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@amadeus They will probably need to expand their market to people who care about software now that there is a vibe-coded Adobe Suite! 
@alisynthesis Hahaha, I asked them about Linux maybe a year ago and they where totally against supporting it. A positive surprise to me.
claude reviewt, was claude generiert. und am ende klopfen sich alle auf die schultern, das ist so dumm.
Frankreich, und jetzt Spanien und UK kündig(t)en ihre Palantir Verträge.
Wann wird unsere Regierung schlau?
Palantir arbeitet für Trump und Trumpisten arbeiten GEGEN EU und Deutschland. Warum lassen wir Überwachungstechnologie zu, die uns allen schadet?
Werft #Palantir aus Europa!
I don't agree.
Voters are uninformed by design. It's possible to build a party that engages the public much more, but since it is possible to win elections without doing that few politicians take this route.
A political party is supposed to be more than a ideological sports team. But if you do that you need to serve the needs of voters and there is more money to be raised by serving business interests.
I do think this could change.
NYC DSA has deliberately been working at this angle:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/chi-osse-why-shit-not-working-videos.html
BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG
Wusstet ihr, das im Rahmen des "Zolldeals" zwischen USA und EU seit 2025 Verhandlungen laufen, die gegenseitige Typzulassung von KfZ anzuerkennen? Klingt erstmal ganz sinnvoll und unbürokratisch, und wird z.B. im Arzneimittelbereich angewendet. Man hat sich da auch auf vergleichbare Standards geeinigt (ICH). Bei KfZ soll eine Anerkennung nun generell möglich werden. Aber was bedeutet das? (1/4) #sheDrivesMobility #verkehrswende #autofirst
Früher gabs mal firmeninterne Netze, so dass nicht alles von allen erreichbar ist.
Ist das so Technologie wie der Mondbuggy oder Pyramiden, wo auch keiner mehr weiß, wie das geht?
Planning to buy some trainers. I exercise barefoot and my last pair of running shoes became garden shoes until they got so run down I had to get rid of them. But standing up for work for long periods barefoot is tiring for the feet, even with a yoga mat underneath.
Looking forward to my trainers.
> standing up for work for long periods barefoot is tiring for the feet, even with a yoga mat underneath.
If it helps, I've been wearing Crocs with my standing desk, after my last padded mat stopped being sufficient spongy, and that has been great!
I'll be giving away free copies of Paddling with A Naturalist at the #FediBookFair next weekend. Check out the #FediBookFair hashtag on November 1st and 2nd for all things reading.
America wakes to find that every candidate on every ballot is named John Malkovich.
@gregeganSF I wish
🫠 Sam wants your RAM
｢ OpenAI has basically tried to corner the market on RAM, trying to lock up 40% of the world’s supply without even guaranteeing that it will follow through on the actual purchase orders. I mean, I think that alone would have at least some impact on the current price for RAM, wouldn’t it? ｣
@dansup omfg it's the early access waiting list bullshit again.
Maybe he's born with it
Maybe it's Maybelline
@stux so the shortcut is a rich dad, I’ll get right on that
Genesis had the faster clock; Super NES had twice the work RAM
https://lockergnome.com/super-nintendo-vs-sega-genesis-cpu-ram-sales-specs/
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I like your work, it the AI illustrations you have been using feel just... Yucky, to me? They kind of bum me out as I scroll? I just wanted to let you know that some people feel that way. I don't think I am the only one. I am unfollowing for now, to make my scrolling experience a little more pleasant. But I hope I start seeing boost without the images, at some point, and can re-follow.
@lokigwyn quand je gagnais assez d’argent pour payer des impôts, je n’ai jamais pris la peine de déclarer les dons que je faisais, et pas que par flemme.
@sknob @lokigwyn Ça me fume aussi que ça soit un argument, quand tu donnes c'est que ça te tient à cœur et que tu peux te le permettre, non ? (Moi qui ne le suis pas, ça revient généralement à me dire "5 balles par mois c'est ne pas prendre de cappuccino mais un espress quand j'irai boire un coup avec Machine et tant pis pour la pizza vendredi au camion, je ferai des pâtes")
Si j'étais imposable, je ne voudrais pas moins contribuer aux services publics parce que je file de la thune à telle ou telle asso qui défend une cause qui m'est chère... Ou alors je suis trop naïve (spoiler : je suis trop naïve)
First time trying the Bluetooth feature that lets you stream to multiple earbuds at the same time and wow where has this been all my life 😍
@Techaltar how does one learn this kind of black magic
Actually, let’s anthropomorphise ‘AI’ for a second.
