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Cela se passe dimanche 3 août 2025, à partir de 11h jusqu'à 18h.
Formation organisée par Extinction Rebellion (XR), en présentiel dans le centre de Paris.
Viens interroger les concepts de violence/non-violence, découvrir la stratégie de la non-violence telle que suivie par XR, puis les différents rôles en action. Nous ferons également des mises en situation, le tout pour être prêt.e à passer à l'action non-violente !
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Una riflessione tecnica sul perché il kernel Linux dovrebbe continuare a usare C invece di Rust, soprattutto per il supporto hardware legacy e la manutenibilità a lungo termine.
A technical reflection on why the Linux kernel should continue using C instead of Rust, especially for legacy hardware support and long-term maintainability.
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I am looking for a very small display like 2“ or 3“ to use as a second display on Mac OS. Looking for a easy plug and play option, HDMI or Thunderbolt.
All'inizio di quest'anno sono state pubblicate patch per il kernel Linux che rendevano il supporto SMP incondizionato, in modo che il kernel fosse sempre progettato per le funzionalità multi-core . Dato che gli ambienti con core monoprocessore sono estremamente rari, soprattutto per coloro che utilizzano un kernel Linux upstream aggiornato, l'eliminazione del supporto non-SMP consentirebbe di semplificare i percorsi del codice all'interno del kernel. Bene, per Linux 6.17 sta finalmente accadendo.
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Don’t abuse open-source software maintainers or this might happen
My Thunderbird add-on is incompatible with a Thunderbird fork called Betterbird. It says so in the release notes and explicitly says there, “Using Send Later with Betterbird is therefore not recommended.”
Nevertheless, knowing that this is the case, Chandler Sobel-Sorenson <Chandler@genome.arizona.edu> of the University of Arizona Genomics Institute wrote to me asking for me to help him with Send Later on Betterbird. In his email he acknowledged that he was using Betterbird and acknowledged that he knew the release notes said Betterbird wasn’t supported:
I was reading over the release notes. I didn’t see this mentioned, but I am using Betterbird 128.12.0esr-bb30 currently and saw that there are issues with BB. Could this be one? I can’t switch back to TB and would like to keep using Send Later so I hope we can figure it out.
That’s annoying and a bit rude, but he was at least polite about it on the surface, so I responded and told him (again) that I do not support Betterbird:
Regarding the issue you are seeing, I am sorry, but I do not currently have the capacity to support Send Later in Betterbird.
This apparently wasn’t the answer he wanted, so he wrote back and asked me again to help him with Betterbird, which I had already told him twice (in the release notes, and in private email) I couldn’t help him with:
That’s fine, sir, I completely understand. Although BB is supposed to be a drop in replacement and not exhibit such errors and the last version of SL was working fine, can you spare a minute and lmk if anything in the error stands out to you? Maybe assume I’m still using TB, does the error make sense or indicate anything to you?
Although his words here seem quite polite, he is not actually being polite. He says, “I completely understand.” OK, let’s take him at his word and assume it’s true that he understands. What he understands, then, is that he has now been told twice that I could not help him with using my add-on with Betterbird, and yet he persisted in asking me to do so. This is the second time he has intentionally crossed a boundary after having it explicitly pointed out to him.
In my next response to him, I was therefore more explicit:
My release notes already say that BB is not supported with Send Later.
And yet you wrote to me about it and asked me to help you with it anyway.
And then I told you (again, for the second time, since I already told you in the release notes) that I couldn’t help you.
And then you wrote to me again and asked me to help you again.
Do you not see how rude you are being here?
Please stop.
Do not create a Send Later issue about this. I will close it if you do, because, again, Send Later does not currently support Betterbird.
That’s when he switched from his work email account to his personal email account <scar@riseup.net>, presumably because he knew the message he was about to send would get him in trouble at work, and sent me the following:
Sir what the fuck is wrong with you? How many minutes did you waste writing this rude piece of shit email to me? When you could have just fucking answered my question, and said “No nothing comes to mind sorry”? I rescind my offer to help you with anything and I will post an issue on Github if I determine it’s most appropriate. Close it all you want, it will not stop me and others from finding solutions instead of being whatever sorry sad state you are in.
When someone is abusive like this to me in private, I name them publicly. Abusive people deserve to be called out publicly because (a) there should be consequences for abusive conduct, (b) the threat of public exposure deters people from being privately abusive, and (c) people who might be put in a position to interact with abusive people should be warned about them.
