Before the Danish government announced its move, Denmark's largest cities, Copenhagen and Aarhus, had already announced plans to phase out Microsoft software and cloud services. Here's why.
tl;dr: "digital sovereignty". "EU leaders are seeking to reduce Europe's dependence on foreign technology providers, primarily those from the United States, and to assert greater control over its digital infrastructure, data, and technological future."
Fair enough and makes sense. Every country should be trying to be as independant as possible IMO.
We only need that independence because we can't trust each other. There's no problem in some countries being more focused on one thing or another, as long as we are collaborating with each other without taking advantage of anyone. Unfortunately, there are still dangerous players in the world and we have to be prepared to defend against them and this capitalistic view we currently have guarantees that there's always someone taking advantage of someone else.
15 years ago this statement would lead to accusations of being anti-globalist, communist, economically illiterate.
15 years ago this made economical (just not political) sense and was the right approach.
Now it still is, but there's an additional quality - I think the incentive is not of public good, it's of strengthening authoritarianism on both sides of the Atlantic ocean. Domestic authoritarians always want to play with their toys without foreign authoritarians meddling. But if the domestic environment is not authoritarian, only foreign is, then they are not in conflict, and the other way around too.
So this may mean that both USA and EU are changing for the worse, for now.
I would argue that switching to an open-source model for all your tools is more globalist. Open source projects are being maintained by people all over the world, and any group or branch is allowed to modify and redistribute their personal version of any project.
It's the opposite of being subject to an ever growing corporation you can't even put checks on. Every government using the product of a single small group of massively rich corporations is giving said corporation unprecedented power over the world.
Just earlier this week I created some Sharepoint folders for my father-in-laws business. I created the groups in Outlook and used the ”See files in Sharepoint”-button to access them. Next it required to ask for permission for him to the folder. I granted them using his own account. It was funny because the request was literally John Doe asked John Doe for permission, and the emails were identical too. So I granted him his own access with his own account.
The funniest thing though was that the process was different all of the four times, like different links opening to completely different tools. Now I’m not a Microsoft MVP and probably did it the wrong way, but at least I had fun doing it.
A former colleague at a place where I used to work added my personal MS account to a Teams community inside the organization. It split my Teams account in two, prompting me to choose which one I wanted to use every time I opened Teams.
One side was associated with the organisation, the other was still my personal account. My personal account became inaccessible and attempting to login would result in a referral loop and an error. The MS advice for the error code was to get the system admin to remove my account from the organisation, which wasn't possible because I don't work there anymore.
Hehe - sounds similar to my case. On my PC if I try to log in as the work account, it asks for a code from an authenticator app, but rejects it. Still working on my phone though. Microsoft being Microsoft.
All of the M$ office apps have premium features now too. Pay extra monthly and you can use python in excel. Pay extra monthly and Teams will... I dont even know because I closed that popup so fucking fast. FFS my company must pay M$ at least 7 figures a year - why are they trying to nickel and dime us?
I teach boomers how to use SharePoint. Last week Microsoft updated office.com to be 95% copilot. The only way to find “All Apps” (word, SharePoint, PowerPoint, excel, etc.) is to find the tiny little “apps” button all the way at the bottom of the screen.
Everything else is copilot. Everyone is confused and my job just got 100% harder.
Surely you jest. Gates has almost nothing to do with Microsoft these days, let alone interface design. In fact, he'd probably be the one to roast any stupid design decisions if he was still active there.
Important notice in this regard is that there is agreement on this among both left and right wing politicians. So this is NOT something that will change with new administrations in either government or local communities.
When this is implemented, I don't see any way for Microsoft to get that business back!
Edit PS: It's not just office, it's also mail and cloud services.
IDK if you read the article, but in 5 years cost of licenses paid to Microsoft increased 72%. Also even if cost increase temporarily, it creates local jobs skills knowhow and tax revenue. Every "dollar" spend benefits the local community! instead of just sending the money to USA. Servicing with open source and Linux will rapidly become cheaper than Microsoft, because there will be no artificial disruptions caused by Microsoft planned obsolescence or forced updates or whatever crap Microsoft is pushing.
A couple dozen of Danish municipalities are working on replacing Google and Microsoft entirely in schools with a project called OS2Skole (skole meaning "school"). It's expected to save them around €3 million in yearly and the intention is to de-Googleify and de-Microsoftify children already from an early age and to make it open source.
The majority of Internet infrastructure runs on either something Linux based or something FreeBSD based.
A lot of the tools used are also various flavours of open or semi open source.
I'd say open source already has success. Just not in places where you see consumers using it. Except... Wait a minute, Android is a fork of Linux, and Android is open source too.
I wouldn’t consider Android a fork, the differences at the kernel level aren’t unlike differences you might find on embedded devices. It mainly just has the Google software suite instead of GNU
Yes average people need to learn the open source stack instead of Microsoft. It used to be most people could just learn some Microsoft thing, and they were almost guaranteed a job. Obviously a lot of people will be unhappy that isn't the case anymore, and they'll be annoyed they have to learn something new.
But this should have been done 20 years ago when Linux was obviously ready for it, and sensible people have advised it for just as long. In the old CP/M days we had lots of good software developed locally, but when IBM became dominant, and chose to use MS-Dos, Microsoft was very ~~cleverly~~ deviously leveraging that to sabotage the competition, and take mostly every main stream market.
Trump is kind of a blessing in disguise, because he finally got people to wake up to reality.
The funny thing about that story, and the outset that no one covered after the fact, is that Munich reversed direction again and ultimately did go with Linux and open source stacks.
bavaria is pathetic. "LANGSAM" is their word for being backwards and ultra-conservative. i mean Freie Wähler? Aiwanger? What a shit place. And it is just SAD that they just NOW started to civilize. worst of the west.
Das IT-Referat München hat einen 5-Punkte-Plan für die Stärkung freier Software weitgehend umgesetzt. Für "Sabbaticals" können sich Interessierte noch bewerben.
The Madleen and its crew attempted to challenge Israel’s genocide and this cruel and inhumane policy of using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare and collective punishment.
Let's be real; everyone on board knew there was no chance the ship would be allowed to moor and offload its goods. It was a photo op. But still a good one since it helps show what Israel is doing in Gaza. They also knew there was very little chance of them actually getting hurt as Israel does care about optics when it involves high profile foreigners. The second they kill someone like Greta all hell would break loose. Which is in sad, stark contrast to the thousands of innocents they've killed with nary a peep from the rest of the world.
