Notices by Ruarí Ødegaard (ruario@social.vivaldi.net)

If you watched #Eurovision and wondered what the hell just happened after Israel received nearly five times more points from the public than from the juries you should read this:

https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/0513/1448844-eurovision-voting-ireland-israel-politics-palestine/

Made with ❤️ in Europe

#VivaldiBrowser

@kaia I don't know. I own rather a lot of bikes. Most people might say, too many.

Yep, that seems like a legit picture from @Vivaldi offices.

#Unicycle

In the real world still, if a person says to you, "This is my partner", that basically means something like, "If you trust me, you can trust them" and/or "this person can speak on my behalf because they know me really well".

But online "partner" apparently now just means "a collection of companies whose names I could not even recount without looking them up in a database or spreadsheet I have somewhere".

You know what… I'm good. I decided I don't really care to read that article after all.

What is a "partner" these days?

Historically, when I heard the word "partner" I would think of a person's close confident. Someone who knows you well and could potentially represent you to the outside world in your absence. That could be a boyfriend, girlfriend, the person you married, etc. In the business world, perhaps someone you trusted enough to start a company with, tying your economy to their own financial well being in some sense. In all cases a person you implicitly trust.

Given the level of trust a partner historically implied, how many simultaneous partners are realistic? I would think a very low number.

Are these 865 "partners" like that? Or when they write this do they actually mean, these are 865 companies with whom we are sharing all the data we can collect on you, for a tiny financial kickback or other minor benefit to run our website.

I feel like they should be forced to write,

"We and the 865 companies we are selling you out to…"

Don't lie and call them "partners" to make it sound like the person using your website should trust all these companies. Companies who you likely know very little about and have not vetted. Your "partners"… really? Fuck you!

#partner

These things always amuse the shit out of me

The old macOS 10.15 machine I was using for testing Vivaldi has been upgraded, despite not supporting newer macOS versions.

It actually can run @Vivaldi 7.0 despite reports to the contrary you might have heard.

https://vivaldi.com/os-support-notice-10-15/

ℹ️ I went with the third option (🐧) under "What can you do now?" in the above article. 😉

Rather than fix this, we should just embrace it as the new way to write our name. 🤷🏼

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There was a problem with the spacing of letters next to the @Vivaldi logo in the main meeting area of our Iceland office.

We set our top designer on it right away. Thanks @atlemo, truely an amazing job! 🤩

The #VivaldiBrowser team is on a team building. While waiting for the ferry @Alacho realised he could "hack" the information kiosk and get Vivaldi installed.

I feel like @jon approves. 🤣

@aral Installed from flatpak, I presume? I will update it shortly. That might improve things.

@aral I logged it as VB-106054. That does not tell you much directly as the bug tracker entry is not public but perhaps handy for you if you were to mention/discuss the problem with others having a similar issue, should you want to bring it up again with us, or if you are looking out for it in a furture changelog. That sort of thing. 🤷🏼

P.S. Can you open the about page and just confirm the exact version number of Vivaldi you are running? Thanks in advance!

@aral Hmm… have not noticed but will take a look. Thanks for letting us know.

@aral Thanks though, very kind to offer! @Catweazle

So we are working on the last stages of the Vivaldi 6.6 desktop release. We are up to release candidate two.

Anyway… I am asking for a little favour not as an employee but in my unofficial role as the Vivaldi flatpak maintainer. 😉

Is there anyone around with x64 Linux, right now? If so I am wondering if one of you can install this flatpak 6.6 RC2 test build and confirm that proprietary media works

https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/736079

Another (different) person snowboarding!

And another person on skis. Sorry it was a bit far away but I promise you they are skiing!

Some guy on a #snowboard just went down the hill outside the office window. 😜

@mariap has some competition!

#Snow #Oslo #WinterCommuting