Post B2kDGvgSD7jhsRhZRI by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
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(DIR) Post #B2jua8DFxCL56mUHqK by mcc@mastodon.social
2026-01-27T18:01:52Z
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Firefox recently updated with an uglier font into the url bar and I was like "why'd they do that", but now I'm starting to notice this same font I think in certain other parts of Android, the clock bar, the copy/paste menu. I don't like it. I can't tell if I'm imagining it.Silent software updates are literally gaslighting! I think something changed, I can't tell if something changed, I'm doubting my own perceptions and mental capability
(DIR) Post #B2jua9StIYRIzYoHqq by mcc@mastodon.social
2026-01-27T18:13:29Z
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Why is everything so mushed together. Why did Google (EDIT 2: NOT GOOGLE) think this was okayEDIT: Hm, this may not look so bad zoomed in like this. On my tablet the "51" basically look like a single glyph.
(DIR) Post #B2juaAJM9UPHcHMBd2 by mcc@mastodon.social
2026-01-27T18:15:18Z
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If computers were just bad, that would be more tolerable to me I think. It's the fact that computers start off good and get worse over time. We know things could be better. Software companies *make us know* they're capable of making usable stuff before they go and break it.
(DIR) Post #B2juaAzBdxrpi0vapU by lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place
2026-01-27T18:19:35Z
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@mcc i kind of forgot that in my early 20's i had already figured out how and why paid software would never be truly reliable. it's a fundamentally doomed model. i argued this fervently with my colleagues. but we all worked for software companies, and their success depended on not taking me seriously, so they preferred making counterarguments until i thought "maybe it doesn't matter after all".
(DIR) Post #B2juaBfj5ntXpwpZ8S by mcc@mastodon.social
2026-01-27T18:22:03Z
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@lritter The thing is that open source software really isn't any more configurable, in my experience. Android is theoretically open source. We don't build our software to be modifiable, not even when source is available. We don't document our code, the only way to guess where a thing happens is to read the entire codebase. Compiling any single piece of software in the world is a tiny bespoke hell that sometimes only the people who wrote it to do.
(DIR) Post #B2juaCMcWKCpyytozg by tusharhero@mathstodon.xyz
2026-01-28T09:33:08Z
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@mcc Emacs is an exception, they take special care to make sure the user is able to easily change whatever you like. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-paper.html
(DIR) Post #B2juaFZUavHjvlwdyS by mcc@mastodon.social
2026-01-27T19:12:11Z
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Google (EDIT 2: Not Google) what are you DOINGEDIT: This also is improved by zooming in but like for crying out loud those letters are TOUCHING, it looks like some kind of 80s logo with slightly overlapping "o"s
(DIR) Post #B2juaFzj1OGjF8DarY by mcc@mastodon.social
2026-01-27T18:17:10Z
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Remembering the 1990s when you were allowed to pick what fonts your computer used
(DIR) Post #B2juaI6XB2u5mpQ3km by mcc@mastodon.social
2026-01-27T18:23:13Z
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@lritter I've got a whole Linux distribution, but it is made up of hundreds, thousands of interlocking parts and often I can't recompile *just one*, if I leave the golden path where every binary is supplied by Debian then I'm now manually maintaining every piece of software it interacts with. Maybe this is why people use Nix. I don't know.
(DIR) Post #B2juaLjzenFZ44u7Au by mcc@mastodon.social
2026-01-27T19:34:23Z
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@unlambda/115968717892839136:( :( :( :( okay I wondered about this but it seemed such an unlikely idea I didn't voice it.IT'S NOT GOOGLE. LENOVO JUST DECIDED TO FUCK MY TABLET ON PURPOSE. The reason I went with Lenovo was I thought they were the Android vendor that doesn't do anything! :(
(DIR) Post #B2juaRbLrpu1F0uIXQ by mcc@mastodon.social
2026-01-27T23:54:19Z
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So this https://hachyderm.io/@unlambda/115968752988007682 turned out to work perfectly for me!, but I'm kind of alarmed that this involved a "hidden" (not on the settings search, kinda stuffed under the wallpaper) setting, or that switching back to the default font involved selecting a setting in Chinese? This is the tablet where about 12 out of every 24 hours most of the UI is in Japanese and I don't know why. Maybe… maybe i shouldn't be buying so much Lenovo hardware.
