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soundnote··on Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
Recent election fraud, too.
soundnote··on Tech Fascism Has Come for American Democracy
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10979-005-8122-9

Available via Elbakyan University's access program.

soundnote··on A year of Omarchy Linux as my daily driver
With mass shootings, the stats matter a lot. When it comes to things that come to mind for most of us when we hear the words "mass shooting" - like some guy taking a gun and letting loose at a school, most of the perpetrators are indeed whites, as far as I know. But we also hear a lot of "there's a mass shooting or school shooting every day", and for those, the criteria are typically something like someone started shooting, multiple people (often a very small number) got hurt/killed, and that count ends up including a ton of black-on-black gang warfare.
soundnote··on Ask HN: How can DigitalOcean not afford $50, but can afford $3M to Omarchy?
Jordan Petridis of GNOME has said that people or organizations must "contain Hitler particles" to even consider donating to Omarchy or Hyprland.
soundnote··on Tech Fascism Has Come for American Democracy
Jury duty used to work: As immigration continues apace, it will fail. Lee Kuan Yew had to end jury trials in Singapore because as he notes, in a multiracial societies, you don't vote in accordance with your economic interests and social interests, you vote in accordance with race and religion"
soundnote··on CSS-Tricks in Limbo
Omarchy went and sponsored vaxry so he's able to work on Hyprland full time for 3+2 years, hired Quickshell creator outfoxxed and a kernel developer, sponsored upstream projects like mise, and tried to offer resources to Arch/AUR, who refused them.

And like the other poster said, they are actively working on M series support (building on Asahi's excellent work, of course) and making concrete progress.

soundnote··on CSS-Tricks in Limbo
Framework tried contributing money to GNOME recently. Sadly they also contributed some to Hyprland and Omarchy. As a result, Jordan Petridis / Alatiera of GNOME said they must "contain Hitler particles" to even consider sponsoring... a window manager and a Linux distro.

GNOME declined the money.

Framework also offered money to KDE. KDE accepted the money.

Framework released a computer that ran Fedora KDE: Freedesktop.org Code of Conduct committee member starts crying about the fascism of it.

Later, when DHH got the Omacom foundation's money pledges in, he contacted Arch/AUR people to see about sending some money or resources their way. They declined.

Some reactions on Mastodon to the Omacom announcements:

PostmarketOS dev: "nothing quite as depressing as seeing a fascist get 8 mil and corpo backing to keep building their 'distro' while not even having the funds to hire folks to work full time.

Elementary OS dev to that: "yeah it seems the trick to financial success is to do as much harm as possible"

And they go on to compare Omarchy to servants of the Chaos God Khorne in Warhammer. You know, a god of bloodshed and warfare. Blood for the Blood God, Skulls to the Skull Throne.

Meanwhile, eg. everything I've ever seen of Vaxry has been orders of magnitude more normal than raving about Hitler particles, and somehow he has a multiyear sponsorship to work on Hyprland fulltime, the maker of Quickshell got hired by Omacom, and some other projects they use have received sponsorships. Only Arch declined.

> One dude comes along, adds some scripts on top of all the work of those maintainers, and gets millions in funding?

Said guy moved most of his own company to that distro, and he and his business partner each put down a million dollars of their own money. Just a while ago, when the foundation paperwork wasn't done yet, DHH said the Vaxry and outfoxxed sponsorships came out of his pocket in case there was a snag with setting up the foundation.

> You can't expect people to be nice then. It's completely messed up.

People seem to have been capable of not shouting about Hitler particles, and somehow it's those people who've been sponsored now that one dude managed to scrounge up serious money. Funny, that.

soundnote··on CSS-Tricks in Limbo
> Apparently it is a more pressing matter for them to donate to a collection of scripts and configuration files than to contribute to the projects they’re built upon

The dismissive disingenuousness is tiresome. Omarchy hasn't been a set of dotfiles in a long time, and the money has gone to upstream projects - vaxry got paid to be able to dev Hyprland fulltime for up to five years, outfoxxed who makes Quickshell got hired, they sponsored the developer of mise, and hired a kernel developer.

soundnote··on Omarchy: 1Password and 37signals become Distinguished Corporate Patrons
Omarchy does do that. They host their own packaging servers, which they keep intentionally a month behind Arch's to catch broken packages. They ship a custom kernel. They have a small AUR-like extra repository as well.

> Why Omarchy?

Because DHH has friends. It's not anything more special than that.

soundnote··on Omarchy: 1Password and 37signals become Distinguished Corporate Patrons
They do ship custom kernels, actually. A normal one, and ones for M-series Macs and one for new XPSes.
soundnote··on Omarchy: 1Password and 37signals become Distinguished Corporate Patrons
They ship a custom kernel, have their own packaging servers, ship their own installer, an installable ISO, and ship a bunch of custom UI. That's a distro, all right. Not a foundational one a la Debian or Arch, but that's never been a requirement seeing how things like Ubuntu, Cachy etc. exist and are called distros without issue.

Omarchy started as a pile of dotfiles a year ago. It isn't that anymore, and DHH's intended direction is towards a fully independent foundation distro.

soundnote··on Omacom Foundation funding hits $10M
They do ship a custom kernel specifically to improve XPS support.
soundnote··on Omacom Foundation funding hits $10M
DHH's company literally runs on the OS nowadays, they want good tasting dogfood.
soundnote··on Omacom Foundation funding hits $10M
He's absolutely correct about the clown infestation, though.

eg. when Framework sponsored Hyprland and Omarchy (amonmg many other projects), a GNOME dev said the Framework people must contain Hitler particles ton even consider doing it.

Framework tried giving money to GNOME, they refused it.

