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I'm actually just echo'ing what others have said.

Sorry, I don't want to be mean, but genuinely, why would you reply and mention the CEO if you don't know what the issue with them is? Had I not inquired further, would you ever add this context, unprompted?

Re: your move to LibreWolf, it's your prerogative. If you like, keep at it. I will mention that I've seen a lot of misunderstandings regarding the latest ad stuff in Firefox, so I hope you got the correct picture to make your decisions, but I won't bore you with details needlessly.

Lunduke is not a credible source. He's inconsistent and has misled people countless times. I'll still check it out and respond, but will also link other resources.

Edit: You know, I wanted to respond to the linked post by Lunduke point by point, but sincerely... I'm so tired of seeing his kind of content. It's always the same mistakes, and he never learns.

And I'm not sure if he's even worth bringing into this discussion. I made my point, and I provided my source. If anyone wanted to talk, ask further, even dispute, I'm willing to explain myself and provide further resources.

But I never called Andreas transphobic, or misogynistic, or a slave owner. Lunduke found the absolute worst materials to represent something he dislikes. Why is that relevant here? Should I answer for these people, who I've never met? Do they represent me?

Also, in his cherry-picking, Lunduke erases important context simply because it doesn't support his views. Lea's and Andreas' conversation on Twitter painted a more complete picture of the issue with Andreas' actions, but of course Lunduke only shows the tweet of Andreas being seemingly reasonable.

Worse, it's like he genuinely has no idea what he's talking about sometimes. He just needs to build a narrative and push it onto others, hopefully finding people who'll take his views on reality as gospel.

Attacks Across Open Source

So many projects:

SUSE & openSUSE. Hyprland. Asahi Linux. Elementary OS. NixOS.

Lunduke, what? Genuinely, what are you on?

• Nix has long had an amount of drama, just search "are flakes ready." Or are you talking about the complaints when people didn't feel comfortable being sponsored by military companies? Very reasonable human behavior? Is that what's wrong with Nix? And despite it all, it's still one of the best ways to manage dependencies I've ever seen!
• Hyprland? What's wrong with Hyprland? Yeah, the project has a toxic community, vaxry (lead dev) failed to understand why this was bad and failed to fix it, then eventually got kicked off Freedesktop because others didn't want to deal with his shit. Now they get to build their own little kingdom, and it's apparently "working out" for those who remained.
• Asahi is the way to have a good Linux experience on newer M-series Apple hardware, which recently got a Fedora spin and gets better every update... what could possibly be wrong with it? Is it the fact that one of the most prolific developers supports LGBT rights? No, that can't be it, there's no way Lunduke—

In fact, if recent history is any indication, we're likely to see additional attacks involving Open Source Software projects and companies -- by the Trans Political Activists -- in the near future.

...Trans rights are ruining open source? That's your grand theory?

Might be, as it seems he doesn't take trans folks very seriously:

Back in 2022 -- yes, two years ago -- on the Discord chat server for the Hyprland window manager project, a man who identified as "Trans" listed his preferred prouns as "she/her". lunduke

I'm so sorry, but Lunduke's brand of journalism tires and saddens me. It's a slap in the face to anyone who cares about not only understanding the full picture of events, but being just in how you deliver the truth to others. And then, on top of that, he acts like a jerk.

Here's a video by Niccolò, KDE developer, showing how Lunduke is inconsistent, heavily biased and spectacularly fails at his own (and only) job.

I noticed you're not the person I was replying to, but since you've joined the conversation, would you mind clarifying who and what the issue with them is?

As I understand it, Baker left the position, and Chambers is only temporarily assuming it—that is to say, we don't actually know who'll be CEO next year, I think.

I might be out of the loop, here. I don't imagine you're talking about the foundation, either.

I was so excited for Ladybird, right up until I found out the project lead and main developer, Andreas Kling, is scared of pronouns.

Again, I'm aware some folks think this is annoying, but if you're the kind of user who shuns Brave because the CEO does stupid shit, Ladybird probably isn't the way to go either. Not for the moment, at least. People deserve the right to make informed decisions, so I'll keep sharing this, and I encourage others to do the same when relevant, but don't harass anyone, please.

