I for one, welcome the devouring of our “social fabric, and general way of life”. Good riddance.

Exactly! Like when the genocidal see see pee infects minority ethnic groups with small pox and other diseases by contaminating the (checks notes) poverty alleviation they bring… 🤔 /s (in case it’s not obvious)

My guess is that the appeal will erase the decision. Trump fired all the antitrust experts from the DOJ and replaced them with corporate cronies.

https://www.vox.com/politics/458685/trump-doj-antitrust-roger-alford-mizelle-hewlett-packard

Google would maintain intellectual property ownership, and can even continue to be the default search engine. When the decade is up, stewardship could be passed to another, or otherwise reviewed.

Ecosia, which uses Google to power its search engine, already has a revenue-share partnership with the tech giant. And it already offers its own browser built on the Chromium open source engine that powers Chrome. That’s why Kroll thinks the stewardship idea isn’t so out-of-line. “We would be happy to manage Chrome for them,” he says. Ecosia is even offering to maintain employment for the Chrome staff.

Sounds like they’re offering Google a workaround. They won’t manage it, but all the reasons for the court’s decision get to remain. And then in a decade or whatever, Google will just take it back since they never really relinquished ownership to begin with.

it isn’t perfect, but it’s the best we have.

• libs

The DoD has been watching too many Marvel movies

Would you say that all of those independant election observers were Russia puppets or China puppets? 🤔🧠

I’m doing research on self-hosted solutions as we speak. Here’s a comparison table of many different options. I’ve settled on Immich and am just about to start setting it up now.

At the company where I work, in the span of roughly one month, the term vibe coding went from being used exclusively in the derogatory sense to one that is now primarily used in the positive sense. Fuck big tech and fuck capitalism! Fuck all of this shit!!

Moscow rejected this, appearing to stick to its maximalist demands, including sweeping restrictions on Ukrainian sovereignty.

Generally speaking, the winner of a war will demand that their terms are met before agreeing to a truce. For the UK, a country that has taken part in its fair share of warfare, usually as the unprovoked aggressor, it’s surprising that they don’t seem to understand this.

And sovereignty for which Ukrainians? The current facist state, filled to the brim with neo-nazis? Or the the people of the Donbass who they stripped of their rights, banned their political parties, and began to ethnically cleanse of the region when they attempted to resist? Of course we know they are always speaking of the former. The Guardian, always the mouthpiece of the fascist UK state.

work work 🧌

Cringe on a geopolitical scale

Touchpad buttons with dedicated middle-mouse-button

I miss touchpad buttons. I especially missed them on my last thinkpad t440s (RIP). That thing was mushy garbage. You could swap it out, but I didn’t end up using it enough to be bothered.

Good for you!

I’m also not getting rid of my Macbook and iPhone, at least for now

Oh… 😔

My work macbook won’t even let me mount an external storage device, but it doesn’t seem to care about my nextcloud client running in the background. Sorry for my blasphemous behaviour my cyber security comrades 🫡🥺

Blast! He’s always one step ahead, the handsome devil!

Am I blind or does it not say who the author is? They give major 🤡 vibes. Hilarious read.

When Russia launched its full-scale invasion […]

Can’t unsee!