The problem is that if widespread desktop Linux adoption is the goal, then the tools for amateurs aren’t going to cut it. Not even close. Tools that professionals use need to be available and they need to work like they do on macOS and Windows, it’s pretty much that simple. I think Darktable is fine for me tinkering around with my amateur photos. If I were a professional using it daily I’d probably hate it.
As much as we wish it wasn’t true, most people don’t really give a shit about their OS. It’s the logo that appears when they boot up their computers to work. What they do care about is having their tools available to them, if they can’t use the Adobe Suite, Pro Tools etc (and no, WINE is not a practical solution for most of these people) then Linux of any flavour is functionally useless to them. It’s for this reason that smug people saying “just switch to linux lol” as if it’s an actual solution whenever a Windows user complains about some rabidly anti-consumer bullshit that Microsoft is forcing onto them annoys the hell out of me.
It’s changing somewhat now, but it’s why you’ll find that a lot of people in the creative industries traditionally stick with macOS, because for a long time the options for those professionals were just better on that platform and people tend to stick with what they know.
On the other side of that coin, you have software vendors looking at the single-digit market share that Linux on the desktop “enjoys” and coming to the fairly reasonable conclusion that building packages, fixing bugs and providing support for myriad different distros just isn’t worth the headaches it will inevitably cause for them.
I'm not really sure what assumptions you can reasonably make about me or my generation given that you have no idea who I am or how old I am, but I've been working with FOSS in my personal life for about 20 years give or take, a bit less than that in my professional life. I actually used to work in the music industry professionally before changing careers to tech with a FOSS slant during the pandemic, so I've seen both sides of this coin.
I'm genuinely not trying to shit on FOSS tools or say that they're not suitable for creative professionals (my gripes with Darktable are very much personal to me), I love FOSS and the philosophy strongly aligns with my personal values but it's not just about how "good" these tools are on an objective level. This is a cultural problem as much as it is an engineering problem, as you seem to have correctly identified.
You have to understand how ubiquitous something like Pro Tools suite is in the music industry and for how long that has been the case - the Pro Tools session format truly is a global industry standard by anyone's measure. You can walk into just about any professional recording studio on the planet with your session files and the recording engineer will know exactly what to do with them, and so will mastering engineers and record producers. If you go to school for audio engineering, they're teaching you Pro Tools. There are entire companies that produce outboard gear and control surfaces just for use with Pro Tools. You get the idea. The reason for that ubiquity is that Pro Tools, like many other creative software solutions, captured the market in the 90s when every other solution was an utter joke in comparison and they built on it from there. Sure, there's fantastic alternatives now, but when you know Pro Tools like the back of your hand and so do all of your colleagues and collaborators, when all of your hardware and software works with it seamlessly... how likely are you to change?
I'm not suggesting that this isn't a problem by the way - vendor lock-in is a serious bugbear of mine - but it's a very real barrier to getting creative professionals to switch to FOSS alternatives, and in turn to getting software vendors to take FOSS platforms seriously. It's a reality that cannot be hand-waved away by saying that x or y tool works great and that people just need to learn it and switch so that they can use Linux. If you can't run Pro Tools on Linux, that's a whole industry that won't use it. It's that simple.
Nah, the only reason those tools are used are because of momentum and the fact that most of their new hires have experience with it, also due to momentum.
Ban Photoshop from being taught in schools, and in two generations everyone will say that Photoshop is crap because it takes so long to do anything.
The most mediocre politician of all time is going to attack anybody he claims is mediocre and do his best to make the lives of mediocre people miserable as he can.
As he prepares to assume the mantle of Deputy PM, David Seymour says it's not pronouns and bathrooms, but a culture of mediocrity that is his main focus
The CA/Browser Forum has officially voted to amend the TLS Baseline Requirements to set a schedule for shortening both the lifetime of TLS certificates.
