Notices by wizzwizz4 (wizzwizz4@fosstodon.org), page 3

@Suiseiseki Oh, hey, someone's already written the rest of this rant. https://libreboot.org/news/policy.html

@Suiseiseki Depends on your threat model. You're talking about the operating system, but @bugaevc's points all apply to Linux-libre's kernel.

Proprietary userland tends to be malware, but proprietary OEM software tends to just be buggy and unauditable. If you consider proprietary software to be inherently malicious, then your CPU (with its proprietary firmware and proprietary logic circuitry) is malicious and GNU Linux-libre is insecure.

@chjara Just get the computer (job title) to do it. Smh.

@lanodan What are you talking about? @chjara 's been 16 for the past 3½ years!

@gnutelephony @devinprater Yeah, I'm not sure how the current systems take into account individual ear geometries when they're doing the "fake surround sound using headphones" thing. But the marketing copy says it works, so they must be doing something!

@gnutelephony @devinprater In theory, most OSs should support it these days. Can't find a good example, unfortunately, but the web does it: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Audio_API/Web_audio_spatialization_basics

@evan They didn't have all Stack Overflow posts, remember, only the ones that hadn't been deleted.

@halva @eevee Well, you decide that Firefox isn't supported, then you add a conditional redirect to a page helpfully informing your users of this fact.

Usually the site works completely fine in Firefox, if you manage to bypass the Firefox detection. Rarely, the CSS is dodgy and the JavaScript auto-fade doesn't work, but this can usually be fixed by simply deleting elements from the DOM.

@eythian @tsmyther Also https://xkcd.com/1053/ (for the unlikely circumstance that it's applicable to itself)

@PaulDavisTheFirst This is true; however, leaving Twitter (if you can, without great sacrifice) is strictly better than theming it. No amount of client-side shenanigans gets over the fact that the server-side is abusive.

@lanodan @alcinnz And people outside India would still be able to access those servers, if they have IPv6. (Which I currently don't – but if I could say “I can't access India”, I might *get* it.)

It wouldn't break many Indian sites in India, because presumably they've mostly all already got IPv6.

@lanodan @alcinnz Then they can have No-IPv4 Wednesdays, or something. But I think going the whole way might be wise.

Microsoft has substantial IPv6 infrastructure; I bet they could make the transition between the announcement and the implementation of no-IPv6. And if they don't… we don't *need* GitHub. There are plenty of mirrors to get software that's hosted there (not to mention IPv4–IPv6 bridging proxies), and there are plenty of alternatives to host your own software on.

@grissallia 'Doubt' is Indian English for 'question'. This is the only major language barrier between Indians and the rest of the Anglosphere (over written communication, anyway), so I'm not impressed that Seagate hasn't taught their tech support people about it.

@ErikUden @lan Gentle reminder that this isn't actually true. Per https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/, Apple Inc. paid:

2023: $250–$499
2022: $1000–$4999
2021: $1000–$4999
2020: $250–$499
2019: $1000–$4999
2018: $1000–$4999

So that's $4500–$20994 total over the past 5½ years. So aktually, the trillion dollar corporation has paid not even 18 months' *US minimum wage* ($7.25/hr) for one person. Across 5½ years.

But hey. It's more than $5, so it's totally fair, right?

@jos So where do we go from here?

@adora @lina @keyoxide Comments? (see thread)

@adora Honestly, i wouldn't be surprised if @keyoxide added support for whatever @lina settled on.

@chjara Good news! Firefox 113, released last month, has pinker pinks than sRGB hex values can express. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value

My computer monitor is defective and cannot display them, but I think this meets your requirements:

lch(66% 200 333deg 1)

@ljs Do you think they'll tell you where they got your number from?

… Actually. You could file a GDPR subject access request, asking for:

• Your number;
• How they got your number; and
• Any other personal data they have about you.

That should clear things up (and hopefully spook them into stopping those practices).

@mattmcirvin @inthehands My favourite part is that, once it started acting arrogant and obtuse, it decided that "the date is actually 2022" was the most likely next token. The mistake it made about the movie's release date damaged its ability to output the correct date.