hot take but honestly it's easy to be upset about AI usage when basically every company uses it to some level without disclosing it. At least they are honest about it. Also doesn't really specify how they're using it; could just be code reviews or whatever which I hardly consider problematic in any way.
Throwing the entire company and all the good things they do under the bus for this seems like a stupid way to throw the baby out with the bath water. I wish people would nuance it
I despise genAI and their answer is so vague it could mean anything, everything, or nothing.
I'm more disappointed right now that they still seem under enthusiastic about Linux gaming. This has been a giant limitation where they've let Valve steal market share ever since Proton and Steam Deck. It's why I switched from using GOG Galaxy as my primary gaming interface back to Steam. I've even repurchased games I originally bought on GOG on Steam because it's so much easier to play them on my Steam Deck and Linux laptop that way.
They're hiring a guy for Linux gaming. Okay. That should have been five years ago, ten years ago.
Take a look at a comprehensive comparison betweenย Jiraย andย OpenProject, the open source, Europe-based project management platform designed for organizations that value transparency, data control, and long-term digital sovereignty.
Finally, I had time to break free from Spotifyโs tight grip. My main use was for podcasts, so I set up self-hosted solution โ using @nextcloud to host everything needed for the YourPods app on my phone and laptop: asecretcompany.com/yourpods/
YourPods is an iOS gPodder compatible, privacy-first and self-hosted podcast player. Sync your subscriptions and listening progress across all your devices using your own Nextcloud server, manage multiple profiles, and keep your data 100% yours.
Last week, @Karlitschek, CEO & founder of Nextcloud, received the Special Recognition for Contributions to Business & Impact Award 2026 from the @europeanOSacademy.
But this recognition goes far beyond one person. ๐
It belongs to the entire Nextcloud community, proving that open source is competitive, impactful, and key to Europeโs digital future.
The Dutch Nieuwsuur was at the Open Source Policy Summit in Brussels. Frank Feldman from SUSE, Chris Hendriks from OpenCloud and @jospoortvliet was being interviewed about @nextcloud. The item starts at 7:15 and interviews at the Summit at 12:42. npo.nl/start/afspelen/nieuwsuuโฆ
In Duitsland proberen overheden afscheid te nemen van Amerikaanse techbedrijven zoals Microsoft. Ook Amsterdam wil af van Amerikaanse software, maakte de gemeente bekend. Wethouder Alexander Scholtes en Rekenkamer-lid Ewout Irrgang zijn te gast.
@MistralAI FOSS lover 100%, this is constructive criticism from a guy forced into an evilcorp stack at work: FOSS has nothing that can compete with Google and MS yet. I've tried but they're fragmented, non-integrated.
I process hundreds of emails a day and can do a ton of efficient powerful things from a single interface to manage/edits files, meetings, contacts, tasks and more.
The FOSS alternatives: frankly primitive in comparison. Lets catch up!!
Translation: We do a rebranding because we fucked up so phenomenally again and please please please, trust us, we won't screw it up once more, just one more Overwatch bro. Also please don't look up that other fan project. ๐ซฃ
I'm waiting for the fan project of bringing back the real Overwatch 1 again to be mature enough. Blizzard is about as trustworthy as any megacorp at this point, meaning not at all.
Gold mining kills indigenous peoples throughout the world like the Yanomami people of Brazil and Papuans in West Papua. The bloody, violent and greedy landgrabbing that goes on for gold forces indiโฆ
The black-spotted cuscus Spilocuscus rufoniger is one of the most striking and rare marsupials in the world. Known for their soft fur with irregular black spots on a reddish or cream background, thโฆ
RPM Deb Mac and Windoze packages are available on Libreoffice.org
Why use Fathub and Fatpacks,
There is nothing faster to install than the Native Format.
On top Fatpack will not work at all on a number of extremely good systemd free distros. . Flatpak is a universal package format is incorrect, in many cases it also requires specific system lib versions and all to often lists sysd in depends..
As Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, you have highlighted how the Fediverse plays an important part in protecting the EU's #DigitalSovereignty and supporting European alternatives.
Despite decades of promises to end deforestation for palm oil Procter & Gamble or (P&G as they are also known) have continued sourcing palm oil that causes ecocide, indigenous landgrabbing,โฆ
Without policy action and a coordinated global response, ultra-processed foods will continue to rise in human diets, harming health, economies. Itโs time to act.
Ah, Christchurch - we used utility turn off-turn-on records (late 1960's) to track people's housing movements around the city. Such was the world before privacy laws.
For some reason this image is up and down. I suspect this site doesn't want people being directed to their images in order to not have their servers overloaded.
The world is warming. This fact is most often discussed for the Earthโs surface, where we live. But the climate is also changing from the top of the atmosphere to the bottom of the ocean. And there is a clear fingerprint of humanityโs role in causing these changes through greenhouse gas emissions, primarily from burning fossil fuels....
The โwarming stripesโ are one striking and simple way of visually highlighting the resulting variations in Earthโs surface temperature using shades of blue and red for cool and warm, with one stripe per year.
There are a number of white clover patches blooming on the lawn I am mowing but no bees, and there is a coral reef off the coast but not much living there today in Paris it is too hot to survive yet odd traffic hums, tourists are wide-eyed, as always numb in wonder Art, Art for Godโs sake... must survive the end of the bees
posted from tokodon while listening spotify on riff app with newsflash, podcasts and telegram open in the brackground (From pinephone with 2 GB of RAM and an SoC with the latest issue of the datasheet dated at June 2015) @pine64 @postmarketOS @phosh
Valve have put up an official explainer on why we haven't gotten released dates or pricing for the new Steam Hardware like the Steam Machine and Steam Frame.
After wildfires, Belizeโs indigenous people rebuild stronger based on โseโ komonilโ: reciprocity, solidarity, gender equity, togetherness and community.
Humor requires actual intelligence, not merely pattern matching.
I wish people understood that, despite the name, Artificial Intelligence is no smarter than a literal box of rocks. It's pattern recognition and scripting.
I've found that Gemini also has great difficulty staying on track and maintaining a "conversation". It always seems to wander off the train of investigation and on to something related (but different).
Occasional reminder that I send our an email newsletter once every 3 months or so with periodic updates from my art projects. All free and it's never more regular than that, feel free to subscribe here: shanefinan.org/newsletter.html
The next one is coming out tomorrow. You can always read the most recent one at that link above.
Big tech is gambling the economy on AIโฆ and wants a bailout for it
SoSoTheDestroyer : This is my dissection of the AI bubble, including why it's more fragile than most people think it is and why we might be headed for another financial crisis. Oh, and the billionaires want a bailout, because of course they do.
An Astute Summary By One of the Commenters on the Video:
"Remember, that the reason RAM prices have gone up such a large percent is because a massive amount of not-yet-manufactured memory was bought with money that doesn't really exist to be put into GPUs that haven't been made yet, to be installed in data centers that haven't all been built yet, powered by infrastructure that cannot support it sustainably, to satisfy a demand that isn't actually there, in order to generate profits that are mathematically impossible."
Big tech is gambling the economy on AIโฆ and wants a bailout for it Sources Cited Original Video Link: https://youtu.be/n80PdifbbTE Bloomberg (1): https://www.bloomberg.
What about NO.! I use #LINUX at 100% . No need to downgrade to a AI slop vibe coded #windows . Anybody can upgrade to Linux for free. Why should one ever PAY for bad unsecure software again ? Make donations to FSF or other OSS organisations if you use it .
A true computing legend and co-creator of UNIX, B, and Goโtechnologies that shaped the modern software world and still power the bulk of todayโs infrastructure. ๐ป๏ธ๐ฅ
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