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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

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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

@drewdevault I recently watched a video by Trafotin where installs Alpine Linux on a desktop. https://peertube.tv/w/1dp1WNyCaktmj9RwHzPSHG

Alpine is a quiet and unassuming distro, yet it does everything I need while being up to date and stable. I've only used Alpine in the context of cloud services, but I intend to test to experiment with it on a low power machine and see how it compares to Fedora or Debian.

Installing Alpine Linux as a Desktop OS

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Gray 🩶Jul 25, 2023

@goobemaster Woah! haha, my first experience using DP was when I moved to a 2K 144hz monitor and my old spec HDMI cables couldn't handle it.

Similar situations led to both of us using DP, and my ideological reasons are leading me to fully phase out HDMI (even where DP is overqualified). Just knowing that a DP cable is able to accomplish my needs is reassuring. With HDMI, I would have to trial and error test my box of HDMI cables to find a capable high spec cable.

Gray 🩶Jul 25, 2023

@Natureshadow Yep!

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Gray 🩶Jul 25, 2023

@kainoa Oho, clever!