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wmassingham, in Witchcraft | A Minecraft server written in bash

I missed the word “server” every time and thought it was a client, and spent far too long trying to figure out how you’d play Minecraft in Bash. Text based? ASCII graphics?

RacoonVegetable, (edited ) in Microsoft's Windows 12 is expected to be even worse than Windows 11, functioning as a paid "subscription service" or forcing users to watch ads in order to use it without paying

YES I will spread misinformation on the internet

NO you cannot do anything about it

RedArcher,
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Thank you for promoting for Microsoft’s spyware-ridden operating system on the internet!

BlanK0, in Will the new judicial ruling in the Vizio lawsuit strengthen the GPL?

Really good article, based af 😎🔥💯

randomperson, in Tailchat - The next-generation noIM Application in your own workspace

I really wanted to like Matrix, but the clients applications are trash. This looks like it has a nice client app at least.

Blaze,
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This app looks nice, but Element has improved quite a bit recently, and the others clients have improved as well

thanks_shakey_snake,

Yeah, I use Element daily and I’m pretty happy with it. I have far more problems these days with Discord than with Element/Matrix.

moonpiedumplings,

Yeah, unintentional bugs are much easier to deal with than maliciousness, like replacing the “file upload” button with buy nitro, or discord in the browser’s audio being finnicky (dark pattern you don’t get this problem on element or the discord app.)

Of course, there are unintentional bugs as well, on top of maliciousness.

Screenshot_20240115-160050

Lmao. I’m guessing this is because they’ve begun to use LLM’s for moderation (maybe trying to replace real humans?), but LLM’s can’t really count.

thanks_shakey_snake,

Yes. I noticed my Discord problems uptick sharply when I uninstalled the creepy invasive desktop app and started only using it in the browser. Element just sometimes fails to upload a file or something, but it’s pretty stable for me lately.

Secret300,

Swear. I still haven’t found a decent client for matrix yet

BlanK0, in OSS-Blacklist: A blacklist for keeping track of OSS hostile companies/organizations

I really like seeing codeberg being used more.

Also I’m definitely keeping my eyes on this repo once in a while 👀🧐🍵

deadcatbounce, (edited ) in Microsoft's Windows 12 is expected to be even worse than Windows 11, functioning as a paid "subscription service" or forcing users to watch ads in order to use it without paying
@deadcatbounce@reddthat.com avatar

First micro was an Acorn Atom around 1981. First home built PC in around 1988.

Used Windows from the very early days of 3.0 when (Xerox?) Gem became the less useful competitor.

Around Win 2003, XP era they started taking useful functionality out or burying it and taking the useful KB articles off the net.

About that time I wanted to look at VoIP and stumbled into VoIP@home which was hosted by CentOS and I, initially, ran in a Win 2000 VM.

Not long after MS bought Hotmail and found that Windows servers couldn’t keep it going and they had to replace it with UNIX. Maybe that timeline isn’t quite right.

Started transitioning away from Windows that that stage and am so glad I did. I think Win 12 will just consist of a start button and everything else will require daily subscription.

From being a Win fanboy to just wishing he’d have taken the whole thing to that Epstein island with him and left it there.

hexloc, in Tailchat - The next-generation noIM Application in your own workspace

This looks straight up like Discord and i like it.

digdilem, in OSS-Blacklist: A blacklist for keeping track of OSS hostile companies/organizations

We are writing to inform you that we have discovered two Home Assistant integration plug-ins developed by you ( github.com/Andre0512/hon and github.com/Andre0512/pyhOn ) that are in violation of our terms of service

Did the guy explicitly agree to their Terms of service? If not, how can he be in breach of them?

cease and desist all illegal activities

What illegal activities exactly?

Feels like unenforceable scare tactics, but IANAL.

1984, in Microsoft's Windows 12 is expected to be even worse than Windows 11, functioning as a paid "subscription service" or forcing users to watch ads in order to use it without paying
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

Last windows I used was Windows 7.

corvus,
@corvus@lemmy.ml avatar

Great. XP in my case.

nick, in Microsoft's Windows 12 is expected to be even worse than Windows 11, functioning as a paid "subscription service" or forcing users to watch ads in order to use it without paying

Just pirate the business version. All that bullshit is stripped out

Jake_Farm, in Tailchat - The next-generation noIM Application in your own workspace
@Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz avatar

What is an noIM?

leraje,
@leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Not Only Instant Messenger.

Jake_Farm,
@Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz avatar

Strange, I cant seem to find and meantion of that term by searching for it.

leraje,
@leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I think it’s something that app creator invented.

Anon518, (edited ) in OSS-Blacklist: A blacklist for keeping track of OSS hostile companies/organizations

Nice OP! Thank you! I don’t have a codeberg account yet, but you can use this to easily create a TOC imthenachoman.github.io/nGitHubTOC.

It would be good to add links/citations as well, instead of just quotes. IE: bleepingcomputer.com/…/haier-hits-home-assistant-…

grue,

It would be good to add links/citations as well, instead of just quotes. IE: bleepingcomputer.com/…/haier-hits-home-assistant-…

I would suggest creating a documents archive subdirectory and mirroring as well as linking, in case the takedown notices get takedown-notice’d.

Ephera, in The issue to create a new main menu for Minetest has been open for 6 years.

I read up on it at some point and it was essentially a matter of their UI framework just being custom-implemented. Any advanced UI concept would need so much overwhelming support from the community, that a core dev then sits down for a few months to dish out the necessary UI components, that this is just not really happening. The core devs aren’t exactly bored most of the time anyways.

Having said that, they did recently renovate the settings menu using the UI components they already had, and that turned out really cool.

Also, I do feel like some smaller improvements could be made without big code changes, but yeah, those then end up in too many discussions.

The font has been discussed many times. To give you a taste:
Many want a font with fantasy style, but Minetest can also depict a futuristic setting. Others want a blocky font, but those usually aren’t very legible (i.e. accessible) and often only support a narrow range of languages.
I think, just a font, which looks less serious and less thin, already improves it massively, but you can’t even get folks to agree on that, because well, if the font is tweaked, you might need to adjust lots of UI components and mods and such to work with the different font dimensions. So, if a font change is made, people want to get it perfect from the start.

The button gradients are another case, where most people agree that something else would look better and it could be easily changed, but discussions just never end.
The community is just so big and so public, that there’s always someone new joining into the discussion, so that no consensus can occur…

OneThere, (edited ) in OSS-Blacklist: A blacklist for keeping track of OSS hostile companies/organizations

Add Mazda to this list please.

The developer of this plugin for HomeAssistant apparently didn’t have insurance and couldn’t risk the legal fight. This is the DMCA take down that Mazda issued for the reason that the code “provides functionality same as what is currently in Apple App Store and Google Play App Store”

github.com/github/dmca/…/2023-10-10-mazda.md

Additional Coverage: arstechnica.com/…/mazdas-dmca-takedown-kills-a-ho…

qaz,
pan_troglodytes, in Microsoft's Windows 12 is expected to be even worse than Windows 11, functioning as a paid "subscription service" or forcing users to watch ads in order to use it without paying

that’s ok, ill just use linux

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