I had by this point already complained on Mastodon about Mr. Sobel-Sorenson’s earlier conduct without naming him. After his last message above I posted a followup to that earlier posting identifying him by name and quoting the above message and told him I had done so. He then posted several replies on Mastodon claiming I was the one who had been rude. When it became clear that he was not going to admit he had done anything wrong or apologize, I blocked him both there and in email.
All that happened over two weeks ago. Apparently since then Mr. Sobel-Sorenson has repeatedly asked the moderator of my Mastodon server to take down the postings in which I identified him, and the moderator opted to do that this morning. While I don’t agree with the decision to take down the postings, I can understand that it was probably easier for the moderator to do that than to continue arguing with Mr. Sobel-Sorenson.
However, the moderator of my Mastodon server does not control my blog, and this posting will stay up here until/unless Mr. Sobel-Sorenson apologizes.
We’ll just have to wait and see whether Mr. Sobel-Sorenson is fragile enough to now try to convince Linode or Akamai to force me to take down this blog posting.
The reasons behind the move were global and complex, but for CIOs, it raises frightening new risks, where cloud or SaaS vendors can cut a company off with no warning.
My company spent last decade automating moving entire organizations and all their software to the cloud. This decade weve been automating moving entire organizations off the cloud. Sometimes to private clouds but most of the time to on prem hardware just like the old n times.
So many were sold a magical fairytale of huge cost savings and reliability but were greated with an entirely different reality.
One extreme defensive move for an enterprise would be to implement full redundancy for anything not hosted on-premises. Redundancy for data protection is relatively straightforward, but having multiple email, supply chain, or e-commerce services is very expensive and disruptive. What are the odds that it would even be needed? Whatever those odds were, they just became much higher.
This is simply dumb. The odds are greater than zero. you must have a disaster plan. It sucks that MS did this but I don’t have much sympathy for anyone that decided to save money by ignoring DR.
The new model is SAAH (Software As A Hostage). You would think that overpaid CTOs and CEOS would be able to anticipate something as obvious as this. "The Cloud" just means "someone else's server".
The reasons behind the move were global and complex, but for CIOs, it raises frightening new risks, where cloud or SaaS vendors can cut a company off with no warning.
People keep forgetting that "the cloud" is just someone else's computer. You don't want to pay for in-house experts to support your IT infrastructure? Welp, being locked out by a vendor is a side effect of that.
What's wild to me is how much more frequent this sort of thing seems to be becoming. Cloud services make a lot of money, but this kind of stuff is gonna drive risk-averse companies (aka huge companies with lots of money) back to on-prem or other alternatives. It seems very short-sighted. If I was a cloud provider I'd want to make myself look as ruthlessly indifferent to the services I host as possible.
"In this instance, the cutoff was sought by the European Union (EU), in an attempt to pressure Russia to back off its assaults on Ukraine. But what if the requester was a government that just didn’t like what an enterprise said or did?" I find this quote hilarious, because that "what if" scenario sounds like exactly what happened.
Oh, I did too initially; I just happened to see this article in a different community where someone who actually read the article provided the line about the sanctions.
Although I did skim it before replying to you to make sure the quote wasn't being taken out of context.
My mother has never daily driven a laptop more recent than a nearly decade old macbook running macOS Sierra. (except, briefly, a quite nice work-provided windows laptop that she hated using.)
She is, however, about to buy a 2025 Lenovo Yoga 7 14", and wants to use linux on it.
As the designated "techy person" in my family, I have been tasked with choosing which distro to put on it. I chose fedora it supports modern hardware nicely, and it's what I use, which would make tech support easier.
What I'm not sure about is what desktop environment she should use. I'm currently split between GNOME and KDE, since they're the two that are the most polished and work the best on the kind of hardware she'll be using.
She seems to prefer a more traditional desktop paradigm (dislikes overly flattened ui's and autohiding ui elements like scrollbars), but given she's not very techy and currently uses an iphone and ipad quite a bit, so gnome might feel more friendly with how simple it is, and be a bit more touch-friendly.
I asked her and she's not sure either, so I'm asking here which one is might be better given the hardware and the preferences she's expressed.
I would crawl across broken glass naked to avoid using Gnome, but it is way better for tablets. You can try KDE, maybe you can get it to work somewhat, but unfortunately Gnome has been way ahead on touchscreen usability.
