Gab also was big, but its role for the fediverse wasn’t.
Gab also was big, but its role for the fediverse wasn’t.
There are no non-toxic spaces these days.
Probably we don’t need new Thinkpads. And the old either. The main motivation behind the desire of people to by old Thinkpads is a desire to be a part of the club and culture, to look like a hacker, a geek. The same motivation had early apple fanboys. I hope smarter people will become less dependent from such crowdthinking phenomena not more.
Honor is a sense of a child doing things for which parents will praise them. An adult substitutes parents with other people and institutions, but honor is still a desire to be accepted and praised by others and anticipation of it.
Development is not very active in recent years. I doubt we will ever see FCMP++s on the mainnet.
Who is watching you
I don’t. But maybe evilcorp knows better how and why.
NSFW flag is the niqaab of the western culture.
WhatsApp is the most popular messenger in Russia, not Telegram.
I’ve tried it and share my few thoughts:
First of all, the first time I’ve tried Smithay-based compositor and it is usable and even supports nvidia. It is a good thing just by itself.
The whole DE is better than I assumed. It in not much polished, but it is good as an experimental thing. I’ve noticed few developer’s creative attempts as “compacted” menubars and dialog pop-ups. I doubt they are good but reveal author’s intent to try create something new.
What I like: The application menu is nice, it also is quite modern: uses Wayland, CSD, Rust and implements modern UX.
What I not so like: UX has some weak parts: unnecessarily duplicated elements between the dock and the top panel. Icon style and preferences is not that good also. I really would like to see icon consistency across the DE which would not harm third-party apps. I also think the project need a designer in the team.
For now there are only few “native” apps. And I would prefer COSMIC will embrace existing GNU/Linux ecosystem and apps without trying to rewrite everything and creating yet another segregated platform as GNOME and KDE do.
Putin is reality.
This is a weak point of GNU Taler. I assume one will need to have a bank license to run GNU Taler instance. And banks will not be very motivated. We can dispute how GNU Taler can be better (or not) than crypto, but it is pure theoretical now.
Not really. Maybe it can give more privacy than transparent crypto like Bitcoin, but private transactions in crypto are superior.
Session (and also Loki and Lokinet) always has been a weak project. It’s just a bunch of forks. Its incentive scheme for nodes is unsound, coin distribution is disastrously bad, and the whole project lacks of transparency but focuses more on marketing. But the most important thing: they have been stagnated for years with literally zero improvements of the fundamentals. And the latest changes with a new token is degradation.
From their blog:
Notably, Session Token is also not a privacy coin — but that doesn’t mean that Session is less private.
Oh, it does! And also shows that the team is incompetent, because private transactions is not magic anymore. Every time when I see projects which try to use crypto/tokens but avoid understand the tech such projects are worthless. Session tries to mix a private messenger with a blockchain and cryptocurrency and it is actually sucks in both areas.
I think ChomeOS is good by itself. At least it could be as a properly modified fork. The graphic shell is decent and resource-efficient. It has all things needed for using apps conveniently in VMs, e.g. crosvm, transparent proxying of wayland apps into the host system and file access with 9P. So it keeps the base system clean and secure, because all the user apps are isolated either with a browser sandbox or with a VM. I only want it would be less online-oriented, so I would like to see an offline-first fork of it, degoogled (like some Android customs), and allowing to use more then one linux app VMs.
So, I think ChromeOS is undervaluated by the FLOSS/hacker community and it has very few forks, but the majority of Linux users are focused on more traditional GNU/Linux distros and environments anyway. But with the rise of popularity of immutables, maybe it can get more attention.
Also, it is a perfect environment for PWAs.
Musk did quite a fast way from the “Occupy Mars” to a Starwars-like family drama. Outer space is not a joke, guys!
Maybe there will be less and less reasons to use internet at all.
Oh, GLaDOS allowed Wheatley be a part of the team.
No, if you are rich enough.
Imagine trying winning chess when the board itself plays against you. Twitter/X must be dropped immediately, it’s a censorship-propaganda machine which is now only works for those who control it.
Oh, I created an account there two days ago.