No, unfortunately

We (staff) asked for this, or some similar change to our contracts, and leadership refused

Our contracts/agreements currently state that any IP created in the course of doing our jobs or involving any employer-supplied equipment belongs to the employer

Leadership says they won’t enforce this for dotfiles and other small personal non-competing code, but they also refuse to put that in writing :S

That said, most of us have tweaked our dotfiles, etc on work laptops for years and we’ve never had problems, so far leadership has kept their word

Try and get your employer to offer and agree to GitHub’s BEIPA:

https://github.com/github/balanced-employee-ip-agreement

I’ve ordered one of the new Pebbles, but in the meantime, I have a PineTime: https://pine64.org/devices/pinetime

I’ve even given some to nephews and nieces because they are durable enough and so affordable that we don’t need to worry too much about them

This probably depends on what you mean by “smart”

In the old days, dumb phones were defined as devices that shipped with a set of features with users generally being unable to add new features themselves

And smart phones could be extended by users because they allow installation of apps, etc

But I don’t think this applies to smart watches: it seems like the difference here is that a smart watch goes beyond “dumb” by having phone/internet connectivity to display more than just times and dates

Instead, ban the collection of non-essential data, and also ban the targeting of advertisements based on user profiles/history

Only select advertisements to display based on the immediate context, exactly like printed newspapers and magazines

I think it’s possible for a Chrome-based browser to have better ad-blocking than Google Chrome

https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/ is something I agree with, but Brave does have better ad-blocking features than Google Chrome, despite using the same core engine

I agree

But how many paying customers need features that are not in the online/cloud versions of Office?

Sure this is a shrinking number of people?

Agreed

I think Windows is primarily a development environment for Xbox, just as macOS is primarily a development environment for iOS Everything else of value from Microsoft is available via the web/cloud (even Office)

Eventually, Microsoft might even decide that it’s more profitable to abandon Windows completely

I actually just switched from Bazzite to Bluefin on my devices, even my gaming PC

Mostly because I wanted a more minimal/essential experience with less pre-installed packages

I’m sure I’m sacrificing a little gaming performance, but nothing noticeable by me so far

:shrug:

The worrying part is rewriting repository history to cover it up

Yeah, that’s going beyond the software and making the physical supply chain possible to validate by a sufficiently equipped and educated consumer

The trade off here is that it’s very difficult to produce verifiable circuitry that is also fast

https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/

Can I ignore flatpak indefinitely?

Sure, at least until software you want to use is flatpak only, e.g. Bottles

https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/

https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/

I know Google just donated to Trump’s inauguration, and also does all the stupid surveillance capitalism crap that Google does, but I just compared prices, and Google Workspace is a few dollars per month cheaper per user than Proton is, for my needs (family, custom domain names, etc)

We’ve been on Proton for a few years, and it’s fine, but we do also have Pixel Android phones, and not using Google services constantly feels like swimming upstream, plus all family members also still end up having to use Google services for work, anyway

It’s just not practical for me to de-Google, which is a shame, so I think I’ll be switching in a few months, unless pricing changes significantly :S

Okay, let’s go with xterm running bash, where the user ran ls, so xterm -> bash -> ls …

• ls never talks to xterm directly, it’s stdout/stderr are provided by bash
• bash effectively outputs a grid of characters to xterm, xterm doesn’t know about prompts or words or line feeds, just the grid
• every time ls outputs a line, bash adds a row of output to the grid that it sends to xterm
• if there’s not enough space for a new row, bash discards the top-most row, moves all other rows up by one row, and then inserts the row for the ls output

Now imagine a hypothetical fork of bash or some other new shell …

• the only thing different is the direction that the rows move off the edge of the screen when running out of space, that’s all

Thus, this is entirely a shell problem, with a shell solution

However, what I’ve neglected to mention so far is that terminal emulators and shells are almost certainly optimised for rows dropping off the top edge and new rows being added to the bottom edge

So, the role of a terminal emulator in this scenario could be to provide ANSI control characters or other protocol for operating just as quickly in the opposite direction, sure

There’s also https://www.waveterm.dev/ which seems to be an open-source attempt at something sort of like Warp/Jupyter

I don’t mind that it uses the web stack for rendering, but that’ll probably turn some folks off

Seems like a shell feature, and not a feature that a terminal emulator would implement

The whole thing is weird and the CEO especially so, and not weird in a good way: https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html