Open Office? 2008 called, they want their office suite back.

From what I understood this is the old chat control, not the 2.0 kind.

And that one had been with us for what? 5 years? Before it finally expired in March.

And while I am certainly not a fan, the two are not to be confused.

Chat Control 1.0 means Facebook, which normally is forbidden by law from scanning your private messages, is allowed at least to look there for CSAM.

Do you believe that Facebook respects the privacy of your messages? I didn’t think so. This one was even voluntary (for the platform, not the user).

So that one might come back. This time maybe with age verification.

Chat Control 2.0 is the one they’ve been trying to pass for years and failed. That one at some point threatened to backdoor encryption, which would have, even massively worse consequences. Then they tried to plant the idea that they would save encryption, but scan the photos on your phone before sending using an image classification model. Which is better than backdoored encryption, but still a mindbogglingly bad idea, much worse than server side scanning of unencrypted Facebook messages.

That’s outrageous!

Can I ask you which countries? I can see mandating an active job search, but picking which website you have to use seems like the kind of stuff that could be taken to court.

And LinkedIn is just about the worst possible pick…

Nah, just someone who cares more shut helping than I care about making sure everyone knows how much better I am.

Good luck with your revolution, it sounds like you’ll have a blast putting people into camps!

I was talking in principle, more than in the specifics.

And I am very willing to believe you with respect to Photoshop, as I have never used it (I have occasionally tried, and failed, to use GIMP). My graphical needs have always been better served by vector graphics e.g. Inkscape.

I have used Windows extensively (and still have to from time to time), and it’s usability is at least as bad that of a (sane) Linux distro (OK, not Gentoo). It’s just it’s usually bad in different ways. Windows is exactly the case where it’s about getting used to the badness, rather than about it being superior.

Accessibility, on the other hand? That’s still better on Windows.

Sometimes it’s usability walls, but sometimes a user just so adjusted to the poor usability of the market leaders, and struggles to work with a more sane UI.

Dude, honestly, cut the crap.

I am exactly in the team that makes an open source entrant competing against a closed source incumbent. We’re talking about data acquisition and inspection with certain kinds of scientific instruments.

I personally like our software much better, also it’s much easier to extend since it’s written with pyqt and numpy.

But our customers are busy people, with complicated and efficient workflows built with the competition.

Every time they get stuck because the UI is unfamiliar or because a feature is missing (all niche use cases, but everyone has a mission-critical corner case so…) they are wasting time they don’t have, to work around stuff that would have been easy if the stuck with the competition.

Just replying to them “Skill Issue” is not going to cut it. If acted 20% as insufferable as you, I’m not sure we would have any customers.

no native toolbar widgets

I’m pretty sure he’s talking about client-side decorations.

I think he is posting from 1999, objecting to the use of the Qt libraries under the GPL-incompatible QPL licence.

It’s the best guess I have.

And indeed, KDE 1.0 didn’t look all that good.

Imagine the management of Fiat not going around in a Panda…

But I mean why? Used in this way, AI systems are just another static analysis tool.

Sure, a computationally inefficient one, but if you can get the signal/noise region high enough, anything that helps you find bugs seems fair game to me.

One has to review their work, and take any fix offered by the slopmachine with a lot of care, of course.

And Anthropic is a bad company, but we are talking about detecting security vulnerabilities in Firefox by wasting Anthropic money. That seems like win-win.

The only downside (and I admit it’s big) is that Anthropic gets some publicity out of this.

They are talking about specific hardware features. Which would of course be great, but you can imagine how they are not exactly at the toppiest toppy top of Fairphone’s priorities, when they are still struggling to be taken seriously by your mainstream Android buyer.

Consider that every hardware features is extra hard for Fairphone, on account of their very specific commitments to materials sourcing, labor practices, and longer term support.

They are a company with a lot of very complicated demands, for a still very low volume of sold devices. They need to pick their battles, and clearly being blessed by the church of Graphene can’t be that high a priority.

My Thinkpad from 2017 keep getting firmware updates through lvfs for like 7 or 8 years. I was pretty impressed actually.

Are you… Me?

Wilbur, IIRC is the name of the mascot.

You can do NFC payments on degoogled Roms using an app called Curve.

/e/OS on Fairphone allows locking the bootloader.

I even installed it two years after purchase on my own phone, and relocked the bootloader, of course with the same caveat.

NFC payments are possible with Curve.

I use Arch, BTW.

So, I use a FP4 with /e/OS and I like it.

First things first: some things will break. Not many, and not often, but it happens. Mostly Google stuff, but on Android a lot of stuff is Google stuff.

Recently GMaps wasn’t working for a little longer than a week. I was still able to use HERE WeGo (my current favorite) and others even with Android Auto, so it was no problem for me, but still.

Banking apps and such almost always work, but there is a non-zero chance that one of those will break, even for a short while. I have three banking apps and they work flawlessly, plus itsme (Belgian gov app) and a German health insurance (this one refuses to login with fingerprint, but pass works).

Android Auto works, but I don’t think I ever managed to get Chromecast to do anything.

You do get something in exchange. The privacy improvements are there, and the OS-level adblocking as well.

But you have to accept that occasionally there will be a nonzero level of discomfort.

You could keep the old phone around for the apps that don’t behave, or you could use the old phone to test /e/OS before ordering.