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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • It’s only piracy if you grab a cutlass and storm the local shops. It’s time to call it what it is = digital theft / running unlicensed software / whatever. If someone hacks into your accounts, I doubt you’d call them a pirate for stealing all you personal videos and pictures, taking over your steam account, ‘borrowing’ your netflix, and so on. The whole thing is deeply uncool.

    Personally I wish the laws would change to make copyright non-transferable from the original artists, who deserve reward for their efforts but shouldn’t be a meal ticket for others. I’d also like to see abandonware legitimised - if folk can’t buy it then it should be fair game.





  • That’s correct: I use FOSS where possible, and if I must use closed source it must store data in an open standard.

    As you insist on evidence: I can create and open 100% of my archives in all systems I use now or in the foreseeable future without installing additional software. RAR fails that test.

    The other reason: RAR is a closed format, and like I said there are better alternatives that are not proprietary.

    Likewise your philosophy is that RAR is best and you are free to have that opinion also without providing evidence.












  • I use ChromeOS because I use Google Workspace. It gives me a cheap portable machine for work, and for meetings I rather carry that than a £2000 overspec’d heavy 15" laptop. It’s the cheapest of the cheap, and it can run Linux in a VM with Firefox. It has fantastic battery life. I also run Linux on the laptop, and on a Desktop PC, as well as servers.

    In my mind, ChromeOS works. It’s literally a browser with a screen, a keyboard, and some deep-rooted privacy concerns.

    As for Windows, that I don’t understand the need in 2023. I switched to Debian, and immediately saw better thermals, less fan noise, faster boot, longer battery life, and all sort of other improvements. Given Linux/Windows/MacOS/DOS/iOS/Android are all effectively launchers for apps and provide broadly the same services I don’t really care which, but I will choose the ones that make me most productive.


  • Here’s hoping that happens, but it still won’t fix two things: Firefox is kinda weird and clumsy on mobile, and it’ll still need attestation if that’s implemented on key websites as a hard-barrier to usage. I’m now on Android (I alternate between the two, so next cycle will be Apple), and even as a highly technical type I don’t sideload on there anyway, so I think few will sideload on iOS either.