kata1yst

@kata1yst@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With the release of Ubutnu 26.04, a reminder of what they used to stand for.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The snap store not being foss is such a slap in the face. The ads in the terminal (and a few other places) are particularly egregious as well.

  I bailed when they did Mir and Upstart. You could literally see their ego affecting their technical decisions, leading up to “Not Invented Here” syndrome, like you see in particularly culty software companies in silicon valley.

  Like one poster said, I was an early adopter and felt the warm and cozy ‘Ubuntu’ everywhere in their system. It was visionary and beautiful in it’s simplicity and hopefulness. They sold out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubuntu and Fedora devs comment on California's new Digital Age Assurance Act⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, and as far as I can tell that would be fully compliant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨search engine megathread?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do host my own. I don’t notice the overhead honestly, it’s very minimal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨search engine megathread?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  SearxNG

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beyond All Reason, a free and open source RTS gets a big visual overhaul⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And Supreme Commander, yes. Kind of a mashup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here are the patents Nintendo and the Pokémon Company are suing Palworld about, according to Pocketpair⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If those are the only 3 items they’re suing over, in an American court of law it’d be a slam dunk for PocketPair. Theres so much prior art, open use, and poor definitions involved the patents would be quickly invalidated.

  But I’m not aware of the nuance of Japanese court, only that they tend to protect IP even more strongly than US courts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They should get their lawyer on that.