“Here’s [x], by me! Well, I don’t really know how to do [x], so I asked Claude to do it.”
Imagine if Claude was a real person. Stop and think about how pathetic that sounds. First, you want credit for something a friend of yours did. Second, that friend of yours just assembled [x] by copying and pasting and stitching stuff together.
You learnt nothing. You produced nothing of value.
@morrick the rationale I hear from people who like AI is that "the business gets [x] done many times faster than if it would've taken to do by hand". Which still feels like a skill issue for me. Because when you actually know what you're doing, the use of AI would often not give you any extra speed and sometimes even slow you down.
Ndimlo (This is me. I'm right here)
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"The burden has been lifted
The tears have been wiped
The path is clear
Here I am, I have conquered"
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I'm reading about a Word "clone", apparently made by the same people who recreated "clones" of Adobe's software suite.
I don't know how legal any of this is, and I'm not going to get into that. But I can't help smiling at the reactions.
When they started pushing AI, they told us we would lose our jobs, whether we liked it or not. That AI would replace us, whether we liked it or not.
Now that someone has decided to apply the very same principle to their products, suddenly they don't like it anymore.
"You can create new games, but you can't recreate existing ones."
Hurts, doesn't it?
And that's the point. The problem isn't the technology itself, but the way certain sharks use it at other people's expense. When they're the ones on the receiving end, and only then, ethics suddenly becomes a concern again.
If you’ve been paying attention to world news lately, you probably know about the Brazilian election this year. It’s a very “sus” (for the lack of better term) election, where Lula won yet again under questionable circumstances (poll closing times, the right winning the first election merely weeks ago, the “runoff election” system that’s ripe for rigging, Lula jumping up millions mysteriously). Regardless on if you feel it was fair and square and his loyalists voted him in or if it was rigged, the damage has been done. It hasn’t been taken well, the stock market in Brazil has triggered emergency halts in trading due to collapsing so hard, and others are dreading another 4 years of hell.
But perhaps the biggest issue for the average online user, discounting the economic situation that I hear is terrible (with high taxes), is the fact that video chat on Discord will be gimped for 4 more years as users have to use VPNs to use video chatting.
In fact, it’s only going to get worse. Lula is making vows to regulate social media platforms, meaning sites will gimp themselves for Brazilians. A lot of countries that are harsh on speech end up developing their own local alternatives to Western companies to control speech, as can be seen with China’s entire market or Russia and platforms such as vk or MAX.
It’s not even just a “shithole country” thing either, as Western “democracies” love to push age ID laws, backdoors in chat apps to stop criminals, and spyware everywhere. People distrust their own governments so much that they would rather take their official enemy spying over them over the USA, just because China has no power there.
So it’s important to some degree that alternatives to Discord, Telegram, Windows, and whatnot exist. Unfortunately it seems as if these projects keep getting dogged down with drama, lack of focus, and outside factors. I’d like to talk about why these are important with important reasons for why these projects need to exist.
To start it off, I’d like to talk about something that seems to be the cycle in tech. Someone comes out with a really cool product or service and everyone is using it. Then out of nowhere, things go south. New updates and versions are awful, management doesn’t know what the users want, management sells out to another company who wants the patents, it gets shut down, the list goes on and on. If it’s FOSS doesn’t matter, as some of these issues can happen to either one.
Case in point: Microsoft Windows has been falling apart for a while. Windows 10 and 11 are notably buggier than Windows before 10 was. Every time you search Windows 11 on the news, there’s always some news report about bugs or how you’re getting screwed by Windows.
Or Discord for that matter. Discord has entrenched itself as the “everything” chat app in a way with communities built upon it going back 10+ years even, to the dawn of Discord. There are Discord servers where there are vast amounts of technical knowledge and info, locked away behind the app. It’s also what your online friend group uses to keep in touch. It’s also no longer the same app or community it was circa 2015-18.
Nowadays it’s known for age verification (ironic given that random Discord admins ask for your ID), bans for no apparent reason, and having some of the most caustic communities on the internet. Back in the days of 2015-18 (when the internet was better) it was the place to be online. You really had to have been there when nobody took it seriously, and now it’s an infinite drama pit of bans and chat feuds. But it gets worse, try joining a major public Discord for say an emulator and you will be asked to verify a phone number.
Why did Discord get so big? Because the cycle played itself out with Skype previously, as Skype ran itself into the ground before becoming irrelevant…and Microsoft deprecating it for Teams.
Of course, this is where the appeal of FOSS and hosting your own stuff comes into play. Hotline might be a dead protocol, and yet there are still people hosting servers and running their own clients to this day. Because it was something anyone could host, even when the mothership had long departed anyone can host it to this day. The same goes with old online games with dedicated servers or direct IP connections, you can play something like Madden 08 on the PC without EA’s servers by directly joining games.
