thomask

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The odd numbered versions of PLAN have always been buggy and unpopular and I think Bell Labs is using their monopoly to push everybody to update to PLAN 9 even if they need a new computer with a third mouse button. What is your favourite PLAN?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

This is one scenario I proposed when we were last having this discussion: https://thomask.sdf.org/blog/2023/07/07/if-i-was-meta-and-wanted-to-make-fedi-implode.html

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

N=1 but outbound federation just worked for me in a post. It seems some work was done just recently including an upgrade to -rc.8.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It's best not to think of SDF admins in binary terms like "present" or "absent". They are an undulating force which makes changes here and there and we're all along for the ride.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

*A formerly chill laid back community up until someone posted it on Lemmy 😀

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I was comparing frozen diced veggies a couple of years back (in Australia) and noticed that the store-brand version was approximately 1/3 broccoli stems by volume, which certainly explained the cost difference.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That is the discussion. Microsoft is pretending by making it the upgrade path for two products which actually are local, and hoping users won't notice.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

Honestly I'm glad they highlighted the telemetry. I went through the local report about what's included and while it's not an upsetting level of detail, it's more comprehensive than I would have opted in to if asked.

Still, as sibling points out it's in a completely different league from slurping up your IMAP creds, something which has always been local-only data. This is the second time I know of recently where MS has trampled on this kind of local-only expectation - the other was Edge defaulting to sending the contents of textboxes you're filling out on webpages to the MS cloud for spelling and grammar checks. Thunderbird is still a sound recommendation, and unlike Microsoft, I trust that if I uncheck the telemetry box they're not going to try to get me some other way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Can confirm - a comment I made to a lemmy.world community around an hour ago hasn't shown up on that server yet.

Edit to add: looks like this post correlates with when I was logged out of my session, and I see we're on a newer version than before. Probably something not quite right from the upgrade?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nothing in tech stands still. If you want a glimpse of a possible alternative future check out Pijul. And I don't know an example off-hand but the idea of doing version control on ASTs of program code rather than flat text is an interesting concept that hasn't taken off yet.

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First handset with MTE on the market (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’d rather go to the local library and ask the clerk for a search term

Sounds kind of relaxing tbh

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