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Yeah, I think that's a great description for it! And, i think it not only applies to big tech, since i can see it applying to other areas of the economy and society at large...but yeah, certainly and more especially that perfectly describes big tech and its leaders. Thanks for sharing!
I know there must be a better phrase for it, but i'll just say that we're in the Age of Extreme Capitalism. I know folks tend to reply "Because capitalism" for many ills and awful behavior (I've done it my self!)...But i think its more than that. Its like an extreme, excessive, bonkers form of capitalism (and all things under and adjacent to capitalism)...Again, maybe there's a better label for it. But nowadays (and as others have cited that its felt like its been going on for what like a decade or so)...lots of folks in leadership positions seem like they're out only for themselves, and damned be everyone, and sell your grandma for that sweet money from her data...It feels so much worse than that Gordon Gecko character as portrayed in the old 80s WallStreet movie - like, so much worse, everywhere.
Then again, if/when they do lay off so many employees, then Microsoft is putting themselves in the position that eventually they will "have no choice" but to depend more and more on agents to do as much of the work as possible...which i predict means that their products will dip in quality even further, at least until models, agents, etc. can markedly improve...so, a continuation or worsening of the quality. The future looks bleak in a few different ways; oof!
I remember leveraging xml and xslt for doing the exact thing for my resume! This was quite some time ago, when xml was king. So, as a way to both unify my generation for my resume but more importantly learn more about xml, xslt, i created what sounds like a similar pipeline to yours. It felt really cool, and i learned about xslt - which to this day i'm impressed by. But, over the years as xml, xslt seem to have waned, plus i never got to use such skills at any of my jobs, and finally employers just wanted a Word doc, not a PDF...then i just stopped using my setup. Nowadays i simply keep a local copy of an .ODT file, and export to word or PDF, or whatever format an employer or recruiter asks for...and like 99.999% of the time its a Word doc. But, back then, it certainly as fun learning that stuff!
I recall decades ago when i had first learned what "mail merge" meant, and was amazed by it. But even more so, I began to truly understand the immense value that computing could bring to people. Wow, thanks for this nice trip down nostalgia lane! :-)
I saw this the other day, and seemed pretty cool! I kinda moved away from using Monica CRM, not because it failed me...but more so because i simply no longer needed a CRM per se. Still, the fact that self-hosting Contrack seems that slim is a really great attraction! Also, props to the dev for crafting some comparisons to other popular, known CRMs; well done!
I'm not Brazilian but i grew up in a world where EVERYONE knew who Pele is (maybe i'm a little old?)...So, i also thought the same, that this was named after him! :-)
100% agreed, that this is a great idea for Mozilla! Maybe its not exciting like some new tech....but to those who like firefox and/or support open source offerings, digital sovereignty, etc....and also want to have that as an option at their enterprise, i think this is really good! Now, the hope is that orgs tap into it (so it can keep growing), plus i sure hope Mozilla manages this right...but overall, i think this is very encouraging, and I for one am very happy to see it being offered!
Sheesh! I mean, after reading this I'm surprized they didn't also add something like the following...
* Correlated to some of these findings, crime is estimated to rise extremely sharply in the coming years, especially bank robberies and ramraid-style theft from retail stores.
* The only industries expected to grow during this and upcoming periods include manufacturers of police batons and other riot gear, bricks, and gas masks....the latter two often used by protesters.
/s
All good!
And, maybe what would have been better/cuter would be if i had said that TLS is necessary for bare minimum of secure environments...but by itself does not help reach enlightenment lol :-D
Yes, of course...Hence my adding "/s" at the end of my comment: to denote sarcasm. ;-)
You have learned another lesson: that a TLS/SSL cert is not necessary to achieve enlightenment! /s
I'm not a kagi subscriber (yet), but am more and more becoming a fan of them and their approaches. I count myself as one of the folks who was thrilled about this web browser, because as much as i love firefox, we need diversity. Ok, ok, not too too much fragmentation...but still we need offerings to help people. So, while i was hopeful for kagi folks to keep working on orion i'm happy that at least they'll open source it and have a community continue it forward. My future hope now is that community members indeed take this browser and grow it further.
Ah, ok, well, if that's a valid use-case for you, then i'd suggest you consider maybe a more conventional chat service - whether its matrix, xmpp, etc. - because i'll be honest, and with all due respect, if you're trying to get ntfy to be a 2 way chat, is that not sort of like trying to use a shoe as a hammer? I mean, it will work, but will it do so effectively enough for your needs?
To be fair, if i recall correctly, some of the folks who started up matrix protocol (and associated project) came from/and loved the IRC world (e.g. the rooms concept, etc.)...so it stands to reason that matrix and irc have at least some *conceptual* similarities, and hence other stuff that spins off from or leverages IRC may also appear similar to matrix.
Curious, why the interest in building your own ntfy client (instead of using the one already built/available)?
By the way, for years now, i have used a little python (cli) app to send messages into a private matrix room. This room has 2 people in it: me and a bot. (The bot is simply the matrix account that sends the messages.) I went this route because i did not want to install another app - such as ntfy - on my mobile simply to receive server notifications, etc. And, since i had ben on matrix already chatting with friends, it happened to be a low-effort approach. To clarify, i am no longer self-hosting my own synapse home server...so i'm simply piggybacking on the matrix.org one...but that has helped at least unify my notifications and comms to a good degree.