I think greta is kind of a cunt. But shes a cunt we need to stick it to everyone on a global scale. We all know who she is, we all know shes harmless, a lot dont like her, but most will say she is right on her few issues.
Yes, just joking it's not even meant for a "replacement" but rather how to give a pragmatic affordable (the 1st one I made was literally just 2 paper strips and scotch tape) fun way to explore ROT... but IMHO it can be just a starting point. You can do that and sequence them, e.g. ROT-X where X is the date so e.g. today is 06 12 2025 so you would ROT0 the first letter, ROT6 the second, etc.
It is only meant to be fun, please don't use this in actual serious situations.
Doubt I can do a PR to github.com/open-quantum-safe/ with that yet... but that does beg the question, what other schemes could be represented tangibly without complex mechanisms?
In una delle leggi riportate nel Levitico, terzo libro della Bibbia e della Torah, viene spiegato che: “Quando la piaga appare sulle pareti della casa con cavità verdastre o rossastre, che sembrino più profonde della superficie della parete, il sacer…
Among other things, the first AI executive order focused on building R&D and the nation’s workforce. But it was only the first of a half dozen to come.
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Hello everyone wondering where the answer is […] We are not asking anyone to completely re-write something to suit our tastes, but to contextualize what is written within the reality of the times. As this question hit /r/all, it’s very clear that there is a large audience reading it, with various degrees of knowledge about the period and the novel/film.
They did, though, and people called them out, to be met by some confusion, followed by another mod response:
In sum, you had the poor timing of posting right at the point when the mod team ‘turns over’ several times - US slips off to Bed and then Europe wakes up. It meant that you were dealing with, essentially, a string of mods in different time zones and different “shifts” which created something of a Moderator game of telephone about what we had been expecting out of an answer in the thread.
General confusion ensued.
There were several conflicting mod DMs that weren’t captured publicly, too, but were responded to in the OP. Asked to include all races, then asked to narrow it down, asked to include a disclaimer (I did, at the bottom), then asked to move it to the top, asked to remove things, then to include those same things. It was maddening.
E: re-reading, I don’t think I’ve ever used race words so often in my life, jesus.
e: I only included this photo because I couldn’t seem to submit this post without a photo for some reason. It’s only tangentially related to the Reddit post, but this is an example of my education on the subject.
I want to see either a persistent rectangle box on the edges of the region being recorded (anything outside the box isn't recorded), or dim the parts of the screen that aren't being recorded. I looked for screen recorders for hyprland & wlroots and didn't find any with this functionality. wf-recorder + slurp works for me but I want a boundary visual.
OBS could do that, I suppose. Add a screen capture source, and place a color source behind it sized 10px larger than the screen capture rect. Hit record.
Tickets for the event, which is to be held at the Rate Field stadium, home of the Chicago White Sox (the pontiff’s favorite team), are being sold online at $5 each
LibreOffice is offline; each person can run the software in their own device to create and edit documents.
It’s features are equivalent to 2010 Office. That’s not necessarily bad, but it’s not how people usually work today.
Collabora lets you host documents on a central server and have multiple people edit at once, dynamically tracking changes and allowing full revision management. Or, you can keep your documents local and not host them if you don’t want to.
IANAL so please don't take my word for it. But if I understood it correctly, this is indeed legal. You don't have to offer your stuff for free. And as long as you let the user decide if they want to pay with money or with data, it's legal. The important part is, that the user needs to give consent, which is the case here. Not talking about the morality of it though.
In any case, the requirements for "pay or okay" being legal are: (translated with deepl)
Equivalent alternative
"In principle, the tracking of user behavior can be based on consent if a tracking-free model is offered as an alternative, even if this is subject to payment. However, the service that users receive in a paid model must firstly represent an equivalent alternative to the service that they obtain through consent. Secondly, the consent must meet all the conditions for effectiveness set out in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), i.e. in particular the requirements listed in Art. 4 No. 11 and Art. 7 GDPR. Whether the payment option - e.g. a monthly subscription - is to be regarded as an equivalent alternative to consent to tracking depends in particular on whether users are given equivalent access to the same service in return for a standard market fee. Equivalent access generally exists if the offers include the same service, at least in principle."
Data processing for ad-free use
If a user opts for the subscription option, only storage and readout processes that are technically absolutely necessary may take place (Section 25 (1) TTDSG). Furthermore, the permissions under Art. 6 para. 1 GDPR must be complied with.
Granularity/prohibition of general consent for non-subscribers
"If there are several processing purposes that differ significantly from one another, the requirements for voluntariness must be met to the effect that consent can be granted on a granular basis. This means, among other things, that users must be able to actively select the individual purposes for which consent is to be obtained (opt-in). Only if purposes are very closely related can a bundling of purposes be considered. A blanket overall consent for different purposes in this respect cannot be effectively granted."
Transparency, comprehensibility and information
In addition, the consents must meet the other requirements of the GDPR. This applies in particular to the principle of transparency, comprehensibility and compliance with information obligations.
As I see it, at the very least the granularity requirement is not fulfilled in these cases.
Pur-Abo Modelle, auch als „Cookie-Paywalls“ bekannt, sind ein beliebtes Werkzeug von Websitebetreibern, um unter dem Aspekt der Privatsphäre und der Datenschutzkonformität zusätzliche Einnahmen zu generieren.
In any case, the requirements for "pay or okay" being legal are: (translated with deepl)
Equivalent alternative
"In principle, the tracking of user behavior can be based on consent if a tracking-free model is offered as an alternative, even if this is subject to payment. However, the service that users receive in a paid model must firstly represent an equivalent alternative to the service that they obtain through consent. Secondly, the consent must meet all the conditions for effectiveness set out in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), i.e. in particular the requirements listed in Art. 4 No. 11 and Art. 7 GDPR. Whether the payment option - e.g. a monthly subscription - is to be regarded as an equivalent alternative to consent to tracking depends in particular on whether users are given equivalent access to the same service in return for a standard market fee. Equivalent access generally exists if the offers include the same service, at least in principle."
Data processing for ad-free use
If a user opts for the subscription option, only storage and readout processes that are technically absolutely necessary may take place (Section 25 (1) TTDSG). Furthermore, the permissions under Art. 6 para. 1 GDPR must be complied with.
Granularity/prohibition of general consent for non-subscribers
"If there are several processing purposes that differ significantly from one another, the requirements for voluntariness must be met to the effect that consent can be granted on a granular basis. This means, among other things, that users must be able to actively select the individual purposes for which consent is to be obtained (opt-in). Only if purposes are very closely related can a bundling of purposes be considered. A blanket overall consent for different purposes in this respect cannot be effectively granted."
