iOS has always been on the other side of that threshold (with some recent moves to maybe put it within reach again).
Windows and Android are both teetering.
If I was to make a prediction it would be that you should expect to see less free software on those platforms in the coming years, and even existing ones will begin to slowly rot.
The state of software distribution in 2024 is pretty miserable.
Mandatory code signing on platforms breaking any kind of asset reproducibility while adding dependencies on a multitude of unauditable third party authorities.
Mandatory verification on mainstream appstores requiring endless navigation on increasingly nonsensical forms attempting to align the organizational info some data broker scraped from yellow pages in 2020 with actual reality (no really that office doesn't exist anymore).
Hi everyone! I just wanted to give you a heads up that Perforce has forcibly seized control of the #Puppet Community Slack. They've banned me and removed the Community team and all moderators. This means that there is currently no spam or harassment moderation. It means that the community no longer has the ability to limit monetization. And it means that Perforce has direct access to your account info and no longer needs to go through the Community team when they need sales and marketing leads.
We, the anonymous editors of the Stallman report, have published our investigation of Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation today to a general audience:
Our report exhaustively catalogues, analyzes, and offers a rebuttal of Richard Stallman's political program of sexual violence, catalogues credible allegations of misconduct, and documents the misconduct of the #FSF circa 2019 and 2021. Please read and share our work.
Boosts encouraged.
October 14th, 2024 Richard Stallman (aka “RMS”) is the founder of GNU and the Free Software Foundation and present-day voting member of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) board of directors and “Chief GNUisance” of the GNU project. He is responsible for innumerable contributions to the free software movement, setting its guiding principles, organizing political action, and directly contributing to a flourishing free software ecosystem. The majority of Stallman’s political activity has been of priceless value to society at large.
I love this!
"One day, Linus accidentally attempted to use his hard drive to dial the university, resulting in his master boot sector starting with "ATDT" and the university modem-pool phone number. After recovering from this, he implemented file permissions in his kernel."
https://lwn.net/Articles/928581/
In Arizona armed goons force the closure of a Democratic field office. In North Carolina they drive away FEMA responders trying to aid hurricane victims. These are not two separate stories. Trump’s Brownshirts aren’t coming; they’re here.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4929899-arizona-democrats-office-closed-after-shooting/
This memo describes errors often found in both the operation of Domain Name System (DNS) servers, and in the data that these DNS servers contain. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
I asked 23andMe to delete my data. Here is my adventure!
After failing their super secure "tell us your birthday" additional check, I emailed customer support. They asked for a copy of my ID which I refused to give them, telling them that two-factor auth should be enough and that I live in the EU. They then replied agreeing to delete my data but that by law (!) they had to keep my samples and test results. I'm married to a lawyer, so I asked @AugustB to look into it:
I bet my girlfriend that this picture of our cats could get 10 billion boosts on Mastodon.
She said she doesn't believe me. She said there's only 15 million accounts on Mastodon. She said there aren't even 10 billion people on Earth. She said it concerns her that I struggle to comprehend large numbers.
Let's prove her wrong everyone. Boost away and show her just how awesome the Mastodon community is.
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The Stallman report
Charlie Stross
James Gleick
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Matthew Haughey
Valerie Aurora
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