As long as they don’t enshittify the mobile apps and browser extensions, I’m neither surprised nor concerned. Vaultwarden exists.
And if they do ruin the client end, I expect third-party alternative clients, or a wholly new alternative, will appear soon enough.
(Yes, yes, “b-but KeePass!” folks… I’ve been there.)
I see! Thanks for taking the time to respond. It’s useful to have usage examples.
It is! (Or they are!)
Unfortunately (IMHO) they switched to requiring GPU, rather than CPU, processing some time back - for understandable reasons - and that makes the power consumption an issue.
No longer can you do screensaver/idle or shared use without your GPU pegging at 100% while the fans imitate jet engines (the last time I checked). 😟
Oh, like BOINC? I loved SETI@home and the protein folding projects for medical research!
Wait, you mean mandatory, secret distributed computing just to offload expense from an insatiable mega-conglomerate to its users products? GTFOooooooooo…
I hate this timeline.
Orly? You don’t say.
The sooner UK PLC gets this into their thick, ideological skulls the better. 👀
I’ve been a (cautious, because not OSS and the inevitable enshittification timer) fan of Obsidian for years, and a data scientist friend switched from Notion to Logseq and raves about it. Is it that good?
This dystopia is sofa king boring.
For those who haven’t read it: it’s Stripe, their payment processor, behind this. Kickstarter isn’t doing a Tumblr; they’re just handling it like amateurs, rather than just yeeting those puritanical morons.
Been using Linux fulltime since the Win10 licensing servers were taken offline and I had a fustercluck situation with recovery. It’s been perfect, and a lot faster: 90%+ via Steam means no effort, and the rest through Heroic Launcher (and before that Lutris).
Unless you’re a fan of one of the very few games with anticheat that actively blocks Linux (Tarkov? etc), there is a way.
YMMV, etc, etc. You do you. ☺️
I think my irony meter just broke. The company that takes freely published papers* and paywalls them for extortionate profit is mad that that someone else is making money off free content?
I propose a trial by mortal combat. It’s the only logical solution.
*You’ll be hard pressed to find a published researcher who thinks well of the Elsevier distribution monopoly, and it’s even harder to find one that won’t send you a PDF copy for free if you just ask for it.
Oh no, yet another slop marketeer (CxO, whatever) is unhappy that we’re treating their cash cow with derision. How awful for you.
Pipe down and go back to your clankwanking.
You’re right, and same for me, but what if you’d never considered any of this before and are new to the idea of privacy? I expect it would then give you pause for thought.
Sure, it’s a gimmick site. But it serves a useful purpose for those who don’t know about the topic. Which is probably the majority of users.
Despite my own experience: TIL the tilt angle of my phone is available to websites.
Surprised it took them this long.
Next will app only on mobile or, as with Xitter, only allow logged out users to see the OP but none of the comments. Or both!
Won’t it be fun waiting to see how and when they do it? 😒
FWIW, I switched to self-hosted GitLab in Docker when Microslop borged GitHub and found it to be resource hungry and slow. Seems like it’s just a wrapper around their unoptimised, monolithic, warts-and-all enterprise product with a few flags changed.
And it’s entirely dependent on the ongoing goodwill (and competence) of GitLab, ie. subject to “we’ve altered the deal; pray we don’t alter it any further”.
Migrated it to a Gitea container soon after, which is light and fast. If I was making the same decision today, I’d switch to Forgejo, but that’s more of an ideological position than technical or UX one versus Gitea.
It’s almost like people see “don’t comply in advance” and think that it means “except for me!” or it will somehow benefit them if they do it anyway.
The latter, presumably, being the reason people love licking boots, boosting wealth hoarders, voting against their interests, etc. They’ll get some crumbs from the table if they do it hard enough, surely.
If Allbirds (referenced in the article) is an example of a PE-led company being made to pivot from a product manufacturer to data goldrush bandwagoneering, this has to be the home-baked budget version.
It’s so… 1980s electronic tat for kids by comparison. As if the Amazon Alexa inventor and Fisher Price had a baby while they were both unemployed. So bizarre.
“Photo Metadata Remover” by Syrupy on the Play Store was the tool recommended by the security team at a previous workplace. I rarely need it, but I see it’s added ads, so I’d be more tempted to check for a FOSS alternative.
There’s always ImageMagick on PC, if you don’t mind dealing with them there. It strips EXIF and Adobe metadata from images very well. Or the old “screenshot of a digital photo” trick is still peerless.
I wonder if that’s true. Two generations after his death, people are likely to remember the brands and buildings that still bear his name and assume he was a Good Guy.
In the same way that people do with, say, Edison, Ford and Rockefeller today. Rather than as the monstrous pieces of shit they were.
Good grief. The Bastard Operator From Hell" (BOFH) really nailed it with their random explanation system back in the 90s. “Why is…?” “Solar flares!”
Anything to get them off the phone so the next sucker who picks up when they call back will have to do the work.
You can. But guessing all the variations of nicknames for Trump, for example, is a never-ending game.
God forbid anyone there use a ‘politics’ (or even ‘uspol’ in my example) hashtag…
What’s the point? They know customers are full of piss and wind, threatening blue murder while doing absolutely nothing beyond jaw flapping. (Same with gamers).
Amazon’s service model, for example, is to twiddle the knobs to just under the point where the majority ragequit: the sweet spot of maximum profit right now. Everyone else is copying it.
And the sweet spot moves - probably like boiling a frog. A major player does something many hate, but not everyone/enough and those people live with it. Then it becomes the new normal. Twiddle the knob. Rinse and repeat.