Transparency, comprehensibility and information
In addition, the consents must meet the other requirements of the GDPR. This applies in particular to the principle of transparency, comprehensibility and compliance with information obligations.
As I see it, at the very least the granularity requirement is not fulfilled in these cases.
Pur-Abo Modelle, auch als „Cookie-Paywalls“ bekannt, sind ein beliebtes Werkzeug von Websitebetreibern, um unter dem Aspekt der Privatsphäre und der Datenschutzkonformität zusätzliche Einnahmen zu generieren.
Good to see. LibreOffice is solid today. Was passable back in like 2012. Now it's pretty excellent, at least for most people. Ribbon interface like 5 years ago was pretty rough. Now I think it's pretty close to great. I thought OnlyOffice and WPS Office had a substantial visual edge but that was me comparing it to like 2020 LibreOffice. 2025 LibreOffice looks pretty good now that I wouldn't feel worries about newcomers looking at it as a relic of 2003 visual design
Hopefully this also means monetary investment in open source, not just open source usage without a support contract or contributing back. Matrix is a great example of an open source project that is being used by governments but struggling to get paid because governments are employing their own support staff and making internal forks.
But the more governments, agencies and individuals switch, there greater the chance they'll pay the developers and maintainers for support or features.
I was going to write about how excited I was that both the Ignyte Awards and the Shirley Jackson Awards nominations both dropped last week. I’ve already started reading through the Hugo Awards nominees, which were announced back in April, and now I have p
I was going to write about how excited I was that both the Ignyte Awards and the Shirley Jackson Awards nominations both dropped last week. I’ve already started reading through the Hugo Awards nominees, which were announced back in April, and now I have plenty of reading material to last me the rest of the year.
Senate Republicans aren’t coming to the rescue of Ohio libraries.
The Senate budget plan mirrors a House proposal that eliminates guaranteed state funding for libraries, tied to percentage of state tax revenues.
Under both budgets, library funding instead appears in the budget as a simple line item that could be slashed in subsequent budgets without notice.
On top of that, it lumps together several other library entities into the same Public Library Fund so the money allocated would potentially be cut into smaller pieces.
Needless to say, libraries are concerned.
This is the budget which Republicans passed in both the Ohio House and Senate. The Senate passed the bill today, in fact, with just one Republican joining Democrats to vote no. The bill removes the Public Library Fund, which gives Republicans the option to kill funding for libraries in this and future budgets. Meanwhile, Republicans chose to fund the proposed new Brookpark Browns stadium with $600 million.
It is clear that Republicans don’t care about knowledge. They only care about grift, as the Haslem family is a major MAGA donor, all while showing they are inept at actual business.
Maybe a couple dozen more of the cryptkeepers will die off before midterms and they're forced to take on some younger blood that isn't sucked from virgins.
Yeah, it's important to remember that Hogg has only talked about his desire to see younger voices, which doesn't necessarily equate to progressive, and the only issue I know he has strong beliefs on is gun control. Thar doesn't mean we shouldn't give the DNC hell for the rat-fucking they have time, but we should be cautious in case he endorses any young Abundance Dems.
Yeap, they'd rather lose to someone like trump than win with someone like AOC or Sanders. Who in reality are pretty much average centerist when compared to most liberal countries.
Democrats adopting third way politics have basically led this country to fascism.
And in the face a fascism we should be telling people on the left to disarm themselves?
He's better than the establishment in the DNC, but that like saying oral herpes is better than getting your lips ripped off by a pitbull. It's still not a great scenario either way you look at it.
It's not really based on facts, more of a matter of opinion. I agree that the democratic party needs to be shakin up, I just think it needs guidance from a more militant left winged voice to counteract just how far right the GOP has gotten.
Death by a thousand cuts. That's the end goal. Your idea that gun control isn't disarming everyone, is like saying ICE is only deporting the real law breakers.
I didn't say it was? However, if we currently had stricter gun control who do you think the current administration would be attempting to utilize those laws to prosecute?
If we had a fair legal system and our political leaders weren't literal fascist, I would absolutely advocate for strict gun control. That's just not the political landscape we currently inhabit.
If those laws were present today, you would have the ATF hunting down every brown person with a gun and right winged chuds would be free to keep their massive arsenals, ensuring that christo-fascist maintain an absolute monopoly on violence.
Literally nobody here cares about Hogg's gun activism. The DNC needed someone who would primary incumbents and inject new blood into the party, and Hoggs was that.
God do we need to move away from first past the post so when we get into these situations, a new party can be formed without fear of splitting the vote and handing the election to the other end of the spectrum.
Hogg and others should form a shadow DNC (DSC?) as an organization with the goal of primarying weak Democrats. I've been done donating to the DNC for years, but I'd jump right on board with the DSC.
Interesting timing, with 75 Democrats bowing to the GOP and voting against the party to "[express] gratitude to law enforcement officers, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel, for protecting the homeland."
One could argue, those 75 Democrats are the epitome of the old, feckless, Republican-light lawmakers that should be facing primary opposition (which is why Hogg has been kicked out).
If one of your congressmen is on that list, give them a call and voice your displeasure.
On Thursday, the UN General Assembly votes on a resolution on Palestine calling on states to take "all measures necessary" regarding Israel. It must go further, as it did in 1956 and re South Africa.
I recently have been playing around with GPG (its pretty fun!) And decided to make a hat with my public key on it!
Its a fun conversation starter at walmart, when somebody asks what it is? It activates my tism, and i get to talk about computer science! Its also important to teach others the importants of encryption especially as of one day ago the EFF made a post talking about yet another bill trying to go after encryption.
The keen eyed among you see i have blocked out certain parts of my key, this is because i have a key for this hat exclusively and would like to see if anybody i talk to about encryption in real life bothers to email me. I know its not much but i enjoy it!
I laser etched the leather, and hand stitched it to the hat.
I know this is more kinda clothing stuff, but it just didnt feel right posting a hat with a gpg key on a fasion/clothing community.
Specific key for this hat, i wanted to share this idea. But i also wanted to see if any local people would email me. Also didnt want to paste my email adress online LMAO.
Yes im aware of how asymmetric encryption works. Theres a public and private key The public key encrypts the private decrypts. You make a web of trust off of signing others public keys verifying there identity.
I wanted a specific key pair for the hat for separation of online and in real life. I know you can't learn much from an email, but still, Its my preference and it was i font that i liked and ended up picking. I understand it may not be your preference, please do not "yuck my yum' there are BILLIONS of fonts out there and i picked the one i liked.
