m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@neural_meduza Лучше такие новости культуры чем настоящие. Только что пришла рассылка «Премьеры недели» и два фильм из трёх — об Иване Грозном. Вряд ли ведь был какой-то госзаказ, ну правда же? 🤭

@pankraz
There were a lot of "controversies" like that, e.g.: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/issues/1722
But I don't remember any being enforced by Google.
They did ban Element once for the reasons very similar to the ones in the opening post: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/google-play-bans-open-source-matrix-client-element-citing-abusive-content/
I get why most developers can't just ignore Play Store, but their policies look totally nuts to me 🤪
@hierarchon @mcc

@internetoftrash Doesn't look too fishy to me. Most likely they've used microcontroller from some other device and didn't rename it properly. The vape device I used to have even allowed software updates, so this interface is most likely even useful.
Charging these devices over USB is a bad idea in general, their boards often get fried this way, it's best to remove the batteries if they are removable and use a proper charger.

@sneak Sad to hear. Apple used to have a knack for striking the right balance between hiding rarely used stuff in the GUI (you did have to use plist editor or something like that from time to time, but not too often) and dumbing everything down, looks like they've lost it 😢

@dave Well, compared to artillery from the 50-ies and tanks from the 60-ies that 🇷🇺 army starts putting to use recently this is bleeding edge 🤣
TBH, I was puzzled on seeing these guys being moved by railroads. I remember reading about these vehicles when I was a school kid, even at that time they were aged. What use do they have in modern warfare? They are most likely completely useless against UAVs and 🇺🇦 didn't have a sizeable airforce that required excessive AA 🤷

@sneak Is it still that bad? It used to be very good and fully-functional, you could do anything with it: manage Apple Raid and CoreStorage, create, format and even resize partitions, make images of partitions and empty sparse images. I had Paragon Hard Disk Manager, but I barely used it, Disk Utility was more than enough, then in 10.11 or 10.12 they made it too basic, but I stopped using anything Apple since then, I don't even know what it looks like now 🤷

@Synclair Even if we assume that it really uses some clean energy with lesser carbon footprint at night time, I still can't imagine any reasonable use case for this feature: you plug your phone into a wall charger, but you do not want it to charge the battery… But you still want to keep it plugged… Why?! 🤪

@s0 First I was like "yeah, that's cool", but then… directional HDMI cables 😱

@s0 Wow! 😲
Is aluminium even a good material for speaker case? I was always pretty confident they use wood because it's supposed to act as a sort of resonator, at least for speakers that have bass reflex design 🤔

@s0
You sure do! I still have a bunch of old Macs with that 😁
It was great for its time, but the DMA thing was always a double-edged sword: it was a lifesaver as you could connect devices like sound cards to laptops — CPUs weren't that powerful so USB was a bad option, but it was also a security breach.
Now it's obsoleted by Thunderbolt which is basically PCI Express and they've probably made it negotiable between devices, I wonder how it actually works though 🤔
@futzle

@thor Same here, I don't get the natural language processing hype at all! Computers act in precise and hard-coded ways so the interface to interact with them should match it — like pressing different buttons. They are not as flexible as human beings (and they'd better stay this way) so interacting with them the same way as you would with a human being is the worst of both worlds 🤷
Having it as an accessibility feature or using it for devices like smartwatches is cool though!

@s0
I know, that wasn't the point, but FireWire is a security nightmare of its own — it has DMA 😅
@futzle

@annika Conversations like that started happening to me a lot more often recently. This and "oh, look this (thing that you hated when it was popular) was so much cooler than (more current thing that you hate too), right?" 😅

@thendrix
Gives you warm an FUZZY feeling and looks cool on photos, what can go wrong? 🤭
@vaartis

@Gina OMG, so that is why my mom was complaining that her calls to colleagues don't come through. She was confident that something is wrong with her connection, it's your post that made me look up some news about WhatsApp being down. Da-a-amn, what kind of info bubble I must be living in 🤣

@thor
Although it looks like nowadays it's just building something upon huge building blocks developed by someone else — I bet it's pretty boring too 😩

@thor
> LOB software or web services
IMO the most boring useless stuff you can imagine. Most software development jobs I've had were either about low-level system software or dealing with huge data sets in near-realtime so it had interesting tasks too. And even with that I was constantly questioning myself: is what I do pointless? Honestly, I don't know how the ones who do web development or business software cope with their lives.
Even big data and machine learning don't sound that bad 🤷

@itzzenxx Oh, don't! Although that system is perfectly functional, it's not my daily driver. It was all staged for joke's sake, I'm not even that much of a Windows guy 😅
TBH finding a Mastodon instance that is displayed correctly in a browser supported by Windows 2000 was a real challenge! Firefox dropped support for Win2k long ago, last version doesn't support modern encryption algos and has outdated certs. This is K-meleon that uses backported engine from Palemoon, it works surprisingly well!

@RL_Dane iLife was free I think. And it came with a trial version of iWork. You could upgrade it to full when Mac App Store was introduced as it couldn't tell those apart 🤭
Tiger looked super-cool! Today the stripes look old fashioned, but 10.5 felt wrong without them. TBH I think they didn't look that prominent on real screens as they do now on screenshots, the fact that default screen gamma was changed from 1.8 to 2.2 to match Windows in Mac OS X 10.5 might have contributed to that 🤔

@aetios Let's not forget this battery case with "nice" bump. And what's really strange is that all three of these abominations happened to be introduced about the same time:
— When do we introduce all the poor design decisions?
— Okay, now is the time! 🤣