tl;dr: “Reject All” will not break the site.
Also, technically there’s still a cookie after that:
The choice is recorded in a consent cookie
The article seems to ride on people’s anxiety about walls of text & choices presented by various cookie popups (not all of which even have a “Reject all” option) and IMHO isn’t quite clear enough that “Reject all” is the best option for 99% of use cases.
Agreed on all points.
Even the blurb tells us that this has been a thing since basically forever, and the arguments why it should become worse with AI are weak.
But the old fakes were time-consuming to create and required specialized expertise.
Bullshit. Every photographer knew how to take a lead pencil and make the lady’s face smoother on the negative.
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Making the effort to roll your own (totally possible with FOSS)
🌈 Enshittification 🌈 in all its facets. This one’s pretty bad though.
Sadly. An example: I work at a small school that does not have an IT department. Staff and teachers are nearly IT-illiterate, and the students can hardly be coaxed to do stuff on a laptop instead of their phones. So installing Linux would add an additional hurdle for both. Probably much smaller than they think, but still: it heightens the threshold to even consider switching to Linux.
There’s a few people who know that Linux is just as valid as Windows, but who would they trust to make the switch safely. Me? I’m not a professional. So they’d have to pay someone, properly. And then it all comes down to money again which usually comes down to “let’s not change anything”.
So for now I’d just be happy if they used LibreOffice instead of MS365.
The same goes for Google Workspace. Making the effort to roll your own (totally possible with FOSS) would require to pay at least 1 person, and some sort of transitional period. It’s cheaper and easier to pay none and just blame it on Google when things don’t work as desired. These people just don’t see it as a priority. Don’t understand the dangers.
I use evolution! It has some advantages over thunderbird but afaik it’s *nix only.
And perfectly working software that covers whatever else MS365 offers, e.g. Thunderbird
I’d love for more people to change to Linux, but these are all (also) Windows software.
Yet I’m sure they exist.
From some random article:
Naming a daughter after a mother isn’t a modern phenomenon; in some cultures, the tradition of matrilineal naming goes back centuries. In Ireland, and several other European countries, it was commonplace to name the first daughter after the maternal grandmother, the second daughter after the paternal grandmother, and the third daughter after the mother.
The practice is also prevalent in several Spanish-speaking countries, where it’s common to carry on both parents’ last names as well.
And then there’s Iceland.
Before any commenter rushes to condemn the Chaos That Is Linux, please check out OP’s posting history to get a clearer picture of their credibility.
(and like they themselves stated, this is a rant and not a PSA)
That’s kindof the opposite of what the previous commenter said. Have you tried explicitely setting the env var to a value different than what’s in gsettings?
What env var are we talking about btw?
And what freedesktop spec? AFAIK they do not deal much in env vars apart from XDG_*
The Arch Wiki used to have some elaborate tricks on Firefox profile syncing, and some software to support it, maybe you should check that out (but the actual software FF uses is or used to be FOSS as well).
I also like shows that follow a story arc that has a beginning and an end. A show that comes to a natural end. Bam, done, that was great entertainment, emotions and attachments have been resolved. Happy end or sad, this is it. Moving on.
Instead they try to retain viewers with dumb (and I really mean dumb) cliffhangers, never committing to actually killing a character so they can bring them back if need be etc. …
There are exceptions of course, but not many shows deliver (lasting) quality beyond two seasons.
Meh. ssh<space><tab><tab> does the same.
Also, useless use of cat. And grep.
awk '/Host / {print $2}' ~/.ssh/config | fzf
Shell completion ftw. Once you grok the double-tab you might start using the terminal more than your filemanager.
Me. I support this, and I did for over a decade. If you don’t use windows there are more performant general purpose media players than VLC. Anybody who’s been reviving old hardware with Linux knows this.
You sound like you suspect that people want to dis VLC. That is not the case. I’m sure VLC has valid use cases even on Linux, and it certainly is a marvellous piece of software in its own right.
Now go away, you silly person.
They are. Taste and color.
Whatever you’re selling, this is not the way to do it.
TIL! Or should I say TILL! (Today I learned (more about) Linux)