#proprietary
"Let's just use the more conveniant proprietary app and make fun of everyone using free software alternatives for moral reasons!"
Years later:
Discord has shut down the Discord servers for the Nintendo Switch emulators Suyu and Sudachi and has completely disabled their lead developers’ accounts — and the company isn’t answering our questions about why it went that far.
#discord #proprietary #software #yuzu #suyu #emulators #gaming
Do not use Kagi
Always funny how the bourgeoisie will laugh at acceptable free software alternatives, only to then pick paid alternatives to invasive corporate software that have the same quality or, in this case--with the search engine Kagi--are worse. And maybe equally as privacy invading as the corporate crap:
"Between the absolute blase attitude towards privacy, the 100% dedication to AI being the future of search, and the completely misguided use of the company’s limited funds, I honestly can’t see Kagi as something I could ever recommend to people. Is the search good? I mean…it’s not really much better than any other search, it heavily leverages Bing like DDG and the other indie search platforms do, the only real killer feature it has to me is the ability to block domains from your results, which I can currently only do in other search engines via a user script that doesn’t help me on mobile. But what good is filtering out all of the AI generated spamblogs on a search platform that wants to spit more AI generated bullshit at me directly?"
DRM vs Linux
Lock up your media with #DRM if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the #freedom of my operation system.
#GNU #LINUX #GPL #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #OS #software #meme #proprietary #economy #piracy #copy #CopyingIsNotTheft #filesharing #copyright
Embrace, extend, and extinguish
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
"Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (EEE), also known as "embrace, extend, and exterminate", is a phrase that the U.S. Department of #Justice found was used internally by #Microsoft to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with #proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences in order to strongly disadvantage its competitors.
#opensource #economy #evil #software #standard #freedom #compatibility #history #problem
#Apple responds to the Beeper #iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/9/23995150/beeper-imessage-android-apple-statement
“We took steps to protect our users by blocking techniques that exploit fake credentials in order to gain access to iMessage,” Apple senior PR manager Nadine #Haija said in a statement.
"Hey Apple" - I've a great idea 💡 give us a legal opportunity to break your walled garden!
#messenger #proprietary #communication #software #problem #economy #walledGarden #iPhone #freedom #news
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#Apple has seemingly found a way to block #Android’s new #iMessage #app
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/8/23994089/apple-beeper-mini-android-blocked-imessage-app
It appears that #BeeperMini, an easy iMessage solution for Android, was simply too good to be true — or a short-lived dream, at least. On Friday, less than a week after its launch, the app started experiencing technical issues when users were suddenly unable to send and receive blue bubble messages.
#communication #software #economy #fail #problem #news #proprietary
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#Google is trying again to convince you, YES YOU, to contribute for free to Google Maps.
Please don't.
It is 100% #proprietary, Google has full control over the data you added and people can only access Google Maps over proprietary channels where Google dictates the rules. This gives them too much power.
Contribute to #OpenStreetMap instead, it's a project by the community, for the community.
How #Meta's New Project #P92 Could Deliver the Killing Blow to #Twitter And why the #fediverse should be on #alert
Source: https://www.lifewire.com/how-metas-new-project-p92-could-deliver-the-killing-blow-to-twitter-7255582
Then, if all goes to plan, Meta could use this dominance to squeeze out the rest of the fediverse. It would become a de facto standard, and any independent #Mastodon servers unable or not willing to implement Meta's #proprietary features would be shut out.
#software #news #freedom #decentralization #opensource #takeover #economy #Facebook #capitalism #danger #problem
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Windows 11 is about to start showing more ads, this time in Settings
"It’s no secret that Microsoft has been looking to increase advertising for its products within Windows 11, and investigation by Twitter user Albacore into recent Insider builds has found that the Settings Home page will soon start to present adverts for Microsoft 365 products in the near future. A banner asking users who aren’t subscribed to the platform to “Try Microsoft 365” shows at the top of the Home tab in Settings in the screenshot below."
ever done a #websearch on "why the electoral college is undemocratic"?
#electoralcollege #democracy #undemocratic #thisisnotwhatdemocracylookslike #racist #enegalitarian #barons #oligarchy #plutarchy #bigclub #politics #stoppedclock #theelectionwasrigged #allyourelectionsarerigged
just one among many flaws.
(worth mentioning at least one more of the flaws in the #usa / #american system: #proprietary #blackbox #votingmachines, as an example)
#gafam gonna GAFAM:
It’s Official: 3rd-Party Twitter Apps No Longer Allowed
"As per Engadget, the social networking site has updated its developer agreement to state that devs can not “use or access the Licensed Materials to create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications.”"
https://www.omglinux.com/twitter-bans-3rd-party-clients-official/
