Bitrot

Bitrot , 5 days ago to Free and Open Source Software in Pride System Icon

Do xsnow and xpenguins next!

Bitrot , 11 days ago to Technology in Has Facebook Stopped Trying?

Really great article, and thanks for posting the text of it.

Facebook is weird for me because it triggers my FOMO, but then if I use it all I see are a ton of random things with the most toxic people in the world living in the comments.

And similarly I just realized why my friends on instagram use stories and not posts, because for the most part stories is the only place I see content from people I know anymore (and again the FOMO).

I really relate to the sentence at the end, “there are people there but they don’t know why and most of what they are seeing is scammy or weird.”

Bitrot , 1 month ago to Technology in Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has

That combination works in Brave to search the forum (prefixing !ddg or !d) I’m surprised it doesn’t in Searx.

Bitrot , 1 month ago to Technology in I would maybe like a smart watch, can you help me decide?

Galaxy Watch, the original Pixel Watch and the Apple Watch have no charging contacts. It’s really the way to go.

The contacts have been an issue forever, like I remember it messing up a Fitbit a decade ago. Really crazy that it’s still a problem.

Bitrot , 2 months ago to Technology in Tesla is already pulling back Supercharger plans after firing team

With that kind of leadership we should be thankful he can’t run for president, or he’d end up voted in.

Bitrot , 2 months ago to Technology in Tesla is already pulling back Supercharger plans after firing team

Before his Twitter addiction it was much easier to think of him as a rich genius like you see in comic books, mostly since nobody knew what he was thinking. He’s also managed a celebrity-like persona that someone like robot Mark Zuckerberg could never pull off. That and money will always get hangers on.

Bitrot , 2 months ago to Technology in Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules

It’s slower, actually.

Are you really trying to argue over ways of locking down the phone?

Bitrot , 2 months ago to Technology in Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules

On iOS, hitting vol up, then vol down, then hold power for a second will instantly lock down and also no danger of accidentally calling 911 or whatever.

It’s also the fast way to get to the power option.

Bitrot , 3 months ago to Free and Open Source Software in A backdoor in xz (current versions are impacted)

That’s what all of the analysis is pointing to.

Since the analysis is not complete, the other thing people need to remember is that nobody knows if ssh was the only target or just the only one that was noticed. A ton of stuff uses lzma, including web browsers and password safes.

Bitrot , 3 months ago to Free and Open Source Software in Florp, the Firefox fork with an awful name, is fully source-available again

There are probably BSD derivatives that act that way.

Bitrot , 3 months ago to Free and Open Source Software in Florp, the Firefox fork with an awful name, is fully source-available again

Because many people are also fans of free software. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

Bitrot , 3 months ago to Free and Open Source Software in Florp, the Firefox fork with an awful name, is fully source-available again

The blog says specifically that FireDragon is not an issue. I am also curious about these forks.

Bitrot , 3 months ago to Free and Open Source Software in Florp, the Firefox fork with an awful name, is fully source-available again

Ablaze was high school students making random hobby projects. This one got popular and it has obviously had a negative effect on the dev (who is likely in university by now). Sounds like they are also feeling a sense of responsibility for things they aren't responsible for.

It also sounds like they don’t really understand open source.

Their Twitter makes it seem like they aren’t having much fun.

Bitrot , 3 months ago to Free and Open Source Software in Floorp, a Firefox Fork with an awful name, has moved some components inside a private submodule.

It’s an open source browser based on Firefox with additional features and configuration tweaks.

Except they recently made part of it proprietary and hid the source code for that, so most other people cannot actually build the same one.

They claim they will make that part open source too, eventually, and it is due to behavior of another browser: https://github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp-core/issues/62

Bitrot , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to Technology in Mozilla just ditched its privacy partner because its CEO is tied to data brokers

The CEO of Onerep had founded multiple brokers.

What isn’t mentioned anywhere except the original investigation, it also claims to be a Virginia-based company but is operating out of Belarus and Cyprus.