Now, if you were to aske me to implement my "notifications system" via a different approach, funny enough, i would gauge between XMPP and ntfy to see which is lighterweight....because i believe them to both be quite light on the need for resources. I don't know which is lighter (sorry, i know i'm not answering your question). however, i *think* the ntfy server is less hasle....Only because xmpp takes a little more work to setup...at least that was my experience a couple of years ago. I cast no shade on either xmpp nor ntfy - because to me boh are awesome...i' m merely saying that resources needs aside, i wonder if ntfy might need less time from YOU.
@jauntywundrkind I was about reply...but then @McGlockenshire said it best! Cut off the subdomain, and you'll get more info. ;-)
This should be renamed to "Branding about..."...Because that seems to be the focus on this destination webpage...and not content specific to the underlying tech of systemd.
Hi @asciimoo , related to a name suggestion, how about something like...
* chronilog.org ...as in, a log of one's chronicles.
* And if you will include this into KDE, then can use a 'k' instead, such as kronilog.org :-)
Both seem to be available. ;-)
THIS is what is called *true joy*!!! :-D
> ...Excel has been one of those moats for decades now...
I think if we focus on "has been", and not consider something dire like "will always be"...then i see it as an opportunity (and opportunity for LibreOffice and others like it). Because i do agree that a small % of people do use/need advance features from excel...so if i were the European Union, then i would gather such data for advanced usage (which is best done when pilots are rolled out), and throw a little money at addressing that (by a little, i mean little for big governments, so talking like a few million, etc.). I'd throw some money at the devs who contribute to LibreOffice, openDesk, whatever...and specifically address whatever shotcomings might exist in the free and open source offerings. Maybe its not an overnight solution, but it would serve to produce 2 things:
1. You pay devs to address the issue...reducing or removing any gaps between excel and offerings like LibreOffice, etc.
2. The devs you threw money at will gain ever more experience addressing needs for this now more expanded marketplace...creating possibly some more jobs and/or opportunites for more local vendors to support these govs, and any businesses that follow suit in adopting such open source offerings...
...I think these create or expedite a marketplace...and one that is not controlled by the U.s. or any single dominant player. So, i think while it might be slow, its a good long-term approach.
"Hello sir/madam, I'm calling about the extended warranty for your car!" /s
This is great and am wishing the team well on this endeavor!
One nitpick is that while the site looks clean, and there seems to be some good amount of documentation, i think there was a lost opportunity for a simple, yet more universal description of *what this is*! I mean, i get that this descends from FreeNAS and TrueNAS CORE...but why could they not add a small, single line of text that also helps explain it to other folks who don't know fully what the means? Here is a crappy but at least slightly more descriptive option:
"FreeCORE is an operating system and associated software for your network attached storage (NAS) needs. FreeCORE descends from FreeNAS and TrueNAS® CORE, and builds on FreeBSD and OpenZFS..."
I'm not going to win the Pulitzer prize any time soon, i get that. But at least most folks will get a little more of the gist of what this FreeCore thing is or could help them. I'm only making this suggestion because i want more folks to participate and enjoy free and open source software. I'm not expecting someone's grandparents to understand this, but i betcha other folks who for example might be migrating from Windows NAS-like offerings might have an interest...so making the intro at least a tiny more descriptive helps.
Again, even with my comments, i do wish the team well, and only want them to succeed. So please take my comments as merely a suggestion for improving things for all to benefit. In fact I'll be playing around with this to set it up and test on my homelab.
You're not wrong! Some releases (and not just Ubuntu), it does feel like some distros are inching towards their "Windows Vista" moment, where UI aspects slow some things down...But, i think i tend to not get impacted by this since I often use KDE or XFCE....which is not to say that these are perfect nor the lightest-weights either....simply that, i know what you mean, but it doesn't tend to hit me much. Oh, and MX Linux i haven't touched in a long time, but yeah it used to fly and be super snappy back when i had used it!
As much as i dislike Windows, i agree that the versions of the OS from that era were really fast (except for maybe Vista)!! As far as OS X, I had used OS X back around ~2007 - 2010, but can't recall what versions it was...and it performed fine back then too. I've been on one or another linux distro since around 2003 or maybe 2004, and have been running linux as my primary driver for laptops and desktops since maybe 2010 or so(right after i uncoincidentally abandoned OS X). While any issues that linux runs into tend to mostly related to proprietary drives, the majority of the time, things run fast...just like Windows did of that older, golden period of performance - and many times much better! I don't say this to sway anyone to move over/start using linux...and, in fact, linux is still far from perfect! Rather, its to show that there is joy in computing that still exists somewhere in the world. I have found it in linux, but i'm sure others have found it elsewhere as well.
I used to do this in the early 2000s! Some folks back then would ask whether i was afraid that clicking a link (which loads a "new" web page) would slow things down and create an awful experience for users...but, my team and I would really focus on keeping web pages slim/lightweight to begin with...so it rarely was a problem. I don't think we were geniuses or anything like that, but keeping things light (always and from the beginning) enabled us to "cheat" (like this "hack" of the links in the column headers) in ways that were beneficial but with very low risk. Sometimes it took an extra moment or two at the beginning of an effort...but it ALWAYS paid off down the road, and in many different ways.
> I can’t believe how few choices we have in cell phones in the United States. Where is all the innovation I keep hearing everyone talk about?
The beginning of your sentence - "I can’t believe how few choices we have..." - can be applied equally sadly to other areas here in the U.S....such as but not limited to lack of choice of residential ISPs, or lack of choice (or generally mis-incentivized) healthcare providers, or lack of choice of mobile service providers, or, etc., or etc. And, of course, your last part of your comment asking where the innovation is? Well, innovation often is pocketed in those who control the capital, and only released little by little at the whims of releasing more capital. Sorry, i have to step away, cuz felt sad instantly just citing my own comments here. :-(