Imo that's what caused Firefox to lose market share to Chrome. They focused too much on Firefox OS and deprioritized browser development. In one example, it took them a long time to implement FIDO when it was already functional in Chrome.

Internet is a utility and should be treated as such.

You just need to master one rule: designate a place for each item and put them IMMEDIATELY back in their designated place after use.

If i learned anything from my early contributions, it's checking the health of a project and attitude of its maintainers before spending anytime on that project.

I used to maintain a zero unread mailbox. At some point I stopped. Email is just a public global todo list, than any one can write to. It's okay not to read them all.

It's a big lie that piracy has caused any drops in sale. I guess those who make such hollow claims, consider the whole planet earth population their potential paid customers.

Came here to say this. Instead of pronouncing your name on the phone, just read the NATO alphabets that constitute your name.

I think it's a good move. Carriers are decentralized by design, af if they were not greedy and stupid, they could come up with at least one decent messaging. RCS is good by they did not make e2e mandatory in the protocol.

There is an abundance of stupid quotes from people of all kind on this planet.

These quotes are handpicked to hate, not to initiate discourse .

boss move

The least one can do, is stop using Chrome for real.

Your interpretation sounds pretty likely to me. I'd guess if they get nukes, they'll go Israeil's way and will newer admit to it publicy.

I'm not sure whether this is real or coming directly from a cyberpunk future.

Great move. I did this last year after a decade of gnome and can't be happier. I use sway for work and KDE for pleasure.

Use different user accounts. That provides you with very stronger isolation and separation of concerns, with the bonus that you won't be exposed to their crap.

tocc: https://github.com/aidin36/tocc

gets better everyday indeed

Anyone interested in awk make sure to check the just published awk book second revision by original authors. Kernigan's writings are a joy to read.

I'm sorry for your loss. My dad passed away ten years ago from Alzheimer's and I was not there for him (and he could not recognize me). You've done a fantastic job.

For Europe it's FOSDEM.

Fun observation: as a native, just like many natives, you have made a grammer mistake. "have known" and not "have know". Might be a typo though.

My fun theory is that grammer is just a form of heuristic made up by humans to simplify understanding languages.

I'm not a native.

Syncthing

haha, yes, all hope is lost there...

It might be partially due to corrolation as well. People who don't like to be controlled by corporate overlords and be their products, tend to use/switch to open alternatives.

it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make

Is there naturally any UV light at night to be able to see it without using UV flashlights?

I'm in my forties and your question reminds me of myself when I was your age.

My advice: don't think it twice, just dive in.

edit: autocorrect typo

You'll be missed Bram. RIP.

Around 25 years ago I had read about this Linux thingy in a computer magazine somewhere in the middle east. We had a Windows 95/98 PC. I got my hands on some Red Hat CDs (or floppies) and managed to install it on the PC. It booted into a prompt, but I had zero knowledge of Linux or any Unix-like OSes and had absolutely no idea of man pages. Didn't manage to start the graphical environment. I took my case and rode my motorcycle to some computer engineering student (the most knowledgeable person I had access too, we had no Internet) and asked him for help. He told me it's my graphics card (some old ISA VGA card), but couldn't help more. In the computer market no one knew about Linux either. So my first try to switch to Linux failed.

Fast forward 25 years... I'm surrounded with Linux and computers in general. Desktops, laptops, single board computers, virtual machines, local or remote. I started with Ubuntu (free CDs posted to my poor country...) with Gnome and later gnome shell, tried Debian, Mint, Parsix, and finally Arch Linux. Moved from graphical to command line and started absorbing the Unix philosophy of simplicity and robustness. Nowadays I use sway and KDE on Arch Linux for work and pleasure, and follow very old Unix mailing lists looking for hidden internet gems.

P.S.: forgot to mention Libreelec (kodi) as my media server and OpenSUSE Leap on laptop which I chose to enjoy some automated install with encryption and btrfs which worked surprisingly well. If I live long enough, I might start thinkering with BSDs (openbsd probably, because of the picture at the bottom of their homepage). I already use pfsense which is based on FreeBSD.

well, I don't care anymore. I just unsubscribe and run sieve filters to get rid of junk mail. That's something I hate with a passion!

That looks fantastic. Like you have the best of both worlds.

There are two things that still fascinate my adult mind. How things looked in the past and how they'd look in future once they are abandoned.

Cool. I noticed I have seen the author's name in TUHS mailing list. He's still posting there sometimes.

wefwef is fantastic

I think it's okay, since people on all platforms create multiple accounts and throwaways.

I heavily use Firefox for Android on multiple devices since many years. It HAS annoying bugs. The most annoying for me is the tab view keeps forgetting the last tab you were on, when for example closing a tab from tab view or moving between tabs by swiping the address bar.

I think every person's bugs depends on how they use the software.

edit: quick word order fix.

Syncthing+DecSync+spaRSS(DecSync fork)

That's the same problem as with Chrome. If internet for most people goes through Google Chrome (which it currently does: Android, smart devices, Electron Apps, Android apps, Edge, Brave, etc.) then the controlling entity can redefine the meaning of that protocol. In the above example it would be Google redefining the meaning of the web, see DRM, manifest v3, and similar efforts. Small players wouldn't be able to play catch-up or disagree (it wouldn't matter) and risk bring irrelevant.

The admins of defederating instances fear the same could happen to ActivityPub and fediverse.

I took your bait and posted to 196!

This will happen again unless tools, culture, and conventions are made and taught in fediverse. Maybe communities having a certain mass should be subject to special rules, like irl.