Which on a separate note, i originally made a hat patch with a public key but it was DSA 3036 (the max size key i dont know if thats the right number.) And i etched it on the leather, each letter was 0.04 of a inch and was basically unreadable. So i ended up going with the default gpg preset for ecc
Could also be a short URL instead, e.g. lemmy.ml/post/31547467 or ideally something with keywords rather than UUID, even though here 8 digits isn't too bad.
I recently have been playing around with GPG (its pretty fun!) And decided to make a hat with my public key on it!
Its a fun conversation starter at walmart, when somebody asks what it is? It activates my tism, and i get to talk about computer science! Its also important to teach others the importants of encryption especially as of one day ago the EFF made a post talking about yet another bill trying to go after encryption.
The keen eyed among you see i have blocked out certain parts of my key, this is because i have a key for this hat exclusively and would like to see if anybody i talk to about encryption in real life bothers to email me. I know its not much but i enjoy it!
I laser etched the leather, and hand stitched it to the hat.
I know this is more kinda clothing stuff, but it just didnt feel right posting a hat with a gpg key on a fasion/clothing community.
Pretty Good Privacy (PGP): The first implementation of a set of methods used for signing, encrypting, and decrypting texts, emails and files that ultimately became a standard called "OpenPGP" (RFC 4880), the program itself was commercial/proprietary. Sometimes "PGP" is also used to call the standard itself for short.
GNU Privacy Guard (GPG): A popular Free and Open Source program from the GNU project that uses/implements the OpenPGP standards
Back in the day, when forums were still a thing, I dumped a bunch of binary into my signature and waited for someone to figure out what it says. Eventually, someone did go through the trouble of converting it to hex, ASCII, HTML, ROT13, BASE64 or whatever random conversions I had access to at the time. Anyway, one day I got a message about it, and I was so delighted.
That's the kind of things I expect somebody to be into deciphering to have already a ~/Prototypes/deciphers/ directory with a bunch of scripts with the basics and maybe a testing script that iterates through them sorted by probability (maybe based on popularity) and checks output against keywords, e.g. stop words of increasing length then dictionaries.
TL;DR: I bet that person had automated that process.
Since you sort of need to be there with the hat, it makes me wonder of you might get more response and/or geographic spread if you has some sort of leave behind. A sticker, or a card that you can slot in places.
I do think that leaving it as the gpg key is better, not a QR code. It helps ID this for nerds like you and me. I would never scan a wild QR.
I guess I, too, am still not certain why you would censor it. The whole point to the public key is to publish it. Most people upload their's to multiple public key servers.
You would need to know the whole key to know. If there are blocks missing you cant get anything from a key. And you would half to see in in real life to corelate my user alias to my real identity. Which i originally going to use a key that i have for online accounts (a key for steamy) But i then realized that would then have my online account linked to my real identity
They meant that they wanted to do a test to see if they would get any gpg-encrypted emails from people who saw the hat in real life; the "experiment" doesn't work if you allow internet strangers to email you too, as then you don't know where a person may have gotten the email address/key from
It should be if there is chunks missing its unusable. At least thats my thinking, since gpg is usually a binary and ascii armor makes it human readable. As long as a person cannot guess the blacked out parts, there shouldnt be any data.
Kinda like binary if your missing bits of binary in a program it should be unreadable
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im full of shit Its base64 and you can somewhat decode it
were you careful to be sure to get the parts that have the key’s name and email address?
It should be if there is chunks missing its unusable. At least thats my thinking, since gpg is usually a binary and ascii armor makes it human readable. As long as a person cannot guess the blacked out parts, there shouldnt be any data.
you are mistaken. A PGP key is a binary structure which includes the metadata. PGP's "ascii-armor" means base64-encoding that binary structure (and putting the BEGIN and END header lines around it). One can decode fragments of a base64-encoded string without having the whole thing. To confirm this, you can use a tool like xxd (or hexdump) - try pasting half of your ascii-armored key in to base64 -d | xxd (and hit enter and ctrl-D to terminate the input) and you will see the binary structure as hex and ascii - including the key metadata. i think either half will do, as PGP keys typically have their metadata in there at least twice.
Yeah i realized this after i got to work and lookup up what gpg uses for ascii armor. Its base64, i used base64 -d and i could get some parts of my key. The photo has been updated to remove alot more of the key.
Put an nfc tag there, you can insert it behind the leather. Write the same key on it and that way you could tip your hat onto someonea phone for a quick transfer for later communications.
With the way you stitched it, you could easily push one of the flat flexible ones there without having to mess with the stitches
Versions of them are here already. Their focus right now is to:
start violence at protests, especially around LA and target cities like NY, Seattle, Chicago, etc.
seed doubt in anything related to the republican agendas or what they have done. Usually starts with, "I hate trump like the rest of us, but...." or something like that.
downvote the shit out of people that call anything like the above out. They'll come in later, one by one, to do this.
They usually congregate over the weekend and during or right after major events (like the protest). Watch for them this weekend or stay away from Lemmy. If you watch for it, downvote them and upvote the people fighting them, but most of all, take what everyone says with a grain of salt.
this is usually when I would say something conceited like "lol glad I don't live in the US" but then I realise that I'm just as fucked as the rest of the world and we don't have a future
hopefully microplastics will invade my colon/heart/kidneys/liver/brain soon and remove me from this living nightmare, I can't deal with this shit anymore
Yeah, unfortunately they'll target anyone they can. Brexit wasn't even a law, it was a general, "Hey, how do you feel about brexiting?" Then they went full hog into, "You voted for it!" They do it with Ukraine/Russia, or anything they feel like targeting.
World disorder that benefits the billionaires seems to be the goal. I'll never understand why they want to live in a world like that. Raising all boats makes a much more fun world. Who will they hire if we're in a dystopian landscape, when everyone wants to get you because they have nothing to lose?
Take care of your mental health man. Find peace in the little things in life.
Billionaires are pathologically selfish, often it seems with actual personality disorders that make them unable to understand a world of mutual support and sharing, or to appreciate how much they benefit from others' support. Unfortunately we let these people become far too powerful.
it’s sociopaths who lack empathy. And that leaves them behaving like capuchins. The one on the left is upset at the unfairness. But the one on the right doesn’t care at all. It just keeps taking its unfair advantage.