Regà…… io ormai lo so che non dovrei minimamente più stupirmi, ma mi ritrovo ad essere all’assurdo, veramente al punto di non ritorno per quanto riguarda la mia personalissima fine, e francamente non so come la cosa possa continuare. Male, molto probabilmente, ma è giusto chiedermi quanto male. E il tutto come un cerchio parte […]
l’octodormanza che si rompe per sempre (girlbedrotting infinito)
Regà…… io ormai lo so che non dovrei minimamente più stupirmi, ma mi ritrovo ad essere all’assurdo, veramente al punto di non ritorno per quanto riguarda la mia personalissima fine, e francamente non so come la cosa possa continuare. Male, molto probabilmente, ma è giusto chiedermi quanto male. E il tutto come un cerchio parte e si conclude con il doloroso fatto che mi vede, banalmente, non riuscire ad alzarmi dal letto la mattina. 😵 Pensavo di poter spiegare tutto in modo divertente prendendo i miei grafici del #sonno degli ultimi giorni e componendoli assieme in un memino surrealista, come questo che ho appena fatto per l’occasione… ma purtroppo, a parte che forse è un pochino cringe, a dire il vero non fa capire nemmeno niente di quello che c’è da capire, quindi dovrò per forza usare le mie solite centinaia di parole (oh no, che peccato, quanto mi dispiace scrivere!)… Abbiate pazienza. 💀
Lasciamo stare la Mi Band, che è inutile, visto che pure con attiva la misurazione accurata dice per una notte cose e per quella dopo altre… o meglio: i due quadranti in basso, con l’area rossa (di risveglio) seguita da altro sonno, danno un piccolo indizio su cosa mi sta accadendo. E praticamente così è stato (sta essendo…) da sabato scorso, 12 aprile, fino ad oggi giovedì 17, con l’unico punto di rottura che è stata la mattinata di ieri, perché mi sono dovuta alzare presto per forza… 🥱
È una cosa così stupida, ma allo stesso tempo così indescrivibile, che faccio davvero fatica a spiegarla: non riesco letteralmente ad alzarmi dal lettino, tutto qui. Suona la sveglia messa per un orario accettabile, e io o la posticipo o (se mi distraggo) la spengo, e rimango lì nel letto a girlrottare, fino a quando succede che o mi riaddormento, o rimango lì in costante riciclica dormiveglia, a non fare nulla se non involontariamente pensare a cose disordinate, mentre abbraccio il mio cuscino per un minimo di conforto, fino a quando non si è fatto davvero troppo tardi e allora riesco ad alzarmi per pietà, o qualcosa del genere. 😭
Se fosse almeno logicamente comprensibile, potrei allora forse accettare la situazione, rassegnarmi al fatto che l’universo ha deciso che la mia realtà deve essere questa… ma ovviamente no: oltre al danno, per me, c’è sempre la costante della beffa. Non cambia nulla di sostanziale se metto la sveglia in modo da dormire 7, 8, 9 ore, o una via di mezzo tra queste, quindi non si tratta né di dormire troppo né di dormire troppo poco. Sto anche prendendo molto di meno l’antistaminico, che negli ultimi 2 giorni ho volutamente saltato (così come altri 2 prima), ma pure questo pare non influisce minimamente. 🐸
L’unica differenza particolare che ho notato è che, se dormo una quantità di ore sull’estremo minore, anziché su quello maggiore, in genere tendo a rimanere meno nel letto a marcire: un’oretta anziché 2. Controintuitivo che dormire di più mi faccia voler rimanere di più in coma, ma tant’è tutta la situazione. E, inoltre, la mia impressione assurda è che più dormo, più faccio fatica a carburare e rimanere viva durante la giornata; se dormo 5 ore, la mattina è una tortura alzarmi, ma intanto superato quel momento è fatta… se dormo 8 o 9 ore, mi passa quel poco che mi rimane della mattina per poi arrivare al pomeriggio che sono ancora stanca. (Ancora adesso mi calano le palpebre.) 😾
Mia madre dice che forse è la #primavera… io dico invece che forse gli spiriti malvagi si stanno ultimamente accanendo un po’ troppo contro di me. Essi stanno chiaramente risucchiando la mia energia vitale, sottraendomela ingiustamente per il loro personale vantaggio, facendomi avere in cambio solo la sofferenza. Pure se avrei delle cose personali che voglio fare (scrivere, programmare, e così via… quando non va in mona pure quello!), che siano in sospeso o da iniziare, che magari ho fatto fatica a lasciar stare la sera prima per non andare a #dormire tardi (fallendo comunque, di solito)… se non ho orari militari, posti dall’alto, allora non ho proprio motivazione. 😓
A Chinese state-owned company that was previously sanctioned by the U.S. for facilitating human rights abuses against Uyghurs is now training police officers in Tibet on hacking techniques and digital forensics, according to a watchdog organization.
