TechNom (nobody)

Solid state physics.

He didn’t just wash off his hands. When asked in an interview about a moderator who edited a trans user’s profile to intentionally misgendering them (yup, even that’s not off limits for their mods), he justified it saying that ‘It’s not like using the N-word or something’. (For context, the n-word itself was innocuous. It gained notoriety due to its misuse by bigots like this).

There are several such examples - repeatedly even after being called out. I don’t belong to any diversity groups. But I don’t care if they make the world’s best operating system. I will stay well away from it if only to avoid any interaction with such a group. They’re a bit too happy about harassing people (not just transgenders either).

While I understand your point, there’s a mistake that I see far too often in the industry. Using Relational DBs where the data model is better suited to other sorts of DBs. For example, JSON documents are better stored in document DBs like mongo. I realize that your use case doesn’t involve querying json - in which it can be simply stored as text. Similar mistakes are made for time series data, key-value data and directory type data.

I’m not particularly angry at such (ab)uses of RDB. But you’ll probably get better results with NoSQL DBs. Even in cases that involve multiple data models, you could combine multiple DB software to achieve the best results. Or even better, there are adaptors for RDBMS that make it behave like different types at the same time. For example, ferretdb makes it behave like mongodb, postgis for geographic db, etc.

Wow! You are so deluded, thinking of yourself as a cool new kid with cool new tech (Discord) fighting against old people. What you don’t get is that people are protesting the use of Discord for something it’s not suited to. There’s no generation gap in it. The best of the youngest developers I know have the same opinion. Perhaps it’s time for you to reflect on your own standing.

This is the best answer so far!

The realization that Windows was stealthily making dozens of internet connections. I don’t know what they were for and there was no reasonable way to disable it.

I’m an evangelist so far as to recommend people to switch to Linux or BSD. But people always find some reason to stay on Windows - "I will switch when Linux starts doing ". (Not gaming). It often feels like they’re searching for a problem to justify not switching. I don’t bother fighting with such people.

I’m obsessed with modifying Linux to my liking. Programming was another one of my reasons for switching. These days, I program components of my desktop to suit my needs.

They could instead severely cripple or outright block Firefox users. Since we are the minority, it won’t affect them. They will just blame it on Firefox and wash their hands off.

They can arbitrarily reduce the max number of the blocking rulesets, how often the extension can update the rulesets

The size is already just 50. Those who think that adblocking is possible with this are fooling themselves.

or even elect to skip running any rulesets that target YouTube or Google domains.

If anybody acts surprised when it happens, they’re probably too stupid to be allowed on the web.

Facebook for all its nastiness was very much incompetent in influencing the direction of the web. Look at their failed attempts like free basics.

Google on the other hand has the web tightly in its dirty grip. At this point, they aren’t even pretending to be nice. Even those plans that cause them reputational damage are brought back in some other name.

The only way to stop Google is for the regulatory agencies to put their foot down hard. They should be divided into at least a couple dozen companies that are not allowed to do business with each other.

Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence*.

• Except for Google. This is the same company that decided that ‘Don’t be evil’ is inappropriate for them.

Actually, this isn’t the first time they did it. There was a thread by a mozilla ex-employee that described how Google destroyed Firefox’s market share using the same dirty trick.

Protobuf is also not a proper binary alternative for Yaml. Protobuf needs a schema in the form of its IDL. Cbor and messagepack might be more analogous.

Hopefully that principle will hold true with websites as well.

The main issue that I have had is that the web experience for many banking apps is really really bad. Many of them are non-responsive designs aimed only for desktops. Even worse, some features are available only on their mobile apps - like chat support. Honestly, I don’t understand why banks do Google and Apple favors like this.

The danger is the same as WEI or Play Integrity. Apps may refuse to work if the attestation fails. What do they gain from it? I don’t know. But what is the purpose of banking apps checking if the device is rooted or not? They work without it on laptops.

WEI is canceled. They instead moved the same concept to Android webview as a feature of limited scope. In other words, they’ve just moved it away from public view. They don’t care about your opinion - they care only about money. And since the backlash caused damage to their reputation, ultimately reducing their income, they just took a tactical step back. But they will be back with it.

I didn’t make the reason for my request very clear. We need discussions to be archived and searchable from the internet. While Matrix is better than Discord when it comes to openness, it isn’t much better in terms of searchability. Even the old Google groups were better. I would suggest something like Discourse (the forum).

Matrix is one option, if you just want a chatroom, similar to IRC. An online forum, like Discourse (not discord) is even better, since it creates a searchable history of past discussions. That way, most users who face any issue with your software can solve it themselves based on past discussions.

If any FOSS project maintainers see this, please stop using Discord for your community.

Stay away from google play if you can - forget buying from them. From logging you in without consent to requiring credit card for unlocking geo-locked app, Google play is a very scummy, anti-privacy malware.

You don’t own anything if it’s hosted in the cloud.

Unless you own the cloud. Self hosting should be made as ubiquitous as linux distros.