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Of course there are legitmate use-cases; I enable a few myself. BUT--I also know exactly where to go in my browser settings to edit my preferences, should I ever accidentally click "yes" on a bad prompt that starts blasting me with ads and phishing attempts.

The thing is, many non-technical users don't even know where or how notifications really show, much less how to edit/remove them.

Can we even get any smaller than a nanometer?

5 Centuries is a long time for a cipher to be un-cracked. One could say it did a better job than modern ciphers!

I find it ironic the Washington Post has this article.

Everything I have seen and read would seem to indicate that China's Government is drunk on the extra power and control their "Zero-COVID" policy gives them; they don't seem keen on giving that power up.

COVID doesn't even matter.

That could be said of anything one does with a computer. The point is that if it's stored locally YOU have responsiblity over it, rather than trusting to some other party to hopefully protect it (and not sell it or expose it or what-have-you).

Why did I just get "Dawn of the Final Day" vibes?

Old software from yester-decade should always be open-sourced. And the fact that it isn't is a darn shame.

Ok, this is a pretty big deal.

That's a sad commentary on relationships.

I gotta say, this was the last thing I expected to read today.

Wasn't expecting this release to be 1.0! But I suppose I should've seen it coming.

Try the "Excalidraw" Plugin for Obsidian.

Based off one of the sponser links I followed, methinks the writer's first language might not be english?

Not to deride the site, or any writer.

History repeats itself.

I relate to this so much. I probably should build a morning routine. There's so much I want to get done.

This reminds me of a meme.

> PS5 User: hey can I install a SSH server on my PlayStation? > Sony: NOOOOOO YOU CAN'T DO THAT THAT'S' ILLEGAL WE'LL SUE YOU FOR VIOLATING TOS

> Steam Deck User: hey can I install a SSH server on my Steam Deck? > Valve: It's already included. Have fun.

It comes from the idea that certain products are "locked down" to where you cannot do anything else with it but what the manufacturer provisions. Jailbreaking means you gain complete control over the device, so that you can do anything else you want with it.

I believe the term either originally came from, or was at least popularized by people wanting to escape Apple's "walled garden", which is also viewed by some as a jail.

Not to discount the research or its usefulness, but I feel uncomfortable with sterile language that, to me, implies that humans are nothing more than accidental automatons that can eventually be replicated and replaced by AI.

Aren't we more than that?

This made me laugh.

I also look forward to the potential of open technologies like what RISC-V appears to enable. It's not all bad for sure.

Don't Reproduce?

Security can be used to create both a safe, and a jail. Remember that.

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I think Microsoft feels threatened at this point about Linux becoming more popular on PCs; what with hardware like the Steam Deck. Can't have Linux dominate the PC platform if you forcefully bind all hardware to the Windows ecosystem. Imagine if back in the day Microsoft used their dominance to block out all competing software on PCs but their own.

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I can see a dystopian future where Government can enforce code/file signing with technologies like this (DRM), so that you can never again have an open computing platform; you could only ever use code or view files approved by the State, and if you try to write code or create content, it won't work period unless it is first approved by the State. (such as with an AI scanning tool to detect and block "wrong-think" or "dangerous functionality" (i.e. dissent or otherwise that threatens the powers that be))

This also exposes the risk of hackers (state-sponsored or otherwise) to selectively or indiscriminately deny power to people just by flipping off their meter(s).

I doubt laptop sales would go down.

It really depends on the use-case, and need for convenience. With a laptop (assuming it's not a desktop-replacement style brick) it's easy to use it in a lounge chair outside, or on a couch in the living room, or to take it over to a friend's house to show something.

Many people don't even use computing-intensive tasks.

So, I don't really see the switch to working at home really changing user preferences. I could be wrong, but we'll see.

Many of the things you describe, describe my mother to a tee.

She uses an iPad, but progressively Apple has complicated the interface to fit in more and more features, which has made it harder and harder for her to use the device simply.

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One recent example is the Notes app, which today includes folders, tags, and many other fancy features. I only discovered recently that she had still been using the app as though she did the day she started using Notes, which must've been c. iOS 6. She didn't even notice the top-left "< Folders" button.

Apple's design language is "Clean" and "Modern", but often fails to convey to non-technical users that a even a button is...a button, since iOS/iPadOS use colored text with no background to convey that something is a button.

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One other example was a mistake I made while configuring a web browser for her. I absent-mindedly turned on "Hide panels automatically", and it wasn't until I figured out what my mother meant when she complained "SOMETHING POPS OUT AND THEN JUST VANISHES" of what I had done wrong.

I really like when he points out his own Standards for Technological Innovation. They are very good points regardless of the current age.

Particularly to me, are the points of repairability, and interfering with real-world relationships.

There are few exceptions to the rule where most systems today cannot be self-repaired, much less taken to a local shop and repaired with off-the-shelf parts (thankfully this is slowly changing for the better.)

In terms of relationships, it would seem to be a mixed bag. In some respects you can communicate across vast distances without a second thought. In others it would seem we are headed to our own doom due to toxicity, disconnect and disassociation from those around us, etc.

I just miss the Big Cat names.

This is probably why Linux has been such a large success. For all the submissions, suggestions, filtering by those lower down the chain...at the end of the day it's Linus that says "Yes" or "No". (And/or chews people out for bad code.)

This comment might come off a little off-topic but I think it's pretty related.

The Gnome Project has always struck me of having this Apple-Like attitude of "We know Best", and subsequently ignoring/shrugging off user concerns/issues/etc.

It's pretty obvious that Gnome is at the very least "inspired" by macOS. Heck Apple started version bumping by whole numbers at right about the same time Gnome switched from 3.x to 4x.

I use it on my Touchscreen Convertible Laptop (with Wayland), since it supports multi-touch gestures (on the touchpad too), and as long as I install extensions to bend Gnome to my will, it seems to work pretty darn well for me. (For example, adding window tiling with the https://github.com/Leleat/Tiling-Assistant extension).

Perhaps there is a better way that I should switch too, but currently I remain ignorant.

Krita makes use of radial menus as an option.