SDIC Intelligence Xiamen Information Co Ltd, a digital forensics company better known as Meiya Pico, won a contract in mid-2023 to build two labs at the Tibet Police College: one on offensive and defensive cyber techniques and the other on electronic evidence collection and analysis. Details of the approximately $1.32 million contract were analyzed and released on Wednesday by Turquoise Roof, a research network focused on Tibet.
The contracts include “servers for the cyber range, network switches, intrusion simulation software, forensic workstations and] evidence storage systems,” the researchers said.
Founded in 1999 as an independent company, Meiya Pico is now state-owned, and as of 2019 it reportedly had a 45% market share of China’s digital forensics market. Its products have raised controversy globally for their invasiveness, including a spyware app called MFSocket that police have allegedly installed on phones throughout the country during inspections of smartphones.
[...]
According to the company, it has conducted training courses in 30 countries as part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
The digital forensics company known as Meiya Pico won a contract in mid-2023 to build two labs at the Tibet Police College: one on offensive and defensive cyber techniques and the other on electronic evidence collection and analysis.
A Chinese state-owned company that was previously sanctioned by the U.S. for facilitating human rights abuses against Uyghurs is now training police officers in Tibet on hacking techniques and digital forensics, according to a watchdog organization.
SDIC Intelligence Xiamen Information Co Ltd, a digital forensics company better known as Meiya Pico, won a contract in mid-2023 to build two labs at the Tibet Police College: one on offensive and defensive cyber techniques and the other on electronic evidence collection and analysis. Details of the approximately $1.32 million contract were analyzed and released on Wednesday by Turquoise Roof, a research network focused on Tibet.
The contracts include “servers for the cyber range, network switches, intrusion simulation software, forensic workstations and] evidence storage systems,” the researchers said.
Founded in 1999 as an independent company, Meiya Pico is now state-owned, and as of 2019 it reportedly had a 45% market share of China’s digital forensics market. Its products have raised controversy globally for their invasiveness, including a spyware app called MFSocket that police have allegedly installed on phones throughout the country during inspections of smartphones.
[...]
According to the company, it has conducted training courses in 30 countries as part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
The digital forensics company known as Meiya Pico won a contract in mid-2023 to build two labs at the Tibet Police College: one on offensive and defensive cyber techniques and the other on electronic evidence collection and analysis.
The CA/Browser Forum has officially voted to amend the TLS Baseline Requirements to set a schedule for shortening both the lifetime of TLS certificates.
The CA/Browser Forum has officially voted to amend the TLS Baseline Requirements to set a schedule for shortening both the lifetime of TLS certificates.
Erdogan fängslade Istanbuls borgmästare. Det ledde till omfattande protester i Turkiet. Information om demonstrationer och protester psred i sociala medier. Erdogan begärde då att olika sociala medier skulle spärra tillgången till dessa i Turkiet. Bluesky valde att göra som Erodgan krävde och turkar är nu spärrade från Bluesky (de kan komma åt Bluesky om de använder VPN).
I'll bring you straight into my mind: I was scrolling throught the n-th depressing post of the ~~day~~ hour and I thought "If I answer that post/comment by #negativity, will other people be able to filter out this content using my answer?" If not, how could we build some sort of blocklist for people to curate there experience on the fediverse.
