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Opinions exclusively of my own and of voices in my head.

Autism, communism, arthitism, cannabism.

  • GNOME and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux

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  • It's a travesty it's a solely X11 thing and that it wasn't adopted by other operating systems. Back in the day when I was doing a back office job one of the main apps ran on Solaris via what looked like some weird X11 to Windows forwarding app. Clipboard was shared between host and remote app so it was very obvious to see how much of a productivity gain middle-click paste was. Regretfully that's the only app they managed to retire since I left. Mainframe one is still going strong.

  • Nvidia is reportedly bringing official Linux support to GeForce Now soon, not just for Steam Deck

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  • Neat, videogame license holders can now run their games on hardware they don't own either. Must be great for economic growth.

  • AI’s Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source

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  • If the code used to train LLM was released with copyleft license then there’s only way to interpret how the output should be licensed. There’s nothing absolutist about it, just how GPL and such were intended to work. If you don’t like it, don’t use it to train models.

  • What is the point of posting on the fediverse if it is going to be moderated similarly to Reddit?

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  • If you’re not happy with how communities are ran you can create your own. Nobody is hogging precious namespace so you can spin up @numismatics@treants.penis and run it any way you like.

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    Chat Control 2.0 has passed the first round of approval

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  • That „all appropriate risk mitigation measures” is doing a lot of work here. Is it specified anywhere what’s appropriate?

  • What are your plans for when ChatGPT enshittifies?

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  • I would be seriously surprised if it wasn’t happening already because it’s the only way I can imagine them making money. Say, Disney pays OpenAI so that overall output is 3% more positive which scales quickly with the number of ChatGPT users that mistake it for a search engine. That kind of marketing benefits from not being blatant.

  • What is the current state of Discourse to threadiverse federation?

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  • Excel vs database

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  • They mean Microsoft Access.

  • I don't even know if windows is good or not now.

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  • I haven’t had a computer running Windows in my home for like a decade or so but I get exposure to it because of working at large corpos. Frankly, LTSC + proper policy set by administrators is okay for day to day work. It is kind of annoying and decaying in terms of usability but the core experience hasn’t changed that much. My partner works at a company that doesn’t use LTSC and that’s a big oof - unwanted features get shoved in your face all the time, breaking basic functionality like search etc. I can’t even imagine how it looks like in a regular consumer version.

  • Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE – Jonathan Riddell's Diary

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  • Jesus, that was a depressing read :(

  • ActivityPub vs RSS Atom etc. Why Federate instead of aggrigate?

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  • If you’re a publisher only then RSS/Atom makes much more sense, especially if you want to retain ownership and control over content you created. If control is not important to you and you want to incorporate social aspect into your website (comments, reactions) then ActivityPub seems like a convenient way to go about it.

    One thing that I strongly disagree with author of the blog post is the discoverability aspect. Yes, initial federation kind of sucks but at the same time your readers on Mastodon will be able to boost it and increase your reach.

  • RSS co-creator launches RSL protocol for AI data licensing

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  • Currently everything on the Internet is assumed to be free. Robots.txt is just a suggestion and not legally enforceable. I assume RSL is supposed to communicate terms of use explicitly, like a EULA.

    Robots is just a suggestion and so is this because scaraper never cared about legality of things. All this thing does is make license more easily accessible but consequently, do we want to make it easy for them in the first place? Make scrapers work for it.

  • Three years of building no-code software for political organizations

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  • I have inherited and also created and passed on many of those Excel files in my professional life. They get a bad rep but they’re also as bad as everyone says.

  • Three years of building no-code software for political organizations

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  • I’m probably biased because I only work for big corpos and it would never be this simple there. IT is usually safe from this kind of dumb stuff, but then again that insulation might have been part of the reason why business people were considering no/low-code.

  • Three years of building no-code software for political organizations

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  • I’ve worked in business process automation for a bit. In most cases I’ve seen no/low-code is introduced when IT can no longer service technical debt and won’t deliver any new features within reasonable timeframes (usually a result of decades of underfunding). No „real” developer will be ever fixing no/low-code solutions either because why would they? Are they going to fix something in an alien tech stack? Are they going to implement this functionality properly? No, because they never had resources to do that.

  • Are there any bots that we can use to mirror posts from subreddits?

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  • Reddit is astroturfed to hell, I prefer my posts to come from humans rather than companies trying to game system for financial benefit.

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    This $199 Hacking Device Will Probably Let Thieves Steal Your Car

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  • IIRC immobilisers aren’t mandatory in the US, hence their recent troubles with cars being hijacked using silliest methods possible.

  • 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux

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  • Article doesn’t mention Wine even once. Great PR work from Valve.

  • Buttercup is now open-source!

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