bergfest

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by bergfest 2mo ago
We had a choice when there were alternative clients for all major platforms. Make open APIs mandatory for large platforms and a lot of problems will disappear. UIs will be designed for the best user experience again instead of maximizing en
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by bergfest 2mo ago
This has got to be rejected by any court that has not been completely corrupted.
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by bergfest 3mo ago
What will the end game in this licensing scheme be? I reckon once enough movies have been sold, the reputational damage of taking them away would become so large that streaming services will be strongarmed into accepting increasingly unreas
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by bergfest 6mo ago
This is exactly what will happen.
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by bergfest 6mo ago
I can still see that black and white splash screen in my head. Computers were so magical back then.
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by bergfest 7mo ago
And then they will take away your right to boot whatever you want. For national security reasons and the children, of course.
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by bergfest 10mo ago
The older manual rear view mirrors worked much better in my opinion.
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by bergfest 10mo ago
A task force of former nuclear fusion scientists has been established to fix bluetooth audio quality for once and forever.
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by bergfest 10mo ago
I don’t know about the US, but in UK and the EU they are certainly trying to do just that. And if not today, the will simply cook us slowly a little longer until they succeed. The problem is, that regular people just don’t care enough.
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by bergfest 10mo ago
It’s almost like they need these to exist.
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by bergfest 10mo ago
I second this. And it would only be half as bad, if there was a chance to democratically undo this, when people realize the consequences. But no, this will stay forever and only become worse.
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by bergfest 10mo ago
But they have ways to evade the law. And my dystopian inner oracle tells me, that when the pervasive online identification will soon be reality, certain people's IDs will have a special "all access, no logs" status that will
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by bergfest 10mo ago
That's what I'm wondering too. I still hold out hope that the EU and the ECJ cannot override the fundamental rights guaranteed by the constitutions of the individual member states. It is generally assumed that the ECJ has ultimate
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by bergfest 1y ago
I fear it is already too late, thanks to the phone duopoly and bulletproof secure boot environments. The EU can now make remote attestation mandatory by law.
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by bergfest 1y ago
We have to assume this is only the first step. The next step will be mandatory identity attestation for everything and your only choices will be to either accept it or not use any services at all.
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by bergfest 1y ago
Creating, exchanging and safe-keeping the keys is hard. But what if OS vendors would provide just that as a system level service?
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by bergfest 1y ago
A small but important detail of Aqua was that the assumed light source was pointing straight down, whereas everybody else was usually using a 45 degrees angle. I wish Apple took a lesson from the old masters. Also these colors make my eyes
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by bergfest 1y ago
With EU chat control, the state will be on my device, having access to everything they want, decide what I can and cannot do. Once Google forces WEI on us, the whole web will get locked down. And secure boot and now MIE will make sure we c
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by bergfest 1y ago
They should be barred from shipping experimental or non-standardized features in Chrome to prevent them from abusing their monopoly and forcing others hands by creating de-facto standards without a fair discourse. Experimental features sho
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by bergfest 1y ago
Why not forbid them to ship any non-standard feature in their pre-installed default build of Chrome? Experimental features could be made available in a developer build, that would have to be manually installed in a non-obvious way, so that
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by bergfest 1y ago
Yes, I believe this is the reason. But it might backfire if people start to prefer Electron or Flutter apps over the native ones.
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by bergfest 1y ago
A little tongue-in-cheek speech was fine when done live on stage. But I certainly don’t enjoy their prerecorded videos anymore.
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by bergfest 1y ago
I love this scent, but my grandma used to hate it, because she somehow was led to believe that it was coming from the sewers.
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by bergfest 2y ago
Apple really should slow down their release cycles and focus on quality for a while. Apple Music on macOS is such an embarrassment. The UI is a mess. Airplay is broken. I just want my old fashioned but decent Mac applications back.
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by bergfest 2y ago
And then there was Macromedia Director. Being in love with software has become such a rare experience these days.