One thing I dislike about #Win11 is the extra step added to the start menu. First is the pinned programs and recommendations with a little "all programs" button. Click that and the regular start menu appears.
Seems bizarre that the primary UI improvement that made #Win95 such a revelation is repeatedly erased or subverted in subsequent #Microsoft operating systems. I remember #Win3.1 and MacOS having program icons and folders containg such icons scattered all over the desktop. The start menu was a huuuuge improvement.
I am sure that the current trend of changes to #Firefox and the resulting rewrite of #Thunderbird will necessarily affect #SeaMonkey. Essentially, I think SM lacks independent development resources, so if the divergence is quick enough or large enough, SM will have to write a separate mail component or give up.
This reminds me of a Matrix client I was using. The developers of what was then called Riot changed frameworks or something and the downstream client I used ended development.
@brainwane heck yeah i have stuff to hide! - credit card numbers - medical records - ideas for novels/products - family communications - bank account details - property deeds
You can't have *privacy* without *security*, but you *can* have security *without* privacy.
Be most wary of those (systems) which would obscure this fact.
"There are only two registers on the Net; public and secret. In the public sphere, everything you say is for everyone. Talk in the secret register, and you have something to hide.
And this is what the end of privacy means. It means the end of the *private* register. Not everything that is private is meant to be secret, meant to be hidden. It’s just not intended to be public. That grey area is fading, and soon it will be gone."
"...we have conversations in public, in private, and in secret. All three are quite separate. The public is what we say to a crowd; the private is what we chatter amongst ourselves, when free from the demands of the crowd; and the secret is what we keep from everyone but our confidant. Secrecy implies intrigue, implies you have something to hide. Being private doesn’t." [1/2]
What is that absolute banger of a song in the latest #LastWeekTonight end credits? I'm searching for the lyrics and coming up empty.
Like yeah we're done playing games boy If you want it come and get it I'm right here boy I-I'm feeling like I wanna come and get it boy Come and get it boy Come and get it boy
⇒ something that processes some input automatically with complex behavior — this was inevitable. As it was with anti-virus software being used as prime attack vector.
Oh, today is my 8th anniversary of working on Mastodon. I was 23 when I started, finishing my last year of university, still living at my parent's place. I had no idea what I was getting myself into or that it would consume the next 8 years of my life almost completely.
Another Elsevier paper with obvious AI-written text.
“In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model.”
@NYbill ....and you have not so many blocked domains too...i have around 900k domains, and i added just the ticked lists from firebog.net/ Anyway this is my situation with an android tv on the network:
Ada Lovelace was cool, sure. But in the year 2024 maybe find a second woman to name your "women in tech" or "diversity in tech" thing after. Otherwise it looks as if you know exactly one woman.
@MelodyCooper@MarkHoltom I heard of a story about how, in a remarkably preserved town, they kept finding knives on high shelves. The male archologists/anthropologists went with the classic religious explanation - place knives closer to the sun or if worship.
Once women came into the field they had a very different and practical idea - out of reach of children.
"But if the Torment Nexus shuts down, what will happen to my community? We use this platform for organizing!"
Yeah I dunno, this is only the twentieth or thirtieth time this kind of shit has happened in recent years, maybe quit building your community in the middle of a Torment Nexus?
Real tired of being told that it's not OK to for me to hate some part of the surveillance capitalism apparatus because this or that group has figured out a way to bend it into being useful for something. Anything positive you manage to wring out of those platforms in an unintended side-effect, unrelated to their true purpose. If the owners could figure out how to optimize that sort of thing away in favor of displaying more ads and collecting more data, they would.
Is anyone in the #pdx area interested in running real Linux (#postmarketOS) on their old phone, tablet, whatever? Do you want help installing it? Let's meet up!
A new #AstrophysicsFactlet prompted by a smart question posed by a student of my Astroparticle course for astronomers.
In a nutshell: why the maximum energy of the #CosmicRays we can capture as they collide with the atmosphere of our planet is so much bigger than the maximum energy of the cosmic rays we can accelerate with human made accelerators, like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ?
It always kinda scares me when I read certain comments. They’re not numerous, but I see more of them each year. They say things like « the woke EU », or the « EUssr », or « socialist EU ».
They’re generally there when I talk about the EU regulating big tech, or fighting abuses of dominant position, and I just don’t understand how anyone can link that kind of activity to being « woke » whatever that means today, or being « socialist » (which in these people’s minds probably means « commie »).
Someone is making yet another attempt to appreciate Dune.
Me: Ok, how about this time we try the mini series? It's a bit less artistic, more linear and explicit, shouldn't need so much background explanation to be possible to follow. Them: Ok, sure. *20 minutes later* Them: Yeah I'm still gonna need a diagram. Me: I'll just jot down the basic facts and relations. *several minutes of writing names, titles and motivations, and drawing arrows* *I've filled an A5 paper* Them: I'm taking this home for study.
I wouldn't have used the term "sin", but yeah, users of nonfree software are victims of oppression, and that who denies them control over their own computing is an oppressor.
however, there's an element of accepting the condition of oppressed (though often without realizing their victimhood), to the point of reinforcing it by funding, supporting, and defending the oppressors and their methods, that resembles accompliceship.
in order to put an end to the oppression, we don't need wannabe-oppressors to stop trying to make victims, we need users to reject their offers and choose freedom instead, driving the market towards offerings that respect users choices, rather than towards enshittification
@lxo software, and feel a twinge of guilt, but say "hey, gotta make ends meet" and "at least I contribute to Free Software", and "at least I use entirely Free Software." We should feel *very* bad about it. This is *much* stronger accompliceship than the user who pays a small sum for nonfree software they need. This is what the community's religious zeal should be focused at. (2/2)
@lxo All the things you said are true. But there's a strong vibe from the community that if you use nonfree software you should feel bad about it. The user who reluctantly accepts using a specific nonfree program because they need it for their job, or because the Free alternatives are just worse or maybe don't even exist... that user has nothing to feel bad about; but our community often tells them they do. Meanwhile, many of even the most zealous of us take day jobs writing nonfree (1/2)
I was expecting it to be in mid-July, as it was last year, but early August is so much better for us, as kid will be fully between semesters and we can make it a month-long trip to Sweden and I pop off for the US west coast for a bit in the middle. 😄