By the way, this is what we call free market.

It just pains me to see, remember Chinese websites and software around 2007-2008?

Everybody (aware) looked at that with terror.

Now it’s the same everywhere.

Could they please retire modern Windows UI design?

Those contrasting color squares are not the zen those designers think. UI layout being different in paradigm for every application is not the productivity improvement they think. Using titlebars for something other than titles and control buttons is not optimization. Those buttons being some scratches on the screen barely visible is crap from any PoV I can imagine.

And somebody should explain to them that a good design for a billboard, a good design for a glossy magazine, a good design for a shop front, a good design for an office, a good design for a videogame, a good design for a movie and a good design for a workstation are all mutually incompatible in vast majority of cases.

And again about zen, simplicity, air and all that. I understand they think they are very smart and understanding of aesthetics. But zen would be having clean window borders and clearly visible control elements, for starters. And buttons not being just color squares. And in general solutions being subordinate to functional goals of the UI being usable. Industrial ergonomics are zen.

EDIT: I know it’s offtopic, not interested - keep walking

It’s like saying that bullets and knives being more convenient than bricks for killing people are basic economics.

Doesn’t explain why those brownshirt types have guns and knives and kill people on the streets, while you don’t have those, and the police doesn’t shoot them, and more than that, they’d arrest you were you to do something to brownshirts.

What I wanted to take from this bad analogy is that the systems are designed for troll farms to work, and not vice versa. Social media are an instrument to impose governments’ will upon population. There are things almost all governments converge on, so the upsides of such existing outweigh the downsides.

Our world is dangerous.

I agree. We should realize the following:

1. There are things we are not entitled to.

2. There are things we are entitled to.

3. There is Nintendo’s opinion on which is which.

4. There’s someone else’s opinion on which is which.

5. There’s law which should be a dignified compromise between these.

6. The law may or may not be such a compromise.

7. Our obligations before law mirror our rights.

8. Our engagement with law mirrors our participation in forming it.

9. We have been robbed of that ability and raise our voice where it matters.

10. Hence Nintendo’s opinion and said law don’t matter shit.

Yes, I do think that.

I agree, this particular trait of today’s tech industry in this particular case works in our favor.

For other political and social factors - not so much.

It works.

Other than that:

Except all clients suck balls and there’s nothing to see there yet.

In favor of what is the problem. In Lemmy half the instances have defederated from half the others.

People use Reddit because there’s only one Reddit. Coming to such a center is human nature, while Fediverse architecture is someone’s strategy. Changing your strategy is simpler than changing human nature.

If we drop the tech religion part of the subject, NOSTR moderated communities are a very good thing as a global, not per-instance, Reddit alternative. You can clearly see that its core idea is chosen by people who are more confident with human psychology than with tech. And it’s good for that very reason. It’s an ugly real solution.

Except all clients suck balls and there’s nothing to see there yet.

If that happens, they are going to see a lot of things seemingly from the past connected to union activity though.

Not just strike breakers being hired (some of tech work is not that demanding in expertise, think typical Hindu web devs), but also actual spies, saboteurs, hitmen being involved, propaganda attacks, possibly legal attempts to bust unions and use of force. And, of course, crucial positions in union bureaucracy becoming attractive for organized crime (which likely has very few of people associated with it ever convicted, as in mostly invisible until it’s too late).

Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it. Just the more adult level of the game. Considering that the tech industry is at the core of our civilization now, and considering its profits, this can get as historic as battle of the Blair mountain.

I think they port FreeBSD’s network card drivers to Haiku. So this may affect it positively too.

Other than the obvious reasons that Linux is not everyone’s piece of cake - just to have alternatives ready in case it becomes like Chrome.

No they don’t, Netflix and NetApp and I think somebody else have contributed back significantly.

Also a system intended to run exactly one application in one moment with direct access to hardware is likely not very rich on possible contributions.

I’ve said in another comment that you got it wrong and how. It’s the other way around with things not getting updated - the stuff in MacOS is old, not the stuff in FreeBSD. But that doesn’t matter, because what Apple took from FreeBSD it actually does release among other things from time to time under their own license, only it’s of no use for anyone, because their real proprietary strength is the Cocoa layer and GUI. If they used Linux, they would still not be obligated to release the sources for those. I think you see the problem with your reasoning, knowing that.

So there were parts of the kernel taken directly from FreeBSD

That would also be true for Windows NT, and many other systems to be honest, because BSD is where TCP/IP support in Unix originated, it had the best implementation (or maybe not the best, but the de-facto reference one).

and OSX was designed around it

No, that’s not true, you are not paying attention.

It has its userland (that’d be Unix tools like cp, ls and find) from some fossilized version of FreeBSD and not updated a lot since that. It’s not much. How do you think, would FreeBSD benefit from their fixes in ls? It’s the other way around, FreeBSD’s userland is much better.

Their actual kernel (XNU) sources they, despite not being obligated, release from time to time.

But say they used Linux, there still would be nothing to force them to release their drivers’ sources or their GUI’s sources (which are closed).

You could have made your case with Sony (I’m still not sure if that’d be of much use), but not with Apple.

Apple doesn’t use that much of FreeBSD, and what they use hasn’t been updated in ages.

And I don’t think there’s much sense porting FreeBSD device drivers to Linux, I think they are different enough. And the article is about things most important for device drivers and other kernel-level things.

A-and all that money is basically scammed out of hype over something that won’t be the thing people think it will be, because that would be a magic wand for everything.

When they mean artificial intelligence, they mean some kind of self-designing civilization, except it does their bidding. Goethe’s Zauberlehrling comes to mind.

And a lot of money does find a way to do things, just like a lot of effort applied does find a way to break something. Except the curves are not linear, and no amount of effort and money has allowed us to settle Mars yet.

Seamonkey is still kinda alive.

That said, GOG releases is the most common kind on torrent trackers where there are any.

So - there is virtue to commercial concerns, but not in the way that assropes customers.

It’s really good news that there’s another company behind Wayland now.

RH frankly directs it against people using “marginal” setups and applications, thus less influenced by it, and not for some ambitious goal.

Valve tend to be well-meaning guys. Anyway, in this case it’s in their business interest to be well-meaning.