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by commoner 5y ago
Someone who purchases an iPhone does not automatically endorse every single aspect of the iPhone. Many people choose iPhones because they are fashionable, and not for any security consideration. Governments and enterprises contract with ori
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by commoner 5y ago
iFixit's business incentives are more aligned with the interests of consumers than the incentives of manufacturers like Apple who obstruct the repair of the devices they sell. The negligible security difference that Apple is using as a
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by commoner 5y ago
Users who choose to repair the products they own with the parts they want at the price they're willing to pay are not being "manipulated" into anything.
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> With X, all monitors must share the same pix density To get proper fractional scaling on X11 with monitors of different pixel densities, you'll want to use either: 1. GNOME Shell with a patched version of Mutter, which is included
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by commoner 5y ago
VSCode/VSCodium should render sharply with fractional scaling on Wayland, as long as you run the application with these command line options:[1] --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland You probably want to up
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by commoner 5y ago
Release notes: https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-35/ See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29081329
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FewohBee: Open-source hotel management software(fewohbee.de)
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The "Submit feedback" menu entry now links to their ideas@mozilla platform, launched several months ago: https://mozilla.crowdicity.com They seem to be reading and considering some of the suggestions, though none have
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by commoner 5y ago
Mastodon's original developer sent a cease and desist letter to Gab on October 21 for not publishing the version of their codebase that is currently in production.[1] Gab updated their repo in one hour, and later shared the entire code
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In the global smartphone market, the leading Android manufacturers are Samsung (22%), Xiaomi (14%), Oppo (11%), and Vivo (10%). Affecting these percentages: Apple (17%) and other (26%). https://www.counterpointresearch.com/g
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A reminder that Facebook's VP of integrity (Guy Rosen)[1] co-founded the spyware company, Onavo, that Facebook acquired. Onavo made a VPN that collected user activity and delivered it to Facebook.[2] [1] First temporary ( https:/&
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There is no evidence that Element was "made" by the NSA. Element is developed by New Vector Ltd., a UK company.
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Tutorial: Get started with the Android Subsystem on Windows 11(notebookcheck.net)
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> I'd love to see an alternative world where everything has an equivalent open-source software that people can switch to Keep in mind that software doesn't need to be open source to run on Linux. Developers can still support th
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by commoner 5y ago
iTunes chart positions don't mean nearly as much as they used to, since music consumption has mostly shifted to streaming. It's common for meme songs or songs by artists with devoted fanbases to get to #1 on the iTunes chart, but
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by commoner 5y ago
This song is similar to Flatline by B.o.B: - Stream: https://soundcloud.com/bobatl/bob-flatline-feat-neil-tyson - Lyrics: https://genius.com/Bob-flatline-lyrics - Wikipedia: https://en.wikip
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https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr...
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Firefox has enabled hardware acceleration in GNOME Shell by default as of versions 84 (X11) and 85 (Wayland), if you are using AMD or Intel graphics.[2] The feature is enabled in KDE Plasma and XFCE by default (X11 only) as of version 88, a
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Clients like Feeder[1] and self-hosted services like Tiny Tiny RSS[2] (through its Readability plugin) can extract the full text from the source URL. [1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nononsenseapps.feeder&#x
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by commoner 5y ago
I don't see any evidence that Roku is taking 30% of anything. Roku does not require users to use its own payment system for subscriptions of streaming services, including subscriptions initiated from within the channel. Roku help page
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KDE is making an attempt with Plasma Bigscreen: https://plasma-bigscreen.org It runs on the Raspberry Pi 4.
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by commoner 5y ago
No, since Gab does not federate with mainline Mastodon instances anymore.* I'm not sure if Gab discloses its stats the same way other instances do. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25715513
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by commoner 5y ago
If Truth Social is running Mastodon-based code on a server, even if it is a private beta, the source code needs to be made available under AGPLv3 to anyone who can access the service. > d) Convey the object code by offering access from a
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by commoner 5y ago
The bird app (Twitter) calls them tweets, so the Mastodon service decided to call them toots. But, they did rename them to "posts" earlier this year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26882318 I guess this isn&
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If they did update their production code since their last source code release, then you're right, it would be a license violation. I don't know if this is the case. Either way, it is much better to make occasional source code rele
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If Gab really has updated its production code since then, then that's a license violation and they should update their repo. But, I don't know if this is the case. Yes, it's disappointing that they switched from having all fi
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Yes. The other major requirement is that Truth Social must also be licensed under AGPLv3. > c) You must license the entire work, as a whole, under this License to anyone who comes into possession of a copy. This License will therefore ap
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Truth Social should publish its source code. Gab has published its code ever since it switched to being based on Mastodon. There is no justification for Truth Social to continue violating Mastodon's AGPLv3 license. https://c
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Gab already forked Mastodon, and it's not clear whether Truth Social would surpass Gab in popularity. Unlike Truth Social, Gab actually complies with Mastodon's AGPLv3 license by publishing its source code, though in an obnoxious
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by commoner 5y ago
Mastodon has a "profile move" feature that moves all of your followers (on instances that support the protocol) to your new account. However, it will not move your toots (posts). All of your account data can be exported, and every

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