GNOME looks like it will be good for portable devices, but it's kinda not.
First, in my experience, Fedora on GNOME completely ignores battery limits (which are also set by jumping through so many hoops you can't even imagine). It just drains this thing to 0, which is not great for longevity. KDE, on its end, has it all in the GUI and it works flawlessly on all distros I tested.
Second, KDE has made plenty of great optimizations for touchscreens. A while ago, it was not great, but now it's just the best at handling them, especially if you theme it respectively and do not rely on defaults.
Third, customizations are so much better in KDE. You can make her laptop look and feel like a MacBook in no time, and edit everything to be touch-friendly.
One thing GNOME does well though for the use case you describe, though, is app theming, namely Adwaita. Luckily, Adwaita-themed apps and style editors for the rest are freely available on KDE, and you can even change their look as you like.
I use Cosmic sometimes, and I like it, but it's a work in progress. Things don't always work right, or they change from one update to another. An older person might want something more predictable.
You can make gnome more or less like mac with a few extensions, which works well in my experience. Extensions like apps menu, places indicator and dash to dock (or dash to panel) are useful.
You can make kde more or less like mac by sorting through a very comprehensive configuration gui, which is great for people who want it but not necessarily new users.
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The team has developed a polytelluroxane-based photoresist to address problems like reflection loss and defect-prone materials. Traditional photoresists rely on complex chemical amplification or metal clusters, but the new process integrates high-absorption tellurium with Te–O bonds for superior sensitivity, uniformity, and minimal defects. It's a single-component, small-molecule design that offers higher energy efficiency and lower line edge roughness needed for advanced chips. The breakthrough could accelerate China’s semiconductor self-reliance, reducing dependency on foreign EUV tech.
Police in the south-western German state of Baden-Württemberg are to be allowed to use the analysis software from US firm Palantir, which is controversial among data protection advocates.
The regional ruling coalition has resolved its dispute over the software and paved the way for a corresponding amendment to the law, government sources told dpa on Tuesday, confirming earlier reports by regional public broadcaster SWR.
The police in Baden-Württemberg had signed a five-year contract with US company Palantir to use the analysis software Gotham, but the legal basis for this had been lacking until now, prompting criticism from the Greens. An amendment to the police law is necessary to permit the software's use.
The software was specifically developed for security agencies and is used by intelligence services, the military and police.
With Gotham, millions of data points from various sources can be analysed and linked.
The German states of Bavaria, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia also rely on the software, but they have adapted their police laws accordingly.
Fuuuuck stop letting Palantir get away with this shit! And for fucks sake stop changing your laws to allow for their software.
You're paying them money! Make them adapt to you, and if they hit you with "it just doesn't work that way. This is how we have to do it," (which btw, is what they tell everybody) then give your contract and your money to somebody else!!
You know how people watched Hitler taking control and could preemptively see his plan was definitely to just keep going until he had taken all of Europe? This is the modern day strategy, except it's going to be the whole world instead of Europe and Peter Thiel is Hitler.
I think that's becoming a universal norm unfortunately. Governments don't seem to be at all concerned if the policies they implement do or don't please the people they are supposed to represent anymore, so who are they pleasing?
Companies. Germany tends to only care about German companies, to the point where they'll save them with taxpayer money every time their shares drop .2%
Ignoring conspiracy theory stuff, people aren't very good at perceiving changes in light levels if they happen gradually. During any solar eclipse there are wide bands where only a partial eclipse is observed. It's pretty common for people in those bands to not notice that something has changed even with 50% occlusion.
I'd chalk that up to the assumption that a cloud has partially or fully obscured the sun. If clouds weren't a thing, we'd be much more sensitive to light changes as they wouldn't be a part of our outdoor experience.
I'm not checking to see if the sun is still there every time the ambient light outside dims, y'know what I mean?
Photography hobbyist here: our eyes adapt to light more than we realize. What to us is a slight change in brightness is a dramatic difference to a photo camera.
If you ever get the chance to see one it's actually quite a bit more odd than a cloud passing over. It feels kinda wrong. Shadows do funny things especially around things like tree leaves. The colors are just kinda eerie. Like the other person said we're not super good at telling light levels so it LOOKS sunny but the sunlight doesn't feel warm.
But yeah if you don't know it's happening it is totally possible to miss a partial eclipse if you're inside or busy and just passing through outside.