On top of this, corporate platforms and software always have to obey the government where they’re at, and will happily cave faster because they would rather keep it going than go down in a fight. This is why platforms have age ID rules, geolocked features, and geolocking. On the other hand, advertisers and payment processors can also tilt a platform to do what it wants. YouTube ended up doing this, and the reason the site is a censored shell of its former self is because they keep caving to advertiser pressure. Say too many swear words or cover controversial topics and you’ll get demonetized if not banned.
When Twitter was bought by Elon Musk and relaxed rules, they did not cave and as a result the only ads you see on Twitter are for weed, supplements, nicotine pouches, AI girlfriend/anime simulator apps, and smaller advertisers who don’t care about Elon. Elon has “fuck you” money, Google runs YouTube at a loss and has to make up the money for hosting infinite videos somehow.
It’s even worse if you piss off the payment processors. Matt Mullenweg, current owner of Tumblr, won’t roll the site back to the “old days” pre-porn ban because he’s worried about the power they have. He’s not the only internet person to have the same opinion, as Josh of the Kiwi Farms has talked about the same thing. Think of payment processors as the final boss of free speech and the internet with regards to what you can and can’t do online. If they’re mad, they will make sure you can’t earn a single cent. They will make sure that you obey every single ToS and if you break the ToS of say Visa, you’re done.
You now have to deal with the infinite friction and pain of using crypto to take payments, which only really works if you’re an online casino because people want to gamble anyway. Of course, Matt would be better off if he only allowed drawn NSFW, but even in that situation payment processors would demand that you can’t post something they don’t like (as seen with Pixiv, Patreon, etc.)
The reason Linux is so popular among both the privacy crowd and the absolutely paranoid is that Linux doesn’t have open backdoors (exploits don’t count). Windows has had allegations of them, but in 2026 Microsoft helped the feds deanonymize a user using Windows user IDs. This was something to do with Microsoft account logins, and if you use a Microsoft account you should assume you’ve been deanonymized. Oh and by the way, Windows 11 keeps blocking bypasses for logging in to Microsoft with each update and it’s a cat and mouse game (unless you install 23h2 or something and use the old bypass trick).
The same goes with Android and Google Play. Privacy conscious people will oftentimes run forks of Android such as Graphene to have a more secure phone (or as secure as something that uses the public cell network can get) and get away from Google.
Another reason why things can go downhill is when software gets abandoned. In this day and age, every skid has access to an LLM and knows the “right terms” to bypass any “guardrails” and “safety checks”, or runs their own uncensored model. They can find novel exploits and bugs in what you’re running that you never cared about.
Case in point, October 2026 has been called by Wikipedia “Black October” due to the fact that a lot of serious exploits have been found in this month alone. Most notable of these was a PHP exploit that took much of the internet down for patching, but also there was a cert compromise (because the private key was literally the number 4) and an exploit in Node.JS. These are in actively managed software stacks.
Now imagine pointing an LLM at some old host running some old OS. You can guarantee that there will be exploits found in it. Even 15 years ago, I remember reading online about people on vintage computing forums saying to recover passwords from AIX using old CVEs, and an AI will probably do that for you automatically.
Recently poa.st was hacked in this manner as well, the owner was running a server he could have sworn was updated but one server was running an old version of XZ with the infamous XZ backdoor found in 2024 some old version of SSH with a race condition (awesome software, great job!). LLM tools found it and the hackers got in.
But even pre-AI this has happened. Call of Duty in particular has been plagued with RCE exploits everywhere, that can plant malware on your PC by being in the same lobby as other people. On consoles, there are so many ways to cheat online as well to the point old CoDs are unplayable. The only Call of Duty title actively being patched from this era is the PS4/5 version of Black Ops 2. Otherwise, you need to use third-party fan patches on the PC versions like IW4x or Plutonium to ensure you can play online safely.
Or if you wanted to host some old version of forum software to run a site “like in the old days”, you’ll be dealing with tons of unpatched exploits or a hard-dependency on say PHP 5. I knew people who did this and their site lasted a week or two before being hacked. This is also how 4chan got hacked; they ran old versions of FreeBSD and PHP, and got hacked via an old version of Ghostscript. I’ve even had this myself: when I’d run a specific server for an old Source 2006 engine mod I would be DDoSed until I took the server offline. The only way you can host an old website is with numerous patches, like what SomethingAwful does with its hacked-up 2000s era forum software.
