There are things I miss from Windows 95, 98, NT, and XP. There’s nothing I miss from Windows 7, 10, or 11. Everything I cared about had been deleted by the time of Windows 7.

In an ideal world, the free market would punish AI investors for being so foolish. In reality, they’ll probably get a bailout when the bubble pops.

Unless you count everything Google as malware, in that case yes

Yes, but more urgently, Facebook.

If Motorola is willing to have a non-shitty operating system, why can’t they just put a non-shitty operating system on at the factory? All the stock Android OS I’ve seen lately, including Motorola’s, are crappy, have privacy settings disabled, and in many cases are full of unremovable malware.

I didn’t, but I’m assuming they just haven’t heard anyone say that it’s good to be nuked by NATO.

And don’t forget about people of Jewish ethnicity who are not religious. I respect them too, though I oppose Israel’s genocide.

this also references you know who

No, I don’t know who. Is it Donald Trump? Vladimir Putin? Benjamin Netanyahu? Could be any of them.

I agree with this. Ads contaminate your mind, so make sure to use ad blockers. But also help your friends set up ad blockers, because if their minds are contaminated, it will spread to you.

It is. But it’s not enforced. Employees in the US are afraid to ask their employers for anything because they can get fired for no reason.

Why don’t we have schematics and source code for the voting machines?

Fluxer is dual licensed AGPL v3 and proprietary. Making a PR requires giving them permission to use your code not under the AGPL. If it’s really any good, I expect to see AGPL forks from people not willing to license their changes as proprietary commercial software.

https://github.com/fluxerapp/fluxer/blob/canary/CONTRIBUTING.md

We require a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) for this repository.

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We also offer a commercial license for organizations that cannot (or do not want to) comply with AGPL obligations.

Are any of those apps FOSS?

I’m glad to see Visa suffer, but I’m pretty concerned that Wero requires a proprietary phone app. There is no way to shop using Wero without this proprietary software.

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I believe thay all have shitty operating systems. But some of them have an aftermarket OS available. Pick your OS first, then look for a phone that can run it. Here are the ones I know of:

GrapheneOS

CalyxOS (on hiatus)

Crdriod

LineageOS

How do you get this? My company has the Enterprise version, but when they forced me to switch to a new Windows 11 laptop (same model and specs as my old one which couldn’t be upgraded to Windows 11 for some reason), it came with all the crap in the article. Ads in the start menu and everything.

Sapphire Safari is sorta like that. It’s basically Pokemon Snap, but porn.

My main issue is the lack of xdotool support. It can’t ever be supported because of the way Wayland isolates processes from each other.

See https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277

Has any software ever entered the public domain through copyright expiration? I think software at least 70 years old (125 years for corporate created) when its copyright expires prevents it from being any benefit at all.

Remember Memristors? They’re commercially available today, at 200 EUR per bit.