I had a Jolla smart phone, it was pretty great but it also quickly became apparent that the company had no real intention to make Sailfish the Android-compatible, open and privacy-friendly OS I was hoping it'd be. Selling licenses to customers to put the OS on third party hardware really killed it for me.
Kinda surprised they are still around, but I guess knowing the right magical words to whisper to investors is a good enough business strategy. They've done it with blockchain, now it's AI.
Really though it's a shame that so many devs still try to treat the web like print where they have full control over the layout at any given time. Even after the death of Flash and the introduction of smartphones and their need for fluid layouts. Meanwhile concepts like progressive enhancement got left behind.
At least we've got flexbox and grid now.
KDE nerds: Is there a way to get a normal app launch indicator (cursor with a loading icon/hourglass) instead of either nothing or the little hopping icons that don't animate right?
I wonder if they will call the next versions 12 and especially 13. Alternative names:
They added a browser choice window to Windows 7 where you could select and download a web browser to install. It isn't present in Windows 10 and on, possibly wasn't in 8 either.
Sounds like the test itself isn't the problem but how it's used and how much people attach to the results, like with IQ tests. Neither that nor Myers-Briggs should be part of interviewing for a job either but apparently some US companies do it anyway.
Can this be the new GNU/Linux copypasta?
I could see them not letting you directly search anymore, only through the LLM bot. Because that's been how things have been going anyway, Google seems to fully ignore literal searches with quote marks now, presumably because it doesn't fit their vision of using natural (imprecise) language. So why not make the LLM write the search query for you in a completely opaque way?
Yeah, it's really weird seeing these blanket statements from the CEO of Zoom, of all things.
I've grown up with ICQ, IRC and forums, later worked with a very distributed, international volunteer team and made connections just fine, even though we barely used voice chat (it was still the Skype days) and nobody ever actually saw me or knew my real name.
Those people and connections weren't somehow less real to me than the superficial, safety-first chit-chat you sometimes get into at work. This obviously isn't everybody's experience, but maybe, just maybe, the CEO should "get" this instead of being out of touch with what he's selling.
Maybe he was left on read one time too many.
It's never too late, especially if you can combine the two!
It’s also worth noting that the bourgeoisie doesn’t just compete for power with the other two classes (proletariat and petit-bourgeoisie) - it also competes internally. And for that, different factions within the class will seek external support from different groups, and align their discourses to those.
And if someone were to ignore that and view them as a single-minded monolith it can easily be explained as divide & conquer tactics.
They already have: https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/26/apple_ios_browser/
There's a spectrum going from someone just posting stuff and getting paid to shameless exploitation of vulnerable people through parasocial relationships. The latter can be very lucrative.
So it's like RMS and PMP for speakers. 600 W¹
¹ Briefly, before it blows up
Things I want from Firefox/Mozilla, in no particular order:
Just hire the uBlock Origin guy, Chrome doesn't want him
Dissolve the Mozilla Corporation, start a Patreon or whatever
Foxkeh plushie
I am willing to compromise on the "unreasonable" ones 🦊
Oh no!
Anyway, here's your annual 10% increase in service cost because "there is no alternative"
To anyone saying "just use GPOs", here's a quote from the SetUserFTA page:
Microsoft offers a solution with GPO, but it is Computer-based and not User-based – and rather complicated. this means, you can not associate your Users on the same Server/Client with different file types. for example:
you have a PDF viewer and a PDF editing software on your XenApp server. Now you want that a certain group opens their PDF’s in the editor and the others only in the viewer (for licensing reasons for example). this is NOT possible anymore and Microsoft states “it is by design” and “this is a security measure”.
Said solution:
- Set up a reference computer
- Install applications
- Go to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Default Programs and configure default apps associations.
- Export/import the custom default app association with dism.exe
[...]
As some recommended applications can manage more extensions with each new Windows 10 version available, it's a good practice to refresh your XML. For example, in Windows 10 1703, Microsoft Edge registers the epub extension. If you're using an XML file from Windows 10 1607, epub is missing. As a result, you will get an app reset notification for epub.
[...]
Configure a policy for your domain-joined computer: file association will be configured at each logon. User will be able to change file association, but at the next logon file association will be configured using XML file. This policy works only for domain-joined computer.
This is just about the most convoluted, annoying way they could come up with for doing this, doesn't help people whose machines aren't part of AD and isn't scriptable. If they were mainly concerned about security they'd have an option for not allowing the user to change these preferences even temporarily on domain-joined machines.
German-language media says that she claims to not have known that she was pregnant, her Internet search history showed she likely did. Defense said that she was traumatized and had suppressed that she knew. Psychiatric evaluation says she was fully accountable. It's kinda obvious that there was something very wrong going on, though.
Where's the conspiracy nut who thinks that Putin is saving the western world from the evil, adrenochrome huffing elites?
IT workers != tech bros
But I don't know either.
What if there was a growing subset of computers that preferred not to communicate with their own kind. Does not respond to API requests, etc. but only to human emotional text input?
