Posts by maltimore@social.tchncs.de
(DIR) Post #AdLI5J8xX3GObW21ya by maltimore@social.tchncs.de
2023-12-30T17:22:40Z
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@mttaggart It's a fair enough distinction, but I think there are some arguments actually:Mozilla can only fulfill its mission of providing an open alternative browser and establishing open internet standards if it makes sure FF and other alternatives retain significant market share. Otherwise Google will just adhere to their own protocols for Chrome more than they already do and make FF etc obsolete (i.e. *not* a real alternative), because FF etc just won't work with most websites.1/x
(DIR) Post #AdLI5K5S1a3FWvOk9A by maltimore@social.tchncs.de
2023-12-30T17:25:10Z
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@mttaggart Also, for Mozilla, retaining FF market share is vital for their survival because one of their main sources of income, if not *the* main source, is from search engine providers. They get paid for having a particular search engine be the default. Without market share, that source of income is gone.2/x
(DIR) Post #AdLI5KuUxmsu5FHViK by maltimore@social.tchncs.de
2023-12-30T17:29:07Z
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@mttaggart Losing FF market share for Mozilla starts a downward spiral, where they get less income due to losing market share, which causes them to fire FF developers, which makes FF fall further behind and lose even more market share.3/x
(DIR) Post #AdLI5Lfe8UbARTLACe by maltimore@social.tchncs.de
2023-12-30T17:34:17Z
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@mttaggart Regarding why we don't care so much about market share for the fediverse: first of all, we kind of do, right? The utopic vision would be to have everyone on some kind of open source website that federates via ActivityPub.Other than that: the fediverse is *not* subject to the same vicious cycle I sketched above. The fediverse software doesn't automatically get worse if the proprietary competitors get more dominant. As long as the Fediverse sticks to ActivityPub, we're fine.4/4
(DIR) Post #AdMS6Y2SpZWRn3BS4W by maltimore@social.tchncs.de
2023-12-30T19:40:44Z
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I find it so sad how many people get tricked by #Mozilla splitting into a non-profit and a for-profit. When #OpenAI pulled the same bullshit everyone saw right through that. But with Mozilla? Everything good.So they put the extremely profitable part into a for-profit, and this for-profit pays the CEOs salary and increases it drastically to 7M$ while firing 25% of the work force. At the same time, the non-profit Mozilla foundation is still asking for donations 🤡
(DIR) Post #AdMS6i1PiKckkglkp6 by maltimore@social.tchncs.de
2023-12-30T19:45:11Z
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"If we manage to raise 3.3 Million $ with your donations now, we'll increase our CEO's salary to 9 million next year."Imagine donating to Mozilla 🤡
(DIR) Post #AhwXfPskx4KjwFtItk by maltimore@social.tchncs.de
2024-05-06T12:53:01Z
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I gotta say, #Flathub looks really neat nowadays. It really has the potential to become the one-stop-shop for installing GUI apps on virtually all Linux distros.I think someone recently posted that #Flatpak also passed the test-of-time, as they had managed to install a flatpak app from 2016 on a recent OS with no issues.
(DIR) Post #Aj1OWXXfbPkubaA0ye by maltimore@social.tchncs.de
2024-06-17T14:36:17Z
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@aral I did not know this existed! That looks very appealing! 12h battery life, no fan? Yes please
(DIR) Post #Akt89LdJQbfNmI32Vk by maltimore@social.tchncs.de
2024-08-12T10:36:28Z
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If someone is in a region where Signal is censored, I'm willing to run a Signal Proxy for you. You can dm me to get the URL.#Signal #SignalProxy
(DIR) Post #As0WbAyjRqEspOMbEO by maltimore@social.tchncs.de
2025-02-12T19:17:28Z
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As someone who has been doing "AI" professionally for 10 years now and really believes in its potential, I've been quite bummed about how much people on Fedi hate it.But I've just set foot outside academia for the first time and heard a keynote talk about AI in an industry meeting and it was so fucking dumb that I left early, angrily. The most insane brain rot bullshit I ever came across.Now I understand why people outside academia hate it so much.#AI #ML #MachineLearning
(DIR) Post #Av17xGZDC90DBYnPfs by maltimore@social.tchncs.de
2025-06-11T09:55:59Z
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@davidrevoy fantastic! I loved watching this.
(DIR) Post #AvBFvot9ML2sGbXgu0 by maltimore@social.tchncs.de
2025-06-15T07:59:55Z
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@aral @kevinrothrock Thanks @aral! 👍I hadn't noticed the missing alt text.
(DIR) Post #AvRlytMI8iiRR0raa0 by maltimore@social.tchncs.de
2025-06-24T06:27:03Z
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@debian great stuff ☺️
(DIR) Post #AxYi7Qh75bMQjXRtCa by maltimore@social.tchncs.de
2025-08-26T10:31:12Z
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@cryptgoat Ich hab auf der englischen wikipedia 300+ edits, auf der deutschen 12 oder so. Ungefaehr 3-4 davon wurde rueckgaengig gemacht (in unabhaengigen Faellen), danach hab ich das Editieren auf der deutschen Wikipedia sein gelassen..
(DIR) Post #AxpMQrT0sXo1xt26m8 by maltimore@social.tchncs.de
2025-09-03T11:18:17Z
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@cryptgoat Sag mal was habt ihr denn da fuer riesige Linux install parties, dass ihr so dermassen viele Sticks braucht? ich meine mich schon an diverse Posts von dir zu dem Thema zu erinnern ;)Sehr loeblich! ich kenne nur linux install parties wo so 2-3 Leute gekommen sind.
(DIR) Post #AyYtS1qAmmrEfphvtI by maltimore@social.tchncs.de
2025-09-25T10:30:18Z
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@cryptgoat really cool indeed. For us, proabably not good news for all the game devs employed by the big studios..
(DIR) Post #AzWwo0rD50IFLFxkTA by maltimore@social.tchncs.de
2025-10-24T09:50:26Z
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@cryptgoat yep - es ist ultra weird
(DIR) Post #AzZaTscAOusMT7niQy by maltimore@social.tchncs.de
2025-10-25T16:24:22Z
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@cryptgoat strange.. my experience is so different, it's been rock solid for me, just like the previous releases. Do you have an nvidia gpu and not the latest drivers installed? That made a big difference for me some time ago.
(DIR) Post #B1FAy1rMN2VrLVDr28 by maltimore@social.tchncs.de
2025-12-14T15:48:34Z
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@publicvoit i know this is an old post and you're looking to move away from #orgzly but just FYI orgzly has an option now to sync at given intervals (e.g. every 15 min).
(DIR) Post #B1XhIGvT1gKvi9sE8u by maltimore@social.tchncs.de
2025-12-23T14:15:39Z
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@cryptgoat Ich habe mal mein liberapay wieder aufgemacht um ne Liste zu haben:- Milan (my mastodon server admin)- Liberapay itself- nos-oignons (Tor servers)- doctormo (Inkscape)- Lemmy- syncthing- borg backup- KeepassXC- Kunzisoft (Keepass android)- larma (microG)- rocket9labs (libre meditation app)- ZeMarmot- GIMP- Weblate- Team NewPipe- jamessan (debian packaging, e.g. neovim)- tmux