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Jason2357

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  • International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative

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  • The ICC is one of those orgs where not having their data sitting on silicon valley servers is a big friggin' deal, and they should have probably thought of that years ago.

  • YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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  • If that story is at all true, I feel so bad for that kid regarding so much more than the OS on his computer. I honestly hope you have thought about the potential future circumstance that you need to take on an abused teenager.

  • Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant from NSF with "no-DEI" strings

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  • a) the wording makes it legally ambiguous what exactly would constitute violating the text. If it just said "comply with anti-discrimination laws," that would be one thing.

    b) It applies to the whole organization, not just the group accepting and applying the grant, making it very challenging to meet the requirement.

    c) Unlike just about any other grant, the funds can be clawed back in the future if something was violated. This is not normal for a grant, and puts the entire organization's existence in jeopardy if they suddenly find themselves owing millions of dollars that had already been spent.

    It's very likely their legal council told them under no circumstances should they accept the terms.

  • Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant from NSF with "no-DEI" strings

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  • Besides the anti-woke bullshit, it's just a bad idea to accept. It is absolutely not normal for a grant to have stipulations that if you violate some vaguely defined criteria somewhere in your organization, it can be clawed back at a later time. That's a huge liability for an organization to take on that they may suddenly owe a million dollars some time in the future.

  • Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant from NSF with "no-DEI" strings

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  • Yo, fire fox what the fuck?

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  • Upvotes for curmudgeons.

  • Yo, fire fox what the fuck?

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  • Dude, look up what a progressive web app is. It's just a standards-compliant web page with some reactivity done locally using javascript. Some of them even work perfectly offline because the whole page is cached locally. No jail sentences needed.

  • Yo, fire fox what the fuck?

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  • PWAs are great. No more Electron apps too! Also, Firefox has no way of knowing you are playing a full screen game, that's the os's job to squelch notifications. Now, Mozilla really shouldn't be using notifications to educate users on new browser features. That should be only on the post-upgrade web page and/or the new tab page only.

  • Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App

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  • Enshitification isn't a problem of people being bad at buying stuff.

  • Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App

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  • Indeed. Between 150 and 40 years ago a "platform" that sold devices and also vertically owned everything up to and including the advertising business on those devices would have been illegal. Even AT&T didn't try to mess with the actual content of your phone conversations, despite de facto being given a get-out-of-jail-free card with regards to monopolistic behaviour for 70 years. This isn't a matter of people being bad at buying stuff.

  • Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App

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  • I know of a few rural places that have far more information on OSM than Google. Especially if those areas have a lot of hiking trails. Looking at the logs, it's typically a small handful of people adding things over significant time. It's worth keeping both on your device, and making edits on occasion. Rural areas change pretty slowly typically.

  • Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App

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  • You aren't crazy. I've switched back and forth and currently have an iPhone, but currently primarily use a Thinkpad with a nice minimal Sway-based Alpine Linux desktop and a handful of Debian and 'BSDs kicking around on various machines. There are dozens of us!

    Apple phones eeks out current Google options for privacy, security, minimalism, and service life, IMHO, but barely, and other people will argue the other way - I don't care. When there is a legit Linux phone option, I'll probably move then. I just try to use a phone as little as possible in my interaction with technology.

    I don't actually regard them as a healthy form-factor for technology. A keyboard and 14' screen is more conducive to creating things or fulsomeness discussion in written form. Depending on the content, they are better for consuming text content (though eReaders are better for some content), and for multi-media consumption, large screens like TVs are better for the eyes.

  • What Happened to Running What You Wanted on Your Own Machine?

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  • Two points: every non-tech-literate person out there has installed “apps” on their phone. So, no, its not just techies that want to manage the capability of their devices. And second: both app stores are chalk-full of malware. Theres no reasonable argument that google and apple are protecting non-technical users from malware.

  • Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises

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  • If a boomer was buying a house 30 years ago, they were between 32 and 50 years old. They were not buying starter homes 30 years ago. They already had equity.

  • Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada will double its non-US exports as Canadians can’t rely on US

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  • Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada will double its non-US exports as Canadians can’t rely on US

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  • Or, as was originally planned, Negotiate a global minimum tax with the EU and other major markets. Then better yet, remove DRM anti-circumvention legislation. That way Canadian companies can openly jailbreak our phones and offer alternative app stores on the devices we own -with no American middleman taking a third of the money we spend.

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    Something odd happened on Reddit today..

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  • To clarify that - cryptography (and hence VPNs) work, but OPSEC is hard. And, reading-between-the-lines, the user seems like a bit of a dolt.

  • Top Republicans stand by president's poop video

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  • democracy doesn’t work when people vote based on vibes or propaganda feels.

    That is the line of reasoning that leads to anti-democratic authoritarianism. Humans use heuristics and emotion to make decisions the vast majority of the time. We might call that a values-based judgment if we are being charitable.

    The current leadership uses notions of loyalty and in-group/out-group membership, and their MAGA supporters are swayed by disgust emotions manipulated by propagandists. However, I'll admit that I'm driven by sense of fairness, or even moral outrage at naked corruption and abuse of power, waste, etc. We all do it. When people are hurting, you have to give them a solution that feels good -feels like it will make things better. Sending a strong message that crony capitalists are siphoning all the wealth off the middle-class to make you poorer, and they need to be taxed into the dirt feels like vindication and something that could work, for example. You have to hit both sides of the human coin.

  • Top Republicans stand by president's poop video

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  • They also don't care he just took a wrecking ball to part of the White House. They don't care that he has crashed the economy or broken the government. They are coward sycophants.