Troi: Have you ever heard Data define friendship?
Riker: No.
Troi: How did he put it? As I experience certain sensory input patterns, my mental pathways become accustomed to them. The inputs eventually are anticipated and even missed when absent.
Riker: So what's the point?
Troi: He's used to us, and we're used to him.
Is it fair to say that any game that runs on the Steam runs on Steam Linux?
No, it's not that far along. A lot works, but if there's invasive DRM or anticheat then it probably won't. If you have specific games you want to play in mind check out https://www.protondb.com/
I know the variations have gotten better over the years but haven’t done too much research into it.
If you're curious you can just create a live USB stick to test drive it. Won't work well for gaming though.
I'd argue that knowledge is more than that, otherwise books or state machines could also be said to know things.
Also the guy who fixed GTA Online's ridiculous loading times.
Void and Alpine are great for their simplicity and speed, I'm using those two exclusively outside of work.
Weasyprint kinda is that, except that it's meant to be rendered to PDF.
That only has nothing, static (icon), blinking (icon) or bouncing (icon) though. I find anything involving the icon jarring, especially because it keeps lagging behind the cursor. And yes, this is incredibly minor.
Don't hold your breath, 10 already broke the pattern IMO and all I hear about 12 is that they will cram "AI" into everything. Windows the operating system is dead, replaced by Windows the sales platform.
They have been here tomorrow for people who bough one with an 11th generation Intel CPU in 2021. I don't think they are looking to get acquired either.
Not an answer, just a warning: This is par for the course when it comes to Rocketchat, every major version seems to come with another piece of nagware, another limit, another thing paywalled. I run a server for the non-profit I work for and they haven't even replied to my mails about maybe offering a more affordable licensing tier before Enterprise.
We don't need a lot, just push notifications (which they have to pay for, so absolutely fair to limit) and LDAP integration that isn't intentionally gimped. A supporter tier with no real extra features (we don't need their customer-facing-type features) and very limited tech support would be really nice, but I guess they don't want our poor people money. Gotta try just really hard to squeeze something from that stone instead.
Example: First they removed automatic LDAP syncing, then they blocked people from still doing it with cron. You now have to enter your admin password every time to sync "for security reasons" unless you pay at least $10 per user and month or something ridiculous (for a non-profit) like that. Not that you'd know from their website, they've removed all pricing information from there.
They've also limited the amount of (free, third-party) add-ons you can install while also adding a new feature that lets users see and request add-ons from admins. So many dark patterns.
Rocketchat narrowly won out over Matrix when Covid started but it sure as hell wouldn't now.
Is this one of those hacking tools?
The law really need to be changed when it comes to this stuff, I'd rather take the inefficiency or even corruption than this (also inefficient and corrupt) nonsense.
The big reason why I'm still on Xorg and will be for a while is XFCE. I've tried everything from KDE Neon to Sway but they are either missing features I want or were too buggy to bother. Should try Budgie again when 11 comes out though, that seems to be close to XFCE in terms of scope and is supposed to work well with Wayland by then.
every distro I install I am eventually greeted with something just completely breaking for no reason whatsoever
This happens on Windows too and the fixes you have to apply aren't less esoteric.
For example: User complains that Spyder won't start on her brand-new laptop. Installation seems perfectly fine, nothing wrong there, no corruption or obvious missing bits. Dig around in the Windows log files, find some fairly generic error. Do a bit of googling, eventually decide to just search Github for issues mentioning Spyder not loading. Turns out the laptop is just too new and the AMD graphics driver Windows installs on its own has issues with the IGPU. So replacing that with newer the version AMD distributes fixes it.
Or, with Windows 11, if you want the start menu on the left and the Explorer context menu usable: Sure, just open powershell and run these commands to create new, weird registry keys to force it, btw these are not supported by Microsoft, you're on your own.
I'd rather choose the OS that doesn't have the audacity to charge money and then blast me with ads in the start menu.
Yeah, also writing 10 GB of data to rolls of sticky tape in the late 90s. It can be done, but it's not practical.
Brother, you get a bunch of nerds into any subculture and it’ll turn sexual fast. I’m sure there were plenty of spock eared sex parties.
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Yeah, anyone who thinks that there's exactly 16 types of person is using it like a horoscope, but that really isn't the point.
but the “cognitive functions” as defined by Carl Jung, which a lot of people will find to be just as much non-sense but with the right attitude I think they’re a useful tool to learn about ourselves and others.
Exactly, and that's what it helped me with. It's not a personality test about how you act outwardly (or which Pokémon you are or whatever), it's supposed to be about the inner workings.
But if you want an example of misuse: There's an MBT community on Reddit that is full of that sort of bullshit.
For real though, containerization isn't the only way to separate applications from each other but totally fine, it's the "It works on my machine, so here's my machine" mentality that doesn't fill me with confidence. I've seen too much barely-working jank in containers that probably only get updated when a new version of the containerized application itself is released.