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smeg ,

It reads to me more just as a statement of contrast, as in 'we're in a world of incredibly high-tech new technology, we shouldn't still be using something from the Victorian era!'

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From the article:

Firefox plans to support Manifest V3 because Chrome is the world's most popular browser, and it wants extensions to be cross-browser compatible, but it has no plans to turn off support for Manifest V2.

I doubt they'll ever choose to shut down V2, but Google is already forcing their hand a little by making them require supporting V3 to stay relevant

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Don't do creative things for other people's praise, do it for yourself!

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I said for other people's praise, not their money!

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Why are you seeing ads on a webpage in this day and age?

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I think so, but I go for the even lazier option: open Settings, search for Private DNS, and set it to dns.adguard.com. Most ads blocked across every app, no installs required!

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It's concerning to see how much power Google really holds over small websites

"I understand that Google doesn't owe us or anyone else traffic," says Navarro, of HouseFresh. "But Google controls the roads. If tomorrow they decide the roads won't go to an entire town, that town dies. It's too much power to just shrug and say, 'Oh well, it's just the free market,'" she says.

As we've seen so many times, they got their foot in the door by actually being the best, but now only really keep that position by paying to be the default on most devices. Given how Microsoft were forced to offer browser choices on Windows, is there hope that Google are forced to offer choices on Android and Chrome?

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Just because there is a choice doesn't mean that the casual user is aware of it. You could always chose to install Firefox on Windows, but Microsoft still got done for pushing IE as the default.

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If this one is real then it's already identifying deadly mushrooms as safe to eat

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It's a great pun if you know that, sadly I've also never heard it used that way

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Positional params are the work of the devil; what starts as shorthand quickly turns into a horrible mess

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Aww, his little butt!

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I assume it's a tight-fitting space suit

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I like the fact that the final panel still works on its own

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Why would you give your new software the same name as an established and widely used software?

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Only about half of the mothers in the world are being celebrated today

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Exactly, wouldn't most of the people who really care already have moved on from Ubuntu?

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Half of those are Unix-like. Don't forget what GNU stands for (literally, not philosophically)!

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I was going with Linux and ChromeOS being the not-Unix half, and MacOS and FreeBSD being the Unix half. It's all semantics really though!

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Human music is my favourite genre

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I've worked with some excellent SMs, they just do all the organisational crap like wrangling people in different teams together so I don't have to bother. Definitely seems like a job where a bullshit merchant could thrive though!

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According to the Richard Stallman copypasta: sort of, it depends

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I've only seen it used for docker images because it's so small, but I believe postmarketOS is also based on it

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The biggest upside is that Alpine is small. The base installation is about 5 MB! Thanks to that, our development/installation tool pmbootstrap is able to abstract everything in chroots and therefore keep the development environment consistent, no matter which Linux distribution your host runs on. And if you messed up (or we have a bug), you can simply run pmbootstrap zap and the chroot will be set up again in seconds.

Another benefit of the tininess of Alpine - many older devices don't have much storage space to spare, so small system images can be anything ranging from useful to required.

https://postmarketos.org/faq/

smeg ,

I think SteamOS3 does (though you can only use that on a Steam Deck)

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Interesting little article

In other words, it is activist hedge funds and modern executive compensation practices — not corporate law — that drive so many of today’s public companies to myopically focus on short-term earnings; cut back on investment and innovation; mistreat their employees, customers and communities; and indulge in reckless, irresponsible and environmentally destructive behaviors.

So I guess the publicly-owned model allows the bad shit to happen when the majority of shareholders are get-rich-quick hedge fund types then?

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Sunset routine every evening, steps through over 150 separate RGB values over 45 minutes.

Did you use the built-in Flux integration for that? I broke mine recently and it's a real pain having to do it manually!

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What did you use for outside brightness? Your own sensor or public weather data?

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Ooh nice, I'll give that a go, cheers!

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That is/was only one of the services they offered, they have an all-in-one messaging app that lets you use a variety of other protocols (though I only discovered this about half an hour ago!)

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They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.

This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin

smeg ,

What integrations did you use for all those lovely dials and what config did they need? I would like to shamelessly copy!

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Cheers! I'll let you know if I get it working (in several weeks when I actually have a chance for tinkering!)

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Hopefully this xz scandal will give the kind of big corps which already pay OSS maintainers the kick up the arse required to treat their entire supply chain as a potential attack vector that should be audited and supported. Or maybe I've just asked the monkey's paw for increased corpo control over OSS projects...

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I think the real old big dogs like Microsoft, Google, and IBM still have a lot of dedicated developers for big projects like the Linux kernel. I doubt they bother that much with smaller projects though.

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    smeg ,

    ChromeOS has a very specific use-case: a basic machine for non-techies who only need a browser. For example, your mum who just wants to read some emails, look at some photos, or do some shopping.

    Yes it's way less usable, but that's kind of a plus in this case because you're getting a simple machine which is hard to break, and Google is doing the tech support rather than you.

    I've got no desire to use it myself, but I'd rather an elderly family member get a cheap Chromebook than keep using an unpatched and insecure old version of Windows or pay through the nose for a Mac they don't need.

    smeg ,

    The improved version

    smeg ,

    The home of Kafka being Prague in Czechia?

    smeg ,

    Can't be cancelled if all the heretics who would cancel you have already been purged!

    Is there anything unsavory about ProtonMail?

    For some reason I have it in the back of my mind that they were at one point accused of being a honeypot for US intelligence because of their association with MIT. Probably complete BS, but maybe not. Are they as open source as they claim to be? Looks like they're on github. F-Droid seems to think they have some Google libraries...

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    Doesn't Proton specifically provide instructions for how to use proton mail via proton vpn (and/or tor, discussed in the article) to provide extra privacy against IP-demanding court orders?

    smeg ,

    Not according to the article at the top of this thread:

    Proton does also offer a VPN service of its own — and Yen has claimed that Swiss law does not allow it to log its VPN users’ IP addresses. So it’s interesting to speculate whether the activists might have been able to evade the IP logging if they had been using both Proton’s end-to-end encrypted email and its VPN service.

    “If they were using Tor or ProtonVPN, we would have been able to provide an IP, but it would be the IP of the VPN server, or the IP of the Tor exit node,” Yen told TechCrunch when we asked about this.

    smeg ,

    The average person, the common man, the everyday user, the casual, the layman. Context dependent, obv.

    smeg ,

    How can I enjoy game if it doesn't constantly tell me how to have fun??

    smeg ,

    First I've heard of Auracast. Hope it catches on as I've wanted for years to be able to connect a few different Bluetooth speakers to the same source, I want music around my house without having to pay through the noise for Sonos or drilling holes for wires!

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    Think of a game you've played recently or enjoyed in the past, and do a YouTube search for "game name GDQ". It's fascinating to see a game you know a bit about be torn apart by glitch hunters and superhuman speedrunners!

    Home Assistant has lost all my lights

    I've got an IKEA hub connected to a few Trådfri lights which I've then added to Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi and set up a load of automations. I moved the hub and the RPi around my room and now Home Assistant can't control any of the lights, it's just reporting Failed setup, will retry. The IKEA hub can still control the...

    smeg OP ,

    You were correct, though I couldn't find a way to update HA with the new IP. Ended up just re-configuring the Ikea integration, weirdly it's forgotten half my bulbs.

    smeg ,

    I'm 9 months late, but there's !nominativedeterminism now!

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