Who, in this day and age, opens unsolicited attachments??
Even my most tech-averse friends don't do that. The thing I have to remind them about nowadays is that they also shouldn't open attachments from people they know unless they've confirmed those people intended to send them.
Yes, I'm one of those nerds. Although my problem with the shift wasn't that they became less interesting (although they certainly did). It's that they actively spurned the hobbyist community that helped make them a serious company.
The problem is that they changed the functionality
Precisely. The misleading part is that they changed it without effectively communicating that it changed.
now you are bitter
Umm, no, I'm not remotely bitter. Nor am I upset, angry, or anything of the sort. You shouldn't assume that you know how other people feel unless they tell you.
The level of Equifax's ongoing idiocy is amazing. Almost impressive, even.
The fact that they can't even get the most basic security things right strongly suggests that their core business activities are likely to be run with the same amount of incompetence.
Luckily, Purism has found itself a new partner on this project -- one of the most important organizations in the Linux community -- The GNOME Foundation. Yes, the maker of the absolute best desktop environment is offering to assist with the Librem 5
There's no quicker way of losing all credibility than proclaiming that Gnome is the "absolute best desktop environment". That tells me the article is a hamfisted sales pitch and nothing else it has to say can be trusted.
Personally, I couldn't care less about the camera. I never use the camera. But if it can't make/receive phone calls and texts, it's pretty much a nonstarter.
Behind 80% of all smartphones is now made by the biggest data mining company of them all, and most on/. seem to think Apple's walled garden is the greater enemy.
I haven't seen anyone making a "greater enemy" argument. You can diss iPhones for being so handcuffed without having to think there's nothing wrong with Android.
By avoiding updates, you carry around an exploitable phone
And by reflexively updating, you are exposing yourself to the whims and exploits of the software provider, so it's pretty much six of one, half dozen of the other.
Why does the EFF feel that personal property rights of users (privacy) are more important than the persona property rights of people participating in the commercial sphere (copyright holders)?
But everybody cares if the web returns to the days when sites had to have those "best when viewed with..." badges. And we're solidly on that road again -- I have to keep more than one browser installed because some sites only work well with certain browsers. This is something I haven't had to do in a decade or so.
I could have told them that. The quality of Google searches has been going down for at least a decade, probably for as long as they have been tracking users.
This. Google's search results were better before they started to customize them based on your history, and the quality of the results only continues to fall as time goes by.
I'm aware I must be in a minority, because I am totally mystified by why anyone would show any interest in a car commercial.
I'm in the same minority. I've never understood the fetishism around cars. From my point of view, they're just another tool, not a social or fashion statement.
That latter point is not entirely true: when I see people driving around in fancy, expensive cars then I tend to make unflattering assumptions about them when I try to work out why they're willing to waste all that money.
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Who, in this day and age, opens unsolicited attachments??
Even my most tech-averse friends don't do that. The thing I have to remind them about nowadays is that they also shouldn't open attachments from people they know unless they've confirmed those people intended to send them.
Yes, I'm one of those nerds. Although my problem with the shift wasn't that they became less interesting (although they certainly did). It's that they actively spurned the hobbyist community that helped make them a serious company.
The problem is that they changed the functionality
Precisely. The misleading part is that they changed it without effectively communicating that it changed.
now you are bitter
Umm, no, I'm not remotely bitter. Nor am I upset, angry, or anything of the sort. You shouldn't assume that you know how other people feel unless they tell you.
The level of Equifax's ongoing idiocy is amazing. Almost impressive, even.
The fact that they can't even get the most basic security things right strongly suggests that their core business activities are likely to be run with the same amount of incompetence.
From TFA:
Luckily, Purism has found itself a new partner on this project -- one of the most important organizations in the Linux community -- The GNOME Foundation. Yes, the maker of the absolute best desktop environment is offering to assist with the Librem 5
There's no quicker way of losing all credibility than proclaiming that Gnome is the "absolute best desktop environment". That tells me the article is a hamfisted sales pitch and nothing else it has to say can be trusted.
Personally, I couldn't care less about the camera. I never use the camera. But if it can't make/receive phone calls and texts, it's pretty much a nonstarter.
I would. I strongly dislike Gnome.
I don't care if anyone unseats iPhones and Androids. I'd be perfectly fine with an alternative that is never widely adopted.
Behind 80% of all smartphones is now made by the biggest data mining company of them all, and most on /. seem to think Apple's walled garden is the greater enemy.
I haven't seen anyone making a "greater enemy" argument. You can diss iPhones for being so handcuffed without having to think there's nothing wrong with Android.
The problem is that they replaced an engineer with a pointy haired boss with an MBA.
It sounds like you called Jobs an "engineer" -- but he most decidedly was not that, so I assume you were referring to Wozniak.
And I agree.
While that might sound like a bug, that's actually what Apple intended in the new operating system.
It may be what Apple intended, but it still counts as a bug. Any time that the UI is actively misleading, that's a bug.
By avoiding updates, you carry around an exploitable phone
And by reflexively updating, you are exposing yourself to the whims and exploits of the software provider, so it's pretty much six of one, half dozen of the other.
There is no "DRM standard". The EME is a standardized plugin system. The actual DRM is outside the scope of the standard.
Why does the EFF feel that personal property rights of users (privacy) are more important than the persona property rights of people participating in the commercial sphere (copyright holders)?
That's easy to answer: they don't.
You think that artists shouldn't be able to make money from digital media?
This is a large straw man.
If the only thing DRM was used for was enforcing copyright law (in its entirety), there would be a lot less opposition to it.
Nah, TBL and the W3C deserve each other.
You applaud them for making themselves irrelevant?
Nope. You're deliberately misrepresenting what I said.
Do you think Big Media cares?
Nope, but what Big Media thinks isn't relevant.
Staying in and constantly opposing DRM, and publicly stating why would have been the responsible approach
You don't have to be part of the W3C to do that.
W3C will have one opposing voice less and the media industry pretty much liquidated the opposition.
That was the case anyway. The only thing staying in the W3C does is to give a little more credibility to the W3C.
Is this what you want?
Of course not, but EFF staying in the W3C will do nothing in terms of preventing that.
Firefox supports EME, but you can disable it by unchecking "Play DRM-controlled content" in preferences.
For now. Until two or three versions from now, when that feature is removed
That's OK. It looks like I'll be off the Firefox train by then anyway.
But everybody cares if the web returns to the days when sites had to have those "best when viewed with..." badges. And we're solidly on that road again -- I have to keep more than one browser installed because some sites only work well with certain browsers. This is something I haven't had to do in a decade or so.
I could have told them that. The quality of Google searches has been going down for at least a decade, probably for as long as they have been tracking users.
This. Google's search results were better before they started to customize them based on your history, and the quality of the results only continues to fall as time goes by.
Both search results and advertising work the same : try to find the most relevant site for you.
And I really, really wish they'd stop doing that for both search results and advertising. It works poorly for both and entails a loss of privacy.
Data retention does improve the only thing they care about: monetization.
I'm aware I must be in a minority, because I am totally mystified by why anyone would show any interest in a car commercial.
I'm in the same minority. I've never understood the fetishism around cars. From my point of view, they're just another tool, not a social or fashion statement.
That latter point is not entirely true: when I see people driving around in fancy, expensive cars then I tend to make unflattering assumptions about them when I try to work out why they're willing to waste all that money.
Define "soon".
That was easy to answer.