You're right when talking about the average person with nothing but their eyes. But there are tons of companies and members of the public that have bits of tech that would call that out easily. Solar panels, environmental logging equipment, etc, would notice the drop in light levels fairly easily, and would be apparent when reviewing historical vs current levels, and the power grids would definitely notice the sun dimming dropping their power outputs.
Without going into conspiracy theory territory, there's no realistic way to hide that from the public.
Definitely, any changes natural or anthropogenic would be measured and to great accuracy. I just wanted to point out that the notion of the general public, especially if conditioned to distrust scientists and authorities, not noticing changes isn't the outlandish part. See global warming denial despite years of record setting temperatures.
I just wanted to point out that the notion of the general public, especially if conditioned to distrust scientists and authorities, not noticing changes isn't the outlandish part.
I figured, which is why I framed my comment the way I did. You may be able to discount the scientists, but can you discount them, plus citizens complaining about their solar output, power plants having to raise rates due to falling solar generation, crop impacts, and even just other citizens posting raw data all coming out with similar data over time saying it's a problem?
Having said that and looking at the state of climate change, I have a hard time not seeing the parallels against my argument. But falling solar output would have a much more immediate effect on us than climate change (and would likely reverse it to some extent).
You'd think that, but I've had the command "get a tan for God's sake you're transparent" used as an insult against me. You can be too white for white supremacists.
Stop pretending substack isn't a Nazi platform, because they actively support Nazi propaganda on their site and have refused to take it down or commit to keeping it off their platform.
Substack is run by Nazi supporters at the very least, which should be enough for people to flee in droves, but more people are ok with Nazis than we want to admit.
Oh yeah, I agree. I blocked hexbear, but not .ml yet. I'm still willing to argue with that group. It's just saying "lemmy" has a Nazi problem is like saying email has a Nazi problem.
There's some nazi instances like explodingheads or whatever, but everyone has and continues to defederate from them instantly so it's not much of a problem for users.
Lemmy's federated structure makes it easy to block the instances which don't moderate the nazis or tankies or anything else away to your satisfaction, while Substack is a centralized platform which has chosen to not only allow, but actively encourage and reward its nazis.
So, any such problem on Lemmy is "better" because we can all (as individual users, and/or collectively as instances) deal with it as we like instead of bowing to Substack's decision to be a nazi bar for all its users.
Communism has noble goals, even if the tankies advocate self-defeating ways of achieving these goals. I'm not aware of any noble goals behind Nazism or any kind of fascism. That, to me, puts even the most infuriating tankie above any Nazi.
The problem is that it is really the only viable platform for independent articles/blogs these days. That is already a ridiculously small potential audience (people who can read AND people who are willing to pay for content). Cutting out the one platform that got any traction is as good as quitting.
It is similar to why businesses (which is what we are talking about) couldn't leave twitter until like a year and a half ago or whenever bluesky went open sign ups. Yeah, it is a platform owned by nazis and infested with them but... it is also the only way to advertise said businesses and have any hope of surviving. That said, once bluesky gained traction there is absolutely zero reason to not, at the very least, diversify (preferably dropping musknet entirely).
For Substack? Ghost is an increasingly viable platform. But just look around here for any time someone posts a link to a 404 media article and you get "Ugh. Fucking scammers want to rugpull and steal all my personal information" for... wanting ANY email to be used for a free account to just limit the impact of bot/ai scraping.
Its less that "more people are ok with Nazis than we want to admit"... especially considering many of the people on substack are talking about said fucking Nazis. The problem is that "fewer people are willing to support independent media than we want to admit". It is the same logic of "if I like a youtube channel I'll give them money on their patreon" that is patently flawed.
But just look around here for any time someone posts a link to a 404 media article and you get "Ugh. Fucking scammers want to rugpull and steal all my personal information" for... wanting ANY email to be used for a free account to just limit the impact of bot/ai scraping.
I don't want to create a fucking account on every single fucking website I enter to read a shit article about some random bullshit
That's just making the internet even shittier place than it already is. Telling your readers to eat a hatful because scrapers are not respecting robots.txt? Please step on lego
So true, but I think Patreon will be the place to submit my articles. I deleted my Substack over this. You can make your post free and offer paid teirs what I do.
Oh yeah. Circulating random swastika-labelled push notifications talking about a sickness that "aflicks (?) all Jews" is a pretty big no-no in most, if not all, of the civilized world.
