jonne

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jonne, (edited )

It’s a real shame that generally lefties don’t really care about or ‘get’ software freedom. You should be pushing for free software on all levels. In your personal life and in government. It’s crazy how much power a company like Apple, Microsoft or Google has over everyone.

jonne, (edited )

Don’t we all collectively own the Linux kernel for all practical purposes, for example? Any of us can just check it out and do with it whatever we want (within the limits of the GPL).

jonne,

There’s definitely a gatekeeping issue, but free software doesn’t automatically mean ‘force people to use Linux’, there’s stuff like Firefox, Libreoffice, Nextcloud, etc.

It’s things like councils working together on common software platforms instead of going with commercial vendors, supported by local companies instead of shoveling billions to Google and Microsoft that gets sent overseas immediately. It’s federal governments hiring developers directly to work on software instead of using commercial vendors.

jonne,

Most big projects survive on more than just donations. The Linux kernel is developed by developers paid by some of the biggest software corporations.

jonne,

No, Chrome. Specifically for the DRM stuff to access streaming services and casting, things that don’t quite work well with Firefox (by design). I use libre stuff when I can, but I make exceptions, I know not everyone uses Linux that way.

jonne,

Switching user agents isn’t going to get around DRM implementations. Anyway, that was for specific streaming services I’m not using any more, so I haven’t needed to use Chrome in months.

jonne,

I typically end up installing chrome for the odd website that does require it. Firefox is still my daily driver on all platforms though, not sure what Mozilla is thinking with their future plans.

What are the best steps to reduce the wealth of billionaires?

There are a myriad of news articles here on Lemmy that display the abhorrent influence billionaires have on our society (especially the US, where I reside). I consistently read comments where the posters appear hopeless and despondent of the situation, while others jokingly refer to the guillotine....

jonne, (edited )

And yet they go through great lengths to make sure those things aren’t taxed the way other things are. In fact, they’re tax deductable: propublica.org/…/private-jets-yachts-wealthy-tax-… .

If they didn’t care about spending extra, stuff like that wouldn’t make it into laws.

Being wealthy is cheap in a lot of ways, in the same way that being poor is expensive.

jonne, (edited )

Exactly this. You maybe don’t want them in the middle of Yellowstone (although if you put it near a visitor centre or something to power it instead of putting in miles of pylons, it might even make sense there). But people that complain about random fields suddenly being a ruined view because of a turbine are just entitled.

jonne,

The labelling is in Dutch, so it’s either a Dutch or a Flemish machine.

jonne,

Not sure if US law has a provision for this. Brexit was relatively orderly because the EU made sure there’s a process for it.

jonne,

Oh ok, so he’s taking it down temporarily while he’s going through the legal process?

jonne, (edited )

Anyone that wants to take the legal heat can just fork the projects and continue hosting it. I don’t blame the original developer for not wanting to deal with it, even if the legal threat sounds very ridiculous (a project like this would be the opposite of financial harm, how many of us check if something works with home assistant before buying a device?).

jonne,

The EU really needs to start doing something about this kind of shit.

When a Torrent disappears from 1337x, how do you find out what happened?

Yesterday there was a controversial movie torrent that was getting 1000s of downloads and was on the “popular this week” page, and today it’s just gone. I went to the uploader’s account page and it’s not there either. Just like it never existed....

jonne,

Are you using something else? I’m on IPT, never had any issues, but I’m willing to move.

jonne,

Bleh, didn’t know IPT was run by chuds.

jonne, (edited )

Yeah, I don’t pirate software, but I’d prefer to stick to private trackers, even though i’m tempted to look at stuff like radarr and sonarr that use public trackers too, just for convenience.

jonne,

Yeah, just trying to understand what OP meant here. Didn’t know the Google suite had a bad reputation.

jonne,

Compared to what? We use some of the Google stuff (mail, calendar, meet and Google office) and they do the job.

jonne,

Heh, our company is bigger but I guess we don’t use spreadsheets the way you do. At least on the dev side basic functionality is fine, and our core business runs on real databases and stuff like AWS quicksight.

jonne, (edited )

Generally people make a huge issue out of something like that (some will even call it spyware, etc).

I think the best approach is to ask the actual community of users what they’re ok with before you start. You probably want to make sure it’s opt-in as opposed to opt-out, and be very clear about what information you do and don’t collect, and make sure it’s stored securely.

jonne,

The FBI murdered their leadership, for one.

jonne,

If this is in user space, does this mean we can switch schedulers on the fly? Put it in game mode when gaming, power saving mode when on battery, etc?

jonne,

This meme is explicitly about the President committing crimes and getting away with it. I don’t think this is something you want, whether the President’s a Democrat or a Republican.

jonne,

Yep, would happily take the coffee machine over a PS5. As long as I still had my PC, obviously.

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