Nota bene: Not just laid off, replaced. With other people.

Basically spent a ton of money and talent and business disruption to turn over 80% of his workforce for shits and gigs.

That’s how they’d love everyone to think. Violent response gives pretext to drive the jackboot in. If you try to go to pick a fight on a force with a monopoly on violence, you’ll get yourself killed and embolden them.

Successful overthrows happen when elites break ranks, when organised alternatives exist, when military, police and bureaucracy take another option.

Organise peaceful protest, appeal to those in power rather than threatening them, and make the alternative more attractive than the status quo.

Zac Bowden used to post a video for every single new insider build of Windows to cover any change he could, he’s bought the original Surface table from 2007, he’s been covering and championing all things Windows for at least a decade. To get someone like him off side, you really gotta be fucking the dog.

I know that the market verdict is “eh who cares”, but I really dont think anyone should think that invasive kernel-level anticheat is at all acceptable.

In the near-term, a better idea might be to establish an alternative under a co-op model, like Subvert is trying to do for music as a Bandcamp successor. Vendors are part-owners of the entity and have input into its governance. Any code should be open source, too. Federation would be great to later help turn it into a truly resilient global platform.

Yeah fr. Edge is a better browser than Chrome. I know that’s a bar you can walk over, but…

Hasn’t been the case so far with sidebar, Firefox view, Pocket or any other stuff I’ve not wanted in the past. If they did start doing dark patterns bullshit with this AI stuff, then yeah, I’d switch. In the meantime, I’ll use FF until it gets worse than the alternatives, or an alternative gets better than FF, whichever comes first.

There are people who are seeing a therapist, and people who need to

Great distro, I ran it on the daily too for a good while. It’s extremely well designed and if you are willing to give the benefit of the doubt with its design opinions, I think you’ll often come to agree with them (not all, but many)

Only thing I don’t like about it was the bugs and not having an in-place upgrade path stops me from calling it a “beginner friendly” distribution. I admire their ambition though, given they’re just a small boutique distro and they’ve done some great work for UX in the free desktop.

This is good enough for me. If they have an on boarding step/popup to say “Try our AI crap” and I have an option to say “No and don’t ever bother me about this again”, then it’s fine.

It gave up

Oh hey that reminds me Blade came out in 1998 too, love that movie

throws dart

hits Tomb Raider 3

throws again

I am using Dynu. It works fine and it’s free, no complaints. Their app for Linux to update periodically didn’t seem to work well from my experience, I just set up a cron job to do it instead.

I used it for a while. It worked great.

If they were going to get enshittified, they should’ve been smarter about it to gradually introduce lock-in. The switching cost of going to Jellyfin is almost zero. Did it in an afternoon about a year ago. Ya done goofed, Plex

I don’t know why this is getting down voted. With regulation and healthy competition, this is what happens. When antitrust regulation is weak, R&D and innovation stops and rent seeking takes its place.

Yeah hey. It does not feel like a web app at all, never would’ve guessed!

They’ve said that this is a big stepping stone towards support for Microsoft’s graph api and lots of on-prem servers will still be using EWS for ages to come.

Incredibly sad news. You’d always see her popping up in places you wouldn’t expect, YouTube comment threads, discord servers. I followed her mastodon posts and it was heartbreaking to read her posts about looking after Jennell in her final months, but she was so upbeat and warm as well in her interactions with people. Her work is of course legendary and Jennell too made some of the Quake maps that I still play to this day.

I do like to think though that is nice that the two of them are reunited. RIP Burger Becky.