Well you see, it's like, this whole "solar" "energy", I done did tried to run my double-wide on two of those things with that U-B-S cable they come with, whole thing cost me around 30 dang-o smackaroos, and the little light was on saying it was "charging" all afternoon, but as soon as the sun went away, the light went away! Now how does a light know if it's daytime or not? Damn cia alien shit, just you wait. Then after a little while, it stopped charging my air compressor I use for my lady doll. Worst 30 bucks ever, all I got was blue balled and confused. Harbor Freight won't take em back either, feller was giving me a weird look when I tried to explain with my doll. Poor bastard ain't seen a pair of tits before or somethin.
I started a petition on truth social to bring back the sun at all times, so that myself and others don't get scammed by this "energy". Has over 64,000 signatures, mmmhm. It's all the damn libs fault, stealing our sun. Who's idea was it to have it go away anyway? Buncha dumbasses.
(fuck I think I lost brain cells but hopefully I created a character that everyone can see clearly in their mind. and yes I know geothermal [or whatever they think it is] isn't solar, that's part of the joke.)
I looked for months for negatives to substack before starting my publications there. This is all news to me. Looking at the alternatives costing the creators a fee for zero subscribers leaves me with no choice but to stay for the moment being also. Hopefully a real contender pops up soon.
i feel like I've never heard anything about substack and then all of a sudden out of nowhere i was hearing about it everywhere. never used it. now that I know it has a nazi/far-right problem, staying away from it by at least 1000 miles
Soprattutto grazie per la velocità con cui mi avete approvato!
Mi sapete dire invece qual e' la differenza tra feddit.it e diggita.com? Mi sono iscritto anche la ma sono ancora in attesa che approvano la mia iscrizione
Per rispondere alla tua domanda, non ci sono grandi differenze: entrambe si basano su Lemmy ed entrambe sono rivolte non solo al pubblico Lemmy, ma vogliono sopperire alla mancanza di "gruppi" nel mastoverso italiano.
Sentivamo il bisogno di ridere un pochino, in questi giorni difficili… e per nostra fortuna è arrivato da noi Zeb con un nuovissimo video di 15 minuti su un’altra delle sue opinioni ridicole… ed è subito un ritorno al 2016-2018, che quasi mi si scalda il cuore. Possibile indovinare cosa gli fa girare i maroni […]
“Stop Killing Games – Una norma a tutela della stupidità” (il ritorno delle opinioni assurde di Zeb89)
Sentivamo il bisogno di ridere un pochino, in questi giorni difficili… e per nostra fortuna è arrivato da noi Zeb con un nuovissimo video di 15 minuti su un’altra delle sue opinioni ridicole… ed è subito un ritorno al 2016-2018, che quasi mi si scalda il cuore. Possibile indovinare cosa gli fa girare i maroni stavolta? Ma ovviamente l’iniziativa Stop Killing Games, che lui reputa cringe! (Per quanto, a differenza di Pirate Software, lui non sia direttamente contro… è solo che reputa la cosa una stronzata a cui è inutile pensare; insomma, poteva andare molto peggio.) 😹 Allora, per carità, in questo suo yapping senza capo né coda qualcosa di giusto lo dice pure: per esempio, il fatto che per evitare la rogna dei giochi online che chiudono basterebbe giocare solo ai prodotti degli sviluppatori per bene, e non comprare più la roba di EA o Ubisoft, aziende che non fanno un singolo gioco davvero bello da credo almeno 30 anni… Ma in questo caso non so se la sua retorica liberista del “votare col borsello” funzioni, perché non so se la quantità di persone a favore di questa bella iniziativa sarebbe una massa sufficientemente critica qualora si organizzasse semplicemente per non comprare più i giochi di merda… (Cosa che comunque nella pratica non succederebbe, perché molti gamerz sono scemi, ma lasciamo stare.) 😧
Comunque sia, è abbastanza evidente che ha capito meno di metà della questione, nonostante ripeta più e più volte che lui si è informato e tutto, e facendo più volte il verso ad ipotetici commentatori che potrebbero rinfacciargli la cosa come me adesso… la differenza è che io delle argomentazioni ce le ho, e non dico “eh Zeb ma…“. Non serve nemmeno guardare tutto il video per capire che lui non ha capito che:
La legge non vuole obbligare i produttori a mantenere i servizi di un gioco in eterno, ma solo assicurare che una volta dismesso i giocatori abbiano comunque qualche modo di continuare a giocare, cosa che nella pratica significa permettere di mettere su un proprio server, come tra l’altro era normale ai “tempi d’oro del gaming” che lui ricorda con tanta nostalgia.