If you don't care about any of this, it's a very interesting project. I just can't say I approve.

Why do you think they don't care anymore? Agreed on the Servo optimism, though. And I hadn't heard about Basilisk before, so thanks for mentioning it.

Thanks. I know you're not OP, but I'll take this opportunity to answer anyway.

privacy preserving attribution

...is not as bad as many people think.

The best argument that I believe still has merit is this:

All websites on the internet—including ad networks!—are guests on our computers, and the content they provide are merely suggestions for a user agent to interpret and show us how it chooses.

If you agree with this—and I kinda do—then yeah, PPA shouldn't exist. You're probably a staunch user of uBlock (or uMatrix) and don't want your browser engaging in any privacy-preserving attribution shenanigans.

But here's the kicker: if you use uBlock, PPA won't do anything. It can't, even when left enabled. For the API to be called, ads need to get to your browser first, and uBlock doesn't allow them to get that far. The only people really affected by PPA are people not using adblocking, i.e. the people being tracked all over the web, who would likely benefit from PPA.

As I said in a previous comment: if PPA works and is widely adopted, I can see the argument for how it'd be better—unfortunately, most people still browse the internet without uBlock. That doesn't mean I'll stop installing it on every device I can; I'm simply accepting that'll never be every device on earth.

And for all that Mozilla is implementing "bullshit," they're also the only ones keeping uBlock 100% functional by maintaining manifest V2. They spend time and resources protecting the very thing that trumps their supposed bullshit. That feels not like enshittification to me, but a group trying its best, even while stuck between a rock and a hard place.

What do you believe Mozilla was implementing?

Hey, I got curious and decided to take a look at how things are going.

Currently, there's a big meta issue on Bugzilla (1907090) with dozens of sub-issues tracking development of tab grouping on desktop, and they're actively being worked on right now. Seems like there's simply a lot of work to be done, especially of the invisible sort, before we get the feature proper. But things are progressing nonetheless!

So I'd say there's no need to join the crowd asking that on every other announcement... but that's just what I think. Hopefully this was helpful :^)

if its truly end to end encrypted

Telegram chats aren't end-to-end encrypted by default, and group messages cannot be encrypted. Just saying.

However, its design is a little too complex to be used at small sizes, as you would in text or in a button.

I wonder what the criteria are. Because ⁂ just looks like three blurry dots to me. It's not making things worse, but I wouldn't say it's making them much better either.

I think I agree with the major point of the article, that many gaming journalists... don't do a great job. At all. Many seem to outright hate the communities they serve, which can't be healthy for either side.

But it certainly wasn't this article that convinced me. It's needlessly hostile, contains personal attacks and petty insults, and despite its many claims and assumptions about Deadlock, gaming companies, journalists and gamers, it has only 4 outgoing links—one of them, bizarrely, simply to x.com—and nothing else. Screenshots? More supporting evidence? Have a useless picture of Valve's office, I guess.

One of the linked resources is a tweet:

bye Twitter Quoted tweet: "Where to find Verge staff on Mastodon https://theverge.com/23519135/mastodon..."

Why does the author think this is relevant?

Their Twitter account links to a Mastodon address, a throwback to when Elon Musk bought the website and the journos had a hissy fit because they could no longer backchannel to have accounts banned for telling them to “learn to code.”

Wow, that's why you think people were complaining? Nothing else, no other possible undesirable consequence arising from Musk's takeover of Twitter? Not even his influence in levels and management of hate speech and misinformation in the platform?

Indeed, the majority of his last month’s output on Twitter – now X.com – is whining about Musk and bizarrely saying “bye Twitter” despite The Verge still being very much active on the site. It’s all so tiresomely typical.

It's actually quite common for organizations that give mastodon a chance to keep their Twitter account as well. It's the sad reality that most people (many of their following) will stay on Twitter. See Mozilla for another example, they host their own instance, even, but that sadly doesn't mean they can throw away Twitter.

