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- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 1 day ago:
I think capitalism has already prevailed before America is the dominant force in it.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 1 day ago:
I think spotify is swedish. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 1 day ago:
bandcamp is nice. They give much more to artist, and allow you to download flac.
- Comment on PSA: Don't eat cicadas if you're allergic to shellfish... or at all 2 days ago:
What if I am allergic to cicadas?
- Comment on Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain 3 days ago:
Plus there isn’t many jurisdiction with stronger privacy law than swiss. It is unlike they made a bad choice for choosing a headquarters.
I guess they can operate on the public sea or the arctic, but I imagine the commute will be terrible.
- Comment on Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain 4 days ago:
If the recipient doesn’t have the public key, they can’t read the content.
Sir, if your recipient don’t have a public key, you cannot encrypt the message… That is how asymmetric-key crypto works.
- Comment on I mean have they seen our stipends 1 week ago:
Unfortunately this is still the case in all the university I know, especially in fine arts and humanity, many of the positions are even unfunded.
Many students need to rent out the living room or live in a single bedroom in a house, with shared kitchen and bathroom.
I think many students literally cannot afford a studio or 1B with their salary, because the rent is higher than their salary.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Must be nice, in China we only have the poorly formatted, lack of citation Baidu Baike baike.baidu.com.
The “sorting algorithm” article: baike.baidu.com/item/排序算法/5399605 only have 3 citations, none of which are the original papers.
- Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down 1 week ago:
Okay, I mentioned desktop because you mentioned “personal computer industry” which I assumed means desktop/laptops.
I think there are indeed more private (some can even be more secure) alternative to iOS, like calyx and/or graphene.
But like you said, they do require a reasonable amount of computing literacy to install: first they need to know these projects exists, then they will need to connect their phone to their computer and click a single button.
Thus, I think there is indeed no private and “popular” alternative to iOS, that a completely tech illiterate person can easily obtain.
- Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down 1 week ago:
I think it is useful to use fdroid in conjunction with private OS like graphene, divest and calyx all with excellent android compatibilities. Unfortunately, grapheneos, IMO the best of the three, is only avaliable on a small set of devices, like iPhone.
But I do agree with your point, if you use the stock OS, even with privacy hardening, it is probably still not so private. But I don’t know if a hardened stock android is “worse” than an average user’s iPhone.
- Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down 1 week ago:
I got a feeling that many consumers do use desktop linux, given he recently revealed 4% desktop market share across the world. macOS has 15% market share, and Windows at the dominant 72%.
I believe macOS probably is more private than Windows, but it is definitely not as private as the rest of the market.
- Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down 1 week ago:
What industry? Does this industry you mentioned happens only contains data hungry ad oligopolies like google amazon, but not all the reasonable alternatives like duckduckgo, grapheneos, calyxos, desktop linux, mastodon, and lemmy?
- Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down 1 week ago:
What about discovering and installing private app that don’t use proprietary big tech service, including sending push notifications?
- Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down 1 week ago:
If you throw a linux OS to an average person, they won’t want to download app from app store.
Average user don’t “want” to download app from the app store, they do that because they are “told” to do so. I don’t believe average Apple user “love” anything, they are merely following how they first learned to use a device.
I think one of the best decision apple has ever made is to start shitty and thus never enshittify. After a while, people accepted the shittiness of apple; yet Windows continuing to enshittify by putting ads everywhere, thus people feel like their old and good experiences have been taken away from them.
- Comment on Explain yourselves, comp sci. 1 week ago:
Set is just objects in the category of Set.
- Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification 2 weeks ago:
Why are people still on there?!
- Comment on shrimp is bugs 2 weeks ago:
If a new berry was invented, computer scientists will probably call them “βerries”, next one “ϐerries”
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 2 weeks ago:
Oh no, this includes aids to Israel isn’t it… Why the hell do Israel needs more money?! They are not even close to poor…
- Comment on More and more people are ditching carrier roaming in favor of travel eSIMs 4 weeks ago:
Is there a FOSS implementation of esim any where? AFAIK all privacy/security rom need to download a proprietary component to use esim, and such component need to run as root (as of now).
I wonder if this is another HDMI situation where implementing a FOSS version would violate some NDA of some sort.
- Comment on A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions 4 weeks ago:
Okay I thought you mean libreoffice math. I have been using texmath since forever, but recently I am migrating towards libreoffice math, since texmath don’t work with the flatpak version.
Fortunately, I find the language of libreoffice math quite similar to latex and has a much better UX than texmath.
- Comment on This is a Test 5 weeks ago:
*shoot the victim in the head
FTFY
- Comment on A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions 5 weeks ago:
I think because there is so many surveillance built into proprietary software, companies like U.S. probably can just ask for any information from Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft when they need it.
On the other hand, countries like China and Russia would need to compromise these product like Jia Tan did. Except for Apple, because every apple service in China is maintained by a Chinese company with no encryption allowed.
- Comment on A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions 5 weeks ago:
I think it is fine if everything they used to do have a replacement, my wife has been using my laptop running silverblue for personal laptop, doing homework and everything, until she want to use affinity photos or forced to use docx.
That being said, docx is invented specifically sabotage of open document standard and cross compatibility, but I installed onlyoffice for her, and everything is fine now. And if she spent as much time in GIMP and dark table, she should be as happy as in affinity photo, since she doesn’t use that many features anyway.
Same happened with her father in law, he was trying to do some business work, I give him the silverblue laptop, and opened only office. He can work just as normal, after I told him how to use the super key in gnome.
- Comment on A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions 5 weeks ago:
Wait? Don’t you just double click? I think TSV was the problem in libreoffice.
- Comment on A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions 5 weeks ago:
I use libreoffice on hidpi screen, some even with fractional scaling, and it seems to work fine by default. What are the problems to you?
- Comment on A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions 5 weeks ago:
You don’t compose your letter in word either… Nor do most people need “advance” formating for letter. I doubt you are formating floating subfigures every email.
- Comment on A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions 5 weeks ago:
I am not aware that libreoffice math is compatible with latex. How do you enable it?
- Comment on degree in bamf 1 month ago:
Depends on the size of the meeting and the availability of time.
For an hour-long lecture/seminar with less than 20 people, probably raising your question directly is fine.
For a 25 mins talk at a conference with 200 people, you will probably need to save your question to the end.
But it is always safer just to ask beforehand.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
*add it to the end of
- Comment on They lied to us 1 month ago:
General Tso, who is also not a general BTW, died in 1885, yet General Tso’s Chicken is invented around 1970. They are almost 100 years apart.