The self-entitlement in open-source has to stop. This is only one example of a maintainer quitting. There are many more.

And the shaming of projects who want to make money to sustain their projects also has to stop. Nothing is free. Somebody is paying for it in time, resources or money.

If you don't like what a project is doing, or how they're monetizing, don't use it. Move on.

You pay $14 per month and you STILL get ads?!?!

WTF!?

That was really interesting to read. A lot of people have been saying that Twitter had got a lot worse since ManBaby came along. Not being a user anymore I have nothing to dispute that with.

What is interesting is the companies who are arguably making it 'worse' (partly) are backing that statement up by saying it's better than it was for them. Easier to do business. Easier to make money. Easier to make it worse.

I suppose that's what happens when the owner sees moderation of this type of content as 'censorship'.

Twitter users confuse me. Maybe they double-down on the moderation of their own bubble so it's not quite as bad for them.

People at the Post Office and Fujitsu need to go to jail over this.

It won't happen. They'll get away with it. Same as ever.

Most EU countries have been demilitarizing for 30 years more and more, with the strategy being "it's a new world without wars, and also big daddy USA will protect us,l

That's not the Europe I see now and sounds like a US President trope. I would agree that post-Cold War that was the case, but I'd say in the last decade at least, it's not.

But, genuine question as I'm open to being wrong, saved this is an area that interests me, do you have sources for this?

no one gives a shit what kids are doing on their devices

Except Joe. And people like Joe. Whose surveillance of kids is now not only easier, but sanctioned.

Being up to date is the entire point and so typically there are only global options to either grab those updates from the vendor or host them internally on a central server but you wouldn’t want to slow roll or stage those updates since that fundamentally reduces the protection from zero days and novel attacks that the product is specifically there to detect and stop.

That's not your, or Crowdstrikes, decision to make. If organizations have applied settings to not install updates automatically then that's what they expect to happen and you need to honour it. You don't "know best". They do.

I may have missed something.

Firefox 127 has introduced privacy tweaks that are causing user dissatisfaction, particularly due to changes like the separation of normal and private windows on the taskbar and the closing of private tabs when the main instance closes on iOS.

This sounds like it would be the expected behaviour?

• Despite user complaints, the update includes new privacy and security enhancements such as upgrading subresources from HTTP to HTTPS and masking CPU architecture to reduce fingerprinting.

This sounds like a good thing?

• Mozilla plans to address user feedback by reintroducing the "browser.privateWindowSeparation.enabled" preference as an opt-in and adding more intuitive privacy settings in future updates.

This sounds like a good thing?

If you're looking for something like this, but not paid for, try Debian stable. Same idea but free. Ubuntu also have an LTS version and I'm sure others.

The "Enterprise" in the title just means "support", which is a check box for a lot of organisations. Not so much home users.

Unfortunately, as much as I hate to admit it as someone who has left Chromium behind personally, Chromium is kind of the only choice.

With Mozilla's rudderless stewardship of Firefox, I reluctantly agree with this. Firefox, and Mozilla, used to stand for something more than just a browser, but that is sadly vanishing now. Chrome is really the future and while I'm clinging on to Firefox, I will succumb in the end.

It's very sad. I've been a Firefox user for so long I've lost count. But Mozilla has lost it's way and I don't see it making any noise about getting back on course.

I think having one browser engine is a very bad idea. But here we are.

Feels like a case of switching sides, in an effort to say relevant and make a few bucks from interviews.

What are people's go-to for eBook buying stores? Preferably DRM free.

I try to not buy Kindle books but I usually end up back there as it's either much cheaper (not just slightly) or can only be found there.

You might want to include that information in your original post. You are telling people over and over that their suggestions are too expensive. You're wasting peoples time.

Genuine question. What's the difference between this and rsync?

I wasn't implying criticism isn't allowed.

But opinions on what somebody should do with their time and project are just that.

Feedback must be given in a respectful way or it's not effective. That often doesn't happen with open-source projects and until we change the culture around open-source, this is going to just keep happening.

Opinions ate like assholes. Everybody has one. Doesn't mean its relevant or important. The number of intelligent people who confuse opinion with fact never fails to astound me.

It has some nice ideas, particularly for moderation. I like that they're thinking hard about these things.

I think its moving too slowly and it's lack of momentum at the time of the Twitter exodus was lost. Its too late for it to become an alternative to the likes of Twitter, Mastodon etc. and I think it will die.

I hope that once it's gone it will leave a legacy of those good ideas I mentioned above which other platforms will take learnings from.

All my opinion.

I use pfSense and tried to migrate away in the past. The changes I would have had to make to setup opnsense were so significant that I gave up for to lack of time. I don't have time luxury of downtime so I need to migrate quickly.

But if I were starting again I'd absolutely avoid the pfSense project and their childish shitty behaviour.

I do plan to buy more hardware to replace my current pfSense box and take my time to implement opnsense gradually.

Ahhh. Kotaku. Yeah, I'll give that big ole clickbait bullshit article a miss.

You can't trust any of the 'mega-corp' so these donations will have handcuffs.

One thing not said explicitly is that the Fediverse needs a funding model and I believe it will die without one.

I know people are down voting this because of what you suggested. But I don't think we should be afraid of taking about money and funding it. The Fediverse is not free to run, or develop, so without money coming in, it's going to die. We shouldn't he afraid to talk about any options of funding. Even a conversation like this, where a lot of people are against it, can lead to other ideas that are more palpable.

it hasn't been able to capitalize on the many waves of exodus and twitter controversies for over two years now

You're making the assumption that it wants to.

The goals of Mastodon are very different from Twitter.