CriticalMiss
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- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 6 days ago:
The whataboutism doesn’t help. It’s a wrong practice regardless of nationality. But since the house and senate is bought by the corporations, at the very least ban those who you can.
- Comment on The Immich core team goes full-time | Immich 2 weeks ago:
For the license to be changed every team member needs to submit a written agreement that he agrees to the change, otherwise their contributions must be removed as they were written under a different license, the only exception is usually permissive licenses such as MIT/BSD 3 clause.
Usually, to rugpull FOSS contributors, companies who maintain FOSS software ask contributors to sign a CLA which waives their rights and lets the control their contributions. Immich isn’t doing any of that, and it will likely remain AGPL forever because changing the license will be a big hassle for them with the amount of contributors.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 3 weeks ago:
It’s a scare tactic. You as a customer won’t care if the business gets a new owner but if they threaten to shut down all the kids they have will start kicking and screaming to make the government dial back the decision.
- Comment on Why I ditched Gmail for Proton Mail 3 weeks ago:
GPG has a chicken and egg problem. I have mine publicized on Ubuntu’s key server, which is likely one of the bigger ones (but iirc it is of little relevance as it syncs with other keyservers). Out of the emails I am sent only one of my contacts bothers with encryption. Which is sad, but what can you do? The web mail interfaces rarely if ever support GPG, and even if they do sharing your key with them defeats the purpose.
- Comment on Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore 3 weeks ago:
Arm machines that are repairable to compete with Apple would be very cool in my opinion. Maybe team up with an integrator like sys76. Could be very cool. I’d personally line up to buy.
- Comment on Big Tech passkey implementations are a trap | Proton 5 weeks ago:
When vaultwarden supports this I’ll play ball. If I don’t have control over my authentication methods, then they aren’t my authentication methods.
- Comment on What web services do you subscribe to? 5 weeks ago:
Only a 3.50€ VPS on OVH. Gets the job done. For music I just use firehawk52’s Deezer ARLs to download the music. For TV shows/movies the obvious is piracy. The whole subscription model drives me away from services.
- Comment on USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update 1 month ago:
Unfortunately the “management” (aka spyware) software is not developed with Linux in mind. I tried pushing it in our environment, it was shut down very quickly once the spyware didn’t support it.
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 1 month ago:
I take it as stage 2 of enshittification?
- Comment on Docker or podman? 2 months ago:
Docker Engine is open source. They could’ve easily contributed patches to it which just further proves that it is a NIH syndrome response.
- Comment on Docker or podman? 2 months ago:
I use Docker exclusively. Podman is the NIH syndrome response to an industry standard. It has its benefits but Docker just works.
- Comment on Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media 2 months ago:
Hello, I’m from the future. We didn’t handle it responsibly.
- Comment on Microsoft now permits uninstalling Edge, Bing, and OneDrive to adhere to the EU's Digital Markets Act. 2 months ago:
Plot twist: he’s a BSD user
- Comment on Meta tells Instagram, Facebook users how to avoid Apple’s fees 2 months ago:
I read a while back they started charging a monthly subscription for ad-free experience. That’s likely the case.
- Comment on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox 2 months ago:
And I’m still waiting to open source Pocket. Silly me.
- Comment on Windows 11 24H2 to enforce hardware requirement - gHacks Tech News 2 months ago:
Considering Debian still ships 32bit, this likely won’t affect my distro of choice.
- Comment on You can remove or disable Windows 11 and 10's AI 'bloat' with new BloatynosyAI 2 months ago:
Although im part of the Linux crowd, if you’re tired of reapplying debloat scripts every update, you could get the W10 IoT LTSC edition that only has security patches with no updates. You will have to pirate it though.
- Comment on Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off 3 months ago:
I’m already confident with having 0 Ubisoft games in my library.
- Comment on How Disney and Warner Bros. Are Causing Internet Piracy to Boom | Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than ever. 4 months ago:
When the day will come, and once I pay for something I have the ability to just hit download and it will fetch an .mkv/.mp4 from a CDN, that’s when I’ll pay for it. Sadly that day isn’t even remotely close, so torrenting it is. Oh and fuck you WideVine.
- Comment on Capcom caught adding Enigma DRM to older titles, for no good reason 4 months ago:
But… why? The older versions are already out there on public trackers.
- Comment on Hackers discover way to access Google accounts without a password 4 months ago:
Firefox users keep winning.
- Comment on ...So I Finally Quit Spotify 4 months ago:
I quit Spotify the other day too. I pay for tidal nowadays. I don’t like running widevine on my machine so I rip flacs with tidal-dl. Honestly, great stuff. Would recommend.
- Comment on Any Linux users here? 4 months ago:
I utilize both Arch & Debian. Arch is for my daily driver, it would’ve been Debian but I don’t want to make a Frankedebian by updating to latest GPU drivers and other utilities. I use it for just about anything, solid distro, not much to say.
Debian is my distro of choice for anything server related. The services I host are all on Debian. It’s reliable, secure and focuses a lot on free software.
- Comment on Israel grants Intel $3.2 billion for new $25 billion chip plant 4 months ago:
No, the south. They already have a factory outside Kiryat Gat, I’m assuming they’ll just expand their operations there
- Comment on What DID Apple innovate? 4 months ago:
install yabai. Not native, still good.
- Comment on YouTube uses lower quality options on browsers running on Arm-based systems — misreporting as an x86 CPU appears to be a widespread browser fix 5 months ago:
Nope, my work Mac has 1080p\4K playback no problem.
- Comment on How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone? 5 months ago:
I stopped buying devices that are aux only because the headphone jack was taken away from me. At first I was kinda upset. Down the road I realized if I was given the choice to go back, I wouldn’t use wired ever again. I lost too many earbuds and headphones because the wire got caught on a door or something similar. I don’t lose them as often anymore either. Once I get home I put them in the charger and pick them up in the morning, it’s a habit at this point. Overall net positive.
- Comment on Broadcom ends VMware perpetual license sales, testing customers and partners 5 months ago:
I saw this starting to happen around 2 years ago when they first hinted at this purchase. Instantly bought proxmox licenses (which are very cheap, by the way, in case you need help convincing some management people) for our hypervisors and haven’t looked back since. Very satisfied, very glad I’m not a VMware shop anymore.
- Comment on Ex-Twitter security head claims the company fired him to flout regulations 5 months ago:
What? Our Elon? Disregards security? I don’t believe it.
- Comment on Spotify to axe 1,500 workers to save costs 5 months ago:
You had just upset a large majority of the Middle East and I can hear a mad mob of Greeks gathering arms to attack you