I know I can block key word like "politics" "Trump" "Elon" but sometimes it doesn't have a precised word yet use human can categorise it easily.
I don’t agree with this particular usecase. Because I’ve personally experienced, people who shun “negativity” meaning they just completely ignore people’s suffering which often adds a devastating layer of invisibility to oppression. But probably hopefully this isn’t your case and it’s more about “doom and gloom” than people’s reality of suffering.
But anyways, I do agree that blocklists are probably a feature that lemmy needs.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) traveled to El Salvador to seek the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident wrongfully deported in March.
Abrego Garcia, married to a U.S. citizen with three children, was legally allowed to stay under a 2019 court order.
The Trump administration admitted his deportation was an “administrative error” but refused his return. The Supreme Court ruled against the administration 9-0.
In response, the White House launched a smear campaign against Van Hollen, framing Garcia as a gang member despite no charges or convictions.
A court has demanded the Trump admin return this man, and their defense has been that they don't have the power to do it. Now they publicly criticize a Senator for trying to get the man returned.
They really are stupid when it comes to undermining their own case, aren't they?
SCOTUS didn't order his return. The ruling was that this is a foreign policy matter at this point and the executive branch has foreign policy power, not the court. SCOTUS rule that the Trump administration has to facilitate his return. Trump is willing to facilitate his return, but El Salvador said no, and that is the end of discussion for this matter.
Anyway, it would be ridiculously weird for El Salvador to send their own citizen to the US who initiated came to the US illegally.
The whole reason you put concentration camps in a foreign nation is to remove them from SCOTUS jurisdiction. Then you get to sit back and say, "We can't compel a sovereign state," while the sovereign state gets to sit back and say, "We'd gladly return these people, if only POTUS would ask." Just one capo doing a favor for a fellow capo, somehow neither one of them able to do the right thing.
It was an administrative error. There is a valid deportation order for that man. There is also a withholding order which only applies to El Salvador. The only mistake in the deportation was the destination.
Do you have some sources for this? There's so much emotional baggage with this its hard to get to the facts.
In my mind saying the only mistake is the destination Is an incredible understatement. "The only issue with your heart transplant is we had a paperwork mixup and replaced your liver instead."
"I know you came in for just a vehicle safety inspection but our mechanics messed up and replaced your engine, here's the bill."
"We had a mix up at the hospital and the child you've raised for 3 years isn't actually yours. Our bad, but there's nothing we can do to fix it and there's nothing we're going to do to prevent it in the future. Good luck!"
Don't downplay this shit and fall into dehumanizing others because they must have done something to deserve the position they are in. Don't lose sight of empathy. Try pretending it's a loved of yours. If one of mine fucked up and deserve punishment then fine, but there better be a fair trial and they deserve their chance to prove their innocence.
There is a valid and effective deportation order. For deportation purpose, there was no need to prove him guilty at the criminal court. If he was deported to another country, this would be completely in compliance.
You need to provide me exactly what you disagree with. Doesn't make sense for me to provide you sources for every fact in this matter.
They've admitted there was an error, and are not being transparent in the extent of the error nor are they trying to correct the error. I dispute every fact in this matter because the main source I believe you are using are the people at fault for it. They aren't even doing the common curtsey of an "internal investigation" reach around that typical police do after they've fuck us.
It doesn't make sense that you wouldn't throw out a couple random sources to your claims since it's cut and dry in your mind. Show me the valid deportation order. Show me the evidence they used to forgo immigration court (why the fuck would he be in criminal court?) to have an expidited removal to a place a previous court said he could not go.
It's easy to prove us stupid ass sheeple wrong, fucking do it...
You deflected after I brought up a few specific points insinuating I have no direct evidence. I call your bluff with some direct evidence and now we are back to you need specific points.
