Readit NewsB) However, even without watching the video, it must be describing corporate product UI, because in the free software world, there is a huge variety of selections for desktop (and phone) UI choices.
C) The big question I continue to come back to in HN comments: why does any technically astute person continue to run these monopolistic, and therefore beige, boring, bland, corporate UIs?
You can have free software with free choice, or you can have whatever goggle tells you...
The world's economic output and productivity are at all time highs.
Natural resources are at tipping points of extreme exploitation, and toxic output is causing other massive tipping points of natural destruction.
And somehow, the population going down is a big problem?
To put it bluntly, this is total bullshit!
If you take the world's most hateful pricks out of the picture, there is no shortage of anything.
The problem is not an availability of resources, it in who gets to keep them.
The best thing that could happen to ease the impact of our human footprint, would be for the population to go down.
Then we wouldn't have to tolerate some of the stupidest ideas in the modern world, like flying people to mars!
Fix where the fucking money goes! Then we can accept the population reduction for what it is, the greatest trend to emerge in recent decades...
I want to add some technical details, since this is a peeve I've also had for many years now:
The standard for this is Microsoft's PhotoDNA, a paid and gatekept software-as-a-service which maintains a database of "perceptual hashes." (Unlike cryptographic hashes, these are robust against common modifications).
It'd be very simple for Microsoft to release a small library which just wraps (1) the perceptual hash algorithm and provides (2) a bloom filter (or newer, similar structures, like an XOR filter) to allow developers to check set membership against it.
There are some concerns that an individual perceptual hash can be reversed to a create legible image, so I wouldn't expect or want that hash database to be widely available. But you almost certainly can't do the same with something like a bloom filter.
If Microsoft wanted to keep both the hash algorithm and even an XOR filter of the hash database proprietary, that's understandable. But then that's ok too, because we also have mature implementations of zero-knowledge set membership proofs.
The only reason I could see is that security-by-obscurity might be a strategy that makes it infeasible for people to find adversarial ways to defeat the proprietary secret-sauce in their perceptual hash algorithm. But I that means giving up opportunities to improve the algorithm, while excluding so many ways it could be useful to combat CSAM.
Stop using goggle!
It's as simple, and as necessary, as that.
No technically astute person should use ANY goggle services at this point...
Putting this info in the title would have prevented a lot of misinterpretation...
The Mondragon Corporation is a corporation and federation of worker cooperatives based in the Basque region of Spain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
Often touted as "the worlds largest coop".
Like any large entity, it's had it's share of criticism as well as praise. But in general, works to the advantage of it's workers, not just for shareholder returns.
Any talk of tide prediction should always mention xtide:
I've used it with great accuracy in a number of locations around the world.
Another one of those free software packages that's been meticulously maintained by one person for decades...