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Gray 🩶Jul 26, 2023

Erik Uden 🚩Jul 19, 2023

@sneexy big tech is the reason you can access the internet! A non-profit version of online social communication without ads, data harvesting, or algorithms is unthinkable and quite frankly I believe impossible!

Under no circumstances would a non-corporate internet be capable of even existing! We should thank Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg, the founding fathers of our internet!!!

Never take money from corporations. It's theirs, and their monopoly position is necessary to keep the internet running. A people built alternative maintained through collective code contribution in open source platforms is frankly utopian and will never be real or easy to use.

Gray 🩶Jul 26, 2023

Erik Uden 🚩Jul 19, 2023

There's this dangerous open source code I need to warn you people against. There are so-called Microsoft Activation Scripts capable of activating Microsoft Windows and Office without a license key which I must heavily warn against. The pain programs like these evoke in me torrent into my body every time I hear about them! As a cybersecurity researcher it is important for me that the software industry stays alive, especially big tech such as Microsoft who built the foundation of our electronic frontier when it comes to develognument.

GitHub - massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts: Open-source Windows and Office activator featuring HWID, Ohook, TSforge, and Online KMS activation methods, along with advanced troubleshooting.

Open-source Windows and Office activator featuring HWID, Ohook, TSforge, and Online KMS activation methods, along with advanced troubleshooting. - massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

GitHub

Gray 🩶Jul 25, 2023

stolen memes from outside fedi Jul 10, 2023

KDE:

Microsoft has blatantly copied us in Windows 11, and as a result, people are starting to see Plasma as a cheap clone of Windows again. (...) Making the panel float by default provides an immediate visual differentiation from Windows 11 and we hope this will help jolt users’ brains out of “ew, it’s slightly different from Windows 11” mode and into “wow, this is new and cool and I wonder what’s in it” mode.

https://pointieststick.com/2023/05/11/plasma-6-better-defaults/

Microsoft:

Microsoft is preparing to launch Windows 12 (...) with several new design ideas, including a new desktop experience with a ‘floating’ taskbar. Microsoft wants to create a floating effect for the taskbar by separating it from the desktop and rounding off the edges.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2023/07/02/windows-12-microsoft-quietly-hints-at-next-gen-windows/

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Plasma 6: “Better defaults”

The 2023 Plasma sprint is now finished! KDE Patron Tuxedo Computers were kind enough to open their offices to us for a full week to do the sprint. We had some great conversations with Tuxedo employ…

Adventures in Linux and KDE

Gray 🩶Jul 25, 2023

Emma (IPG)Jun 13, 2023

all software is free software if you're good at ghidra and don't care about the dmca

Gray 🩶Jul 25, 2023

Emma (IPG)Jul 25, 2023

matrix is so secure. if my client can't even decrypt my message, the feds have no way of doing it!

Gray 🩶Jul 25, 2023

Neil E. Hodges Jul 25, 2023

Good coding practice: don't write bugs.

Gray 🩶Jul 25, 2023

I've fallen down the #FOSS rabbit hole so hard that I'm phasing out the use of HDMI in my lab because it is a proprietary audio/video interface.

<hj>Cackles while ordering a dozen DisplayPort cables</hj>

Gray 🩶Jul 24, 2023

Asus is refusing to fix a flaw in their motherboard firmware that causes the boot process to take upwards of a minute, or fail entirely (on my specific laptop model). After three years and countless support requests resulting in "restart your PC" and "install windows" from useless techs, I'm done. Dozens of others online have reported this exact issue on this exact hardware to Asus yet it still has not been patched.

No more Asus for me. Never again.