Please consider the possibility you are being lied to. It takes way more time then us Americans have to look for primary sources and form our own opinions. Guess what though, we once again need to do the impossible and pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. We need to look at the facts from the primary sources ourselves and draw our own conclusions. Any fuckwit with a microphone can claim they read the documents and spew whatever bullshit they want without reproduction. Shit is changing fast, you cannot deny that. We best be fucking sure we are not heading in a direction that leads to the loss of rights for us in the bottom 99.watever %
Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
Lựa chọn mẫu nhẫn nam phù hợp với phong cách cá nhân
Lựa chọn một chiếc nhẫn nam phù hợp sẽ giúp cánh mày râu thể hiện cá tính riêng của bản thân. Mỗi chiếc nhẫn mang một ý nghĩa riêng sẽ trở thành điểm nhấn hoàn hảo cho bộ trang phục. Hãy cùng Vĩnh Cara tìm một thiết kế hoàn hảo để tôn lên vẻ ngoài và thể hiện sự tự tin.
Những tiêu chí cần xem xét khi lựa chọn nhẫn nam
Chọn được chiếc nhẫn ấn tượng sẽ tôn lên phong cách và vẻ đẹp của chủ nhân. Mỗi chi tiết, từ thiết kế đến chất liệu, đều góp phần không nhỏ để tạo nên sự khác biệt.
Phong cách cá nhân
Phong cách cá nhân là yếu tố quan trọng cần cân nhắc khi chọn lựa nhẫn cho nam. Một chiếc nhẫn nam cao cấp có thể phản ánh gu thẩm mỹ và sự tinh tế của người sở hữu.
Thương hiệu Vĩnh Cara mang đến những mẫu nhẫn với thiết kế đa dạng, từ những kiểu dáng cổ điển, thanh lịch đến mạnh mẽ, phá cách. Tùy thuộc vào phong cách để các quý ông chọn một sản phẩm ưng ý để thể hiện sự khác biệt.
Kích thước và hình dáng bàn tay
Kích thước và hình dáng bàn tay ảnh hưởng trực tiếp đến việc lựa chọn nhẫn nam đẹp. Những người có bàn tay lớn có thể chọn những chiếc nhẫn có kích thước to, đường nét rõ ràng để tạo sự cân đối.
Ngược lại, với những người có bàn tay nhỏ, các mẫu nhẫn thanh mảnh, nhẹ nhàng sẽ là sự lựa chọn hoàn hảo. Điều này giúp nhẫn vừa đẹp mắt, vừa hài hòa với tổng thể bàn tay, tạo sự thoải mái khi đeo.
Mục đích sử dụng là yếu tố tiếp theo mà các anh cần quan tâm khi mua nhẫn. Nếu nhẫn được dùng trong các dịp đặc biệt, thì một thiết kế cầu kỳ sẽ là sự lựa chọn lý tưởng. Còn với hoạt động hàng ngày, những kiểu dáng đơn giản, ít chi tiết sẽ giúp tạo cảm giác thoải mái và phù hợp hơn.
Các loại nhẫn nam phổ biến được ưa chuộng
Mẫu nhẫn nam đẹp nhẫn nam đẹp đã trở thành biểu tượng của khí chất và cá tính riêng. Từ những thiết kế đơn giản đến cầu kỳ, mỗi kiểu dáng lại có sức hút riêng.
Nhẫn cưới và nhẫn đính hôn
Nhẫn cưới và nhẫn đính hôn là hai mẫu nhẫn quan trọng trong cuộc đời mỗi người. Vĩnh Cara giới thiệu những thiết kế nhẫn cưới và nhẫn đính hôn cho nam vừa có tính thẩm mỹ cao, vừa là minh chứng cho tình yêu vĩnh cửu.
Những chiếc nhẫn này được chế tác từ các chất liệu cao cấp như vàng trắng, kim cương, làm nổi bật vẻ đẹp của mỗi cặp đôi. Đây sẽ là món quà kỷ niệm, cung là sự khẳng định tình yêu và cam kết trọn đời.
