"The decision to shut down Keen is in line with Google's shift away from social media and follows a trend of ~~Area 120 projects closing due to company restructuring and layoffs in 2023~~them killing everything they build."
This is perhaps the stupidest response I've read on Lemmy for a while. Nobody is entitled to an opinion these days.
Im expecting a response, quoting each paragraph I wrote, with only 'For you' as the text.
HP is so desperate for money that this is what they need to do to survive.
What does HP (hardware) actually do these days? Where do they compete (and I mean compete, not have products in)?
They ruined Compaq.
They killed their golden goose printing business with bullshit like this.
They killed their server hardware business with bullshit like locking software, drivers and firmware behind support contracts.
As somebody who always bought HP and advocated for their hardware (many years ago), I would never buy anything they make today.
I have never come across a community that had so many moderator posts. I also have never come across a moderator who liked the sound of their own voice so much.
Glad they are gone.
Hopefully there will be some actual content in here going forward to replace the drama.
I don't think he has. I disagree. I think he wants Linux to be Windows and that is a huge mistake.
I didn't move to Linux because the software is so much better than on Windows. I moved to Linux because it gets out of my way, doesn't spy on me and development is focused on making it better for me as a user and not to suit the next Skynet.
Linux allows me to be more productive and gives me functional software that does what I need it to. Sometimes it's not pretty but I don't care. It does the job.
If companies start taking on developing or porting their stuff to Linux, then Linux is going to end up like Windows - a shit show of corporate greed and an OS designed and focused for hoovering up users private information.
I don't want that.
It doesn't have to be like that. Much like the turtle and the scorpion story, companies do what is in their nature: they must keep making more and more and more to satisfy the shareholders greed and that does not align with me getting a better experience. It's just how things are.
I personally couldn't care less about Adobe's software. Kdenlive is not Premiere Pro, but it does what I need it for. GIMP isn't Photoshop, but does what I need it to. Krita or Inkscape isn't Illustrator but I don't use them. What astounds me is each of these are free and are incredible pieces of software.
As somebody else pointed out. If you want to use Adobe products, either use Windows as your primary OS or dual boot. It's not hard. At all. Same for AutoCAD. Just because Windows is an either / or, for me, doesn't mean it has to be for you. Use both.
The self entitlement in open-source these days never fails to astound me.
Why is it 'wild'? I said or something else which I think covers it.
By that premise it's 'wild' you didn't suggest the other thousand things they can do.
Maybe we're both just trying to talk about a better way of doing it without being experts.
If you develop drugs using tax payer money, then that has to be paid back in some way. Either as a percentage of profits (based on percentage invested), paying back the investment (with interest) or an agreement on a cheaper price. Or something else.
Pharma has had it's cake and eating it for far too long.
Nothing that is being suggested is unreasonable here.
YouTube can't win this race when they don't control the platform you're viewing it on. You can always install 'something' to get around it.
The solution to that is to control the platform using Chrome, Android etc.
Is this not what the goal of OpenID was? They have a section on their website for providers https://openid.net/developers/certified-openid-connect-implementations/
But I'm sure you would have come across this so I may be missing something.
For me, and as a Scot, we all make mistakes. I get that. If he had paid all £11k himself I wouldn't care.
But charging it as expenses and then refusing to explain it, should be grounds of immediate dismissal. If you're happy to claim it from the public, you need to be transparent when they have questions. Even from the likes of Jackie Baillie and Douglas Ross.
But it shouldn't come to that. Anybody with integrity would apologise and resign for failing to meet the expected standards of the position they hold, and the standards they should hold themselves to. The problem isn't the kids watching your iPad (why they're using official tech for watching football or why you get to use your own tech for government business is another discussion). The problem is the lies, deceit and self entitlement of not having to explain yourself.
Politicians of today, of all flavours, lack integrity, trustworthiness, basic moral standards and self awareness.
The lesson here, again, is actions have consequences.
The SNP started out as a party with good intentions and a passion for a cause (whether you agree with it or not). They have been in power for too long and have taken the power for granted, and become complacent. They now, sadly, have become the pigs in 'Animal Farm'.
Glad I was sitting down when I read that. Nobody could have predicted that Instagram would only pay lip service to removing harmful content /s
Meta is one of the Evil Corp who is killing people, and destroying lives, through pursuit of profit. It's goal is to frame the health and well-being of people and society to allow advertisers reach a bigger, better and an easier manipulated audience.
I know it's a cliché, and I don't use this often as things have many sides, but I do wonder how people justify this to themselves and what they see when they look in the mirror.