Using Copilot even as a mere coding assistance is insane, if no other reason than you’re sending all your code to Microsoft, and you also let them monitor your work habits in uncomfortably intimate details.

Well, I’m an avid cyclist and left the US 25 years ago, and if that’s really the kind of behemoth that roams the streets in the US today, I’m glad I did.

I’m pretty sure the scales are different. Look at the door handles: regardless of the size of the vehicle, anything that interact with human beings should be roughly the same scale and the door handles just aren’t.

Not to say that American trucks aren’t ridiculously oversized of course, but that photo looks doctored to me.

Yeah, because the opinion on cloud computing of the CEO of a vendor that makes terrible software that looks straight from the mainframe era is really relevant…

scrcpy can emulate a v4l2 device in Linux.

After Andy Yen’s endorsement of the orange utan, I would seriously reconsider using any Proton product.

Yen tried to backpedal meekly several times since then, to get out of the pickle he got himself into with his definitely-not-impressed customers, but it’s a bit late for that: either he’s pro-Trump or he’s naive. Either way, he makes Proton sketchy.

He’s not a real rich man. Just some dude with a little more money than the others - the worst kind, they feel more entitled that true wealthy people.

Real rich people don’t even touch the ground. They helicopter in and out of their luxury skyscrapers.

I’ll tell you what it highlights: giant companies like Google, Microsoft and all the others making billions using free software a few dudes maintain for them for free on their own time. Instead of speaking of the vulnerability of open source software, the profiteers should pay them to ensure they have the time and resources to secure their supply chain.

As a Linux user of almost 30 years, compiling hundreds of kernels over the years has given me a great appreciation of pre-build kernels, and a profound gratitude for those who package them up into convenient distros that work out of the box and let me get on with the rest of my life.

My volumes are PLAIN dm-crypt encrypted (i.e. LUKS without the LUKS bells and whistles) and the key is stored on my Vivokey Flex implant.

I mount them using scripts that combine crypsetup and vivokey_pam, with the ubiquitous ACR122U RFID reader: the systemd service file calls my script, I present my implant to the reader and voila: the volume is mounted.

The enshitification has started right when smartphones came about.

Oh my friend, I can tell you’re young :)

The shit internet started in the mid 90’s. That’s when the internet became popular and accessible to non-computer-savvy folks. The massive commercialisation of the internet soon ensued, and ads, crappy websites, spam and all the rest soon followed.

Privacy was already dead at the turn of the millenium. Don’t take my word for it: Scott McNealy said it in 1999 and the sumbitch knew what he was talking about.

I’ve known that privacy had gone the way of the dodos since then. That’s 24 years ago. The difference now is that the fascist surveillance capitalism system we live in is now fully in place and the trap is closing on all of us who let it happen.

People are waking up to the fact that they’re in the trap and it’s closing, but I’m pretty sure too late to do anything about it peacefully at this point. It will take a full-blown dystopia for people to revolt and things to change, and it’s not gonna happen tomorrow.