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windows 12 is just gonna be linux running microsoft edge, a bullshit ai assistant, and nothing else. all legacy apps will run in a sketchy online “classic windows emulator” and the entire UI will be web based.

following the backlash, windows 13 will be CLI only, and the cycle will begin anew.

meanwhile, mac os xi will have only one feature: displaying a pretty photograph of a mountain, rendered so inefficiently and in so much detail it takes the whole capacity of a top-of-the-line GPU. all apps will no longer be supported. hardware will be supported for 5 years of new photos every month before you have to buy a new macbook for $100,000.

before reaching 7.0, the linux kernel will split into 20 completely separate lineages, each with 10 total developers who are themselves their only users. GNOME only supports one of them. KDE is mostly buttons.

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David Buchanan
I finally got around to explaining how I made this partial hash collision https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/colliding-secure-hashes.html
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Mikal with a k

I'm getting Google, Facebook and Amazon out of my life.

Starting last year and continuing until it's done, in manageable increments, I've been gradually disentangling myself from three of the worst tech monsters. After 15 years of letting them embed their fangs deeper and deeper into my leg, it's daunting!

Finding an alternative for audio books and ebooks tonight was a nice step. I still have to un-DRM my books from them and find a non-proprietary e-reader, but I'll get to that.

Even seemingly little things like removing Google Analytics from my sites and installing the (paid) non-tracking app Plausible Analytics felt like a big thing at the time. I had to first look to see if there was such a thing as privacy-forward analytics — there is, with multiple options! Then pick one, then sign up, then install and configure...

So I'm taking this step by step. It'll take years. But each additional step feels liberating.

#goals #FuckAmazon #FuckGoogle #FuckFacebook

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@dangillmor

Intuit went public in 1993 and used the money to buy TurboTax the same year. The "honorable" company OP remembers is the pre-IPO Intuit (1983 - 1993).

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Susan Kaye Quinn 🌱

Back in Feb, when Grammarly said they were going to think about incorporating AI, I immediately canceled my account and uninstalled. And now they've actually done it.

I'm sharing because with everything going on, writers might not realize this is happening.

#AI #writing

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@jaco
Feminine: saboteuse
Masculine: saboteur
Gender-neutral: sabotage therapist

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jbz

🔣 The Full-Source Bootstrap: Building from source all the way down | GNU Guix

"Software is bootstrappable when it does not depend on a binary seed that cannot be built from source. Software that is not bootstrappable---even if it is free software---is a serious security risk (supply chain security) for a variety of reasons. The Bootstrappable Builds project aims to reduce the number and size of binary seeds to a bare minimum."

guix.gnu.org/de/blog/2023/the-

#Guix #ReproducibleBuilds #Opensource

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@aeva
I'd say they're logically equivalent <strong><em>but</em></strong> semantically distinct.

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Jacob Pratt

People have historically ridiculed #CSS as being convoluted, buggy, and difficult to understand. If you're writing CSS from scratch today, it's anything but that. Specificity is trivially worked around, grid, flexbox, and columns make complex layouts easy to write, and features historically filled by preprocessors are being adopted natively.

Nesting, cascade layers, aspect ratio, container queries, color spaces, :has, color-mix and far more are *native*. Give it a try. You'll be surprised.

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@jhpratt
I'd wait until 2024-10-02 to use nesting or :has in production.

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Amin the Admin 🇺🇸🇲🇾🇮🇳🇦🇫

I'd kinda like to get back into music composition, but… when I look at it I think Musescore is going down the "enshittification" process and I no longer have any desire to use it.

Are there any good FOSS alternatives?

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Troed Sångberg

@nextcloud ... and now I've looked into sharing as well. One person creates folders (Categories) with notes they want to share. Then share them from the File view. The person who gets them shared then used the Move functionality in their Shared files view to put them into their Notes folders.

This seems to work fine.

tl;dr: It seems Nextcloud has all the functionality, although with subpar UX, to offer shared Notes. Together with MIT licensed third party tools there's also a very easy to use Evernote-to-Nextcloud (Markdown) conversion available.

Let's go!

#Evernote #Nextcloud

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mvario

Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024 | Ars Technica

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/1

#Enshittification #UseFirefox

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@grabe @dangillmor The most ethical approach, I think, is to block trackers and malware rather than ads. This nudges the ad industry in a better direction.

In uBlock Origin, you can easily do this by disabling "uBlock filters – Ads", as well as all filters under "Ads" and "Multipurpose", but enabling everything under "Privacy" and "Malware protection, security".

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:baba_maddie: Maddie :patsMaddie: :verifiedtrans:

well, no, but actually, yes

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John Cutting

I'm so happy with this Gameboy Camera shot of my cat

#gameboycamera #photography #fedicats #catsofMastodon #CatsOfFediverse

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@lucifargundam Un traduction additional:
Mi amicos parla un lingua differente que le mie e io es un stulto

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uspol, fascism 

@Fluttershycuddles777
On the original topic, the short version is that Moms for Liberty tries to get various books removed from U.S. schools that might contradict hyper-conservative worldviews on race, gender, and sexuality.

As for why they get called "Nazis" specifically, a few months ago, one local chapter's newsletter included a Hitler quote. My understanding is that the newsletter was insinuating the *government* is like the Nazis, but it's a very bad look for the group regardless.

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@Fluttershycuddles777
I recommend reading this article to better understand the more hostile reactions to your questions:

lesswrong.com/posts/HLqWn5LASf

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@lucifargundam
Thanks, I know someone IRL who will benefit from this.

One small correction: a parameter is the defined name of an input to a function. An argument is the actual value provided as an input to a function.

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