- The GNU stuff was precisely what FSF managed to do. They didn't manage to do more because they had a fraction of the resources large corporations had. People wanting more just doesn't create more by itself, they were reliant on our contributions and we failed them.
Today, I have access to quality tools on my computer and my computer runs Linux without any of the drama that proprietary equivalents bring and looks visually fantastic. My computer feels mine again and for that, I remain eternally grateful to the FSF.
- You tell us? You’ve just levelled an accusation and provided no information about what specifically happened.
In general, a website cannot directly modify or change a browser’s certificate store through normal web browsing. This would be a serious security vulnerability if it were possible.
- Linux can be an excellent choice if you're willing to invest time in finding compatible hardware. I’m running a 2023 laptop (Lenovo Yoga family) with a 12th Gen Intel CPU and have found the experience to be flawless. I'm using Fedora Silverblue. I've customized GNOME (slightly) to my taste and it’s been a great stable, personalized environment.
However, newer hardware features like exceedingly-good displays (talking about XDR displays) and amazing touchpad support can sometimes be tricky to get working perfectly under Linux—these are areas where compatibility might still lag, so if such features are critical for you, Linux might not yet be the ideal fit.
- Ironically, Ubuntu's efforts to replace its GNU components with non-GNU alternatives is very quickly going to turn it back into just Linux.
- Absolutely agree! Money only becomes an issue when someone asks for it politely. And then people ask why such efforts and projects die in the shadows.
- A lens is a BIG part of the final image you get. So much so that the common advice in most photography forums is that within a price gap, buy the best lens you can find and an okay camera. Camera tech, especially in large dedicated full-frame and APS-C units, has plateaued since 2018, and most cameras from that period take exceptionally good pictures, even by today's standards. Thus, lens availability, price, and quality, as well as AF tracking, are what fundamentally differentiate modern cameras.
EDIT: I got pulled into the discussion without reading the article. The lens is for industrial uses.
- Can confirm. Something is deeply wrong with this site. I haven't seen my uBlock counter fly off like this in a while.
- What is going on with the multiple stray mouse cursors? The site scrolls with a considerable lag and the mouse cursors are outright annoying.
- That statement is patently incorrect. While the 'usefulness' of something can be subjective, the date of creation is an absolute, immutable fact.
- Chat models were not invented with ChatGPT. Conversational search and AI was a well-established field of study well before ChatGPT. It is remarkable how many people unfamiliar with the field think ChatGPT was the first chat model. It may be the first widely-popular chat model but it certainly isn’t the first
- Don't assume they will never double-dip. The AppStore has ads inspite of Apple being a more "premium" platform.
- I don’t think that’s a good argument against the original point. You’re essentially relying on PEPs to protect you against something you shouldn’t have done and which was eminently avoidable in the first place. The namespace __*__ should be considered reserved and alternatives are simple to implement.
- > Do you have any concept of how many gigawatts per day that would waste?
It would still be way less than what large companies are burning on training proprietary LLMs. Do you think the ChatGPT model you use daily was the success at first go? And in that same world, consumers should not even try to protect themselves from GPU fingerprinting?
> The same people who have spent the past 40 years getting confused and worked up about cookies?
Stop with the condescension. It's not about being confused; it's about mitigating genuine privacy concerns. We're not idiots, and dismissing genuine worries won't make the issues disappear.
- Care to share more details?
- How do they think they’re supposed to do their job if they don’t even have a way to identify you in the first place. What is comical is your blend of ignorance of the technical needs of the product and arrogance to suggest that it should be done in this “magical anonymous way” that nobody seems to grok.
- XS4ALL was amazing and it’s a genuine shame that KPN corporate decided to dissolve the brand. But I guess, KPN wouldn’t have been comfortable with XS4ALL’s hacker ethos anyways…
- No problems with ideology when it’s right. Bundling documentation with the tool in a standard text format is the way to go. This can easily be reformatted for online wikis, manuals, etc.
- So Chrome essentially blocking out clients on “Web Integrity” is an acceptable opinion but a simple script to nag someone to use Firefox is not okay?
- > Gandhi was exceptionally vile in his beliefs.
A man who brought independence to 400 million people with non-violent means was a vile man? A man who’s the “father of the nation” to 1.3 billion people was a vile man?
Are you making up your own history here?
- KDE on Debian Bookworm has been perfect for me too!
- I speak for my own experience but KDE has been incredibly stable on my machines. For work, I use Plasma on Debian Bookworm and after putting in some work to set Plasma up the right way (set up my favorite fonts, scaling factor, etc.), everything works without issues/crashes. On my personal machine, I'm using Fedora Kinoite (immutable Fedora with KDE) and the experience has been similarly splendid. I do feel that Kinoite is a bit more polished than Debian but I guess that has more to do with Debian's opinionated principles rather than anything else.
- No amount of repetition is going to convince such people. Their entire argument is predicated on an absolutely erroneous belief that sideloading or user modifications will somehow ruin the experience of people who don’t wish to modify their phone knowing fully well that more setting for users won’t diminish the experience for other users. They’re literally playing stupid to defend a corporation and its practices.
- Precisely! You’re trying to learn the art of poking the box in the right way. As an engineer, I really despise the bastardisation of the term to refer to jobs or tasks that are inherently non-scientific.
- The issue with averaging is that over large inputs, it drowns out small signal. For example, there is a chance that it completely loses a reference to something made only in a single sentence somewhere in a large document.
- IITs are prestigious institutions. They’re not OKish institutions in the slightest.
- TLS secures your message till the endpoint which is a (plaintext) code repo. Why would you want a special tool to read plaintext code? Your argument makes no sense whatsoever.
I’m not sure what you’re getting at here but it sounds more like an irrational hatred of email than something genuinely technical to me.
- FOSS does not mean free of charge. They’re not obliged to write Free Software AND give it you for free.
- Why should anyone stop China and India from making lives better for their people? Seems like the classic American mindset where they get to pour as much concrete as they’d like but when other countries try to do it, they start talking of the environment.
Except that both platforms (iOS as well as Android) were either born out of OSS or are still reliant on active development in such projects. They created nothing, they took something from the commons, polished it and are now rent-seeking. It was tolerated till they threatened to choke all competition and trap and rent-seek the entire world with their duopoly.