So the journalist in question shows support for mastodon, both by mentioning their account and bringing attention to the fact that The Verge is also joining, and this is your reaction? If you know why this happens, it's misleading, and if you don't, then it's a failure in reporting. Both are bad and make me hesitant to believe anything else you say.

By the way, I'm curious about your choice of platform. I wonder what factors led to you picking nazi central as your center of operations. I'm not claiming you're a Nazi, it's just... you're sitting at the table with them, you know?

The answer is games journalism, maybe journalism in general, has become a largely self-serving practice where nothing matters except appearing smarter than the audience you’re supposed to serve.

Well said, Richard. Definitely got that feeling just now.

And to people thinking The Verge sucks completely: don't generalize publishers like this, please! You should be critical, aware of their leanings and biases, but remember that they're still an organization hosting multiple writers with different skills too. The Verge has some solid reporting, like when they showed how SEO ruined the web. They also have some utterly shameful moments—let us never forget The Verge PC—just like most other media.

When the color of their skin is otherwise irrelevant, I get you, but in this instance I think it's relevant because Trump seems like a racist idiot. It's salt upon injury, not because a rare black man who happens to be articulate owned him, but because a rare articulate man who happens to be black did. The point is the same, but the latter doesn't perpetuate racism. Context matters.

Maybe I'm too naive, but that's how I interpreted OP's comment.

Wasn't there a privacy scandal involving them a while back?

Edit: for reference, see this link by The Verge or this one by Mozilla and scroll down a little.

Yeah, I think it's just funny comparing it with the usual situation on Linux, where there's even less restrictions. I believe you can actually put a newline in a file name, for example, though I'll need to check and come back later.

I'd need to rename a massive amount of files if I ever wanted to go back to Windows.

P.S. yup. Generally, just avoid /, null, and you're good to go.

I think the big difference is that you seem to think that AI has peaked or is near its peak potential, while I think AI is still just getting started.

That's a fair assessment. I'm still not sure if popular AI tech is on an exponential or a sigmoid curve, though I tend towards the latter. But the industry at large is starting to believe it's just not worth it. Worse, the entities at the forefront of AI are unsustainable—they're burning brightly right now, but the cash flow required to keep a reaction on this scale going is simply too large. If you've got time and are willing, please check the linked article by Ed (burst damage).

I mean, maybe I could have phrased it better, but what else are you gonna do?

My bad, I try to trim down the fat while editing, but I accidentally removed things I shouldn't. As I said, it's a nitpick, and I understand the importance of helping those who find themselves unhirable. Maybe it's just me, but I thought it came across a little mean, even if it wasn't your intent. I try to gently "poke" folks when I see stuff like this because artists get enough undeserved crap already.

I've no idea where you're getting these predictions from. I think some of them are fundamentally flawed, if not outright incorrect, and don't reflect real life trends of generative AI development and applications.

Gonna finish this comment in a few, please wait. Edit: there we go.

One by one, somewhat sorted from "Ok, I see it," to "What the hell?"

Well, sounds great. I almost wish more companies would advertise to that market, really.

It's like... I know you're lying, and I know you probably don't actually care, but some of your competitors couldn't even be bothered to do this much. Those companies thought shitting on things I care about to maximize profit was the better strategy. I'll take that into consideration in my future decisions.

And if the situation changes, if they turn around and go full in on generative AI, we'll just have to consider that too. That's life.

Of course, I believe using alternatives that are more resistant to these kinds of market trends (community built software, perhaps?) would be ideal, but it's not always an option.

Always sweet to see folks incentivize each other to engage with content!

For anyone still daunted by the article, I expect the DEFCON channel will upload this talk soon, which might be more up your alley.

I've seen this, and what bothers me most is when you get that nasty feeling they're not looking for a therapist, but validation. Yeah, your ex-wife sucked, man. She was totally in the wrong about everything always, sorry you had to deal with her for so long. I'm sure you're in the clear and there's nothing you could be blamed for, it's easy to tell from this one-sided retelling of your personal conflicts.

When anyone's first topic of choice for casual conversation is how much their last partner was in the wrong, it's... difficult not to be dubious.

I think that's because your instance hasn't updated to Lemmy versions that add this yet.