Non solo questo, ma anche in primis obbligare i produttori ad essere più chiari in anticipo riguardo i piani di dismissione, per cui deve essere scritta nera su bianco la data di morte di un gioco, così che i consumatori abbiano più dati per votare col borsello, come piace a lui, e non perdere l’accesso al gioco a sorpresa.
Riguardo i giochi single-player che richiedono un collegamento Internet costante, la butta completamente in caciara, ignorando che il problema non è la connessione Internet in sé, ma il collegamento ad un server remoto proprietario… quando (non se) questo verrà dismesso, il gioco anche se single-player smetterà completamente di funzionare, ed è questo che la legge vuole evitare, non fermare “il progresso tecnologico” come dice lui.
Per altri, già qui ci sarebbe da chiudere il sipario, ma a me non bastava… quindi ho visto il video dall’inizio alla fine. E quindi ho riso ulteriormente avendo visto che, con la seconda metà del video, caccia fuori a caso un benaltrismo assurdo su quali sono davvero i problemi dei videogiochi moderni (il cheating online), e che piuttosto servirebbe una norma europea per sistemare quelli; E ok, ci sta pure, ripeto… ma Zeb, porca puttana, hai 36 anni, puoi evitare di scadere in fallacie logiche così banali? Anzi: qualunque cittadino europeo può avviare un’iniziativa di raccolta firme come quella in questione… organizzati e crealo tu il disegno di legge per richiedere che i giocatori forniscano i propri documenti per giocare online, maremma maiala! 🥴
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Microsoft now activates 'Recall', a Copilot AI feature that's making your private emails & messaging obsolete by saving screenshots of these every few seconds.
Setting aside for the moment that it is a much better idea to just stop using windows. One of Microsofts arguments for why you shouldn't continue using Windows 10 is because it will stop being updated and will soon be insecure and get inundated with malware, adware, spyware ect. But Windows 11 already comes preinstalled with all of that so what difference does it make?
So just putting as background one random nude pic do the job ?
I was hoping that they learned something from the time the protection on audio CDs was just that they were not read from the PC because the first track had invalid data (while it was ignored by a stereo) was defeat by a simple marker, which make the PC just ignore the track... I think I still have one of this CD somewhere...
Nah, the background isn’t visible at all times. Need one of those desktop strippers that would walk-in over the system tray and start dancing naked in the corner of your screen.
I wish it were that easy. I'm pretty tech literate and I've had Linux installed on and off since the late 1990's. I'm running fedora desktop on a dual boot machine that also has windows 10. The PC will run windows 11 but just like everyone else I'm not excited to upgrade.
But I still have to hop over to windows to do things. I know it's a chicken and egg thing, but Linux just needs to get over the hump if ease of use and app availability.
Having to switch from. App1 to app1 that boat do say, CAD, is hard. It's a learning curve. And add that learning curve into also switching to Linux and it's overwhelming.
I actually got my dad on fedora, and he went all in and set it up, and worked quite diligently to get everything working for how he used his computer. He did this because his PC was fine but not windows 11 compatible. End the end there were just too many things that he struggled with and he broke down and bought a new PC that came with 11. One of the big issues he had was with documents. Syncing documents that he was editing.
He was OK relearning a new Libre Office but it was syncing it back to a Google drive or something that ultimately did not work for him. (I can't remember exactly what he was doing).
He ran with Fedora for a couple months before giving up
I highly recommend using an old laptop and keeping the windows machine. This allows you to fully use the linux laptop as your not booting back and forth. Further with these type of issues a "bleeding edge" distro like fedora is not ideal. My recommendation has always been zorin for a set it and forget it distro. Its an ubuntu spin that uses the stable release and tends to be a bit late even on that (which is most peoples complaint about it) but it is good at being stable and having everything you need out of box as well as emulating a basic windows feel.
Not how it's worked with the rest of these features, for the record. I did get click-to-do, which is activated by default (but does nothing unless you trigger it manually). That's just an entry in their increasingly large wall of "stuff you don't want switches" in the Settings.
