After seeing the astroturfing in this thread, I'm switching to Vivaldi or Chromium, not Tor Browser.
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notalaser commented on Testing Cliqz in Firefox blog.mozilla.org/press-uk... · Posted by u/hnaccy
notalaser commented on Microsoft Becomes Sponsor of Open Source Initiative opensource.org/node/901... · Posted by u/Dinux
Devil's advocate: You're supporting `n` billion devices around the world running your product, and the users are typically non-technical (from "I know how to open Word" to "Where's the 'Any' key?")
You need to battle against your competitor's product that "just work" because they can target one specific hardware profile and you can't, so you put in telemetry to improve compatibility. Makes sense.
It enrages us, the technically-minded and privacy conscious, but only serves to make Windows better for the non-techies and help MS stop haemorrhaging users to iOS.
So put a big red scary "PRESS THIS BUTTON AND YOU'LL GET HACKED IN TEN MINUTES UNLESS YOUR COMPUTER DOES NOT CRASH BEFORE THAT" that turns telemetry off and let me press it.
Well, maybe in the later days, but there was a long time when it didn't work well at all. I remember having to mess with the ALSA configuration to make it work. And then you also had apps which only supported OSS and getting them to work together with ALSA was an additional pain.
What later days? Software mixing worked fine in ALSA in 2004-2005, and OSS emulation had been working reliably way before that. The first PulseAudio release was in 2004, and it wasn't adopted by Fedora until way, way later.
Spoken confidently like someone that never tried to play sound in two applications at once.
This has worked reliably in ALSA before it has worked reliably in PulseAudio (and, in fact, way before PulseAudio received any meaningful adoption, when Fedora enrolled everyone in PA's beta testing).
notalaser commented on Nuclear War Survival Skills (1987) [pdf] oism.org/nwss/nwss.pdf... · Posted by u/Tomte
notalaser commented on Trello, “Jira Sucks”, and Tool Dysfunction hackernoon.com/trello-jir... · Posted by u/tablet
older jira versions hid less and has way more buttons. it was overwhelming and complex.
how do you balance a very powerful product and simple day to day uses of it?
That's the thing -- it's (no longer) easy at all. When accessing every other function requires guessing which hamburger menu it's hidden behind, it looks clean and easy to use, but it's not.
Every major Linux distro uses systemd. I know its opponents are vocal but a bunch of us are silently enjoying the simplicity of .service files and systemd timers.
In the meantime, a bunch of us developers are desperately trying to figure out what the fsck broke this time, drinking our sorrows about this new life where we can't debug anything that happens at boot, and frantically setting up BSDs on our laptops at home, so that we can at least get a break from this mess when we're at home.
I (thankfully only) used to do Linux BSPs in a former life. In the last year or so of doing that, I think we spent about 15-20% of a project's time debugging systemd problems and working around it being too smart for its own good. 20% for the bloody init system sounds fine until you realize the rest of the time included stuff like writing or expanding device drivers.
notalaser commented on U.S. Employers Struggle to Match Workers with Open Jobs npr.org/2017/08/31/547646... · Posted by u/happy-go-lucky
No, you are free not to accept inadequate pay, just as the companies are free not to accept excessive pay. It's a marketplace, just think in terms of bids and asks.
Of course you are free to do whatever you want, it's the entitlement that pisses me off. Somehow, employees charging "too much" is not ok and totally not the companies' fault, whereas offering too little is great management. Then they wonder why there are six million jobs that they can't fill.
notalaser commented on U.S. Employers Struggle to Match Workers with Open Jobs npr.org/2017/08/31/547646... · Posted by u/happy-go-lucky
The task that they are hiring for does not generate enough revenue to be worth at price X. The business may not stop from operating if these tasks are not done, or not done on a priority basis.
So... the business doesn't even generate enough revenue to afford hiring the kind of people who can keep it running well, or at least not as well as its owners would want it to be running?
Should workers be doing charity work now?