Why can't you run your own OS anymore? You don't have to buy a Pixel. This news is about Pixel phones, one of the many many many Android phones...
Get a FairPhone with /e/OS. Give money to people who actually want to see an open ecosystem, not lock it down.
That mjolnir isn't part of the server deployment template and not even provided by matrix.org servers ist just sad. Matrix rooms are so badly moderated because the moderation tools suck. I found out at some point that "reports" only go to your server admim, not the room's mods and admins. It makes no sense.
I don't think we have figured out Eternal September on the fediverse yet. We are nowhere near prepared for a possible (or eventual?) influx of millions of users who don't understand the first thing about the customs here (if we have any to speak of). We haven't figured out how to talk about the fediverse to beginners, how to moderate it without burning out (see lemm.ee), nobody seems to have the faintest idea how to make the experience truly different in such a way that it helps people be nicer, and we just copied lots of stuff from already toxic places.
Maybe I'm just unaware and people are thinking of these things already, but hopefully the fediverse is considered in academia as a platform, open and ready to improvements. A platform that can improve the way we interact with each other, distribute content, and make the world a little more positive. Getting some academic insights might help us prepare.
If they moved it to Kiel, I don't know what would happen to Munich and their Microsoft policy. One can only hope the federal politicians aren't as corrupt as the ones in Munich, but they are just people too.
Nearly every government in Europe is beholden to Microsoft. There was a news article recently about how only one single municipality in the Netherlands hosted their own services on their own hardware. If Germany, the probably least digitally progressive country in the EU, suddenly decides to do more than just talk about opensource and actually use it across all government agencies, it would be a huge signal.
Only time will tell. Trump better keep beating his great big drum to keep the pro-opensource voices strong. Without it, it would be back to business in no time.
The EU adopted the European Commission's proposal today for cybersecurity crisis management - which proposes Matrix for cross-EU communication: "On this basis, Union-level actors should use solutions based on the Matrix protocol for real-time communication". https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/eu-takes-step-further-cybersecurity-crisis-management
This. I like this. I like it very much.
You did not read my comment did you? Please read it again...
Google has fucked up content creators for about a decade now with their US puritanism. Content creators are defunded at the slightest mention of sex and random other topics. It has cultivated a culture of fear and thus obedience.
Even text and memes off the platform are self-censored and it has become engrained in many people to do so. The censor st*r can be seen in the most perplexing places. I've even seen it on 4chan and twitter - the worst places on the internet.
This ranking algorithm is going to further sink their claws into people.
Google has updated its search ranking algorithm to "more strongly affect the sites that host explicit videos but don't allow Googlebot to fetch those video files"
"Give us free access to our AI training material or we will derank you!".
Because reports say "Germany" when they talk about some town in the middle of a rape seed field nobody's heard of adopting Linux. Everyone's heard of Limux, the distro for Munich, that was killed by the Christian conservatives for sweet sweet Microsoft money.
I can understand your scepticism, Germany is not the country of innovation and progress these days. However, let's not spread fake news about "Germany wanting Linux for a decade". It simply isn't true. There hasn't been an official statement like this from the federal digital minister... ever. At least not that I can find. That this comes from a Christian democrat is even more astounding.
Whether it will result in anything (he just wants to "raise awareness") and be tabled as soon as this invitation to be lobbied by GAFAM is taken up, who knows. The Christian democrats have promised 100% fiber internet for a decade too and any trip through Germany has always been a lesson in patient with the internet. Hell, rice fields in fucking Vietnam and the middle of the goddamn jungle in South America have had better internet that in the middle of large German cities.
At least, if it's said by the digital minister of Germany, there's a possibility other European countries will listen and actually do more than Germany promised.
I assumed this was going to be a negative article because my experience with canonical was equally disappointing. It only took me one go to drop it though. The pseudo-scientific questions in the online assessment got me so annoyed I was just cursing by the time it was over. Companies with this kind of selection process do not deserve the talent they get.
Shuttleworth's involvement in the recruitment process explains why Ubuntu is such an annoying operating system to deal with. He probably gets involved in wrong places all the time. There likely is some kind of vision, but the dude won't listen to critique, and surrounds himself with yes-men.
Redhat was... not as bad, but there's something equally annoying about yet another opensource company deciding to copy silicon valley recruitment processes, instead of thinking for themselves and trying to be innovative in that regard too.
Anakin Padme meme:
Anakin: I will use agile to plan my project
Padme: 2-3 sprints ahead right?
Anakin:
Padme: 2-3 sprints ahead right?
I've heard it thrown around in professional circles and how everybody's doing it wrong, so.. who actually does use it?
For smaller teams
"scaled" trunk based development
And they want to migrate to piefed? Does it have better performance than Lemmy? That would be hilarious if python were faster than rust.
Anti Commercial-AI license