It's immensely wasteful in terms of dev time, but at the same time, hey, kudos for having all this stuff centralized in the one list, unwieldy as it's getting (at least there's a search in there).
I wish we could talk like adults about these things over here, because there's a ton of interesting nuance to how Windows 11 actually works, rather than the parody version that everybody loves to dunk on. There are some actually good features and choices I'd like to see make the jump to Linux and vice versa, even discounting things like hardware or software support. But nobody ever wants to have that conversation, it's all just the serotonin shot chase from rooting for the home team (and/or being contrarian about it).
Microsoft now activates 'Recall', a Copilot AI feature that's making your private emails & messaging obsolete by saving screenshots of these every few seconds.
The Albanese Labor Government is backing Australian families, parents and kids by announcing today YouTube will be included in its world-leading under-16 social media laws.
youtube? the place with free quality documentaries, free knowledge in the easiest to digest video form about a huge variety of topics? the spot where you can learn life skills, cooking, hobbies, maths, physics, programming, among many others, with visualised tutorials showing every part of every step with explenations?
what on earth is happening to the internet these days? absolute insanity
social media is shit and i get restricting twitter or tiktok, but youtube? it seems so bizarre to me
They can still view it I believe but can't create an account. Also the whole thing is complete bullshit and is almost entirely for censorship and tracking all activity to a real identity.
I have struggled to filter with YouTube Kids what is allowed. The setup is default allow with channel denies (opposite of a good firewall), so I have taken to yt-dlp and Jellyfin to get around it. I don't agree with the law as written, but I get the intent. Parents should be more active in their kids's lives versus the state.
While all of that might be true, YouTube is also a for-profit cesspool of trash content, hate speech, and misinformation. An entire generation of gen z manosphere Nazi bootlickers got where they are watching "gaming videos" on YouTube.
It auto plays by default and their algorithms are dogshit, so you might start watching an educational video with your kid, but end up on a flat earth video fifteen minutes later, or much much worse.
When my son was younger, we severely limited his YouTube time and closely monitored what he was watching on it. Most parents don't do that.
I dislike legislation like this too, but we're not talking about PBS or a library here. Kids truly shouldn't be on YouTube unattended.
Seems like a strange place to push right-wing propaganda.
Gamers are easy to rile up, already have exposure to a lot of counter culture language in VC, and generally young or ignorant enough that they can't see the obvious propaganda they're being fed. Add into that content creators that intermix rightwing talking points and you can slowly poison their minds into becoming Nazi shitbags.
As the other commenter mentioned, gamergate is where all this shit first came up, and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't there with the people who fell for the poison. I was just aware enough of what I was seeing to pull away from that culture before it really poisoned my mind.
I think there's not much Nazi gamer shit out there because it's incredibly rare for any to slip into my recommendations.
But if I let YouTube go it would probably take me from normal people like anyaustin to hype people like xQc. And then from there all the popular people can show up, including asmonmold. And people like him are legit brain rot.
Edit: for overwhelming Nazi content in your feed, try gun YouTubers. I binged gun Jesus and nothing. Watched Brandon Herrera (spelling?) build aks and look at cursed weapon memes and somehow that means I'm a flaming Trumper.
Currently my kids can only watch YouTube on a shared account on the TV. They haven't been exposed to any of the gift stuff as far as I can tell but we do regularly weed the history and subscriptions to keep it vaguely on track. While each of the kids have their own favourite creators we also have found a number of educational and comedy channels we'll watch with them on the account.
The bigger challenge comes with homework as once in secondary school the teachers regularly link to YouTube videos as an intro to a particular homework topic. Although their accounts are registered as kids accounts under our indirect control I keep having to move their pc out of the restricted group on the router because for some reason Eero prevents some videos from playing which from my point of view are fine. I dread to think what parents who aren't comfortable debugging network failures do, probably drop restrictions all together in frustration.
YouTube is totally blocked for my son at home and on his phone and I myself avoid it as the plague as well. If he wants to learn stuff, I'm eager to buy him all the books he wants. The moderate amount of useful resources on YT is 100% available elsewhere, on less addictive platforms or media.
Youtube very consistently ranks lowest in terms of reacting to reports of hate speech and is a massive vector for it worldwide.
I mean, I have serious doubts about the effectiveness of the measure, but Youtube is a massive contributor to the decline of democracy around the world.
Tiktok, incidentally, has way better stats on addressing hate speech complaints than Youtube. As in, by far. As in, industry leading, so in the exact opposite end of Youtube's.