Framework released a computer that ran Fedora KDE: Freedesktop.org Code of Conduct committee member starts crying about the fascism of it.

Omacom foundation is established:

PostmarketOS dev: "nothing quite as depressing as seeing a fascist get 8 mil and corpo backing to keep building their 'distro' while not even having the funds to hire folks to work full time.

Elementary OS dev to that: "yeah it seems the trick to financial success is to do as much harm as possible"

And they go on to compare Omarchy to servants of the Chaos God Khorne in Warhammer. You know, a god of bloodshed and warfare. Blood for the Blood God, Skulls to the Skull Throne.

The clown problem is real.

The sad part is that stuff like PostmarketOS is a really good idea.

soundnote··on Mullvad and Daniel Berntsson's Failed Cleanup
The Paradox is invariably trotted out to justify political censorship far before Popper's own conditions, and frankly most often by some of the most close-minded people I've ever seen. Are they more accepting of some things than the people they want censored? Sure. But in most ways the Paradox people are hidebound bigots who demand everyone toe their lines and never demonstrate tolerance in its original meaning: Suffering the existence of that which you'd rather didn't exist.
soundnote··on Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
> Apple could be forced to scan for ANYTHING by repressive regimes including America and China.

Including Europe. Europe is ruled by people who think 1984 was an instruction manual.

soundnote··on Librepods: AirPods liberated
I've liked Sony, myself, at least before they shit the bed with firmware. They stayed on better, and had better noise canceling. The transparency was a bit metallic. AirPods in comparison rely a ton on a tight fit for noise canceling, but the transparency is magic. Sadly, I'm more of a noise canceling user.
soundnote··on OneDrive data now has an expiry date
Also just having your stuff available on multiple devices, having it be easy to move devices, etc.

All that said, I don't like the deep desktop-OneDrive type integration, very much a clear, separate sync folders type person, even if I store a bunch of my stuff inside said folder. But Sync Service Kingdoms are to be very clear, it's the one way they will be ~99% benefit, 1% headache.

soundnote··on Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page
Logseq isn't abandonware - they're in the process of rebuilding the app from the ground up to be database-driven, rather than house-brand Markdown as the source of truth and a database constructed from the files afterwards.

I'm not saying it's the most likely project to survive, but they've been working in quiet mode for a good while now.

soundnote··on EFF is leaving X
Search for:

from:EFF "twitter files" on X. Zip, zilch, nada. Nothing about a large government censorship campaign that especially targeted conservatives.

soundnote··on EFF is leaving X
Antiracists are as against racism as North Korea is democratic, and the people's, and as much as the Berlin Wall was an anti-fascist protection rampart and totally not a way to stop people from defecting en masse.

Ostensible names are just that, ostensible. They do not always describe reality and are often chosen to mislead. With woke antiracists, that is exactly the case.

I've seen "antiracist" lecturers say kindly silly little things like "white people are born to not being human", an "antiracist" teacher saying white people are born human, but invariably abused by their parents "into whiteness". The torrent of absolutely blatant anti-white racism from these sorts of people is comical in its proportion, and neverending. Their every campaign is "we'll include sparkles everyone sparkles (NOT YOU), so join us at..."

Somehow, it's hard to take the epithet seriously. I wonder why.

soundnote··on EFF is leaving X
That's the thing: They choose leftist allegiances over their ostensible job. For example, search for "twitter files" on the EFF's Twitter account. Nothing. Blatant government effort to censor people. Zip, zilch, nada.

Now they abandon X that's become more free, and head for Bluesky and Mastodon, which are basically recreations of the stifling atmosphere of pre-Musk Twitter.

Freedom for their favoured people to do what they like, perhaps. But for me and others? Nah, not on the program.

soundnote··on Hungary Is a Laboratory for Illiberal Nationalism. The Results Are In
How so? Cat are open borders people, no?
soundnote··on Microsoft Discontinuing Publisher. Alternatives?
No sense in not trying out Affinity, I think.
soundnote··on Microsoft Discontinuing Publisher. Alternatives?
Canva's operated on a freemium model for years with their own main product, and they have a lot of stuff on the Canva side they can implement into Affinity as a value add. Very little reason to expect that they'd renege on their commitments. The only real risk for that is the upcoming IPO and becoming publicly traded, IMO. The current ownership seems committed enough.
soundnote··on Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act
Sure, but the brits have voted for less immigration please for 30 years straight and only ever gotten more of it.

The SAVE Act the orange dude's admin is trying to pass? Requiring ID to vote is popular among every race (eg. over 70% of blacks are in favour), among both Democrat and Republican voters. Its overall support among people is undeniable, and the ID demand itself commonsense. Somehow Congress can't pass a piece of common sense that's wildly popular among both parties' voters.

Sure, democracy can and does give the ordinary man more influence than in many places, but some things will still simply just happen and people's opinions will have very little sway.

soundnote··on Pwning the Ladybird Browser
What'd be the effect of Swift be on the possibility of a Windows port? I know anything end user friendly is ages away, but I don't live in Apple land, and neither does most of the world. Apple has a monopoly on iOS and huge market share on Mac, and is still at 20% or something.

https://x.com/GregKamradt/status/1848045525473677314

https://x.com/wycats/status/973761496277704704

soundnote··on Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes
Easy, Harvard is essentially a training center for their ideological enemies on top of providing an actual education. They're just putting the boot down and saying stick to teaching instead of implementing and advancing a specific ideology. If taxes are the tools, so be it.
soundnote··on Asahi Linux Progress Report - Linux 6.14
Possibly true, but it's also worth noting that the weirdos who develop Asahi do, in fact, do good work.
soundnote··on uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
Running uBO and Shields at the same time isn't a good idea, generally speaking. Pick one and go with it.
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