I presume that their employers just had terms that essentially gave the whole IP to the employer. And GPL is conflicting that, especially if they were producing the code using employers equipment, which essentially makes all the code to belong to employer. At the same time, GPL maintains the IP on the author of the code.

Not a lawyer, though I heard that some far-eastern companies have copied the US policymaking, which allows full separation of IP from the author.

Somehow, though, people invest more and more resources into making both more real at the same time lol

'Cause trying to build AGI is speeding up the warning xD

There are folks form KDE who are trying to implement the Plasma Bigscreen solution: https://plasma-bigscreen.org/. Seems promising to me :)

Though, I’d still recommend to use an external device to avoid breaking the TV OS up ;)

The web ui with integration of email ecosystem for all those things are one of core selling points of https://sr.ht/

I’d say this list is not about moving towards FLOSS, but more about breaking up with Google services. Some replacements are betters, some worse, but definitely in each column there is at least one non-floss application 🤔

I’ve been following the software forge federation some time ago, and didn’t feel to pick up even when it was discusssed initially. It is a neat idea on high-level, though it requires forges to implement it, which has a risk of not picking up (just look at how much iterations of social media federation protocols was there, until ActivityPub arose).

On the other hand, all of the forges are based on a distributed technology out of the box: git. Most of the “modern days” comforts there are, are just built on top, and there are different ways to approach it.

As an example, you can send patches directly to the author in email. Is heavily implemented and suggested by https://sr.ht/ (1) — a software forge, which focuses on building a federated workflow by using email for communication (which is federated by design). This way, you can create “Pull Requests” without having account on the forge — all you need to do is just submit a patch. Author is very vocal about supporting it (2), and provides quite useful guides to learn (3), (4)

Generally, I’d say that e-mail is the only federative implementation you can get so far :)

What I can see clearly is that nation overall supports the warfare, and the annexation of neighbouring country — either silently, or loudly. This sentiment was there for even pre-full-scale invastion time period, even in anti-putinists circles (the “Crimea is not a sandwich” statement supporting that1).

There is an extreme minority that is against war, though they are against war in principle, and make no action to support the warfare to any side.

I come extremely hard to trust a russian, especially taking into account my personal life experience and circumstances. Ultimately, I wish more people were more careful, especially when it comes to a system to store sensitive information. The basis of trust has been breached by whole nation, so it has to be earned by every single member of that nation.

At the same time, I cannot see even a word about the retaliation for the crimes the nation continues to commit each day: only requests “please finance me”, using the western platforms and western infrastructure — which seem to be quite convenient, isn’t it? In that circumstances, I can see such project to have some risk, even for simply self-hosting, because careful review of projects can be hard even for projects with lots of eyes, and there is already a track record for injections being planted in FLOSS projects1.

This has to be mentioned: my issue is not with you personally. You might be a nice person, yet to me you are an anonymous trying to hide his origin, and failing at it.

Russian text in the video makes me very suspicious…

If only she new how Maria Skłodowska-Curie died, she wouldn’t be as happy for the resemblance…

But on macOS it just uses Apple’s own WebKit fork, so it is very expected: WebKit is very optimised towards Apple hardware on macOS and iOS.

Each time I see anything like that, I just disengage with the content

What a nice time to be a fan of strategy genre

Sad it works that way. Though, I clearly remember why it happens this way with me: each time I told “I forgot”, I was punished, so I became a perfect liar: I can come up with a realistic story in so short time nobody ever notices.

I was going a long way, until I built a perfect AwesomeWM configuration for myself, and have not changed it for a while now. I am willing to switch to Wayland-based solution now, as it seems to be a bit more performant, but I just can’t make myself to do it: my config is really cozy and working

I will never understand, why designers love the grids so much these days. Sometimes I am literally blind for a game in collection, and end up searching for it using software keyboard on my Deck :/

Totally. The only kinda downside is that it has frozen root partition, so you have to work around if you want some console utilities. Not a problem for most people, though — mostly for folks that prefer console over GUI, like me.

Well, the issue is that when you are being rewarded for the work you are doing, the motivation for why you are doing it changes: and the higher is the reward, the less you stay interested in doing things (with very rare exceptions). That was noticed during some researches [wanted to reference some, though can’t find links quickly], and it kind of makes a definition of “work” to work differently than “have a passion and you won’t work a day”.

That is a reason why we need this distinction: not all people need to be incentivised by money for literally everythign they do. Sometimes people need to do something just because they want to, over what they need to to get going with their lives.

This is too much of a truth.

I’ve been having this exact feeling for a week already: a colleague was making me outraged to I state I can’t work, and all I was able to say was “nevermind, let it be your way, I am tired of trying to convince you”

Basically whole my life since 6 y.o. up until now. That is a reason why I hate any kind of homework, and especially working remotely — because it makes work essentially a homework.