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Setting aside the veritable TITAN-loads of shady shit Palsntir is up to, it's also worth noting that Reddit's policy changes have made it clear that providing a platform for the spread of disinformation is a central part of its current business model, so I'd assume that not only is Palantir using it for that purpose, but that they are far from alone.
My take: removing API access and banning mods who protested saying that this would centralize tooling (removing 3p access), plus banning users who mentioned Musk or Luigi as "violent" are clear indicators that they are disinformation sympathetic, despite the primarily "left wing" seeming content that remains. Also a lot of promoted content is disinformation, as can be seen in minutes of browsing.
I mean, usually people don't say "I am disinforming you, hah!". We can only rely on that weird feeling that something isn't right. That's what makes it so pernicious compared to plain good faith misinformation.
plus banning users who mentioned Musk or Luigi as “violent”
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the new rule to remove and/or ban any comment or person who calls for violence against specific people? I wouldn't really say that's "disinformation sympathetic". Even if it's what you originally said, how does that have anything to do with "providing a platform for the spread of disinformation"?
Officially yes. I got banned for saying "Musk fuming is violently toxic", site wide and permanently from 6 subreddits. Others got banned just saying "Luigi is innocent". Try it out. That reads more like quashing free speech to me.
Disinformation in the ads, yes. Also front page stuff making past moderation. Today in r/science I saw "Democrats are less tolerant of Republicans than vice versa" and a load of unscientific hogwash saying Republicans are not as intolerant as Democrats think. Go find it yourself if you don't believe me.
That seems like a platform of disinformation to me.
half of its already bots, so im not surprised and it usually the propaganda bots keeping up the engagements. Also i heard reddit wants to make thier post/account history mroe private so its harder to discern a bot.
It's really, really obvious, too. I don't have a reddit account anymore, but I occasionally scroll through popular, and r/world is such blatant propaganda that it makes r/conservative look reasonable. Like, damn guys, at least try to make it believable.
You should assume every online space has disinformation, bad actors, trolls, sea lions, and other types of undergrowth. That is why critical thinking is so important.
at the most is when turmp came to power 1st term, suddenly culture war propaganda has cause so many people oversensitivity over race, people were getting banned for even mentioning race in the politics subs.
Coordinated astroturfing on reddit isnt even a new thing. I had the chance to watch how the whole marketing efforts for the Burnout Paradise remaster unfolded from the very first minute . That was back in 2018. It was so blatant how all the posts popped up on the same minute on several different subreddit and then slowly filled with obvious shill comments which got unnatural ammounts of upvotes. I mean there was also some natural engagement. Its still a beloved franchise. But that made it even easier to pick out the tonedeaf marketeer comments since the remaster wasnt that great and it already showed in the prerelease footage. Astroturfing was probably a thing from the very beginning of reddit. But thats the first example i noticed because it was just so obvious.
Palantir is pretty awful. I knew a guy who took a job there, a bunch of years ago. When he said where he was going, I asked "But what if they work on something really shitty? Like spying on people?". He was like, "Meh", with a big shrug.
He was friendly and kind to the people around him, but I guess he just didn't care about anyone he didn't know personally right now.
Yup. I've worked in tech for nearly 20 years. Most people who work in tech don't give a shit about the ethics of what they do or where they work if the money is good.
This is a screenshot from one of the discords of current and/or previous coworkers, but the sentiment is everywhere
I think it can be difficult to relate to such abstract concepts and consequences that you don't feel directly. After all, it'd be much easier to press on a button that'd kill 10 000 people living 10 000 km away from you than to stab one person to death. Out of sight out of mind.
My point being that I don't think he's indifferent to people that he doesn't know, he's simply not able to process all the ramifications of this particular thing. The effects of data collection and manipulation is quite subtle, after all, like the frog in the slow burning pot
You just described that he is in fact indifferent.
It is not like we don't have easy to access knowledge about authoritarianism and how it plays out. It is not like we lack information about the criminal and murderous stuff Palantir is involved. FFS the company is owned by a guy who lets himself be "refreshened" with the blood of younger people.
Anyone who does a minimal level of due diligence in looking up his employer knows what kind of company it is. And it is an intelligence company, so the type of people working there must bring a higher level of research and diligence skills.
They know exactly what they are doing and they are fine with it.
He was a pretty smart guy, so I'm pretty sure he understood the ramifications. This isn't like a plumber working in a building that happens to house an evil company. This was directly working as a high ranking software developer at a shitty software company.
apparently he is known to have his own island of f---boys. and his boy toy bf last year got mysteriously defenestrated in florida(they alleged suicide, but it seems highly suspicious especially the bf was complainig about the anti-lgbtq+ stance of thiel)
Palantir just partnered with TeleTracking. For anyone outside of health care, TeleTracking is a health tech company that's been on decline for awhile.
Why is this relevant, you may ask? TeleTracking still has a lot of clients, many of which are smaller hospitals grandfathered into older, cheaper contracts. If you go to a hospital that uses TeleTracking, Palantir now has all your patient health information.
Retirement homes utilize community activity software. Sometimes this will link to health systems like point click care.
When this software company starts wanting you to upload resident profiles so their ai can populate interests? Yeaaaaah they found a work around for your PPI is what that is.
If it wasn't a rush for data already it reallllly is now.
It's good that people are exposing manipulation and the corporations behind it but it's quite useless to do it on a heavily censored and already manipulated platform like reddit. I would also like to remember everyone that a bunch of people paid to work 8h a day could rig lemmy in a day, if you don't stop upvoting memes and stupid subs evil corporations like palantir are going to feast on lemmy.
Sometimes I just know about the eminence of the launch of something because of the crap memes about it that start to flood Reddit. Then I see my non-reddit friends sharing it from other sources.
Obvious gorilla marketing is obvious, but people fall in droves.
Alex Karp, founder, CEO, and majority shareholder of Palantir, is an ultra-zionist genocide supporter who has repeatedly advocated for pre-emptive murder of anyone (foreign) who does not obey the US empire. He does this in ordinary business news interviews.
As one of the leading companies seeking funding for Skynet, and universal CIA media unanimity on the importance that the US be dominant/first in race to develop Skynet. AGI/Skynet can be programmed to serve any supremacist ideology other than machines, and US empire and CIA aligned oligarchy supremacism is as much your enemy as robot supremacism.
AI, like mainstream media, and reddit/lemmy news, politics, world subs are CIA/empire allegiant. Brainwashing your warmongering support is their agenda. Skynet is far more power maximizing than UBI utopia.
Palantir is known for sorting data for spy agencies and ICE, but its CEO portrays himself as a socialist rather than a cut-throat neoliberal, according to new report.
