One of the big problems social and collaboration platforms is people go to where the people are, like Lemmings, with disregard to principles and ethics. I go to the ethical venues regardless of where the people are. Instead of feeding a harmful network effect, I would rather feed free and open spaces. If I were to contribute to MS Github, I would have to consider myself part of the problem.
That bug tracker is in MS Github - a place I will not go. And I have yet to find an organised or simple way to find downstream trackers. I generally check Debian but when a pkg is not in official Debian then I report to !bugs@sopuli.xyz and !bugs_in_services@sopuli.xyz.
Did you report the bugs on the Lemmy github?
No, and I wouldn’t. I created this community specifically for reporting bugs when bug trackers are in bad places like Github:
Most people are indeed probably using Firefox
The cross-posting problem is specific to Tor Browser, which is Firefox based. But that one was fixed in 0.19.5.
I was actually shocked to recently learn many are using their phones, which often means 3rd party apps (and which would not have any of the stock UI bugs).
0.19.5 only fixes one of the 4 bugs (cross-posting). None of them seem to be mentioned in the change notes.
141 servers are already running 0.19.5
Ungoogled Chromium and Tor Browser are perhaps less popular than they should be.
FCC blocks Tor so I can’t see the page, but I just wanted to mention a hack if number porting is refused for some reason (based on @Yeno@lemmy.world’s hint that it could be): downgrade the vz contract to the full extent possible (ideally make it a prepaid acct if that’s possible, so you can nix the monthly fee). Then dial whatever magic code forwards your vz number to your new number.
I can barely see the point to BIOS passwords. They are slightly useful if you don’t want guests using a machine for some reason. If you don’t have a bios pw, the OS login is good enough unless you need to stop them booting their own media. All desktops are rightfully easy to clear the bios. There are jumpers specifically for this purpose, apart from also just popping out the cr3202 battery or unseating the bios chip (old models). The bios pw does not (and should not) protect from data access at the hands of someone who can open box.
The only failure I see here is the fact that Lenovo tried to make the bios unclearable in the first place, thus increasing e-waste. That’s the real story. The security fail is nothing interesting… it’s the attempt of ecocide that should have the focus.
That’s a hell of a lot better than business people, who use their knowledge of people to exploit them. One great example of this is campaigning to become POTUS right now.
We need leaders who understand technology and who are keen to have technology benefit people rather than exploit them. IOW, a Congress with engineers from the FOSS community would greatly benefit the country (obviously not an engineer who understands people well which they use against people; e.g. people like Zuckerberg, Bill Gates or Matthew Prince).
That is academically interesting about DDG !gov. Though I avoid DDG.
But they will just site costs.
I would like to hear the excuse of the world’s wealthiest country that outspends the world cumulatively on defense by a factor of 10 say “we can’t afford to deploy a search engine” even though some dude built stract.com by himself in his off hours.
… replaced with tech savvy socially conscious individuals …
That’s probably closer to the issue.
Though w.r.t. age, I think the young crowd works against us. In principle the 1980s generation experienced a free and open non-commercialized internet. The millennials and younger started out as corporate pawns and don’t know what a pre-technofeudal internet looks like. But the problem is the leaders are all too low-tech to have experienced the 1990s internet anyway.
/me has a flashback to Neil deGrass Tyson naming off the professional expertise of Congress people and said something like: “business… business… business… law… law… business… where is the rest of life?”
I would say mostly true.
I moved to a region where my lifestyle (accounting for wages, tax, cost of living) was effectively cut in half. Yet it was still the right move. My initial thinking was I will live anywhere for a year to get a different experience - I can always bounce back if I don’t like it… if the pay reduction bothered me. I ended up staying ~10 years.
A big factor is where you are in life. Fresh out of university, it’s important to gain ground right away and perhaps get the house paid for, or nearly so. But once you’re a senior dev and at a point of calling yourself “privileged class" with a decent sized 401k built up (which is great to convert to a Roth while abroad), you’re only cheating yourself out of life experiences by continuing to chase the money. Some research concluded around ~10 yrs ago that people’s overall happiness improves as income increases up until the $55k/year mark. Beyond that, income doesn’t matter much. Of course that would be a little higher now with inflation but I guess the OP has cleared that figure.
I think it was around 15 years ago I started researching typical incomes around the world and I noticed that Japan paid SWEs double the US average. Cost of living was about 50% higher in Japan but it still worked out that a US→Japan move would have been a lifestyle upgrade. So there are some rare exceptions.
Wow… so first #Facebook hijacks the common tech language term “Meta”, then they hijack the term “Threads”. What self-absorbed self-entitled holier-than-thou assholes. It causes the sort of confusion trademark law was invented to mitigate.
I will still call Facebook “Facebook”. What are people calling FB’s “Threads™” in order to reject their brand in favor of unambiguous language?
I think you would benefit most by moving abroad. Staying in one country your whole life is very one-dimensional. If you move to another country, esp. overseas, you will look back on your current boredom as wasting your life and you will regret not having done it sooner. Go for just one year. You can always return if you don’t like it. You might be someone who says “I went for 1 year, but stayed 5”.
But first move to a purple swing state like GA or PA for just a month or two, then move your stuff into mini storage. Two reasons: you get to experience a different part of the US, briefly, and you can register to vote in a place where your future votes will count the most. Because that’s the state you will vote in while abroad. OTOH, isn’t Texas on the edge of being a swing state? It’s probably not a bad place to vote from.
Then study German so you can make sense of the research. Then tell us what it says :)
There is a new law that allows merchants to stop giving paper receipts.
The forced use of e-receipts in Europe (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, England, & Italy)