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- Comment on UK | Labour 'doesn't understand the internet', tech giant 4chan’s lawyer tells LBC 4 days ago:
Politicians not understanding anything but corruption in-depth. What a surprise.
- Comment on Firefox has an ambitious new roadmap, the browser is also losing millions of users a month 5 days ago:
The more cash Creepy Goose injects into Mozilla, the higher the CEO’s salary will be and the less users there will be. I’d like to thank Mozilla for being a money-sink for about 15 years now. It’s like Creepy Goose has been carrying a tiny ball and chain just so that authorities can say “oh yeah, they have competition”.
Once LadyBird reaches v1, Mozilla will be in deep shit as it won’t be necessary to pay them as a token competitor anymore.
- Comment on Firefox has an ambitious new roadmap, the browser is also losing millions of users a month 5 days ago:
Firefox has to die because Mozilla is a shitty org. All they care about it money. The money from Creepy Goose is just too much. The devs should move on to Servo, Ladybird, or a Firefox fork. The users will follow.
- Comment on US | Trump FCC warns all broadcasters to follow orders or be punished like ABC 3 weeks ago:
Free speech, eh?
- Comment on An Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta 5 weeks ago:
Ironic…
- Comment on Mistral AI's CEO says Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state' 5 weeks ago:
European doomsday calls are just doomsday calls. They’re just copying the US marketing crap.
- Comment on Memory shortage set to run until 2027 as chipmakers focus on AI 2 months ago:
No new gadgets or PCs in 2026. Hold the line.
- Comment on Bluetooth tracker hidden in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location — $5 gadget put a $585 million Dutch ship at risk for 24 hours 2 months ago:
Soldiers locations have been exposed om the battlefield by dating apps. Yeah, the army doesn’t screen shit.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
The “federated” twitter alternative taken down by a DDOS. I see something wrong with that statement.
- Comment on Gen Z Sabotaging AI at Work So It Won't Take Their Job 2 months ago:
🤣 I had to really laugh out loud about that. Thank you.
- Comment on Gen Z Sabotaging AI at Work So It Won't Take Their Job 2 months ago:
Some of them live with a chatbot window open: nearly one in five executives admitted logging four or five hours a day with an AI model, while one in 25 use AI in excess of six hours a day.
Some of these CEOs have to be replaced. Half the day spent with an AI chatbot? That’s insane. How are they going to make relevant business decisions with that?
- Comment on France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech 2 months ago:
Looks like we have to delay the year of the linux desktop another year, until france is done.
- Comment on Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing 2 months ago:
I’m sure they’ll be back (the rollables). They seem better than flip phones, honestly.
- Comment on EU ready to cave to Trump on tech (04 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic (Cory Doctorow) 2 months ago:
A faction is ready to C cave. Whether the rest is, we will see.
- Comment on Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million 2 months ago:
Which royalty free alternatives exist?
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I dont understand why collabora and libreoffice don’t work together. Why compete? And what is this onlyoffice fork? Why not work with libreoffice instead? There could be a massive effort going into libreoffice but somehow everybody’s going their own way. It makes it so easy for Microslop
- Comment on Visa is bringing AI to credit card charge disputes 2 months ago:
Oh they do, they are just regional - for now.
- Comment on Visa is bringing AI to credit card charge disputes 2 months ago:
Alternatives to the duopoly can’t come fast enough.
- Comment on Fourth Most Populous Country in the World Bans Most Social Media for Kids 2 months ago:
Ban life, it carries the risk of death.
- Comment on GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all 2 months ago:
I stand corrected. Luckily 👍
- Comment on GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all 2 months ago:
People still won’t leave 🤷
- Comment on Digg lays off staff and shuts down app as company retools 3 months ago:
If digg had written a fediverse compatible app, things could’ve turned out way differently. But they wanted to create a new, disconnected garden and there’s no appetite for that.
- Comment on Youtube frontend, Grayjay is coming to Steam 3 months ago:
Had no idea. Thanks for the link.
- Comment on Youtube frontend, Grayjay is coming to Steam 3 months ago:
Interesting. Is steam becoming a generic app store?
- Comment on I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software 4 months ago:
That doesn’t solve funding as there doesn’t seem to be any provisions for that.
- Comment on I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software 4 months ago:
I like this idea. Good on him.
- Comment on I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software 4 months ago:
I think if they succeeded to write a licence that made sense and were legally enforceable, they’d be worth using. But I also wish the EU put up some lawyers to formulate a licence with the goal of sustainable opensource development.
- Comment on Discord is force-restarting itself on Windows 11 to stop eating your RAM 6 months ago:
Isn’t that just a rust wrapper of chromium or Firefox?
- Comment on WhatsApp will become interoperable with other messaging apps thanks to the DMA’s crackdown on Big Tech. 6 months ago:
I doubt it. Most likely complying without complying. Then they dont put their monopoly in jeopardy. If people found out they could use any other app to communicate with WhatsApp users, then WhatsApp would have to actually compete on features and not “use it because everybody else does”.
Being able to check off the box of interoperability without actually interoperating with a competitor is just a trick in my eyes. I hope the EU commission sees it that way too. Given how they want to placate the US though and the concessions they have been making, I won’t hold my breath.
- Comment on WhatsApp will become interoperable with other messaging apps thanks to the DMA’s crackdown on Big Tech. 6 months ago:
It won’t be interoperable with anything people use, making it only theoretically interoperable. Wake me up once I can use it with Jami or Matrix.