Probably double speak. in 2024 election cycle he tried to say he wasn't picking sides but in same sentence "but democrats cultural marxist wokeness must stop". Zionist oligarchs turn on liberal values is that being anti genocide is woke.
I mean if you read any Reddit that during the road to the recent USA elections, Biden should have won by an extremely large margin, and later , Kamala.
If we used Reddit threads of those months as reference, we'd currently been talking about how hard Kamala won
But she didn't
So yeah, take whatever is on Reddit, and now Lemmy, with an asteroid sized pinch of salt
Not saying those comments were fake, they certainly represent someone, now, wheater that someone is a sizeable amount of voters...
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Because Debian does not meet the strict requirements of the FSF. It includes non-free blobs in the kernel and the FSF claims Debian "steers" users with recommendations for installing non-free plugins or codecs. Some "contrib" packages, while free themselves, exist primarily to load separately distributed proprietary programs. There are also references in the Debian documentation and official channels that suggest obtaining non-free software for functionality.
While I think it would be too hard for most people to be completely free of proprietary software, atleast he is practicing what he preaches. It is a nice goal to someday get there, but I don't think its realistic at the moment.
Kind in mind, though, he is 72 and I don't think he even codes anymore. His computer use probably only consists of mostly Emac (for all text based work) and a web browser (which I read he has a very particular method that involves something similar to wget, lynx, and konqueror). His computer use is very light (I imagine) compared to many Linux users.
While I aspire to and appreciate what the FSF advocates, I don't see a realistic path for myself as a Linux gamer. The proprietary firmware limitations alone would keep you on 2015 hardware.
I’m not just talking about the free software stuff.
He’s on the record blaming victims of Epstein and chastising a developer for stepping back for the birth of his child, amongst a host of other crazy things.
I knew about the Epstein thing and it is pretty offensive but unsurprising. What is surprising is what I just read about the developer in 2005 who mentioned taking time off for the birth of his daughter, essentially implying that contributing to Emacs was a more valuable contribution than having children. That is messed up.
Even worse, apparently there were also old blog posts where he discussed the legalization of sex with minors and child pornography, arguing that certain acts should be legal "as long as no one is coerced" and are only illegal due to "prejudice and narrow-mindedness."
He's not a great guy. I appreciate the work he has lead with free software, but he's said some pretty screwed up stuff.
I don’t usually talk about my personal life here, but I have to make an exception in this case.
I debated for days which geeky reference I would use as a synonym for “we’re having a baby.” The title is the best I could do. I’m truly sorry.
I once gave Trisquel a try back in the day. It's one of those FSF approved distros right? My use case was more ahem, standard rather than anything programming related. Either case, one evening, I ran into a dependency hell trying to install a simple Direct Connect client onto it and no matter how much I tried I couldn't succeed.
I then decided to move back to Debian. Either case, most distros have Eiskaltdcpp (as one example of a client) in their repos, except for Trisquel. This was multiple years ago. I am currently on Void.
This is the experience I imagine I would have trying it. It is probably what anyone with a modern system would experience with proprietary firmware. From what I read, Trisquel's core philosophy is to include only free software and Eiskaltdcpp most likely relies on some non-free dependencies.
I like Debian. I am currently trying Fedora and it has been good, too. Void is on my list of "distros to someday try" as it sounds super interesting using runit, XBPS, and not relying on systemd.
Yes, Trisquel can be a pain to be used as a daily driver. Whilst I admire the philosophy behind it's concept, it definitely leaves a lot of end work to be done by the user.
I have used Fedora for quite some time in the past . I think Fedora and now discontinued Cent OS were two RPM based distros (I think Fedora now uses Dnf as well) I have used. Cent OS I liked decently, it wasn't as bleeding edge as Fedora and for a long time I dual booted Cent OS and Debian.
Void is decent independent distro. Ironically I don't have any anti systemd feelings and just gave it a try for heck of it and stuck to it. I think there is a musl version of Void as well but that makes things only complicated.
I feel the same way about Artix. I had it on my laptop for a while, and it was a regular PITA. I think I may have made it harder on myself, because while getting rid of systemd was fine, I was also trying to do without NetworkManager and on a laptop that wasn't a great idea. I never did find a good, reliable set-up that managed access point hopping as well as nm.
Really, thinking back, Artix was fine; it really was just the roaming WiFi handling that gave me grief, and I did that to myself.
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Tell me more about your Void experience. I've been meaning to give it a shot, except I don't get as much enjoyment out of fussing with distros as I used to. What are the pain points? Under Artix, I used dinit which I really liked, but I tried s6 first and absolutely hated it. I didn't try runit; how is it?
What I'm most interested in is xbps, because IMO it's the package manager that makes or breaks a system. I'm quite fond of pacman and have encountered far fewer dependency hell situations than I did with either rpm or deb, and rolling release is a must. xbps looks kind of like a rolling stable release?
Void is rolling release IIRC. The package manager is quite fast and gets the job done. The pain point is that Void has a lower selection of package in its repos compared to say, Arch. Some good stuff is there (for example I was looking for a third party Spotify client ncspot? Back in the day and it was packaged in Void's repos) but if someone uses niche stuff a lot, there can be issues.
Of course there is Flatpak support. And the system itself is comparatively lean and fast. I don't think my installation of Void came with plenty of pre-installed apps.
It ships in two builds : glibc or musl. The latter one is less favored because it only makes life tougher honestly. Runit support is a strong point of it though personally I don't have any anti systemd qualms.
The documentation is basic and okayish. I still often go to Arch Wiki since that's honestly the most detailed. Also, I just found that it's the highest rated distro on Distro Watch. I have distro hopped a long time and Void is decent. I still hold Debian in higher regard since it's slightly easier for a novice to get used to (though it's repos can be hold often old versions of software) and also because it was my main entry point to the Linux world.
That's what I thought, but the main website says Void focuses on stability over being cutting edge, which would imply some sort of release cycle. Or, maybe they just update packages less frequently.
I still hold Debian in higher regard since it's slightly easier for a novice to get used to
It's hard to beat Mint as a novice distro, for sure.
I mean I guess there are more noob friendly distros than Debian [ there was a time when all I saw was Ubuntu around me and it's ubiquitous Unity DE was instantly recognizable to my eye] but chances are many of them are ultimately based on Debian itself. Mint's main ISO is based on Ubuntu [and indirectly Debian] whilst they also release a LMDE [Linux Mint Debian Edition] as a fallback variant directly based on Debian. I guess Zorin OS or elementary OS are also decent but they also seem more like heavy reskins to me than anything else.[Zorin has a Windows like feel to it].
