Yandex is Russia’s Google, sold in 2024 to Russian oligarchs with close state ties, so I’d say it’s justified to criticize this particular sponsorship business

There’s some good bits about Belarus.

In the memo, ahead of the campaign’s launch, executives grappled with whether to include public disclosures about “secondary” use – water used in generating the electricity to power its datacentres.

They warned that full transparency was “a one-way door” and advised keeping AWS’s projections confidential, even as they feared that their advice could invite accusations of a cover-up. “Amazon hides its water consumption” was one negative headline the authors anticipated.

Callaghan said efficiency savings have already been achieved and pointed out that other companies also don’t count secondary water use.

Scientists balked at the selective disclosure and the choice not to include secondary use of water in the total.

(there’s also Ladybird but Servo is more exciting as the Rust one that used to be supported by Mozilla and now by the Linux Foundation)

omnixy, a NixOS fork of omarchy (which aims to serve the best defaults) that isn’t maintained by a fascist

I think the main thing is touchscreens

always has been

unsheathes

for niche communities so small and so tech-nonliterate that simply have no chance of being on the fediverse i went to tumblr instead

(for package management, not weird concerns like “they’re adding an entire http library to audacity for this so they must be in the process of using it for something else”)

telemetry and a reverted privacy policy change that lost some goodwill, but i agree

…through what i mentioned. audacity for now!!

i’ve never had noticeable lag in audacity besides a niche crash that got fixed. though the cloud storage thing never ever worked for me. it’s nice though and you still save locally instead of to cloud by default. plusi think the musehub thing is kinda explainable with the proprietary effects marketplace they added to musehub, and it’s not like audacity plugins were always foss anyways

i mean they were using the rather old wxwidgets

they backtracked on the privacy policy and said they had really overzealous lawyers that they somehow mistrusted lawyers doing so “out of an abundance of caution” so i’m still giving them one final chance here since that issue was resolved rather quickly (within two weeks, which is why i’m not absolving them and giving them a chance, but it’s been uneventful since 2021 so i think that strike’s gonna expire in a year)

and i don’t think the telemetry was every an issue since it was always going to be opt-in

tenacity does not have the rally useful beats and measures feature for some reason

i’ve yet to meet a single person who uses tenacity

If you have not ran a database update (any y after -Sy), pacman will fetch the version that is compatible with your _ current_ installed dependencies.

on “inoperable”:

Inoperable weapons are treated as though they’re operable in New Zealand if modifications could make them workable again. The pistols were judged by gun regulators to be potentially operable and were destroyed,

but lispppp 😩

I like Kotlin as a functional language

(thx 4 the writeup)

Guix scares me because of all the Lisp and replacing systemd with GNU Shepherd which also uses Lisp

Kirk definitely has Trump’s ear. He just doesn’t seem to use it which might be why I think he’s a lot less insane than Loomer. He’s also definitely way less insane than Fuentes who tried to brand Kirk a Fascist in the former’s “Groyper” movement to drive everything further right.