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kayazere

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  • What IDE do you use and why ?

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  • For macOS and iOS development I use Xcode (don’t really have another choice), but otherwise I am using Kate. Kate has support for macOS and Windows in addition to Linux.

    I’m not touching VSCode, I don’t want to use an electron app as a code editor, nor want to use something with Microsoft spyware and propriety plugins.

  • Trump threatens tariffs on any nation that taxes Big Tech

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  • Strange, Big Tech has no inherit right to operate in foreign markets. If they want to be in those markets, they need to pay their fair share. I would be glad to see them pull out of those markets, but that won’t easily happen.

  • ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners

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  • Mobile apps are also loaded with third party ad and spyware frameworks which bloats up the size.

  • Are there any examples of an "abandoned" game's fans successfully getting the game to be open-sourced?

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  • Are there any examples of an "abandoned" game's fans successfully getting the game to be open-sourced?

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    Jamie Dimon popped off at the 1,200+ JPMorgan employees fighting against full-time RTO: 'I don’t care how many people sign that petition'

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  • I think one can easily argue capitalism is unethical, as it is based on extraction and exploitation, and has a non-democratic power structure. So that eliminates most jobs in the West as being ethical.

  • What's something that's taken for granted that occasionally makes you think, wait wtf?

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  • I was actually trying to do some research on this as well to verify my claim, but couldn’t find a definitive answer. I’m not for sure whether uBlock blocks complete JavaScript libraries from loading by default or if it is only blocks the HTTP request like PiHole.

    I did find this interesting project by DuckDuckGo which provides empty implementations of the JavaScript libraries when adblockers break the site. This seems to imply that some adblockers do prevent the JavaScript library from loading at all.

    https://github.com/duckduckgo/tracker-surrogates

  • What's something that's taken for granted that occasionally makes you think, wait wtf?

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  • uBlock Origin just prevents the network requests from these tracking frameworks from completing. All the javascript tracking code I believe still executes, just doesn’t return.

    If it were possible it would be great to prevent these javascript frameworks from being loaded at all by the browser. But I guess the website javascript code would break.

    It would be interesting to replace the tracking frameworks with an empty stubbed out implementation that does nothing. Not for sure how feasible that would be.

  • What's something that's taken for granted that occasionally makes you think, wait wtf?

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  • It’s insane how wasteful modern software is. The infinite growth mindset causes companies to pack more useless features into software and load it up with spyware and adware.

    Google and Facebook’s tracking and ad software are a big cause of computing waste in most websites and mobile apps.

  • When we explain to other people how our capitalist system works and they recoil in horror

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  • EU prepares to hit Big Tech in retaliation for Donald Trump’s tariffs

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  • the ACI allows the bloc to select from a wide range of retaliatory measures, such as revoking the protection of intellectual property rights or their commercial exploitation, for example, software downloads and streaming services.

    Holy hell that would be glorious to revoke protection of intellectual property of Big Tech.

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    The PC is Dead: It’s Time to Make Computing Personal Again

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  • This also impacts emulators and other re-implementations of proprietary systems. This allows Nintendo to threaten emulator devs and make it illegal to decrypt DRM encrypted games, media, or apps you legally purchased.

  • Open source projects are too dogmatic for their own good

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  • Proprietary software is also really dogmatic. Steve Jobs famously didn’t support flash on the iPhone, there also was no direct access to files/file system in the UI for a very long time. Tim Cook told someone’s Mom to just buy an iPhone to access iMessage. There’s too many user hostile dogmatic positions from Apple.

    I think this has nothing to do with open source vs proprietary, but rather specific individuals having power/control over the software to force specific decisions.

  • Best New And Emerging Technologies

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  • Valve’s Steam Deck is the only piece of technology to come out over this past decade that is exciting. Desktops/laptops and smartphones have completely stagnated. Proprietary OSes with each release are introducing more user hostile features and spyware. The Steam Deck is a breath of fresh air with it not being locked down and you can install whatever you want, as it includes a full KDE desktop environment.

  • What’s your RSS solutions?

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  • I’m using Feedly Classic on iOS. I would like to move off of it, but I have yet to find any other RSS client which presents the articles in a card like view which you can vertically swipe through to mark them as read.

    Feedly themselves abandoned this UI for an infinite scrolling list on their main app. All other RSS clients I tried have this similar UI, which I feel is really poor.

  • Never Forgive Them

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  • The root of the problem is growth and profit seeking is what is steering the tech research and production. Which just leads to an endless churn of useless software and hardware updates.

    Desktop OSes peeked around Windows 7. macOS hasn’t had a useful feature since dark mode. The UIs have only gone down hill with trying to force them to be mobile friendly and flat.

    The iPhone peeked around iPhone 8/iPhone X depending on if you liked the notch/FaceID or not. I’ve seen no useful features since.

    Companies must make “progress” each year by releasing worse user hostile software updates and force device upgrades through planned obsolescence.

  • Chinese GPU designers received key technologies from Imagination Technology: Report

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  • Sounds like Apple fucked over Imagination Technology by poaching their key employees and executives. Apple even opened a new office for chip development next to theirs.

    The company was then doing poorly and got bought out by a Chinese company controlled by the Chinese government.

    Pretty sad demise for the company. I remember working with their GPUs in the early 2010s.

  • Mozilla: Proposed contractual remedies in United States v. Google threaten vital role of independent browsers

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  • The remedies are damaging when you build your business on mafia money from Google to enforce their search monopoly.

  • You know what scares us about big tech? Planned obsolescence.

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  • This would apply to all consumer electronics besides smartphones, such as smart TVs, gaming consoles, etc.

    Android has problems with how each device uses a forked kernel with vendor binary blobs only working for that specific forked kernel. PostmarketOS is trying to avoid these issues by upstreaming the drivers so they can be maintained normally when the kernel changes.

    Yes having a trusted entity maintain the software is a big problem.

    But giving the option to install your own software would be a big step in keeping the devices in use.