Yes, Mint does not have any Snap stuff. It was Canonical's idea to put in Snap and I think Ubuntu Is one of the only mainstream distros to use snap instead of flatpak.
Guix is a distribution of the GNU operating system.
Guix is technology that respects the freedom of computer users.
You are free to run the system for any purpose, study how it
works, improve it, and share it with the whole world.
I heard that somewhere too. It might have been a while ago but he has said publicly a few times that he doesn't care much about which distro he uses doesn't switch very often.
I'm aware that carrying a phone means that I can be tracked with cell towers and that's fine.
But is there some sort of tracking that can be done on modern dumb-phones that make relevant ads show up(on spotify/youtube) that are based on where the phone has been?
No one can say for sure. The SoC and modem are not publicly documented. You do not have the smart phone front end, but it is still a processor and modem just the same. The sensor suite may or may not be as complex but the kernel is likely much the same.
So I don't doubt that they're at least aggregating message history and selling data/trends about certain topics to advertisers and anyone who will buy it.
Plus if they know that your most contacted person is also texting/searching about certain things, they can safely sell that also and present ads to you based on their interests.
The data-point that someone is using a dumbphone or actively trying to minimise/restrict profiling is a very important and valuable profiling data-point itself.
I would unironically love if there were enough people in my life that also wanted to live that way to make it viable... Also the lack of functioning payphones these days would be challenging.
The place (at least in the USA) where I've found the most functional-looking payphones was actually Hawaii... And even then, so many are decaying and non-functional. I've had a silly idea to go back and just roam around and photograph as many as I can.
To give a bit of context : I'm upgrading my whole desktop computer so I now have a spare computer for gaming on the TV. I'm thinking of using it mainly as a gaming "console", but might be interested in embedding a NAS as well, and possibly some Docker containers for Home Assistants etc...
So the question : should I just install a normal Distro like Arch, setup a network share and Docker containers, or should I use a proper hypervisor like Unraid and have a VM for couch gaming etc...?
What issues could I expect with both? Are performances impacted with the hypervisor? (I don't plan on doing competitive games on the TV) or is troubleshooting going to be easier on a standard distro?
Did someone do such a setup and have some feedback?
Never properly used Linux before, but I'm a Windows power-user and am looking to transition part of my setup to Linux.
I would prefer the hypervisor. It's cleaner to separate things that weren't meant to mix in the first place. Make sure that your gaming VM uses a real harddrive/SSD instead of virtual disk to prevent sluggish I/O.
GPU passthrough is still a Bit of a pita so if you going to VM stuff you need a lot more tinkering aswell many EULA don’t allow VM usage so you need further configuration to avoid detection.
The biggest downside to having a classical setup is that you can’t easily limit resources. So if your game eats up all the RAM your NAS will slow down and vice versa.
imho both are good options it’s just choose your poison Just try both scenarios and choose what fits your workflow the best
Have you considered/tried streaming games from your primary desktop PC? Obviously very dependent on your situation's specifics, but that's one of the things I do with the Linux htpc I have set up.
And then you wouldn't have to worry about games and NAS stuff competing for system resources.
I'd personally go the hypervisor route (I'm using proxmox, truenas, and an arr stack on my NAS). It keeps things compartmentalized (especially network configurations) and usually keeps me from breaking *everything at the same time.
The legislation was opposed by companies such as Amazon and the statewide nonprofit Oregon Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, an industry group, where executives see private investment as vital to their business strategy. “We universally agree that the way to protect clinics from closure and maintain the broadest patient access to outpatient care is to keep the existing, and multi-ownership models alive and well,” wrote Ryan Grimm on behalf of the association and the Portland Clinic, a private multispecialty medical group, in a March letter to lawmakers. “In some communities, there is no hospital to swoop in to the rescue, or no hospital in a financial position to save a clinic,” he wrote. The bill does not go into effect immediately and it contains a three-year adjustment period for clinics to comply with the restrictions. Institutions such as hospitals, tribal health facilities, behavioral health programs and crisis lines are exempted.
Mein Gott, a ray of sanity! Listen it's not everything a constituent can hope for but it's a giant step in the right direction. Congratulations, Oregon!
If you’re dealing with what appears to be poor battery life on the Nintendo Switch 2, the company has a support document with steps you can try to fix it.
This is nothing short of stunning, had no idea anyone was even close to this sort of interface. And it's only an 8-bit input! Fuck me, I would have made a (totally ignorant) guess of at least a couple of thousand sensors.
it's 256 electrodes, yes, but the article doesn't say whether those electrodes are simple digital signals or if each one has some analog range they resolve. Even if it's 100% binary, the tresholding (what level of neural activity is considered a 1 or 0) could be adaptive.
This is amazing technology. I can't imagine how it would feel to have your ability to speak and even sing back after losing it.
I also wonder whether this could let someone sing or speak outside their normal range. When I was young I was in the school choir - after puberty hit and my voice dropped, I still had the muscle memory for high notes that my vocal cords would not allow.
Study co-author Maitreyee Wairagkar, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Davis, and her colleagues trained deep-learning algorithms to capture the signals in his brain every 10 milliseconds. Their system decodes, in real time, the sounds the man attempts to produce rather than his intended words or the constituent phonemes — the subunits of speech that form spoken words.
This is a really cool approach. They're not having to determine speech meaning, but instead picking up signals after the person's brain has already done that part and is just trying to vocalize. I'm guessing they can capture nerve impulses that would be moving muscles in the face, mouth, lips, and possibly larynx and then using the AI to quickly determine which sounds that would produce in those few milliseconds those conditions exist. Then the machine to produces the sounds artificially. Because they're able to do this so fast (in 10 milliseconds) it can get close to human body response and reproduction of the specific sounds.
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in reply to fne8w2ah • • •tl;dr: "digital sovereignty". "EU leaders are seeking to reduce Europe's dependence on foreign technology providers, primarily those from the United States, and to assert greater control over its digital infrastructure, data, and technological future."
Fair enough and makes sense. Every country should be trying to be as independant as possible IMO.
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in reply to FreedomAdvocate • • •I always wondered how any head of state could feel like they were not being spied on if they were using windows.
Can governments really ensure that windows has been secured that well or is there always a possibility that Microsoft is spying for the United States?
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in reply to neon_nova • • •1) When you can spend a lot on security staff, they'll probably convince you that your own installation of Windows is sterile.
2) They probably use Macs.
