp CEO bonus - or even to Firefox, the community you posted this to?

I bet the CFO was in habit of joining Zoom company calls with the cat filter turned on. Therefore everyone was pretty much OK with this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGOofzZOyl8

Microsoft hates this one simple trick

As others have already pointed out, a lot of Linux software is installed from repositories in a standard way, and once you do that, it updates automatically.

However, as you've already discovered, there's more than one way to install Linux software. Repositories are still the most common way, but installing single .deb's (Debian based distributions) or .rpms (RedHat packaging format) is still there and there are more like Snap, Flatpak and Appimage. You can also often just download the source and compile it yourself. It's a very diverse ecosystem, not like the controlled worlds of WIndows and Mac.

In this case you can download the .deb file, and pretty sure you can even install it through the file manager, just like in Windows (I don't use Ubuntu, but I think it will just start GUI installation if you double-click on a .deb file).

But lot of things in Linux are still done through the terminal, like changing configurations and, yes, installing things.

Getting used to it takes a while, especially if you're not used to modern Windows administration through PowerShell.

The important part is trying to figure out what each of the commands do and that the output actually means. Software that supports Linux normally has very clear instructions (like in this case), but it does require willingness to change habits, technical curiosity and some trial and error (patience). It's not quite as polished experience as the commercial OS's. There's still a lot of rough edges for the user.

Good luck on your Linux journey!

Thanks for the share.
Obviously Perens is one of the FOSS OG figures and he makes a lot of good points. Lately the RHEL/IBM situation has shown a mere license text file isn't going to keep megacorps from finding ways to circumvent the ideology and the purpose behind it. They have simply too many resources both in development and in legal departments and too many ways to work around the legalese of its intended purpose .

Also there's been an increasing trend where products (Elastic etc) start off with FOSS license and as soon as they gain critical mass, they split their product and switch to their own FOSS-light license and gimped "community edition" downloads. Again, all still legally above the board, but at the same time completely ignoring the intended purpose of the license in the first place.

I think what Perens is proposing is too complicated. I understand that "contract" has far more binding legal fire power compared to a "license", but as he also points out in the article, it complicates things to the point where it's hard to adopt. The problem is of course far deeper than just licensing and has its roots deep somewhere in late-stage capitalism and deregulation of corporate entities and those are of course not problems that Perens or the free software community can easily solve. Unfortunately.

It's clear that something new is needed and I appreciate the work he is doing. I'm not sure it's the right direction to take, but can't say I have any rabbits I can pull out of my hat either, so I'll follow this with interest.

The Swedish Social Democratic party (supposedly staunchly left wing) are the ones behind Chat Control 2.0. So just voting for left is not a guarantee we actually get sane MPs in the parliament.

Mimimize social media usage.
Start a pension fund.
Study. Get a higher education or professional qualifications.
Exercise regularly.
Take care of your dental hygiene. It's costly to fix.
Find a companion to share your life. Human or animal. Having to make compromises because you have someone depending on you is great.

Don't be a selfish prick. Show compassion and caring to your near and dear.

BBC feed had a video - looks very much like runway collision https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-asia-67862184 (scroll down)

Average Bethesda experience I guess

I thought it was funny as well. Sometimes FOSS communities are so very uptight, we should relax a bit.

Fantastic piece of software! It's important to make backups if you use Audible as they can and will remove your paid books at will/randomly. Always keep a local copy - and consider checking your local library, they might have your next audiobook for free!

I think they're only worried about U.S class action. Don't think American companies really care about the legality anywhere else

But if it was reality

"In a future, post-apocalyptic Los Angeles brought about by nuclear decimation, citizens must live in underground bunkers to protect themselves from radiation, mutants and bandits."

And you picked a girl punching a guy the exact moment to suspend your belief at? Damn dude.