haakon

@haakon@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SimpleX chat remains the best one⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I dislike how they’ve started to promote some weird cryptocurrency. It’s never a good sign.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It literally is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Trump H-1B crackdown could hit Big Tech hard, with Amazon suffering most.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure there are many cases where tech companies just cannot find local talent, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the H-1B provision is also misused to get less expensive labor. This could ultimately make it less attractive for locals to get into the field at all, since they cannot compete on salary. It also contributes to brain drain from developing countries. Personally I’m not going to shed a tear for Amazon in this case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks for the 0.19.8 upgrade if any of the admins reads this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s 11 months between those two releases. Conservative is OK, but I hope we can speed the upgrade pace up slightly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Servo vs Ladybird.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They plan to rewrite it in Swift, which may or may not help.