Takios

Takios , 8 days ago

Same happened to me when I tried to sell my old powerline network adapters. Sign up, put them up for sale, 2 minutes later I get a mail that I'm banned without a reason given.

I still have those adapters lying around somewhere...

Takios , 12 days ago

If one does that, be prepared to defend yourself against the copyright infringement lawsuit that's coming your way eventually.

Takios , 17 days ago

In that case why block the add-ons in the first place? There is a risk that the "Mozilla is blocking privacy friendly add-ons on the behest of an authoritarian regime!" news will become more widely known than any correction. If it had been a planned PR move then any person involved in it should never work in marketing again.

Takios , 21 days ago

I was thinking the whole week if I should vote the greens or the pirates but due to the recurring campaigns to establish a surveillance state I did end up voting pirates. Incredibly disheartened they didn't get a seat :(

Takios , 21 days ago

I remember warning labels on BIOS updates that basically said that if nothing is broken, don't do the update because the risk of bricking the device did not outweigh any potential benefits. That vendors are now pushing mandatory BIOS updates through Windows Update is terrifying.

Takios , 24 days ago

I'm not the biggest fan of capitalism myself but the existence of debt does not mean it is broken. Debt is a mechanism to allow for solid investments, e.g. building infrastructure or schools that will create a net positive in the (far) future.
Germany for example has enacted a Schuldenbremse (debt-break) in 2009 and forbids our states to take on new debt and limits the debt taken on the federal level to a minisule percentage of the GDP. Our infrastructure is currently slowly but noticeably crumbling away, bridges are getting closed for heavy traffic and experts say many of them have become irreparable due to missing maintenance and need to be fully rebuild in a few years. The local military barracks are in such a desolate condition that the soldiers need to drive two towns over to shower. We might not take on financial debt, but an infrastructure debt that will demand an even bigger toll on us.

Takios , 24 days ago

I've seen that done for configuration management like Salt or Ansible. The repos for that were always hosted on internal Gitlab instances though.

Takios , 25 days ago

It's great for some people, awful for others. It became a meme because it started to be suggested to everyone even though it's an awful first introduction to the Linux ecosystem.

Takios , 1 month ago

People can get into this weird fixation mode where when they made a decision then nothing can keep them from doing it except if it's physically impossible.

Takios , 1 month ago

I think there are two areas missing in this picture so that's probably a contributing factor.

Takios , 1 month ago

Please no. :( I do like 99.99% of online payments through them because the convenience they offer is really great, especially with recurring payments. :/

Takios , 1 month ago

I tried it out and it has some issues here and there but seems to be on a good track to become a good Mediaplayer. I'm not 100% happy with Strawberry and used to use Amarok way back when before I switched to the, now un-maintained, Cantata. I'll definitely follow the development of this.

Takios , 1 month ago

I have a big library of music, mostly MP3 or OGG and don't really see myself pivoting solely towards streaming services where access to songs could be revoked at any time or could be changed/censored like movies or series sometimes are on streaming platforms. I do use YouTube for listening to new music and when I like it enough, I buy it to download (or acquire it in a different way if it's not available).

Takios , 1 month ago

I've been in a long distance relationship for 5 years now, still gong strong!

Takios , 1 month ago

It certainly needs a special type of person I think. We are both very independent people for example and we value alone-times.
It helps that we have a common interest that can be shared via the distance: Playing videogames and watching shows like Star Trek together.

Takios , 1 month ago

Yeah, being able to seamlessly switch between the desktop app and mobile is a must for me so that's something I already prefer in Signal.

Takios , 1 month ago

So far I'm inclined to believe Joost's side of the story. Firstly because innocent until proven guilty. Secondly, because the other side doesn't tell its side of the story at all.
I think the EBU should have operated under the innocent until proven guilty assumption, especially since they now have opened a way to get rid of competition, just accuse them of assault shortly before the main event.

Takios , 1 month ago

No, the equivalent would be a kernel panic that the other user had linked. This is a situation where the RAM is fully used and a program's request for memory cannot be fulfilled. This is still a very bad situation because pretty much everything will grind to a halt. The Linux kernel thus makes a decision to kill a process (or multiple) until enough RAM is available again. Usually it kills the process with the most used RAM, but there's methods to influence the decision.

Takios , 1 month ago

It's the other way around in my country. The more votes the middle and left parties lost, the further they moved to the right in an attempt to claw back votes. But then there was a huge protest campaign against the right and the right started losing votes in our regular surveys (though still much too strong).
So I urge you to vote for your option that is not regularly talking about using fascist methods and undoing gained freedoms "on day one".

Takios , 1 month ago

If you don't have hope, you have already lost.

Takios , 1 month ago

I can understand and respect your stance. Personally, I wouldn't take the chance of having to live under a Trump presidency though.

Takios , 1 month ago

There'd be no legit excuse for why so many people voted him in though.

Takios , 1 month ago

It's main branch these days (at least that's the new default for new repositories)

Takios , 1 month ago

I wonder if their recent blog post promoting conspiracy theorists and right-wing people turned away more people from telegram than they expected and now they feel the need to spread FUD against their competitors.

Takios , 1 month ago

This is the blog post: https://telegram.org/blog/my-profile-and-15-more
This is a post highlighting the problematic content of the blog post: https://plush.city/@PsyChuan/112336464469767051

Though now that I'm more awake I think it's probably unrelated, I haven't seen this circulated around that much.

Takios , 2 months ago

Helldivers 2 works on Linux.

Takios , 2 months ago

Linux Mint

Takios , 2 months ago

There were grassroots movements like the Limux project (Munich using a custom Linux distribution). But that got shut down by Microsoft bribery (not confirmed, but MS did build a new headquarters in Munich...).

Takios , 2 months ago

Nowadays it would be $19.99 per month and it's a one year contract that renews three months before expiration.

Takios , 2 months ago

Ads have evolved into a cancer that is just growing and growing, making everything around them worse.

Takios , 2 months ago

I don’t know what happens if a significant amount of yt users used freetube. but that probably won’t happen.

Look at what happened with Nitter (alternative Twitter frontend). They'll start changing around things so often that alternative frontends break every few days.

Takios , 2 months ago

Most responses tell you to add them yourself which is a solution to this problem. But I think the reason why the state of businesses on OSM and Organic Maps (which uses OSM as a source) is so dire is interesting too:

OSM must not use other maps as sources. In fact, they must not use any information that hasn't been licensed in a way that specifically allows OSM to use it. As such, they can't just go to Google Maps and copy all the business information over because Google has not licensed that information in an open way. Information like streets, paths or houses can be gleaned from satellite pictures that have been provided to OSM and can be put in easily so they tend to be up-to-date. But for businesses, someone has to actually go there and confirm the information.

Now why is Google so good at that? Because almost every business owner makes sure to put their business on GMaps themselves and keep that information updated so it doesn't depend on one person going through the area regularly.