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floofloof@lemmy.cato
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•There Ought be a Word for "FOSS" Projects Whose Infrastructure Involves a Lot of Proprietary Services
4·13 days agoI don’t get what was wrong with forums in the first place, that motivated this shift to Discord. Forums seem far more usable.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
Linux@lemmy.ml•Are you on which team: vim, nano, micro, er ed for you terminal based text editor?
1·29 days agoVim for the most part, and nano for when I’m tired and can’t remember how to work vim.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
World News@lemmy.ml•Benjamin Netanyahu treated for early-stage prostate cancer
2·1 month agoNetanyahu is 76.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
World News@lemmy.ml•Benjamin Netanyahu treated for early-stage prostate cancer
611·1 month agoPoor tumour, being afflicted with a malignant Netanyahu.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
World News@lemmy.ml•U.S. Navy’s Sole Supercarrier Near Iran Endures Severe Food Shortages as Logistics Disrupted
30·1 month agoMaybe when they get another trillion dollars they’ll figure out how to feed their soldiers.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•A PHP Dev Just Solved a 20+ Year-Old KDE Plasma Problem No One Else Would
8·2 months agoYour Rollercoaster Tycoon example is a bit odd, since coding a whole game in assembly indicates deep understanding of what you’re doing, whereas the problem with vibe coding is that it requires only the shallowest understanding. Unless I’m misunderstanding and that was your point.
There may be a maintainability issue with both, but for a different reason in each case.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•A PHP Dev Just Solved a 20+ Year-Old KDE Plasma Problem No One Else Would
2·2 months agoSeemingly just because the title has “PHP dev” in it. It’s not entirely fair.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
World News@lemmy.ml•Tankers U-Turn in Hormuz as US-Iran Talks Break Down
3·2 months agoYeah I know. Still, a different imperial asshole wouldn’t be this particular asshole.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
World News@lemmy.ml•Tankers U-Turn in Hormuz as US-Iran Talks Break Down
20·2 months agoIran was going to let ships through if they paid a toll, so now the USA has decided to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, ensuring that no ships can get through. So the world has to run out of fuel and fertilizer thanks to Trump’s ego and greed. And none of this would have happened if Trump hadn’t attacked Iran just as they were about to agree to a deal. Trump is an enemy of the world. He has to go.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
World News@lemmy.ml•Iran claims victory, says it forced US to accept 10-point plan
19·2 months agoOn the face of it, this is a much more intelligible and credible account of what’s going on than anything the USA is putting out.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
Technology@beehaw.org•Inside Project Nova, Firefox's biggest redesign in years
30·2 months ago“Like every tech company, we’re really excited about the velocity increases from AI, and so we have a lot of internal prototypes that are up and running, and extensions is one of them,” Varma said. “But a lot of things we’re staring includes questions like: Can you customize your homepage? Can you add widgets? Can you change your background in whatever way you want?”
All that and rounded corners? Not sure I can handle this much future.
The USA encourages young people to do that by keeping them in poverty and ignorance. So it’s kind of voluntary but not exactly freely chosen.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
Technology@beehaw.org•Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field
2·2 months agoIt shouldn’t need to reveal DOB to any other party. At most there should be an API that returns a boolean indicating whether the user is a child.* DOB is too much information.
*Edit: Even that’s a bad idea, as others here have pointed out. Let content filtering be done locally based on content metadata and user settings, so no information about the user needs to be broadcast.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
Technology@beehaw.org•Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field
71·2 months agoDOB shouldn’t be collected at all. Operating systems don’t need to know personal information about their users.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
Technology@beehaw.org•Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field
13·2 months agoIt’s weird that this guy is pushing it with “it’s the law” justifications while claiming it’s so ineffective as to be harmless. If your justification is that it’s ineffective, why not just do nothing? That would be even more ineffective at collecting users’ dates of birth. Why be the guy who does something? He seems oddly eager and strangely confident that all the steps he’s taking to comply preemptively won’t be misused in future, by governments, corporations or hackers.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
Technology@beehaw.org•Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field
51·2 months agoEven if you give a false DOB, it could be one more weapon in the armory of trackers and fingerprinters.
floofloof@lemmy.cato
Technology@beehaw.org•The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US
21·2 months agoThat’s not reassuring. It sounds like they don’t want home users to be able to get any router they could manage themselves.
I just stuck a new battery in my laptop for its 9th birthday. Still going strong with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

















For some reason all I see is a picture, not the article. Here’s the link in case anyone else has the same problem:
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-us-military/