To be clear, I’m a huge VR proponent, and own a Vive VR rig. I spent a lot of time in Second Life back in the day, and look forward to a really good meta-verse being developed for VR.
It's the NFT thing I take issue with. Making that part of your product tells me you are chasing fads and buzzwords, and not thoughtfully considering the world's best interests.
TIL Flathub is turning into a paid app store:
https://github.com/PlaintextGroup/oss-virtual-incubator/blob/main/proposals/flathub-linux-app-store.md
h/t: #debian-til
"Promote diversity and sustainability in the Linux desktop community by adding payments, donations and subscriptions to the Flathub app store." 🤮
Consequential TIL:
I need to abandon KDE as it too has been infected with a serious brain decease.
Some bizarre and deceptive statements:
"applications ... distributed at zero cost ... precludes establishing any incentives for application developers"
Easy and nearly effortless modern #email #server? Looks like #opensource software #Mox can do that for you
Link to #foss project so you can go ahead with #selfhost:
https://github.com/mjl-/mox
How to limit CPU usage with #CPULimit on #Ubuntu #Linux
https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-limit-cpu-usage-with-cpulimit-on-ubuntu-linux
ChatGPT is trying to stay out of politics—and failing.
Welcome to the AI culture wars: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/24/woke-ai-chatgpt-culture-war/ by
@nitashatiku & me
What does this week's NLRB decision mean for the people who already signed such non-disparagement clauses but deeply want to disparage their terrible former bosses? The answer is unclear, almost chaotically so.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxnwgq/lawyers-unsure-whether-workers-who-agreed-not-to-can-now-disparage-former-bosses
#anti-disparagementclause #nondisclosure #NLRB #workerrights #layoffs
✊🏽civil rights activist who invented:
🌬️ evaporative air conditioner
💡carbon filaments for the light bulbs
🚺improved toilet system for railroad cars
1st person of color to join edison group
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1848-1928
Mozilla says 80 percent of Google Play's app safety labels are inaccurate https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/24/mozilla_says_safety_labels_on/
#bot
Original tweet : https://nitter.it/TheRegister/status/1629013408900124673
Referenced link: https://thehackernews.com/2023/02/hackers-using-trojanized-macos-apps-to.html
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://thehackernews.com/2023/02/hackers-using-trojanized-macos-apps-to.html
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Protect your #macOS systems from evasive #cryptocurrency mining #malware!
Trojanized versions of legitimate applications, including Final Cut Pro, are being used to deploy XMRig coin miner.
Read more about it here: https://thehackernews.com/2023/02/hackers-using-trojanized-macos-apps-to.html
Brave Software, the developer of the privacy-focused web browser, has announced some plants for the upcoming version 1.49 that will block everyday browsing annoyances like "open in app" prompts and add better protections against pool-party attacks,
Biden fired the spectacularly corrupt Architect of the Capitol, but there are still a number of Trump loyalists, like Ginni Thomas and Louis Dejoy, who remain in positions of influence over the functioning of our democracy. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/architect-of-the-capitol-trump-appointees_n_63e55eb6e4b02c25737506c2/
A photo from the Brooklyn Eagle, 1942. The caption read “Girls show up in slacks at Abraham Lincoln High School, in Brooklyn, in protest because a classmate, Beverly Bernstein, was suspended the day before for wearing slacks.”
“Should high school girls, particularly students of Abraham Lincoln High School on Ocean Parkway… be permitted to wear slacks to class?”
Bernstein not only had the nerve to show up in blue gabardine slacks, she accompanied it with a "lipstick red sweater."
@augieray Also I am blocking you!
@augieray You know what? Just to spite you I am going to stop wearing a mask anywhere it is not required. Don't even fucking care if I get Covid anymore, I hate living in this country the way everything is going anyway.
Can't help but think of the #flatpak decision by #Ubuntu as extremely similar to the old #Microsoft strategy "Embrace, extend, and extinguish".
I run Ubuntu on the main workstation simply due to wanting to maximizing compatibility. I'm "Linux on the desktop" only and some lazy software providers think they're done with #Linux support once it works on Ubuntu.
Which in it self supports the overall worry about Ubuntu's effect on Linux.
The two contenders imho are #Debian (of course) and #RedHat. I lot of the professional work I do is on RH but my opinion is that it's a server flavor much more than a good desktop. Otoh on my main desktop I really don't want to spend too much time fiddling about to get things working - which is what I think choosing Debian will lead to.
sigh
*installing OpenBSD*
(j/k)