This is circular.

if an attacker compromises the F-Droid app on your device, they can… load malicious apps onto your device

Could be rewritten:

if an attacker compromises your device, they can compromise your device

You’ve already lost when they put the first malicious app on.

Fediverse… Fed… Federated. Unifying it would defeat the purpose. Yes, there could be a single platform, with federated hosting, but multiple platforms working with a single protocol is a good thing.

Consider the web - in the old days, it was an open platform. Then Internet Explorer got a stranglehold, and to use the web practically required using IE on Windows (many sites did not work in other browsers). Eventually we righted the ship, but now Chromium browsers are taking over, and we’re heading in a similar direction.

For the fediverse to remain open and effective, we should embrace extra platforms*. It prevents anyone getting too much control over the protocol, prevents lock-in, prevents centralization, etc.

*We should generally encourage use/development of the same protocol, though.

Chest compressions, chest compressions, chest compressions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

It can create a hard place. If the current government is a rock, these late night hosts can create a hard place, to catch the network between. The network cares about money - if the government starts taking away licenses, they can’t make money, so they’ll roll over (as they have done). But they can’t make money without their talent either, so the hosts can push back from the other side to maintain their platform/voice.

Will it work? Maybe not. Will giving up? Definitely not.

Silencing themselves is counter productive. They need to do the opposite. They need to use their platform to make as much noise as possible.

They can and should protest in other ways, but to sit out is to give the other side what they want, and to squander their ability to affect change.

*An official letter, signed by at least three colleagues.

What’s going on with the motion blur in this video? The handle looks odd…

What bugs me the most is I’ve pointed it out to people in conversations that basically go like this:

Me: You used it for X and caught mistakes - why are you trusting it for Y? Them: That’s a good point.

And then they keep doing it anyway.

I’m not an AI hater at all - it can be a great way to accelerate work you are capable of doing on your own. But using it for things you don’t understand, and/or not double checking its work is insanity.

I hate to bring up AI, but this is exactly what I keep trying to explain to people - when you ask any of these bots questions about things you’re an expert in, you see all the flaws. The trouble is people tend not to ask questions about things they already know…

Why not just use an alias?

I used Windows growing up, switched to Linux in highschool on my personal machines, and was forced to use Mac for nearly 10 years at work. In my experience, they all have problems, and the worst part is always early on. After you’ve used them for a while and have gotten familiar/comfortable, the problems get easier to deal with, and switching back (or on to something new) becomes more daunting/uncomfortable than dealing with what you have. So in that sense, yes, it will get easier.

Also, as hardware ages, you often see better support (though laptops can be tricky, as they are not standardized).

Keep in mind, when you use Windows or Mac, you’re using a machine built for that OS and (presumably) supported by the manufacturer for that OS (especially with custom drivers). If you give Linux the same advantage (buy a machine with Linux pre-installed, or with Linux “officially supported”), you’re much more likely to have a similar, stable experience.

Also, I’ve had better stability with stock Ubuntu than its derivatives (Pop!_OS and Mint). It might be worth trying an upstream distro, to see if you have better stability.

Go see a show at The Comedy Cellar. Book it in advance if you can. If it’s “sold out,” you can still show up and wait before showtime - I think they only sell about half the seats online, so if you show up 30-60 minutes before the show, you can probably get in.

I have no insight into this specific event, and won’t bother looking it up, but “no memory” here might not be like someone would say in a deposition to blow off a question - it might be that he was also injured in the crash, and legitimately has no recollection of the event.

Ronny Chieng absolutely sucked as Kahn. Toby Huss (original voice of Kahn) did an admirable impression of Johnny Hardwick’s Dale - just sounded maybe a little congested or something.

Having daily driven Windows (~6 years growing up), MacOS (8+ years for work), Linux (~18 years on personal and (some) work machines), and ChromeOS (~2 years, on a cheap Chromebook used while I was traveling places I didn’t want to take an expensive machine), if my options were Windows, MacOS, or ChromeOS, I would 100% take ChromeOS. Even on cheap hardware, it was a better user experience than the others… Though I will caveat that with: when I had to do work that required heavy lifting, I remoted into my Linux desktop. But that was a hardware limitation, rather than a software limitation.

For people who know what they’re doing, I recommend traditional Linux. For those who don’t, I recommend ChromeOS. Mac and Windows are both also run by mega corps, they’re all spying on users… at least ChromeOS is performant and stable.

Do you know if this means desktop Linux apps in general will no longer be supported?

The reason I know this word:

https://frinkiac.com/video/S08E03/a3tUkZTulZH-lQ0nb6MEFeZWuCw=.gif

https://youtu.be/RY-NF_7R-pk?t=9m23s

This video is great at showing non-colorblind people what some colorblind see. The woman’s son is colorblind, so she does a little interview with him, to ask him how he picks out certain colors. They also take some pictures and run them through a filter that demonstrates how he sees - to a non-colorblind person, the difference is obvious, but he struggles to tell the difference, indicating the filter does a good job of showing what he sees.

The gang must have let Charlie make the sign again.