Matti Saarinen

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"We didn't include a printed manual because everything you need to know about this device can be found at this dead link."

@fireborn Also, you say you want to love Linux, but seldom will any non-techie consumer love it. Linux really is just a kernel (or to be generous, a kernel with an ever-fracturing distro maintainer priesthood attached). The GUI has no consistency to users, which means they can't learn transferable skills on it, and the proof is that 98% of all "Desktop Linux" help/howto posts focus on the command line.

Even worse, anyone writing a 'Linux' app has to contend with 35 different package-maintainer priesthoods who are telling you (often nonsensically) you did x, y or z wrong and change it NOW or our user base will lambaste you on forums forever. Then at some point you realize the packaging systems were all intended for use by sysadmins or engineers and not regular PC users because underneath this is really a Unix server culture.

Selling people on "Linux desktop" is like selling them on "AC Delco cars"... you are focusing on one part that is buried inside the OS that the user experiences.

Amerika ruttnar inifrån

Skämt att tala om ”vitt folkmord” i Sydafrika • Trump visar öppet sin rasism.

HBL
The smoke is not yet the right color...

https://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/art-2000011124701.html

"Väheneminen osuu myös kotimaiseen musiikkiin, kun esimerkiksi erillisiä studiotaltiointeja ei enää tehdä.

Myös radio-ohjelmat vähenevät. Muun muassa Laiskanlinna – Tero Liete ja Ruben Stiller päättyvät ja radion musiikki­ohjelmistoa kevennetään."

Tiedän myös, että ainakin jazzpastori Markku Salon avustajasopimus päättyi. Mitähän vielä menetyksiä tuleekaan musiikkiohjelmien kohdalle?

Ainakin nämä ohjelmat loppuvat Yle-leikkausten myötä

Leikkausten myötä Ylen ohjelmatarjonta supistuu.

Helsingin Sanomat

The state of California is warning 23andMe customers to delete their data because odds are good that the company is going to go bankrupt.

If I were you I would prioritize doing this.

https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-urgently-issues-consumer-alert-23andme-customers

Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers

Californians have the right to direct the company to delete their genetic data OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued a consumer alert to customers of 23andMe, a genetic testing and information company. The California-based company has publicly reported that it is in financial distress and stated in securities filings that there is substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.

State of California - Department of Justice - Office of the Attorney General

Learned about https://messwithdns.net/ today. Very cool for testing some DNS ideas I was playing with.

Thanks, @b0rk!

mess with dns

Many European governments are in the process of moving most of their INTERNAL communication to US controlled servers, in full view of the US intelligence apparatus. The political situation in the USA is however not going to get any less scary. Any (forced) migrations over summer might no longer be very wise. https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/26/europe_has_second_thoughts_about/
Under Trump 2.0, Europe's dependence on US clouds back under the spotlight

Interview: Technologist Bert Hubert tells The Reg Microsoft Outlook is a huge source of geopolitical risk

The Register

University professor, circa 2010 : You can’t trust Wikipedia. You cannot use it for your essay.

University professor, circa 2025 : Here are powerpoint sildes on how to use ChatGPT to do your essay.

Personal conclusion: the only problem with Wikipedia was that it was not corporately owned and that it had no marketing budget.