It's interesting to be cheering good news for Bambu, who have been actively assertive that rules don't apply to them where open source licenses are concerned, unilaterally take away functionality from customers as the price of security updates, and aggressively court influencers whole being reported to actively muzzle them with anti-disparagement or similar clauses. (The report that they have done this for many influencers makes me suspicious of every popular influencer who claims that they themselves have not been so constrained. 🤨) The enemy of my enemy is not always actually my friend, but I can still be glad to see these patent grabs at least somewhat extinguished.
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Further down today’s ranking of Tech posts that are opinions and questions: page 3 of 4.
as far as 'haha ffmpeg wrapper' goes, having a proper GUI for ffmpeg that explains what the options do (and which exist at all) for the one trillion encoders it has would be nice
I’m using TaskWarrior for my project todo lists, and honestly, I’ve been loving it! I’ve been migrating nearly all of things I was subscribing to some app for over to open-source (and free) solutions. So sick of giving everyone else my money and personal data.
The thing is (correct me if I’m wrong) there’s nothing Photoshop does that isn’t a well-known and even easy formula The value is 💯 in presenting a convenient and familiar interface
I hate that so many slopcoded projects get headlines and waves of social media discourse that seem to ignore the fact that the end result sucks ass and doesn’t really work
I know I'm preaching to the choir on mastodon, but I hate how modern media has one button that means "show appreciation to the creator" and "show me more content like this" and also "show this content to other people" I've become so restrictive to what I leave a "like" on because I don't want to fuck up my feeds but sometimes I want to be able to say "thanks for the post" or "other people should see this" without saying "please keep showing me this"
everything that teenage engineering ever did in the music hardware could be out done by a used iPhone with Garageband or a prepaid Android burner or black friday special tablet running Caustic, see: ultraklystron.bandcamp.com/album/music-...
I have been on the Fediverse/Mastodon for nearly 4 years and rarely have people misinterpreted what I have written or simply responded without actually reading what I wrote. And yet Bluesky responders have done that twice in two days related to #BCPoli
How does a boundary rendering update sound? Before: Mixed datasets meant a boundary could be disputed at zoom 8 but not at zoom 4. Now: Single-line boundaries, normalized claimed_by property, merged features with matching attributes. Smaller tiles, same visual output. Every boundary is consistently marked as disputed or non-disputed at every zoom level, and we've cleaned up inconsistencies, like the Korean border. @ianthetechie explains it. #BuildWithStadiaMaps stadiamaps.com/blog/updated-bo…
Software copyright protection is gonna lead us into streaming all our software use isn’t it? It’s all gonna be so convenient and expensive
I really hate how ambiguous and unsafe every operation and action of plastic SCM feels. Like I’m more comfortable using git command line comparatively.
Nvidia saying wayland sucks is expected they've built their entire closed source driver around xorg so naturally it would be worse I would like to see comparisons of amd and intel gpus under wayland vs nvidia that would tell the entire story
No I don’t want to save to the onedrive cloud service, I want to save to my hard drive. The one that’s here. On my laptop.
I just heard that Gravity Linux and Asahi Linux support Macs explicitly and I was thinking “Great! I have a path to getting my old MBP working with linux!” Installing Ubuntu on it didn’t go great. Asahi targets M1 and M2 models and Gravity targets M4 models, though. Mine is a pre-m1 intel model.
I realized today that the reason my MacBook's webcam lens is always smeared is because the industrial design encourages the user to put their finger on it every time they open the lid. Another piece of amazing design from Apple's genius designers
The discord disinformation is so annoying because people are making a reasonable assumption "Oh it wasn't Discord, but it was one of Discord's partners, so it might as well still be Discord' but lol no it isn't even that
i'm going to commit to this, yet... i dont want to... fuck, still flip flopping
Conclusions from spending a little time on Threads: 1. Small accounts can get a lot more engagement than here. 2. Manipulative engagement bait, especially deliberate rage bait, is rampant and rewarded. It’s the whole model. 3. Lots more dumb as shit people over there.
I have to smile as a lot of YouTube videos saying because of the underhand business tactics of Microsoft more people are moving to Linux and discovering that there is a viarable alternative to Windows which is free. I did this over 20+ years ago and never looked back! #linux #windows
It is crazy how one of the strongest selling points of this site is the self moderation tools but bc 100% of the userbase is ex Twitter users it still developed a culture of "blocking and detaching quotes are admissions of defeat, engage with me and my followers trying to dogpile you"
I'm old enough to see VR get signal boosted in the 90s and the 2010s and IMHO it was always being promoted by out of touch dumb asses who are unserious on making people want things. They refused to make VR desirably priced because they stupidly believed consumers would meet them at their bullshit.
while discord should still be slammed, this isnt Discord's fault this time, its the third party app mentioned here's fault.