3) They might even only use air-gapped machines, with sufficient paranoia.
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in reply to FreedomAdvocate • • •We only need that independence because we can't trust each other. There's no problem in some countries being more focused on one thing or another, as long as we are collaborating with each other without taking advantage of anyone. Unfortunately, there are still dangerous players in the world and we have to be prepared to defend against them and this capitalistic view we currently have guarantees that there's always someone taking advantage of someone else.
We need to evolve...
rottingleaf
in reply to FreedomAdvocate • • •15 years ago this statement would lead to accusations of being anti-globalist, communist, economically illiterate.
15 years ago this made economical (just not political) sense and was the right approach.
Now it still is, but there's an additional quality - I think the incentive is not of public good, it's of strengthening authoritarianism on both sides of the Atlantic ocean. Domestic authoritarians always want to play with their toys without foreign authoritarians meddling. But if the domestic environment is not authoritarian, only foreign is, then they are not in conflict, and the other way around too.
So this may mean that both USA and EU are changing for the worse, for now.
Not attacking Linux or LibreOffice.
Tattorack
in reply to rottingleaf • • •I would argue that switching to an open-source model for all your tools is more globalist. Open source projects are being maintained by people all over the world, and any group or branch is allowed to modify and redistribute their personal version of any project.
It's the opposite of being subject to an ever growing corporation you can't even put checks on. Every government using the product of a single small group of massively rich corporations is giving said corporation unprecedented power over the world.
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in reply to DaddleDew • • •Just earlier this week I created some Sharepoint folders for my father-in-laws business. I created the groups in Outlook and used the ”See files in Sharepoint”-button to access them. Next it required to ask for permission for him to the folder. I granted them using his own account. It was funny because the request was literally John Doe asked John Doe for permission, and the emails were identical too. So I granted him his own access with his own account.
The funniest thing though was that the process was different all of the four times, like different links opening to completely different tools. Now I’m not a Microsoft MVP and probably did it the wrong way, but at least I had fun doing it.
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LumpyPancakes
in reply to ptu • • •Today I tried to get some files from Teams that I hadn't used in a year or so.
Error.
Something went wrong
[7q6ck]Works ok on my phone for now though so at least I got past that road block for today.
teuniac_
in reply to LumpyPancakes • • •A former colleague at a place where I used to work added my personal MS account to a Teams community inside the organization. It split my Teams account in two, prompting me to choose which one I wanted to use every time I opened Teams.
One side was associated with the organisation, the other was still my personal account. My personal account became inaccessible and attempting to login would result in a referral loop and an error. The MS advice for the error code was to get the system admin to remove my account from the organisation, which wasn't possible because I don't work there anymore.
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in reply to DaddleDew • • •I teach boomers how to use SharePoint. Last week Microsoft updated office.com to be 95% copilot. The only way to find “All Apps” (word, SharePoint, PowerPoint, excel, etc.) is to find the tiny little “apps” button all the way at the bottom of the screen.
Everything else is copilot. Everyone is confused and my job just got 100% harder.
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in reply to ToastedRavioli • • •Buffalox
in reply to fne8w2ah • • •Important notice in this regard is that there is agreement on this among both left and right wing politicians.
So this is NOT something that will change with new administrations in either government or local communities.
When this is implemented, I don't see any way for Microsoft to get that business back!
Edit PS:
It's not just office, it's also mail and cloud services.
ILikeBoobies
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in reply to ILikeBoobies • • •Also even if cost increase temporarily, it creates local jobs skills knowhow and tax revenue. Every "dollar" spend benefits the local community! instead of just sending the money to USA.
Servicing with open source and Linux will rapidly become cheaper than Microsoft, because there will be no artificial disruptions caused by Microsoft planned obsolescence or forced updates or whatever crap Microsoft is pushing.
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in reply to ILikeBoobies • • •A couple dozen of Danish municipalities are working on replacing Google and Microsoft entirely in schools with a project called OS2Skole (skole meaning "school"). It's expected to save them around €3 million in yearly and the intention is to de-Googleify and de-Microsoftify children already from an early age and to make it open source.
os2.eu/os2skole
Mind you that the project was started before Trump got re-elected.
OS2skole | OS2 – Offentligt digitaliseringsfællesskab
OS2 – Offentligt digitaliseringsfællesskabthemurphy
in reply to KumaSudosa • • •Im Danish and had no clue about this, even though Im rather interested in open source.
Thanks for sharing.
Tattorack
in reply to ILikeBoobies • • •The majority of Internet infrastructure runs on either something Linux based or something FreeBSD based.
A lot of the tools used are also various flavours of open or semi open source.
I'd say open source already has success. Just not in places where you see consumers using it. Except... Wait a minute, Android is a fork of Linux, and Android is open source too.
ILikeBoobies
in reply to Tattorack • • •I wouldn’t consider Android a fork, the differences at the kernel level aren’t unlike differences you might find on embedded devices. It mainly just has the Google software suite instead of GNU
Also the PS4/5 run on freebsd
But that’s not what is being compared
Buffalox
in reply to ILikeBoobies • • •Yes average people need to learn the open source stack instead of Microsoft.
It used to be most people could just learn some Microsoft thing, and they were almost guaranteed a job. Obviously a lot of people will be unhappy that isn't the case anymore, and they'll be annoyed they have to learn something new.
But this should have been done 20 years ago when Linux was obviously ready for it, and sensible people have advised it for just as long.
In the old CP/M days we had lots of good software developed locally, but when IBM became dominant, and chose to use MS-Dos, Microsoft was very ~~cleverly~~ deviously leveraging that to sabotage the competition, and take mostly every main stream market.
Trump is kind of a blessing in disguise, because he finally got people to wake up to reality.
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in reply to fne8w2ah • • •north germany is doing the same.
anyone remember limux? bill gates attacked german democracy bribing munich to drop limux in favor if windows in exchange for 8000 jobs.
fuck the windows user too though.
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in reply to CeeBee_Eh • • •not really true.
so 20(!!!) years later they as the last of the states woke up.
heise.de/news/Nach-LiMux-Aus-W…
bavaria is pathetic. "LANGSAM" is their word for being backwards and ultra-conservative. i mean Freie Wähler? Aiwanger? What a shit place.
And it is just SAD that they just NOW started to civilize. worst of the west.
Nach LiMux-Aus: Wie sich München langsam wieder an Open Source annähert
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in reply to fne8w2ah • • •Also good and free: Sumatra
You can read any pdf.
Libre office drawer you can sign. No need for acrobat or any of that garbage.
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