I never saw it that way I till I saw a report on what the preferred social media platforms for teens… and it was the number one slot at that time. Apparently teens (and others) have entire conversations in the comments, share videos with friends, and doom scroll YouTube.
And I don’t know if you’ve read YouTube comment threads (I don’t usually) but they can get pretty toxic, even on tame content. Not to mention all the FUD and propaganda being distributed there.
All this child safety is just because they don't want to do proper moderation. What about user safety? Scams and hate speech don't belong for adults either
Oh. Thanks. I'm not a native English speaker, but it seems the phrasing of "The Albanese Labor Government" is a bit unfortunate if you don't know that?
The Albanese Labor Government is backing Australian families, parents and kids by announcing today YouTube will be included in its world-leading under-16 social media laws.
A campaign targeting Russian entities leveraged social media, Microsoft Learn Challenge, Quora, and GitHub as intermediate C2 servers to deliver Cobalt Strike Beacon.
Per chi lo visita direttamente dal sito, Citiverse è un Forum; ma per chi lo usa dal Fediverso, Citiverse è un'istanza qualsiasi, con le "categorie" del Forum che diventano "gruppi Activitypub", come le comunità Lemmy.
Per gli utenti Lemmy poi la questione è ancora più facile: le categorie NodeBB sono indistinguibili dalle comunità Lemmy!
Al momento abbiamo creato una settantina di comunità, suddivise per macrocategorie.
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Vogliamo far diventare Citiverse un'alternativa ai gruppi Facebook, ma per farlo abbiamo bisogno che sia una comunità attiva: Se la discussione è scarsa, nessuno prenderà in considerazione citiverse.it! Quindi:
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Per chi lo visita direttamente dal sito, Citiverse è un Forum; ma per chi lo usa dal Fediverso, Citiverse è un'istanza qualsiasi, ma con le "categorie" del Forum che diventano "gruppi Activitypub", come le comunità Lemmy.
Al momento abbiamo creato una settantina di comunità, suddivise per macrocategorie.
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Vogliamo far diventare Citiverse un'alternativa ai gruppi Facebook, ma per farlo abbiamo bisogno che sia una comunità attiva: Se la discussione è scarsa, nessuno prenderà in considerazione citiverse.it! Quindi:
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Citiverse, la città dei social liberi, è l'alternativa aperta e italiana ai gruppi di Facebook dove è possibile parlare con persone della tua città o della tua tua organizzazione.
No scherzo, forse si può considerare un bug ma in realtà il fatto è che su Lemmy mi sembra si possano taggare solo le persone e non le comunità per cui se vede un tag mette in automatico /u/ credendo sia un profilo. Credo sarebbe successo lo stesso se al posto delle comunità di Citiverse avesse provato a mettere lo stesso tag per le comunità di Feddit.
Purtroppo mastodon decodifica a cazzo di cane le menzioni di Lemmy. Del resto il post originario l'avevo scritto da mastodon ed è questo: poliversity.it/@macfranc/11493…
Per chi lo visita direttamente dal sito, Citiverse è un Forum; ma per chi lo usa dal Fediverso, Citiverse è un'istanza qualsiasi, ma con le "categorie" del Forum che diventano "gruppi Activitypub", come le comunità Lemmy.
Al momento abbiamo creato una settantina di comunità, suddivise per macrocategorie.
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Vogliamo far diventare Citiverse un'alternativa ai gruppi Facebook, ma per farlo abbiamo bisogno che sia una comunità attiva: Se la discussione è scarsa, nessuno prenderà in considerazione citiverse.it! Quindi:
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Citiverse, la città dei social liberi, è l'alternativa aperta e italiana ai gruppi di Facebook dove è possibile parlare con persone della tua città o della tua tua organizzazione.
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in reply to LiamBox • • •According to itch.io, the removal of Mouthwashing is not related to the purge of NSFW-tagged games.
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Getting indexed on Search & Browse
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in reply to crimeschneck∈🇩🇪⊂🇪🇺 • • •Thank you for the clarification! I will correct this in my post 😀
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in reply to LiamBox • • •Translation is a lil wonky, just figured I'd improve the initial sentences a bit.
"In both cases of pedophiles and terrorists I think they are despicable, and not as humans but due to the opinions they present."
"Its absolutely nothing I agree with but I still believe they have the right to have their voices heard. "