I really like the new Nova design in Firefox. Will give it a try and might move Back to Firefox from Vivaldi. A big plus of Firefox for me is that it can auto expand the side bar tabs on hover and auto switches dark/light theme in Linux which never worked in Vivaldi for me. And of course havin real uBlock and an independent rendering engine are factors as well. #firefox #firefoxNova #vivaldibrowser #vivaldi
Those weirdos at the office of the tax collector implemented a bunch of obnoxious anti-scraping tech to their property tax bill site, so, for the first time ever, I had to automate this with the chrome testing API. What a drag.
Another bullshit tech blog headline. Satellites will never compete with cellular because they don't work inside--at all, or under cover of trees, or in shadows of tall buildings. If your phone cannot see a broad view of the sky, you're not getting a signal. That's no competition at all.
Maybe the computer god can fix it
Smart home devices sound convenient, but I worry that if a smart home ecosystem in my home was hacked that a thief could easily take everything, lock the door behind them, and I'd have no idea what happened. #tech #Apple
Stolen Device Protection on iPhone is neat because if you're transitioning you can get locked out of options on your own phone even if you have the passcode because your facial appearance and structure are changing. Looking forward to a backup and restore cycle to fix that.
nice that last year Discord warned everyone about the halloween sound change and let you choose whether to enable it and this year they were just like "nah"
If I am old and I miss adobe/macro media fireworks for interaction design prototyping, what should I be using today?
@xpil yeah, Ubuntu is great. I recently upgraded to 26.04.1 and it's been flawless. For screenshots, I just use the Gnome Screenshot tool by pressing `print screen` on my keyboard. Seems to do what I need, but my needs when it comes to screenshots are pretty basic.
Here's a free idea for Github: don't allow bots to do pull requests and pushes. If people want to vibe code, go nuts. But a real user has to submit the PR. These constant outages are not sustainable
I know no one likes the holiday notification sounds on Discord because rather than charge for those, they force them on everyone without warning
The basic problem with social media is that the kind of people you'd want posting on it are generally the same kind of people who make a point of avoiding social media like the plague. You can see their point.
It would appear the keyword for Googlebook reviews is regression. It is everywhere and not in good ways. I suppose it is becoming clear why Google didn't make review units available ahead of the launch. Somewhat torn on whether or not buy a Googlebook at this point and hope they can fix the launch issues or just go back to Windows.
So LG is apparently partnering (or something) with Apple for HomeKit devices. After their TVs were fingered for snooping it would be hard to trust them. Note: LG denies the snooping but the evidence is strong enough to concern me and since there are lots of other chioces of vendors I see no reason to try.
I appreciate how Discord makes the gift button frequently glow or have some special effect so I know which of the grey buttons in the message box to not press at first glance
This is my Framework 13. It's elite
I'm a little miffed someone read something else into a previous post of mine so let me clear that up: gcc is an outstanding project and compiler set. We owe so much to them.
Those who self-host their Fediverse server: any downsides/issues I should be aware of? I'm debating moving to a GoToSocial instance. As far as I can tell, I'll be able to move all followers and whatnot with an acceptable loss, but I'm guessing there's more to it than that
Amazon suspects that I "likely own an iPhone device" (genius) And "Does not read spy thriller often" which is an odd and somewhat inaccurate thing to say.
I'm still in the "I'd rather use text-based programming languages than a visual editor for the majority of the stuff" camp (even this very simple stuff I did turns into an "I need to zoom out to find which nodes to connect" mess). However, drag-and-drop editing with zero setup is pretty convenient. And I guess the more important thing is that "programming language pretending to be something else" can be very attractive for people who consider themself non-programmers.
The metadata within the datasets also informs the composition. A table in one dataset, for example, may declare that it appends rows to an earlier dataset declaration, or it may outright replace that table. retrofit honors this and composes a snapshot with exactly what was requested.
Is something tech seriously worth than printers? We bought a new printer that should be compatible with apple print and everything. Turns out it doesn't print from phones nor apple mac osx nor Linux via ipp. Ipp is not working, and the only thing that works is the plain old lpd with generic gutenprint drivers. What are printer folks doing with their "innovations"? I am fine with lpd and ppd files and likely I like it more than the "magic" things just don't work....
I dislike this particular "dig" at modern webdev. Yes, I agree that sites could do to be more efficient, but the problem space for voyager vs web-dev is VASTLY different. Voyager was a SINGLE computer with an EXTREMELY precise mission plan, and given billions (equivalent) of dollars of investment to program for JUST it. Modern browsers are stupidly complex, all have vastly different APIs and situational needs, and every user interacts differently. A Site's "mission" also changes constantly.
I much prefer the 3:2 aspect ratio over 16:10 or 16:9 for laptops. If you haven't tried one you should. #linux #laptop #framework #hardware
the new fork LibreTorment is so much better tbh
Another banger thread here from the inimitable and under-the-radar mysterious Mx.
I feel like Smart-EX, the official Shinkansen booking website, is the epitome of bad Japanese web design. None of the fields autocomplete, the placeholders are nonsensical (“4 digit number” for what it turns out to be a year field, the month and day fields are unlabelled dropdowns), making you click extraneous buttons to do things that should be automatic… it’s a mess.
You’d think that GitHub would have fixed their broken image attachments in Issue descriptions by now… seems like a P0 regression to me.