Nhẫn vàng đính kim cương Kiểu nhẫn này là gợi ý dành cho các quý ông yêu thích sự sang trọng và quý phái. Những viên hột xoàn lấp lánh được gắn trên nhẫn vàng tạo nên vẻ đẹp lấp lánh và nổi bật. Thương hiệu này mang đến những mẫu nhẫn vàng đính đá quý tinh xảo, phù hợp cho nhiều dịp. Những chiếc nhẫn này thể hiện sự đẳng cấp, là phụ kiện lý tưởng cho những ai muốn tỏa sáng và thu hút mọi ánh nhìn.
Thương hiệu này giới thiệu rất nhiều mẫu nhẫn dành cho nam đẳng cấp, thể hiện phong cách sống mạnh mẽ và bản lĩnh của người đàn ông. Mỗi chiếc nhẫn là biểu tượng của sự thành đạt và vươn lên trong cuộc sống.
Nhẫn NA-0373: Đây là một tuyệt tác dành cho những người đàn ông thành đạt. Được thiết kế để khẳng định đẳng cấp, chiếc nhẫn này sẽ đồng hành cùng cánh mày râu trong mọi hành trình.
Nhẫn NA-0235: Thiết kế này là sự kết hợp hoàn hảo giữa kiểu dáng tinh xảo và thông điệp về sự bền vững. NA-0235 mang phong cách Armour Ring, là lựa chọn dành cho những người đàn ông kiên định, bản lĩnh.
Nhẫn NA-0382: Chiếc nhẫn mang kiểu dáng Chamfer mạnh mẽ nhưng không thiếu sự tinh tế. Với thiết kế tối giản, chiếc nhẫn giúp các quý ông khẳng định cá tính riêng độc đáo.
Chọn lựa mẫu nhẫn nam phù hợp sẽ góp phần hoàn thiện hình ảnh cá nhân. Mỗi chi tiết nhỏ của chiếc nhẫn đều thể hiện sự tinh tế trong lựa chọn và cá tính của chủ nhân. Hãy đến Vĩnh Cara chọn một thiết kế ưng ý để luôn tự tin xuất hiện trong mọi khoảnh khắc.
Nhẫn nam Vĩnh Cara là biểu tượng của đẳng cấp và quyền lực, được chế tác từ vàng cao cấp kết hợp kim cương tinh xảo, tôn vinh phong thái mạnh mẽ, sang trọng. Mỗi thiết kế mang vẻ đẹp nam tính, s...
e've deployed so many satellites into space over the last few decades that we now have a massive orbital junk problem. The European Space Agency (ESA) noted in its Annual Space Environment Report that more than 6,600 tons of space junk are currently floating about in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), between 100 - 1,200 miles (160 - 2,000 km) above our planet's surface.
Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
I'm really grateful to see that my blog posts are often shared on here... even old ones (like my Friendica show & tell from last July is still making the rounds).
I just wanted to give you a heads up that I am now self-hosting my Ghost blog at news.elenarossini.com/ - the old URLs (with the subdomain blog) will no longer work... that blog, on a Ghost (Pro) plan will be deleted from the Ghost servers this weekend.
All this to say: please update your RSS feeds: news.elenarossini.com/rss and if you're trying to open an old URL, just swap "blog" with "news" in the subdomain.
the old URLs (with the subdomain blog) will no longer work...
if you're trying to open an old URL, just swap "blog" with "news" in the subdomain.
This seems pretty fixable, doesn't it? Once the old blog shuts down, can't you just redirect the subdomain so that the old links redirect to your current blog and everything is fine?
Il test di Voltab è già iniziato: è stato messo in prova nei cantieri torinesi, nei food truck sotto il Politecnico, nei laboratori artigiani e nelle officine mobili. "Abbiamo spento il generatore a benzina e acceso Voltab. Non solo reggeva tutti gli strumenti, ma dopo tre giorni l'operaio ci ha ringraziati: Tornare a casa senza mal di testa, dopo otto ore di silenzio, non ha prezzo"
Un ex magazzino torinese diventa la culla di Voltab, il generatore portatile che sfida le regole dell’energia. Compatto, italiano, rivoluzionario. Ecco perché
First Band on the Moon è il terzo album in studio dei Cardigans. Contiene il singolo internazionale "Lovefool". Fu pubblicato per la prima volta il 12 agosto 1996 e a livello internazionale il 9 settembre 1996... Leggi e ascolta...
