You really think 2025 deserves it? I think this is the more appropriate Klingon custom.

However, browsing it requires an active ”Profil Zaufany” (exactly translated to English as Trusted Profile) account, which is not available for registration for people outside of Poland.

According to the ministry’s statement issued in their own Public Information Bulletin, this requirement has been enforced as a part of ”recommendations issued by the Ministry of National Defence’s CSIRT team, which include the possibility of user accountability”.

Moreover, the published code cannot be easily copied over while browsing via the official website.

🙄 fucking user-hostile “security by obscurity” wankers

That’s great for the folks who have access to decades-old pre-enshittification technology and the means to maintain it, but what about everybody else?

Continuing my smart TV OS analogy, your answer is like saying just to use a dumb TV instead. There aren’t any dumb TVs anymore! The TV manufacturer cartel colluded to quit making them!

“Just go live in the fucking woods like the goddamn Unabomber, eschewing modern technology” is not a valid solution for normal people! The law must be changed to protect them from predatory abusive corporations.

Twelve upvotes from people who only read two out of three sentences.

Because the distinction matters. The corporate raping of Linux has to stop being tolerated or else nothing is solved. The technical details of the kernel don’t actually matter; the licensing and openness is what matters. Hell, if the Windows NT kernel got magically relicensed to AGPLv3 tomorrow it would instantly become the superior option just because of that.

Linux doesn’t fucking matter. Copyleft matters.

This is why permissive licensing isn’t good enough; copyleft is essential. (And not just GPLv2 copyleft, but copyleft with anti-tivoization and cloud loophole protection as well, such as AGPLv3.) Every part of the system – the tech itself, the management, and the legal/business structure – has to be designed to resist being subverted against the user.

We need more real Linux – GNU/Linux, with compliant copyleft licensing – not Tivoized crap like they put on TVs.

Roku OS, Amazon Fire OS, Tizen (Samsung TV OS), etc. – all technically Linux, but you wouldn’t know it because they’ve systematically butchered them to destroy everything that made Linux good (the users’ freedom).

100% fearmongering bullshit designed to erode property rights. Cars have been completely “open” throughout their entire history until recently, and the problems caused by irresponsible owner modification have been both negligible and entirely acceptable (compared to the alternative of going full-blown police state to stop them).

Make no mistake: full-blown police state is exactly what you’re arguing for when you suggest people shouldn’t have the right to modify their own fucking property!

Yes. Python is a multi-paradigm language, but IMO proper “pythonic” python looks a lot more functional than OO, with liberal use of duck-typed list comprehensions and such.

Python isn’t “untyped;” it is, in fact, strongly-typed. (And is markedly different than and superior to JavaScript on that point.)

This rant feels like it was written by an OO programmer who was never able to wrap his head around functional programming.

I wish it had switched to different pages in the scene transitions.

…which is just a fancy way of saying they don’t.

Considering the way the TV industry went, good luck with that.

Boycotts don’t actually work; we need consumer protection laws.

Was the name not enough of a clue?

I like it! It neatly models the variability of arrows being recoverable and unbroken.

How do you avoid accidentally buying the same thing twice?

Not mentioned:

10. The manufacturer-provided “companion app” also installs spyware and adware.

And that’s the real reason they do it. They lure unsuspecting users in with promises of enhanced functionality, but it’s all a ploy to get their data.

There’s a lot of stuff that can work with Home Assistant, but it’s essentially never listed as a feature on the package, so normal people will never know it’s an option.

That’s the problem – the lack of marketing – not any lack of functionality on Home Assistant’s part.

Of course it requires some tinkering and is not accessible to all users.

Yeah, that’s the point. None of that helps normies who just want to buy the first product they see and have it “just work.”

(And I say “first product they see” because, although Tasmota/ESPHome/WLED devices are available from e.g. Amazon, if not brick-and-mortar stores, if you look hard enough, they’re definitely not what Amazon pushes at you. Amazon wants you to fall for their marketing and infest your house with Alexa so they can exfiltrate even more personal data, up to and including the floor plan if you buy one of their affiliated smart vacuums.)