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Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos and Bloomberg is owned by… well, Bloomberg.

They are hypocrites.



Android is not really FOSS though. Google took the Linux kernel and a few other things to give themselves a headstart, and then built a closed source userspace on top of it.



Even the panic this offer caused among blue ticks is worth it :) I’m enjoying the Schadenfreude.


DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results
Yet another slight from Duckduckgo, adding to the many they have done recently. I'm looking for a new search engine to be my daily driver. Any suggestions? Startpage? Brave?

Countless dead Vietnam, Iraq, Afganistan, Libya, Syria…

Many in Cuba impoverished by an unjust embargo…

Do we need more examples? The West is extremely hypocritical.


Just another day in America. It’s newsworthy if America can go 24 hours without something like this.


Is this some bizarre fetish from an obscene corner of reddit?


I haven’t seen a good AAA game since Witcher 3. All the games I buy are from smaller studios.



He’s not a good person. But Elon Musk is a wrecking ball, going through the system and demolishing it. If he buys Twitter and open sources it, then the world will be a slightly better place.



I’m not an Elon fan, but I enjoy watching him take a wrecking ball through the establishment.



Windows is malware itself. No computer system is so ridiculously unsecure.


This is suprisingly level headed. But the problem goes away the moment social media giants go away. The problem with the internet are the monopolies. Once you don’t have monopolies the free market can function. Censorship ceases to be a problem when a single platform doesn’t dominate the conversation.


West is high on war and genocide after 20 years in Iraq, Afganistan, Libya and Syria.


Linux gaming would not be exploding the way it is without Valve.

Sometime around the time when Windows 8 came out, Valve realized that Microsoft wanted to take over their business. No more Steam store, all games go through the Windows Appstore. As a result Vale has been suporting open source and Linux to prepare for the inevitable showdown with Microsoft.

Valve is not a charity for the benefit of open source and Linux gaming. It’s just business.


Do you agree? I don't think we're there yet, but I hear the battering ram pounding on walled gardens.

This is beautiful. It’s gorgeous.


A wise man once said:

"We only make peace with our enemies, my lord. That’s why it’s called “making peace.”.




I've been a long-time Elon skeptic. But if he does this, I'm open to being an Elon fan.

I prefer Firefox with uBlock Origin.


This is not just autism. The entire field of psychology suffers from a reproducibility problem.


Becoming a murderer is a choce I can not respect.




Starbucks deploying coffee-serving robots in 3, 2, 1…


America needs desperate losers to sign up to the miliary, so they can continue to murder people on the other side of the world.


Europe needs local cloud providers to counter the growing threat of the American tech giants.


what’s the motivation behind buying a powerful laptop? Isn’t it easier to buy a powerful server and to ssh into it?


I think it’s practically impossible to avoid censorship in a centralized platform. Once you have keys to the system, the temptation to do as you will is too great.


That is $54.20 a share.


The English spoken in the Netherlands is often better than the one spoken in the US. Lots of English-speaking go there as a result.


Looks promising, I’ll give it a try.


I still need to get some block ists from my uBlock Origin config to vivaldi. There are still too many banners everywhere :)



You get banned by the mods if you disagree with the narrative.


What I meant is that the Western dogma paints China as a dystopian hellspace that might collapse any day now.




Challenge accepted!



To be honest this is not the stuff I expected from NYT. Suprisingly anti-car and pro-public-transportation.

Senior officials at the European Commission were targeted last year with spy software designed by an Israeli surveillance firm, according to two EU officials and documentation reviewed by Reuters. Among them was Didier Reynders, a senior Belgian statesman who has served as the European Justice Commissioner since 2019, according to one of the documents. At least four other commission staffers were also targeted, according to the document and another person familiar with the matter. The two EU officials confirmed that staffers at the commission had been targeted but did not provide details. The commission became aware of the targeting following messages issued by Apple to thousands of iPhone owners in November telling them they were "targeted by state-sponsored attackers," the two EU officials said. It was the first time Apple had sent a mass alert to users that they were in government hackers' crosshairs.

Are trending communities really trending?
Whenever I click on a trending community, I see that there is hardly anything in there. Is the trending community algorithm working right?



Also vaccines are less effective against BA.2 with more breakthrough cases. Thankfully BA.2 is even milder than original omicron.


osmapp.org is great!
I just discovered osmapp.org after the post on HackerNews. It is a great maps "app" for android. I put "app" into quotes because it just runs on your browser. I am not sure if osmapp.org or organic maps will be my daily driver, but both are looking very good!
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osmapp.org is great!



Workers of Lemmy who were working from home: Are you being harassed to return to the office?
After working from home for two years, we are being "encouraged" to return to the office. Most of us see no point in returning to the office and suffering through long commutes again. I expect it to get ugly. What about you?

The real number is probably much higher. I routinely play games on my Arch laptop that are neither verified nor marked as playable.

Not suprised after seeing how controversial the inclusion of gamemode was.

The most interesting change is that Feral Interactive's 'gamemode' has been added to the build and will now be automatically used when games are launched. (actually enabled in 7-11 but 12 and 13 are hotfixes on 11. Don't use 11 or 12.)




## Highlights - Sample rate switching should work again. - pw-dot can now use the output of pw-dump to render a graph. - Bluetooth A2DP streaming was improved that would reduce stuttering on some devices. - A JACK bug was fixed that would sometimes make it impossible to add more tracks in Ardour. (#1714) - Many bugfixes and improvements. ## PipeWire - Fix a potential crash when NULL params were configured. - Add some simple functional tests to avoid some recent regressions. Improve the test framework for this as well. - Improvements to the poll loop to avoid some use-after-free scenarios. - Fix samplerate switching again. - setlocale is not called anymore from the pipewire library. This should be called by the application. (#2223) - pw_init() and pw_deinit() can now be nested and called multiple times. - pw_stream will now report the resampler delay in the pw_time.queued field. ## modules - module-filter-chain now supports arbitrary many properties and will use property hints to assign them the right type. - The ROC modules now accept a sink/source_properties parameter. - The module-rt can now also be built without RT-Kit support. - module-echo-cancel can now use a fraction to specify the delay for more precise control. ## SPA - The channelmixer will now do upmixing by default and will not use normalization. It will also use a simple upmixing algorithm that duplicates channels by default. A more interesting upmix method is also available (PSD) but needs to be enabled manually. (#861) - Add SSE optimized (de)interleave functions for 32 bits samples with and without byteswap. - JSON parsing of empty strings will now give an invalid number instead of 0. - JSON numbers are now parsed and serialized in a locale independent way so that , and . are not mixed up. - The resampler will now report the resample delay and queued samples as the extra delay. ## tools - pw-cat will read more dsf files correctly and will not crash at the end. - pw-top now has a man page. - pw-dot can now use the output of pw-dump to render a graph. ## bluetooth - Improve interactions with oFono. - Fix recovery with slow connections. - Improve frame size of AptX-ll. - A2DP can now use any quantum and will flush packets in smaller chunks when needed to adapt. This improves stuttering in some cases. ## pulse-server - The server configuration can now be placed in pulse.properties section, which also makes it possible to have custom overrides. - Implement FIX_ flags for capture as well. - Small fixes and improvements in module loading. ## JACK - Clear the last error before executing a new action or else we could end up with error from a previous action. This causes some problems in Ardour where adding a track would fail after some time. (#1714)

Looking for an open source app for ping and tracepath functionality.
I'm looking for an open-source app to do some network debugging: resolving hostnames, pinging and tracepath functionality. Anyone know any existing app like this?