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  • that and fucking ads galore

    And trackers.

    And Javascript that give you the time in the page, as if you didn’t have a clock on your desktop.
    And Javascript that give you a fake chat window to talk to a shitty AI nobody wants in the bottom-right corner.
    And Javascript to annoy you with GDPR shit everybody absent-mindedly clicks away anyway.
    And Javascript to inform you that the site uses cookies, as if it mattered since it won’t work without cookies.
    And Javascript that nags you for a subscription or stops you scrolling to force you to create an account.

    And of course, all that is done by loading megabytes and megabytes of shit recursively from a kajillion nested addresses because web “developers” couldn’t code tight code if their lives depended on it. All they do is import pre-chewed shit that acts as trojans for big data players to plant more trackers and more ads in your browser, just to serve up barf people by and large don’t give a shit about.




  • Well, Proton can move wherever they want and be as good as they what, I’ll never be a customer again because of what their fuckhead CEO Andy Yen said.

    I don’t care that he’s backpedaled, I don’t care that Andy Yen isn’t Proton-the-company, and I’m even willing to accept it was a very unfortunate duh moment on his part. Here the thing: I don’t have many ways as a nobody to get back at Trump, but one way is to not give any of my money to anybody who enabled him, even by mistake.

    So Proton is on my shitlist forever thanks to Yen.









  • poettering is an absolute good guy here

    Agreed. But he’s also an abrasive know-it-all. A modicum of social skills and respect goes a long way towards making others accept your pet projects.

    pulesaudio protocol is used within pipewire and it works just fine.

    I wasn’t talking about the protocol, I was talking about the implementation: PulseAudio is a crashy, unstable POS. I can’t count the number of hours this turd made me waste, until PipeWire came along.



  • I totally agree. I used to hate systemd for breaking the traditional Unix philosophy, but the reality is that a tight init and service-tracking integration tool really was required. I work with and appreciate systemd every day now. It certainly didn’t make things simplier and easier to debug, but it goes a long way towards making a Linux system predictable and consistent.

    Poettering can go fuck himself though - and for PulseAudio too. I suspect half of the hate systemd attracted over the years was really because of this idiot.



  • Not my president

    Sorry but he is totally your president. You can’t be in favor of the democratic process of elections and then distance yourself from the outcome.

    You as a nation voted for Trump. He’s your president. You own the consequences along with all Americans.

    I don’t keep up with everything he does

    You should, if only to know when the ICE Gestapo might come knocking at your door or when it’s time to flee because it’s too dangerous to stay in the US.



  • I fail to see Discord as anything other than IRC with too many emojis and primary colors for the short of attention span, implemented as a humongous pile of Web 2.0 nonsense, with Big Data surveillance built in.

    Privacy and resource comsumption issues notwithstanding, the few times I’ve had to use it to connect with people in certain communities that could basically only be found on Discord, it was unbearable to this gen-Xer: it’s just as fast and as shallow as IRC, but somehow I feel the extra symbolic and color overload would have triggered a seizure if I was epileptic. It’s maddering.

    Oh well, maybe I’m old.