When it’s reclaimed by natural local nature, then it’s a loss of diversity. More of the same instead of more varied ecosystems.

Man, I hate being “greeted” by popovers.

Not much going well for me these days, but

Screensharing colleague, we open something, and I point out where it is. They say: “How do you always see/find things so fast?”

Yesterday I helped my father find some of my grandparents paper documents and found stuff and he was very glad and relieved and thankful (he was already stressed and frustrated).

Yesterday, I worked too long, but was able to finish something, and reviewed stuff for two colleagues.

and last week it opened ten proposed classes for public comment.

• the document, the proposed rule
• the comment submission form

FYI You posted the same post twice to this community.

You can delete the other one with no comments and fewer upvotes.

Mid term election resulted in democratic party wins, majority in Senate and house.

Previously, Republicans had the majority and enabled Trump and his people.

Now, there is hope for checks and balances, for investigations and consequences.

But the system and people, the voters and political and press systems are still the same. OP cautions about a single win and chance not being persistent or indicative of a long tend.

The new internet they envision. Walled.

Their first mention of Bazzite should link to the project website, but actually links to another unrelated article of theirs. They linked correctly shortly after, though.

but my take is that MS (I was only an orange badge) honestly thought they could do Linux on the back end without anyone noticing.

Microsoft shifted from a Software company to a cloud provider. They didn’t try to hide Linux, they explicitly marketed to support Linux because Linux was already established and liked in server environments.

Company software is still a large part of Microsoft, but even those software products have shifted into the cloud. Office 365, EntraID, etc. Windows pushes users to use online accounts even for local Windows installs, and pushes users to use OneDrive and cloud Office. Windows mainly serves as an onboarding branch now.

Although they also focus on cloud and AI to onboard people onto their services, I’m glad alternative workflows and backwards compatibility are still a thing in their dotnet programming ecosystem and tooling.

I assume Windows Server remains a tool to keep people in the Windows and Microsoft world if they want to or have traditionally done so. I doubt it’s a strategic focus or plans to be novel. They can share the kernel between Windows and Windows Server, making it relatively cheap to maintain.

I wanted to check price, which does not seem to be mentioned in the article, but the “Eco Way” doesn’t seem to be listed on the Seacat Ships website (yet).

I fear Russia may like it globally warmer than Italy.

The upstream news source (nlnet.nl) has the same list of projects, but each list item is expandable with a description (and the project weblink in there).

I don’t use nor need screentime control.

It depends on what your goal is.

I see them as very useful when you want to reduce distractions and unwanted habits. Block specific apps during work hours or in the evening.

For parenting, a simple time limit may be enough, or time ranges may be desirable and reasonable or required.

The things I may prefer to be without I see largely as coping mechanisms. Generally, I can commit to not do stuff, I think. Before forced control, adding barriers to access can be the first barrier to add.

Filed in 2021. That’s such a long timeframe, makes me wonder if inflation is priced in. If they appeal for three years, will it be inflation adjusted or be increased by central interest rates?

In a work business context, the company provides and owns the devices, and for security it needs to monitor not individual person behavior but threat indication and traceability. Network traffic should be routed through a company router to restrict and monitor which device and account talks to which systems and services and to monitor indications of breach.

The logging data must not be endlessly persistend for space usage reduction, data minimization, and eventual privacy. There must not be direct unauthorized access but access must be restricted and reasons must be documented.

When the devices are company owned and the usage announced to shall be only company activities not private activities, the privacy implications are low. If individuals specific behaviors are not monitored but only their broader activities across edges with security relevance and if that information is not accessed without reason, then it’s not a significant private issue but on the other hand remains security relevant anyway.

DNS and network filtering makes sense from a security perspective. If the company can assume only work related tasks are being done they can make reasonable guesses which services or countries will be accessed or internal services may be accessed from.

Parental controls make sense and change with age, parental education, and personality and trustworthiness.

I’m not sure how useful monitoring would be beyond basic indications.

What I would like to have for my own system; I would like to control and monitor which programs can see, read or write which files, services, and network targets. I do use some stuff in that area, but I would like a more obvious, convenient, and secure framework/suite. To protect myself from bad programs (which may not be “bad” initially and for a while). Zero trust means apps should run in minimum environments and access, not inherit the whole user session context and user accessible storage.

F-Droid can check for updates in the background, on a schedule. It’s not the app running the whole.

Dunno if there’s some confusion about that here.

Firefox with uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock.

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this before; not the first time foreign diplomats/politicians get oppresively pressured or attacked.

In this one he does the goodbye loop with the AI himself, then says I love you, and asks the AI to say it back. 🤡

It’s certainly not “real” interviews. But I wonder if they’re using the platforms/AI companies actually use.