First Band on the Moon è il terzo album in studio dei Cardigans. Contiene il singolo internazionale “Lovefool”. Fu pubblicato per la prima volta il 12 agosto 1996 e a livello internazionale il 9 settembre 1996. L'album rappresentò una svolta importante per la band, sia nella natia Svezia che a livello internazionale. È il loro album più venduto negli Stati Uniti, con circa 664.000 copie vendute a settembre 2010.
Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.
Terahertz (THz) technology operates in the electromagnetic spectrum between microwaves and infrared light, typically ranging from 0.1 to 10 THz. Often referred to as the "terahertz gap," this part of the spectrum was historically difficult to access due to limitations in generating and detecting THz waves. However, recent advancements have enabled scientists and engineers to harness its unique properties for a wide range of applications.
The entire staff of the Defense Digital Service (DDS), the Pentagon’s decade-old technology development office, is leaving by the start of May, with nearly all individuals resigning, a current member of the office confirmed to The Hill on Tuesday.
The mass exodus, first reported by Politico, means the service will effectively shutter in less than a month.
The Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS’ Direct File program, an electronic system for filing tax returns directly to the agency for free, according to two people familiar with the decision.
The program developed during Joe Biden’s presidency was credited by users with making tax filing easy, fast and economical.
But Republican lawmakers and commercial tax preparation companies complained it was a waste of taxpayer money because free filing programs already exist, although they are hard to use.
Un silenzio quasi reverenziale calò nel capannone di Johannesburg, temporaneamente adibito ad hangar pur trovandosi distante da qualsiasi pista di manovra, decollo o atterraggio.
Baltic Dry increased 244 points or 24.47% since the beginning of 2025, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks the benchmark market for this commodity.
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
China has ordered its airlines not to take any further deliveries of Boeing Co. jets as part of the tit-for-tat trade war that’s seen US President Donald Trump levy tariffs of as high as 145% on Chinese goods, according to people familiar with the ma…
In what appears to be the latest move in this administration’s total incompetence with regards to critical government tech infrastructure, MITRE announced yesterday that funding had run out f…
Chroma, lo strumento di simulazione del daltonismo di Ubisoft, è ora disponibile per l'uso pubblico dopo diversi anni di utilizzo e sviluppo interno. Con una stima di 300 milioni di persone affette da daltonismo in tutto il mondo, Chroma consente agli sviluppatori di replicare accuratamente la loro esperienza e di creare contenuti accessibili per soddisfare le loro esigenze. Lo strumento open-source funziona applicando un filtro alla schermata di gioco senza ostacolare le prestazioni.
“Negli ultimi anni, Chroma ha dimostrato di essere uno strumento estremamente efficiente per noi di Ubisoft”, afferma David Tisserand, Direttore dell'Accessibilità. "Ci ha permesso di valutare l'accessibilità dei nostri giochi per i giocatori daltonici in modo molto più rapido e completo che mai. Poiché crediamo che l'accessibilità sia un viaggio, non una gara, siamo entusiasti di condividere Chroma con l'intero settore. Invitiamo tutti a trarne vantaggio, a fornire feedback e a contribuire al suo sviluppo futuro".
Scrollone
in reply to Mrn1c3n1c3 • • •I've just tired installing the trial of Affinity on Linux by using a script for Lutris, and I've failed.
The day when Serif releases an Affinity suite for Linux I'm going to buy it asap.
In the meantime, I'll stick to Gimp and Inkscape...
jagged_circle
in reply to Mrn1c3n1c3 • • •The Menemen
in reply to jagged_circle • • •quack
in reply to The Menemen • • •The problem is that if widespread desktop Linux adoption is the goal, then the tools for amateurs aren’t going to cut it. Not even close. Tools that professionals use need to be available and they need to work like they do on macOS and Windows, it’s pretty much that simple. I think Darktable is fine for me tinkering around with my amateur photos. If I were a professional using it daily I’d probably hate it.