(DIR) Post #B2juaYAfRRiVcHTaPw by mcc@mastodon.social
2026-01-27T23:57:07Z
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Anyway I guess I'm adding 原生 and 字体 to my Pleco dictionary now
(DIR) Post #B2jvUdKpQgojqfyIU4 by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2026-01-28T09:43:27.618036Z
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@tusharhero @mcc I would tell the poster to install a free version of Gentoo, but I can't.
(DIR) Post #B2jvXXQNrQDKO1xH8K by tusharhero@mathstodon.xyz
2026-01-28T09:43:59Z
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@Suiseiseki Why not GNU Guix?
(DIR) Post #B2jvYNjJOIFgbnD7r6 by tusharhero@mathstodon.xyz
2026-01-28T09:44:08Z
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@Suiseiseki Free by default.
(DIR) Post #B2jw9WdFFunkvt5IdU by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2026-01-28T09:50:51.216072Z
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@tusharhero GNU Guix is not free software, as a proprietary restrictions scheme, known as a "code of conduct" applies - despite how applying such restrictive schemes is GPLv3-infringement.(Yes, the same proprietary problem applies to Gentoo).Also, at least one package Guix distributes in the main repo is proprietary software; https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/issues/5928It seems I'd need to make a free fork of Guix, to make moving to Guix worth it.
(DIR) Post #B2jwRpK0VSoI6toSjA by jk@mastodon.social
2026-01-27T18:28:29Z
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@mcc @lritter it's interesting that the operating system the decentralized and user-freedom-focused userland and then kernel sought to emulate was the hulking 20th century "giant corporation installs a giant machine into another giant corporation's office and configure this precisely so that it provides a centralized suite of utilities for dozens of salaried employees in cubicles with electric typewriters". because like, thats not the right model for that goal at all really. maybe the worst one
(DIR) Post #B2k7QyIQkjTD9Os0u0 by eruwero@ieji.de
2026-01-28T11:14:53Z
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@Suiseiseki @tusharhero if the code of conduct applies to how the software is developed in the guix project (which seems to be the case https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/src/branch/master/CODE-OF-CONDUCT), this has nothing to do with whether it's free or proprietary software, as it doesn't restrict how the software can be used/modified/distributed, just how it can be contributed to this particular project. Which part of the GPLv3 would apply to this?
(DIR) Post #B2k7QzDrJDPK1VjsPo by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2026-01-28T11:57:13.020729Z
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@eruwero @tusharhero How the software is developed decides whether it's free or proprietary software - if the freedoms of the developers as to how they would like to modify the free software are restricted (for example, being able to work with absolutely anyone on the free software - even if you don't personally agree with them or other developer see them as evil™), you don't get free software.The section of the GPLv3 that applies is; 8. Termination. You may not propagate or modify a covered work except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to propagate or modify it is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License (including any patent licenses granted under the third paragraph of section 11).
(DIR) Post #B2k7dy5ArJmGFgro8m by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2026-01-28T11:59:36.612205Z
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@eruwero @tusharhero *it is highly important that it is possible to choose to work with absolutely anyone on the free software.Banning developers for having an "incorrect opinion", is to restrict who can modify the software and how the software is modified.
(DIR) Post #B2kDGtBBWPXG6t3ZQG by eruwero@ieji.de
2026-01-28T12:20:03Z
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@Suiseiseki @tusharhero anyone is still allowed to modify the software and do with it what they want, the restriction is just for the particular project/community (in this case guix). Just because you allow anyone to use/modify/distribute your software doesn't mean you have to work with them if you disagree on something (whether that's a technical software-related issue or something else).
(DIR) Post #B2kDGudw507yeLW2sK by eruwero@ieji.de
2026-01-28T12:29:15Z
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@Suiseiseki @tusharhero and since the code of conduct of guix focuses on being inclusive and not discriminating against anyone it should be seen as something positive IMO, because it tries to ensure that everyone is welcome and can contribute. If you allow hostile behavior it will be a lot harder to "choose to work with absolutely anyone" because a lot of people won't want to contribute to such a project.
(DIR) Post #B2kDGvgSD7jhsRhZRI by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2026-01-28T13:02:36.844368Z
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@eruwero @tusharhero The discrimination against freedom is negative - as I don't want to contribute to such project with such restrictions.The hostile behavior is the proprietary restrictions schemes.Such proprietary schemes drives away the freedom enjoyers and only attracts proprietary software developers.