My work Microsoft account doesn’t work at all with Thunderbird. With my previous employer it did, but now my only option has been webmail.

I really hope this fixes that. Haven’t looked into it yet.

What is this post?

It seems to be an RSS feed showing this post, which is then bridged back to the fediverse by web.brid.gy, which then posts itself back into the fediverse.

Could this create a recursive loop? Whatever is going on here it looks a bit messed up, but if this post itself makes it back to the RSS feed and then becomes bridged things get messy real quick.

@anewsocial@mastodon.social - this might be worth for you guys to be aware of, even though I guess the bridge is technically working as intended.

Task failed successfully, I guess.

What I hate about it is that this unwillingness to be in a position of power is so correlated with actually being suited for it.

I love and hate how Eugen starts this whole project, leads it into being something truly unique and wonderful that directly challenges some of the most evil and wealthy people on the planet, sets up institutional guardrails to make sure it will not be corrupted by any one individual gone mad with power, gives away his position after 10 years once he’s sure the organization is in good hands, and then concludes in reflection that he does not “have the right personality” for running a project like this.

I hope it has not been to hard for him, and that he’ll look back at it all as a positive experience in spite of the negative interactions. I don’t think any sane person has a personality that is “right” for the kind of abuse public figures receive on the internet. But from the perspective of Mastodon and the Fediverse, it seems pretty clear that he was exactly the right type of personality for the job—including by stepping down when the time felt right.

Yeah, if they need you, but maintaining friendships is hard enough work if one doesn’t actively exclude oneself.

I have a bunch of friends from most corners of Europe, most highly educated, all of them use WhatsApp. I use Signal with those who are on there, but 90% are only on WhatsApp, so I am too.

Worse yet, my friends and family in my home country are almost all only on Facebook Messenger. I stopped using that entirely, and clumsily reach out on SMS whenever necessary. It has absolutely made it harder to stay in touch with people I care about.

I also avoid a lot of other social networks that would have been nice in order to keep in touch with my friends in other parts of the world, which is pretty much all of them as I travel. Pixelfed is nice, but my friends are still on Instagram. Or even Snapchat, even though I’m in my 30s.

Not all my friends are privacy nerds, and I wouldn’t want them to be either. So I just gently push for Signal whenever I can while I hold my nose and continue to run WhatsApp.

That’s part of enshittification I’d say. It’s all about squeezing your users for as much money as you can, and surveillance is part of that.

Oh yeah. This is not an attack on mediocre white men—I’m one of them. We just have to learn to get over ourselves.

Whatever it takes to keep hiring mediocre white men, I guess.

There was also the practice of giving people a new name upon arrival in Ellis Island, establishing pretty early on what kind of names were considered “American”.

I guess it worked wonders, at least if the stereotype is true that they managed to transform the Irish into a bunch of racist cops.

But yeah, you certainly had a lot of German Americans voluntarily backing away from their cultural heritage in the 30s and 40s.

It’s pretty fascinating considering the history of the US that Americans tend to be worse than the English at pronouncing various European languages. You’d think at least some people would cling on to the correct pronounciation of their own name, as the bare minimum.

I don’t really care how Americans pronounce their own names—if anything I think most Europeans are happy to be easily distinguishable from Americans with shared ancestry at this point—but it is a bit striking.

I’ll give it a shot, thanks!

It seems the running application remains responsive, but not anything else.

I was running RStudio on an external monitor once when it froze, and I could keep using the window. Even when I used touch gestures to “zoom” the window out, I remained in control over it and could execute code in the smaller window. But I could not interact with GNOME at all, including changing to another program on the same screen.

Another time it froze as I wrote a PieFed comment, and I pressed tab and enter a few times. The comment was published so I could continue where I left off.

First time in almost 20 years of Linux usage I’m encountering real problems, and I’m much too primitive to do anything clever about it.

Does it seem to be a Fedora problem?

There are some user friendly Android based alternatives out there, since it’s based on open source. Personally I’m running a device with /e/OS, which you can either install yourself or buy a phone with it pre-installed. There are also some other user friendly options out there such as the Volla Phone.

But yeah, iOS is probably a better bet than stock Android, as Apple has a history of being abusive towards their customers in other ways than by selling their data. But crucially both Google and Apple are American companies, so you should avoid depending on their cloud services to whatever degree possible. There’s no such thing as safe data if it is stored by an American company.

Perhaps the greatest takeaway from this entire fiasco is yet another reminder of the precarious position open source projects with a solo maintainer leave their user base in - especially when that maintainer is a teenager whose priorities are subject to changing rapidly as they get older and discover more about the world than discarded Ubuntu interfaces

What a terrible takeaway. I’d rather say that the takeaway is that all things come to an end, even Unity 7 which it’s honestly incredible didn’t die ages ago.

Those interested in keeping on working on Unity should perhaps focus their efforts instead on Lomiri, the community continuation of Unity 8 and default environment in Ubuntu Touch.

Here’s a demonstration from two months ago, running desktop apps like Librewolf on an external monitor powered by Ubuntu Touch on a Fairphone 4. It is of course not limited to Ubuntu Touch; Ubuntu Touch is just the only distro where it’s the default interface.

The reporting goes pretty hard:

‘No restrictions’ and a secret ‘wink’: Inside Israel’s deal with Google, Amazon
To secure the lucrative Project Nimbus contract, the tech giants agreed to disregard their own terms of service and sidestep legal orders by tipping Israel off if a foreign court demands its data, a joint investigation reveals.

May this be a reminder to degoogle your phone and boycott amazon. It’s not hard, and there are thousands of people on here eager to help. :)

Thanks!

Cool, I wasn’t aware of that! Might be worth checking out.

I’m the unfortunate owner of a few Sonos speakers, and Sonos controls are not well integrated in the Qobuz app yet. But I think I heard rumours that better integration being on its way - this is where I would really benefit from being able to control with the Qobuz app. (right now I’m using noson, which is at least much better than the official Sonos app)

There’s also a fantastic third party Qobuz client for linux. It’s CLI, but if you launch it with --web it launches a local web client that’s point and click. You can choose any audio quality up to 24bit/192Khz.

I have it hooked up to my hifi system and connect through ssh to control it from my laptop or phone. Works great.