I’m sure the trans people whose lives are now in danger will sleep much better tonight knowing that the blood of those Palestinian children who are going to continue dying because Donald Trump has promised not to even try for a ceasefire isn’t on your hands, because you didn’t vote for Kamala Harris.

I hope you’re fucking happy.

I don’t – what is he doing with the knife? What is happening in the third panel?

not OP but I’m here to confirm the Android version of Krita really sucks ass, especially on phones. It’s a direct port of the desktop version, windows and all, and if a window is too big to fit on the screen, tough luck. switch back to portrait and hope it works there. Krita is also very CPU bound and on my Pixel 7a there is almost a full second of lag between my stylus on the screen and the line I drew actually showing up.

I think they addressed that point pretty clearly. The author says that just because the user experience of sticking your hand into your kitchen and instantly receiving food is fantastic, doesn’t mean that letting someone you don’t know live in your kitchen and only eating what they decide to make you is a good solution, especially since it means you couldn’t use your kitchen (which I believe is a metaphor for your smartphone) for anything else even if you wanted to. Further, those who believe it’s a good solution because it is free and its user experience is good only believe this because they have never known anything else. The author also explicitly states

So that’s the dialectic here. I want people to not have to know about tech stuff. I’m not into the tech-for-tech’s-sake lifestyle. I want it to be easy to use. You just tell the computer what you want and it happens, no need to point and click, let alone configure and make. That’d be great. And hackers and modders could add features and share them and everyone would benefit.

But it’s got to be free, free for reals. Open source, and either decentralized or democratically governed.

The author, I think, is saying that while user experience is a nice goal to pursue, it means nothing if it isn’t open source, and you can’t go around the carefully-crafted VC-funded fancy-but-restrictive UX if you have the skills to do so. Perhaps it is a reach to say that the author prioritizes open source over good user experience, but I don’t think so, and even from the most pessimistic reading of those two paragraphs the author views them as at least equal.

you quoted but reworded (why?).

I quoted and reworded it because I was on mobile and couldn’t copy paste from your comment without a lot of hassle, and didn’t want to retype everything you had typed word for word. Didn’t mean anything by it.

I… these are all good points, but… did we read the same article?

Article seems to ignore that FOSS projects tend not to have the budget to create the UX that VC-funded projects can. … I find prioritizing UX over sharing of source code to be misguided.

The author specifically calls attention to this exact point:

If a weirdo guy moved into your kitchen and blocked you from grabbing a spoon whenever you wanted and instead rented them out to you provided you only ate the gruel he provided, the people who would be most able to see the absurdity in that would be be the people who remember what it was like before. Those who grew up with that system would be “whaddayamean? This is super convienient. I just stick my hand in the kitchen and a spoonful of gruel is shoved into it. Like it, love it, want more of it”. They’d be like “people who don’t have a spoon guy are so gross and so dumb. What the heck are they even? Doing rifling through their own cutlery drawer like some sorta eggheads”.

Is that 3DS jailbroken? If not, you totally should.

Even though your Postgres databases run directly in the browser, we still need to connect to an API that runs the large language model (required for all database interactions).

Fucking for real? You can’t let me just write SQL? I have to talk to ChatGPT and let it write the SQL for me, otherwise I haven’t buzzworded enough buzzwords to make the executives happy?

Damn, not even CEOs are safe

are they wrong tho

Come on. Be realistic. Chrome has 70% browser market share and people are already used to tacking “Reddit” onto the end of their search queries to find useful information. If anything this will have no effect besides steering people towards Google.

Bit by bit Proton is slowly becoming Brave

in answer to your question, this leak is almost certainly fake

I tried to visit the site again when I saw your comment and discovered the DNS record had disappeared between when I wrote that comment and now. Fascinating. It must have been taken down and the change took a while to propagate. Judging by the fact that I could see anything at all before my ISP’s nameserver got the memo, the 404 page that was there seems to still be up even though the DNS record that got you to it is gone – wish I had thought to nslookup it when I still could. If I had to take a guess, though, it probably resolved to the same IP address as the twitter.okta.com domain.

Odd. I get a full fledged HTML 404 page.

EDIT: https://archive.ph/c49ul

are you absolutely positive the democrats give a shit about antitrust regulations? Biden did actively strike break.

I recommend … switching to a more privacy conscious browser such as Google Chrome.

Chrome: mines literally everything about you without telling you, ties your entire browser history to your Google account, and makes predictions based on it, but asks you just this once for permission

Firefox: fights for user privacy for decades, opposes FLoC, and then enables one privacy-friendly reporting technology without warning users

This absolute galaxy brain over here: “Firefox is clearly worse”

so you’re saying i should have anticipated that people might have willingly misinterpreted “that is a stupid position to take and here is why” as “you as a person are stupid” and, instead of telling me why they thought I was wrong, try to get me banned from beehaw as a result?

i would’ve been okay if you’d just said yes and left it at that. but the “actually, you are calling me stupid” really rubs my fur backwards

Exactly. Discord token stealers have been around for ages but no one gives Discord flak about leaving that secret unencrypted.

I don’t understand at all where you’re going with this. Either Beehaw uses Lemmy on the backend or it doesn’t. Either you’re using Ladybird or you’re using a different browser. These are pretty binary choices.

i’m not calling people stupid, i’m calling an idea stupid. is that also not kosher?