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Cake day: July 20th, 2023

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  • I recognize that this is a very different angle but there is a global trend for free open source software which are non profit by design.

    Of course this basically means you need to be a developer and than there is still the question about how to survive within economic society.

    I doubt you want to live from donations coming from where you are now.

    The sweet spot, which might be viable for you is an open source devision within a for profit company. Many industries have started to understand the massive value of open source software and standards. Companies like redhat build open source tools on one side but then sell industry tailored packages and support to enterprises for profit. Even Nvidia has started to open source some level of their drivers because they realized that enthusiast will often improve on those for zero costs.

    I imagine in some of those divisions its just like a normal company with not just devs but all kinda of roles your direct product will be used by the for profit stuff but also be free for everyone else out there that might need it.






  • My workplace configures edge and chrome by default, were very office365 integrated and support chrome for some dates specific thing.

    Now i am privileged with local admin powers so i have firefox. Still the integrations with edge run deep so i still have to use it lots of times. There are plans for copilot which is one of the dummest llm bots (opinion) but is again catered to edge.

    I will however never use chrome (anymore). Google was the second tech giant i dropped after facebook. They cannot redeem themselves for destroying the web (opinion). I rarely use search engines anymore but i rather use bing and bing sucks. (duckduck is also based on bing)

    Sorry for the rant, but that was relieving. Arch btw.


  • So now only criminals will be able to steal peoples cars. Well done.

    They wont even be banned (which would be stupid) Its on the owner to proof they have it for legitimate reasons. The end result will mean the devices will be more hidden in everyday seeming devices. And if they do eventually ban them fully that legal local technological knowledge will be dragging behind criminal innovation.

    You want these devices out there to increase awareness of their existence and to pressure manufacturer to make their devices more safe.

    Example: Remember how Tesla can remote (un)lock cars? Exploit waiting to happen and the potential ban on encryption is going to make it so much worse.

    Ostrich politics.