As much as we wish it wasn’t true, most people don’t really give a shit about their OS. It’s the logo that appears when they boot up their computers to work. What they do care about is having their tools available to them, if they can’t use the Adobe Suite, Pro Tools etc (and no, WINE is not a practical solution for most of these people) then Linux of any flavour is functionally useless to them. It’s for this reason that smug people saying “just switch to linux lol” as if it’s an actual solution whenever a Windows user complains about some rabidly anti-consumer bullshit that Microsoft is forcing onto them annoys the hell out of me.
It’s changing somewhat now, but it’s why you’ll find that a lot of people in the creative industries traditionally stick with macOS, because for a long time the options for those professionals were just better on that platform and people tend to stick with what they know.
On the other side of that coin, you have software vendors looking at the single-digit market share that Linux on the desktop “enjoys” and coming to the fairly reasonable conclusion that building packages, fixing bugs and providing support for myriad different distros just isn’t worth the headaches it will inevitably cause for them.
Classic chicken and egg problem.
jagged_circle
in reply to quack • • •Nah, they work great. The problem is just your generation.
If you learned the other tools first, you would say that adobe suite is clunky, difficult to use, and not suitable for professionals.
Gimp and inkscape both run fine on macOS and Windows.
quack
in reply to jagged_circle • • •I'm not really sure what assumptions you can reasonably make about me or my generation given that you have no idea who I am or how old I am, but I've been working with FOSS in my personal life for about 20 years give or take, a bit less than that in my professional life. I actually used to work in the music industry professionally before changing careers to tech with a FOSS slant during the pandemic, so I've seen both sides of this coin.
I'm genuinely not trying to shit on FOSS tools or say that they're not suitable for creative professionals (my gripes with Darktable are very much personal to me), I love FOSS and the philosophy strongly aligns with my personal values but it's not just about how "good" these tools are on an objective level. This is a cultural problem as much as it is an engineering problem, as you seem to have correctly identified.
You have to understand how ubiquitous something like Pro Tools suite is in the music industry and for how long that has been the case - the Pro Tools session format truly is a global industry standard by anyone's measure. You can walk into just about any professional recording studio on the planet with your session files and the recording engineer will know exactly what to do with them, and so will mastering engineers and record producers. If you go to school for audio engineering, they're teaching you Pro Tools. There are entire companies that produce outboard gear and control surfaces just for use with Pro Tools. You get the idea. The reason for that ubiquity is that Pro Tools, like many other creative software solutions, captured the market in the 90s when every other solution was an utter joke in comparison and they built on it from there. Sure, there's fantastic alternatives now, but when you know Pro Tools like the back of your hand and so do all of your colleagues and collaborators, when all of your hardware and software works with it seamlessly... how likely are you to change?
I'm not suggesting that this isn't a problem by the way - vendor lock-in is a serious bugbear of mine - but it's a very real barrier to getting creative professionals to switch to FOSS alternatives, and in turn to getting software vendors to take FOSS platforms seriously. It's a reality that cannot be hand-waved away by saying that x or y tool works great and that people just need to learn it and switch so that they can use Linux. If you can't run Pro Tools on Linux, that's a whole industry that won't use it. It's that simple.
jagged_circle
in reply to quack • • •Nah, the only reason those tools are used are because of momentum and the fact that most of their new hires have experience with it, also due to momentum.
Ban Photoshop from being taught in schools, and in two generations everyone will say that Photoshop is crap because it takes so long to do anything.
quack
in reply to jagged_circle • • •bloot [none/use name]
in reply to quack • • •Yeah, you’re 100% correct. There’s also the issue of collaboration: it’s common to be given a Pro Tools or Photoshop file to continue work on.
Not to mention live show visual projection, where there isn’t anything in Linux even approaching the functionality of Resolume.
Linux is fantastic, but unfortunately most of us in this situation will need to keep a dual boot or another machine.