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- Comment on 1 hour ago:
Not all IP is self surviving. Even CopyRight isn’t always a bad thing, if you think of small artists, for example. My fear is about CopyLeft mainly as I feel it’s been incredible successful in pushing forwards openness. The megacorps hating it, tells you it is doing its job. Only of the things they love about LLM and code is it can license wash away CopyLeft.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 5 days ago:
FPTP is the simplest and least representative. Worth reading about different systems out there.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 6 days ago:
More often it is Conservatives, also on about a third of the vote, and that has deeply broken the country, but I take your point.
I’d like score/rank voting based mixed member.
- Comment on I Bought a Linux Phone in 2026 6 days ago:
It’s not just a tech issue. Funding tech dev is great, but there is a political problem.
We need to vote for politicians who get the need for competition and will fight vendor lockin. Who will ensure things that are needed to do stuff isn’t done only for the duopoly.
We need to support groups fighting bad politicians and getting into media to inform normal people. Who make legal fights. EFF, OpenRghtGroup, etc.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 1 week ago:
Electoral college isn’t ideal, but the two party system is worse. It’s just red vs blue. My team vs your team. It’s false. Far better as in much of Europe, a sea of parties, coming and going, constantly compromising. That’s a better reflection of real politics.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 1 week ago:
Yep. Compounding it, the far right throw in trolling social media that there is no point voting. That those opposing the far right are just as bad in some way. That there is no less bad option to vote, so don’t bother.
Frankly, I blame those who didn’t vote Harris or Clinton almost as those voted Trump. Hold your nose and vote less bad, AND push for a better system. The UK’s FPTP is deeply broken, but it’s dysfunction is nothing compared with the US’s duopoly.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 1 week ago:
It didn’t work of the Democrats either. It should of because how awful Trump is and Kamala seamed good, but how good she would be wasn’t the focus. But their system is even worse than ours.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 1 week ago:
They did since it was online. It’s closed and online, the OS “owner” are the only true admin. If it’s closed and online, your “commands” are just “suggestions” compared to theirs.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 1 week ago:
I don’t disagree. I think FPTP is immoral and a liability. I’m disappointed in Labour to looking to address it despite their membership overwhelmingly supporting it. They hope to pay on “it is us, or Reform” which is party before country and could backfire and massively damage the country.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 1 week ago:
What’s great about those numbers is Con+Reform is soooo far behind Lab+Lib+Greens.
The margin the Greens won by is so big that even if was more split with Labour, Reform still wouldn’t have one. Which will horrify Labour as people won’t fear vote splitting as much.
It’s one small bi-election, but I like what it says about the Overton window.
- Comment on Microsoft's planned new AI trick for Edge will 'automatically open the Copilot side pane' with Outlook email links — and I can feel the hate already 1 week ago:
To be clear, Microsoft ♥️ Money. Azure would be dead in the water if they didn’t support Linux. Web development is Linux development, so their platform would be dead for web development if they didn’t do WSL. They do only the Linux they have to.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 2 weeks ago:
It’s pretty rubbish. I was under pressure from a few angles to compromise more with Google. GrapheneOS is were I am. But I want to be on a prober Linux. But it’s just not possible without competition law being enforced. It’s political problem not technical.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 2 weeks ago:
HSBC business. There is no fob. You have to get a code from their app to login online. That app refused to run on LineageOS with MicroG, regardless of the boxing and lying to it I tried. It does work under GrapheneOS with boxed Google services.
- Comment on Microsoft is withdrawing support for older printers' drivers 2 weeks ago:
Not quite. I believe they are just splitting CUPS up. The core is just going to be deal with driverless printers. Other code goes into other projects to become adaptors for old printers to appear as driverless printers that CUPS connects to.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 2 weeks ago:
The fight was always going against these monopolies.
In the UK with have OpenRightGroup to some extent the Greens. In the US EFF, FSF, SFC. In the EU ESFe, Pirate Party, Greens.
There are many groups fighting the political cause. They have had victories over the years, but winning the odd battle doesn’t win a war. They all need support.
Until now, a lot of open source has tried to be nonpolitical, but that may be changing:
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough. Doesn’t surprise me Telsa are more hot air and bluster then Waymo.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans 2 weeks ago:
You got a link for those numbers? Very damning if true. 40x the humans and still worse stats?
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 2 weeks ago:
We need to support political groups fighting for us, not just think in terms of technology. In the UK it is OpenRightsGroup, maybe the Greens party, in Europe there is the Pirate Party, Greens, Free Software Foundation Europe, and more. We should be trying to get politicians into this.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 2 weeks ago:
I’m basically am doing exactly this. But I’m only on GrapheneOS as I had to compromise on some closed apps that refused to run on LineageOS. GrapheneOS means I can compromise on Google a bit without being completely compromised by Google. The market and geopolitical problem remains.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 2 weeks ago:
You bank will be the last. Without your bank’s app, you may not be able to do online banking. Car park apps. Public car charger apps. Even theme parks now have a ride booking app. There is more and more “app for that” with no alternative.
We require law makers to get involved. America making it’s tech monopolies a visible geopolitical problem should help us.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 2 weeks ago:
There need to be enforced of competition law here. Companies aren’t going to voluntarily support a platform with few users. Users aren’t going to move to a platform without critical apps.
We live in a dystopia were you have to have the banks app to do online banking even on your desktop. You can’t charge your car without an app. You can’t navigate your car without a map app that has traffic information. Etc etc. I want FOSS alternatives to all these, but there isn’t and Google could take even having a FOSS platform at all.
This something we need regulators to fix. It is a politically problem, not a technical one.
America screwing up trust should wake up Europe to dealing with American tech monopolies. Now it’s not something just nerds and economists complain about, it is a geopolitical problem.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 2 weeks ago:
It is surely called competition law?
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 2 weeks ago:
Privacy isn’t really in their interest. They feed off our data.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans 2 weeks ago:
I think Waymo are right to do what they do. I just wouldn’t call it “fully”. If Telsa are doing the same and still doing badly, or should be doing the same and aren’t, it still makes them worse than Waymo either way.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans 2 weeks ago:
Searching for “Waymo human overseas” brings up results about it. Doing similar for Telsa isn’t finding anything. Also I’ve not heard about like I have with Waymo. I don’t think Waymo are wrong to do this at all. It not making a decision when unsure is safer.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans 2 weeks ago:
Are they doing FSD if there are human overseas? Surely that is not “fully”.
So human overseas and not only cameras.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans 2 weeks ago:
Because Waymo uses more humans?
- Comment on what is good remote desktop software? 5 weeks ago:
You sure you can’t do what you need from bash/ssh?
If you only need ssh, anything can be terminal as everything has a ssh client.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled 5 weeks ago:
With the amount of money in this bubble, it would be better if slowly deflated instead popped.
- Comment on Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany 5 weeks ago:
XP was Tellytubby NT 2000.