Stolen from elsewhere:

Something that is dismaying to me about this situation is that, on one hand, the anti-Collabora arguments are not unconvincing: the situation with Collabora and the foundation seems to have been dubious at best, and I would not be surprised if their legal worries are well-founded.

But on the other, in arguably trying to address the problems, the anti-Collabora side seems to exhibit a distressing lack of honor and decency. The dismissal of voting results that didn’t go their way, the malicious misreadings of member votes against their proposals (eg, deciding “If the Board majority group insists on proceeding with this misguided and premature motion, I vote NO” was not a vote against the proposal because the motion was “neither misguided nor premature”), the arguments that complaints about their behavior violate community standards and are are not sufficiently respectful of the work they do, the toxic, patronizing, dismissive statements toward developers and others… even if they are right, I do not understand why they need to behave the way they are behaving.

The earlier threads from the Collabora side were also disappointing in how childish all of their arguments were structured. I read their posts and could barely understand what was being claimed in between all of the sarcasm and attacks, and I wasn’t alone in the comments here.

Is it actually worse in terms of features? I only use LibreOffice and can’t tell, maybe I don’t know enough to compare to anything else besides in looks.

It’s kind of a miracle if anything in the open source space isn’t on fire. The benefit of closed-source is you get to bite the bullet once, have the same issues and get told the same workarounds as everybody else.

But to your original question: LibreOffice still works all right for desktop editing, and if the OpenOffice debacle from many years ago is an indicator, it’ll probably still keep running with marginal updates until the heat death of the universe

Read this entire post with the understanding that this guy is a crypto bro who created a “smart billing” platform.

So when he says

The healthier model may require paying for things that used to appear free.

It makes me wonder what his payment solution actually looks like.

Piefed has a little red icon next to the source which recommends checking MBFC for its credibility.

Overall, we rate New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV) Right-Center Biased and questionable due to the promotion of propaganda, poor sourcing techniques, a lack of transparency and several failed fact checks.

Imagine the power that would come from administering the UBI currency. With all the privacy and non-regulation of cryptocurrency, exploitation is so deliciously close.

It’s a good thing that nobody will ever abuse this. People are just too pure. Trust it.

X views are really questionable though. You scroll across this in a feed, it counts as a view. (This is great for juicing your numbers if people are only familiar with other platforms’ numbers.

TPBN YouTube channel (their primary outlet) has 64k subscribers, averages 5k views per podcast episode. Except for the OpenAI announcement that has 13k, and all the comments are negative.

For “low” hundreds of millions of dollars. Wtf.

One of the founders is the guy who invented Soylent, and now shills nicotine pouches.

I used to believe this too, and unfortunately my experience on Linux kind of backed this up. I assumed that it would always be features = resource usage. XFCE is light because it’s missing things. GNOME is heavy because it has good window management and keyboard shortcuts. Windows 10 is heavy for the same reasons as GNOME.

The trueism kind of works if nothing else changes, but in this case, there’s no reason the codebase between Windows, Linux, and Mac would be the same.

AFAIK the one company that has been battle-tested is Mullvad, everything else requires (more) crossing your fingers.

Nord has subpar standards when it comes to logging now, and if that’s in line with recent Proton behavior, you might that interpret that as a potential willingness to cave to the US with minimal pushback

In theory, I think all VPN usage is grounds to get you put on a list, but Nord is considered a relatively “normie” company by privacy aficionados. Everybody and their mother has seen an ad for it by this point. (The privacy aficionados will probably tell you it’s not good enough, but that’s a can of worms I won’t get into right now.)

I wish GPUs in AI data centers (or worse, the ones purchased and not installed yet) were more general-purpose than they appear to be. That’s the part that makes them AI data centers: the optimized hardware.

I do agree things are complex. And I like reading about the intricacies of that complexity. The overall picture is still a pretty bad one, though.

Data centers existing makes sense, but this specific aggressive AI data center buildout (with special-purpose hardware) doesn’t: the two AI companies you mentioned, OpenAI and Anthropic, aren’t making a profit, and they don’t appear to have a viable path to one. OpenAI claims it’ll be wildly profitable in just a few years, but they don’t go into how.

Nobody wants a data center in their backyard.

As long as you don’t care if the summaries and analyses are wrong!

Hey does everybody remember when OpenAI killed Sora after a few months, allegedly to focus on their core product?

Seems OpenAI forgot that commitment. Wouldn’t be the first commitment they forgot.

Part of your monthly fee goes to purchasing their AI services. That’s not optional.

I’m concerned about in-system bloat because I read the linked article.

Rather, it’s more of an honesty bump. Components that make up the distro – the GNOME desktop and extensions, modern web browsers (and the sites we load in them) and the kinds of apps we use (and keep running) whilst multitasking are more demanding.

The desktop itself isn’t the only reason that you need more RAM, but it’s definitely one of them.

For Macs with 8GB RAM? Yes.

For Windows? It’s way worse in my experience, even with debloat scripts, without opening a single thing.

This is pretty much just a rehash of the paper put out by Google Quantum AI. Not quite “CEO says a thing” journalism but uncomfortably close.