CaptObvious

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CaptObvious ,

Do we actually care what anyone who’s still posting on Reddit thinks?

CaptObvious ,

Makes me really glad that my Win 10 machine can’t be upgraded – despite upgrading to Win 11 being one of the selling points when I bought it. It may have something to do with the kludge to make Home accept a group policy. I’m also quite happy; I never intended to install Win 11 on it, so stopping the reminders that it’s ready to go was a blessing.

I’ve always planned to replace Windows with Linux anyway. Mint, either Ubuntu or Debian flavor, has been a great replacement on my 2008-era Macbook (still in use) after Apple pulled a similar stunt 15 years ago. I see no reason not to take the same route with more modern Dells. With advances in Wine for gaming, there's not much I need to do that Firefox and LibreOffice don't handle.

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Judge Alsup isn’t wrong. Yet Disney routinely writes its own copyright laws and has Congress pass them. Musk is just trying to cut out the middle step.

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https://artrepreneur.com/journal/disney-copyright-enters-public-domain/

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It seems likely.

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Oh man I miss him!

CaptObvious ,

My uni forced us to resume in-person classes barely five months into the pandemic. No one is more productive. To this day, I’m only in the office when my contract says I have to be there. Even then, the door is closed and the lights are off. I can literally count on one hand the number of useful hallway conversations in the last four years. Generally, I’m far more productive without the interruptions and pointless random socializing.

CaptObvious ,

Stack Overflow just earned a place under Reddit in the hosts block list.

CaptObvious ,

I couldn’t figure out if this is enterprise-only or if it will be forced into home editions.

CaptObvious ,

It’s hard to believe that anyone still needs to be reminded to keep offline backups.

There are alternatives to Google that are as good or better. Skiff comes to mind, but there are also others.

CaptObvious ,

We do. They just send the windfall to exec salary and shareholders rather than to tax paying customers.

CaptObvious ,

Backup cameras are useless for many people. I can either wear glasses so that I can see where I’m driving, or I can take them off to see the fisheyed backup screen. Not both.

CaptObvious ,

Except for those of us who, you know, like to see where we're going rather than relying on a limited FOV camera. Of course, if I could learn to remove and replace them while keeping both hands engaged in actually, you know, steering the damn car, that'd be great.

CaptObvious ,

No.

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No, but at work it's someone else's problem. I'm so glad that my employer agreed to replace my Windows machine with a Mac.

CaptObvious ,

In fairness, Surfshark appears still to work.

CaptObvious ,

Sounds like a James Bond movie

CaptObvious ,

Then it’s a good headline. :)

CaptObvious ,

It’s too bad we don’t still have Nash or Edsel. Even Mercury would be nice.

CaptObvious ,

I admit that passkeys have never made sense to me. You still have a username and password, but you’ve added a middleman who manages the password. Why not just use a password manager (without MFA, another useless annoyance)?

CaptObvious ,

I’m sorry, but this still sounds as much like “Mares eat oats” as it did when I first heard it a decade ago. You still enter a username and password somewhere (ideally in your password manager) to gain access to your account.

CaptObvious ,

That makes no sense to me — and I’m not technically illiterate. If it makes no sense to someone like me, there was never any hope that it would be adopted by the masses who just want things to work. Google may not have helped here, and I’m certainly not among their fans, but it’s hardly entirely their fault that it never caught on.

CaptObvious ,

How do you authenticate your passkey?

CaptObvious ,

I must be dense. I just don’t see how that’s an improvement.

Admittedly my primary experience is with the code kiddies at my campus trying to implement Duo through a dozen redirects to Google, Microsoft, and whichever vendor platform we’re trying to login to. It’s a hot mess.

CaptObvious ,

I take your point. But I would argue that the user needs at least to understand the basic theory. Otherwise you get me, who sees no benefit, resents when it’s imposed unilaterally, and finds ways around the inconvenience.

CaptObvious ,

Thanks for this. For the first time, an explanation of passkeys makes sense.

They're Looting The Internet ( www.wheresyoured.at )

This is the state of the modern internet — ultra-profitable platforms outright abdicating any responsibility toward the customer, offering not a "service" or a "portal," but cramming as many ways to interrupt the user and push them into doing things that make the company money. The greatest lie in tech is that Facebook and...

CaptObvious ,

sponsored content and groups that a relational database has decided are "good for you."

I don’t think they could possibly care less what’s good for you.

CaptObvious ,

Came here to say this

CaptObvious ,

Google are trying their best to make YouTube unusable. They’re about to succeed.

CaptObvious ,

I never go anywhere near Chrome if I can possibly help it. Manifest v3 nonsense just reaffirms that position.

CaptObvious ,

Ummm, have these numbnuts never heard of a VPN?

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How will this work in countries that have banned Huawei?

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And whether governments and politicians trust Toyota to tell — or even know — the truth about where their data lives.

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Next wave of new Linux users incoming

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Threads isn't exactly the fediverse.

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They’ll never have the full Mastodon functionality because they’re Facebook. It’s always going to be a one way proposition where Masto can see them but they can’t see us. It’s honestly kind of like being a creepy Peeping Tom.

Assuming, of course, that your instance doesn’t block Threads. Many (most?) do. Some even block second-degree connections.

Is there a License that requires the user to donate if they make revenue?

I tried a couple license finders and I even looked into the OSI database but I could not find a license that works pretty much like agpl but requiring payment (combined 1% of revenue per month, spread evenly over all FOSS software, if applicable) if one of these is true:...

CaptObvious ,

If you want to sell proprietary software, why not just write and sell it? Or as others have suggested, dual license it? Hell, even the old shareware model could work for what you’ve described.

Unless you’re paying enforcers, how would you know if a corporation paid the right amount to use the code? How would your union determine distribution amounts to projects? How far upstream would payments go? How will disputes among developers be resolved?

CaptObvious ,

i dont want you to make money off of my invention without giving back

Why do you think that you're interested in writing FOSS software? Nothing you've posted here supports that claim. You do, however, speak like a textbook entrepreneur who wants to be paid for their innovation.

CaptObvious ,

Obviously. With this much “I/me/my” in their rhetoric, it’s clear that they’re thinking about everyone else.

CaptObvious ,

If you don’t like people accepting what you freely offer, then don’t offer it. If you want to be paid, sell your work. It’s extraordinarily simple.

CaptObvious ,

On the contrary, friend, I’m simply trying to help you see that you’re reinventing the wheel. Literally everything that you’ve said you want in a software license already exists. Bill Gates already did it. It’s called proprietary software. Develop it and license it to whoever wants to use it.

It actually sounds like you want to open a software development studio or a consortium of independent contractors. It’s a great idea. Run with it.

CaptObvious ,

Now I get it. OP wants to turn FOSS into a Ponzie scheme:
https://lemmy.giftedmc.com/comment/768869

CaptObvious ,

Don’t confuse Lemmy upvotes with Reddit agreement or Facebook likes. As often as not, upvotes here just mean “You gotta see this!”

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Isn’t Brave problematic in its own right?

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Isn’t Brave problematic in its own right?

CaptObvious ,

Thanks for posting this. Zoom creeps me out. They try to force-download their POS app, they seem to have begun degrading service for browser-based users, their app won’t behave properly. I’m also in the market for alternatives.

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