The silver lining with PC games is that if it has a community, people will find workarounds for these exploits.
The big problem and what I was getting at this entire time, and what I want to address is that making an alternative to “big tech” and companies that shaft you has to be taken seriously. A lot of times when I run into these FOSS clones of major projects, they’re not taken seriously at all.
When Donald Trump came into office a second time and instantly waged trade wars, there was a big thing in Europe about having a plan B, or “tech sovereignty”. The idea was smart on paper, have your own alternatives decoupled from a country that might or might not turn on you. They don’t want the plot of Homefront 2 to happen where North Korea uses a kill switch on the USA’s tech. The difference is, when there’s nothing forcing you to act (such as social media bans or sanctions like with Russia and China), there’s no motivation to make something functional.
Take Matrix for example. Someone I knew from the past decided to try to get me into Matrix, and what I found was pretty sad. There was some of the same Discord behavior on these groups, invite-only public groups that have you request to join, among other things. There was serious lag, and I was told that e-mail signups on his instance are restricted to the big providers and some privacy-centric ones due to having illegal image spammers using the network. I saw error messages, join failures, and groups taking forever to join. I even saw a chat group doing the Discord thing of “you need to show us a censored ID to join with the group name written next to it”.
Hosting a server on Matrix is also a disaster, as it can bloat up fast as you run it. It will also be slower than the mothership matrix.org server as well.
But don’t take my word for it: a Politico article about the EU trying to use it had people saying it was “worse than Teams”. Imagine something so awful that you’d rather use Microsoft Teams of all things for communication! Of course, the one guy defending it unironically said “microslop” and it was obvious that he was using it for political reasons.
XMPP is also a patchwork of clients, servers, and half-baked standards. You can’t use calls in MUCs, and another server I’m in has calling greyed out. Not even all clients support calls properly. The big XMPP implementations are using it as some backend software that you don’t normally know about, and it definitely is less of a technical nightmare than Matrix is from using it.
Then there’s Linux, where there’s a big war between the Wayland and X11 camp going on. Wayland is supposed to be more secure and fix screen tearing, but X11 lets you do things Wayland lacks such as screensavers and screen locking, pop up video playback, and window positioning. It’s a petty feud between two groups that “know best” as they’ve lost the plot of trying to dethrone Microsoft.
To them, it’s not about dethroning MS. It’s about declaring yourself the king of open source or something. In fact, I see that with many of these projects. Petty drama and infighting is everywhere, and the reason people like Lunduke get so much engagement is because he’s made himself the Keemstar, Asmongold, or Jerry Springer of FOSS.
The same goes with abandoning projects and projects made by grifters. Much of the hate for AI comes as a result of nobodies who want to make some “Discord alternative” (as an example) that’s obviously vibecoded and has few people using it. There’s also a trend where actual grifters and those writing software in protest will abandon their project after a while. Case in point, Wayback was made solely as a petty response to people who wanted XLibre in certain distros and it’s barely getting updates while XLibre (despite constant drama within and around it) is updated much more frequently.
I feel as if all this petty drama and fighting as opposed to “making shit work” is moving people away from “the goal”. The goal should be to make alternatives that are on-par if not better than what you want to use. It shouldn’t be solely to get yourself in the history books or famous online.
Discord is so big because it works and people use it. Windows is so big because software and games are tied to it, and there’s no real alternative (though EAC and Fortnite are coming to Linux soon and business software usually doesn’t whine about VMs). Social media sites are so big because they work with little friction (and people use them). Desktop Linux, despite its flaws, has also gotten use because it supports enough hardware for the Average Joe to browse the web on. Meanwhile the ChromeOS and Android OSes built on Linux “just work” for most people.
This is what I’m getting at here. A major country is going to be forcing Discord to geolock features at best, and the alternatives are so lousy that people would rather use a VPN to get the Real McCoy instead of using the FOSS alternative. The alternatives need to kick themselves into gear and make themselves relevant as opposed to existing solely to be on some FSF “approved alternative” list. It can’t just be a pet project for when the time comes, it has to actually work.
In fact, this is something the FSF of all people really tries to push even if it’s futile with the state of FOSS. They try to market alternatives, but them merely existing is only half the battle. The other half is making sure people can use them, because much of the world is like Ellen Feiss was in the Apple ad: just a normie who wants their PC to work. Just like the EU Element Pro example, they will switch back if this unfamiliar app is buggy and offers nothing Teams doesn’t. Apple on the other hand had it right under Steve Jobs: they knew people will eat up an unfamiliar OS if it doesn’t go BLEEPBLEEPLBEPLBEBPLEBLPBELP like their PC did.
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