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[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Yeah, I think the confusion is assuming that it's only a genocide when it targets specific subgroups inside a population. It also applies in terms of national groups (whole or in part). This means any attack that intents to kill civilians of a country (or that at least intents to not make any distinction between civilian or not) is a genocide.

For example, that list also includes genocide of Ukrainians by Russia.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Like many things, unfortunately, much of computing is run on feelings, tradition, and group loyalties, when it should use facts, evidence, and hard numbers.

So true...

Though I'd say "feelings" is ultimately what always determines the objective... but the means to reach that objective should always be based on facts, evidence and hard numbers. Not tradition nor group loyalties (nor whether any particular group "betrays" any particular preconception we might have had of them).

I honestly couldn't care less what the management of Mozilla thinks.. I only care about the actions they take that affect the software I use. I agree that we're still better off with Firefox. The alternatives at the moment are either worse, lacking or counterproductive to the development of their common base.

I'm keeping my eye on the likes of qutebrowser and ladybird (I would have added netsurf too, but I've been waiting on that one to catch up to the level that I'd need for far too long to have any hopes).

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Is the data and public keys being replicated in the communication between instances? it's not made clear how the federation actually works, because "enabling users on different servers to share data with end-to-end encryption" (from https://foks.pub/) is something all services with TLS / HTTPS support already do...

Also.. one big plus for the OpenPGP HKP protocol is that technically you can self-host your own key in a static HTTPS server with predefined responses and be able to have it interact with other servers and clients without issue. I'm expecting the more complex nature of FOKS might make self-hosting in this way difficult. I'd rather minimize the dynamic services I expose to the outside publicly if I'm self hosting.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If that approach is enough then tail -f /var/log/* could work too with multiple files, it'll "follow" all the files and display only new lines.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I feel that generally, when the issue is that the person is an arse, then the complaints are often not about the software. You might see people campaigning to boicot the software out of spite, but they won't give you a technical reason, other than them not wanting the creator to get any credit for it.

When the complaints are about discrepancies in the way the software is designed (like it was with systemd), there's no reason to expect the person to be an arse. Though him not being an arse does not make the criticism about his software invalid... in the same way as him being an arse would not have made the software technically worthless. Don't fall for the ad-hominem.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I don't know why they are downvoting you, it's true. I'm dealing with this kind of problem currently.. sometimes the boot lasts forever to the point that I have to use AltGr+SysRq commands to force kill everything.. other times it simply boots as normal. It's not consistent at all.

At least before with the old init it was relatively simple to dig into the scripts and make changes to them.. I feel now with systemd it's a lot more opaque and harder to deal with. I wouldn't even know how to approach the problem, systemd-analyze blame does not help, since the times I actually get to boot look normal. But I do believe it must have to do with the mountpoints because often they are what takes the longest. Any advice on what should I do would be welcome.

Also, I have a separate Bazzite install in my living room TV, and while that one does not get locked, sometimes NetworkManager simply is not running after boot... I got fed up to the point that I wrote a workaround by creating a rc.local script to have it run, so I can have it available reliably when the system starts (that fixed it.. though some cifs mountpoints often do not get mounted.. so I'm considering adding the mount command to the same rc.local script too....).

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

In case someone somehow didn't know yet: https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

I feel we are gonna need to reach at least that 1.4M with all the companies being against it and actively lobbying. I bet they they are gonna be extremely nitpicky with the signatures to invalidate as many as possible.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Or not buying any new Ubisoft game that requires online. I don't want to buy something that they are gonna destroy.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

How does this have anything to do with "impact driven development"?

I think the person is either misunderstanding the purpose of the indicator or has PTSD from seeing that kind of highlights somewhere else. This only highlights what the user has installed recently so that they can find where in the menu was it added. It's tied to user action, not the developers of the app doing any update or anything like this..

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

What qualifies as "expert" setting can be very divisive.. for me, it would be removing this menu entirely. Or even switching from KDE to sway or similar ^^U

But if I was the kind of people that do use this kind of menus I would probably find that kind of indication useful. It helps finding the category the app you just installed belongs to. If you install an educational app/game that teaches programming by giving instructions to a turtle in order to draw a graphic/picture (I think I have seen something like that before): which category should it be at? games? education? development? graphics?

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

How does this give incentive for that?

My understanding is that this only happens in newly installed apps, not recently updates ones. They are only highlighted because the user installed them, not because the developer did anything.

It's a screenshot of the application launcher, the menu to launch apps already installed, not the software store.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

It's more about which category a particular specific software belongs. If a kid installs an educational app/game that teaches programming by giving instructions to a turtle in order to draw a graphic/picture (I think I have seen something like that before). Which category should it be? games? education? development? graphics?

I personally don't use this kind of menus with categories, I prefer dmenu style launchers where you type to search what you need. But if I was the kind of people that do use this kind of menus I would probably find that kind of indication useful.

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