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  • In addition to what the other commenter said, Mozilla doesn’t have the will to improve Firefox into a market contender.

    They get a lot of free money from their competitors to prevent legislations from attacking chromium for market monopoly which makes them prioritize making Google happy more than their users.

    They also have very controversial opinions regarding actual useful features such as progressive web apps (where support was given exclusively on Android but after a lot of complains). You can’t make your browser into a market contender if you act like Safari on PC.

    10 years ago when we had a 3 way market, Mozilla actually cared about making a good product.

    Nowadays, they are just Google’s shell company to keep Chrome’s dominance away from the anti-competivity law suits.



  • How is that a rip off? You pay 20€ once and get the ability to sideload any UWP app and develop for the console.

    Compare it to both Nintendo and Sony where:

    • You have to pay multiple times the price of the console for the dev kit
    • You don’t own said dev kit
    • Their SDKs are not publicly accessible
    • You have to sign multiple NDAs on top of all those issues
    • Assuming you have no problem with all this, you can be rejected as a developer for any reason

    Considering how locked consoles were and still are (Except for the PS3 “other OS”) period. Being able to get a decent current gen console, that doubles as an emulator, with development capabilities for an additional 20 euros is a gift, not a rip-off.



  • It’s more that UBI is just not financially possible for any country.

    I live in a country with the highest tax rate on the continent and with just 20% of our population as pensioners, the situation is just getting worse and worse even though 49% of the population has a tax rate between 25 and 50% (+13% from welfare taxes). Just with this small percentage, we are spending 20% of our budget in pensions. More than any other area by at least 5% of our national budget.

    If the state now had to pay an UBI to 69% of our population on top of this, the very minimum to pay off the UBI without going bankrupt would be to sell off the free healthcare and public transport in their entirety. And I’m assuming a small UBI of 500€/month (Not even enough to rent a 1 room appartement with utilities in some areas).

    UBI would destroy any country’s budget for what? Landlord increasing rent to match the UBI, corporations increasing prices to match the inflation and people wasting that money when it could have been put to use to increase renewable energy production, improve education, …

    UBI is only a good idea in paper and you only need to look at the public expenses of most European countries + have a basic understanding of capitalist greed to see it.




  • Irisos@lemmy.umainfo.livetoLinux@lemmy.mlJeff Geerling stops development for Redhat
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    Oracle Linux is 100% the cause of this change.

    Imagine supporting 2 other distros to make your own enterprise linux that is your only source of money through optional subscriptions to it.

    Then some other big unethical corporation (much like your own parent company) comes in, use the GPL license to clone it and slap an “Oracle db certified” sticker on it. Finally, they decide to use the same subscription model as you except they get insane margins since you did 99% of the work for them.

    But looking at what Rocky Linux is saying publicly. It’s not impossible that Red Hat won’t levy their right to remove access to the sources to non-commercial forks of RHEL.



  • The issue is that it could still be abused against small instances.

    For example, I had a bit less than 10 bots trying to signup to my instance today (I had registration with approval on) and those account are reported as instance users even though I refused their registration.

    So even if you don’t allow spam accounts to get into your instance, you can easily get blacklisted from that list because creating a few dozen thousands account registration requests isn’t that hard even against an instance protected by captcha.