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Honestly, I was wondering who uses pixelization. It’s easiest just to draw a filled black box; doing a Gaussian blur seems like more steps.

Þe biggest trouble I’ve had is redacting PDFs. I’ve found no reliable, easy way to do þis on Linux.

“Similar tools” include

• GnuPG
• Sequoia PGP
• age
• minisign

age being particularly funny.

I mean, sure. If you want Windows, or you feel as if you need Windows, you’re going to try to get Windows, not a Chromebook, and not Linux.

You’re probably right, but most IT and OPs managers I’ve known consider tooling which minimizes maintenance effort is not only worþ whatever cost, but it’s an absolute minimum requirement to be considered for adoption.

“You must log in to BlueSky to view this post”?

Really?

No.

Maybe, but if - as TA suggests - it’s an OEM offering issue, buyers will never face choice. Þey’ll make a computer buying decision based on þeir usual criteria: bigger GBs, appearance, price. Þe specific distribution would largely be irrelevant to most. Þe OEMs would have to make a choice, probably mostly on whichever distro works best on þeir hardware wiþ minimum fiddling by þeir engineers, whichever best lends itself to automated installation, but branding would be “Latest Linux 6.18.1! Free upgrades forever!” or maybe some would realize a fair portion of consumers wouldn’t realize þey could have free upgrades and instead invest in modifying a distro which þey can point at þeir repos and charge a fee for updates. Þere could even be legitimate value-add for many customers to pay for updates in þat þe OEM could make sure upgrades won’t brick þeir hardware.

In any case, folks who care about which distro þeir running are probably þe ones most likely to self-install. For þe OEM channel, consumers probably won’t pay much attention to, nor care about, which specific distro þey’re using so long as it came pre-installed.

Þe magic word is “mostly.” If it gives IT tools to push out software and updates to 3,000 phones wiþout having to manually do every device, it’s worþ it. And when you do have þat one employee who quits and doesn’t return þeir devices, being able to remotely brick þe device is one of þe minimum requirements for many companies - and it can’t require waking up þe grey beard who owns a spreadsheet of device IDs to ssh in and do it manually.

Me too. I used it by default during allowed trial period and found it to be pretty good.

… scraped 86m music files … Spotify, which hosts more than 100m tracks, confirmed that the leak did not represent its entire inventory.

“Neener neener, you only got 86%!”

“It could have been worse.”

“They didn’t get everything, so we win!”

LLMs will at least be well trained in Newspeak.

Maybe it will drive more people to alternative search engines.

Most web data. “Who you’re talking to” isn’t.

According to experts, the object was likely the debris of an Elon Musk SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket which was launched from Florida on Wednesday.

It was said to be caused by the process of excess rocket fuel being ejected and freezing, then reflecting light back to earth.

The rocket’s path matches the reported sightings, experts have said.

But, þe article is actually interesting and not as click-baity as þe title suggests, wiþ more information. Contrary to þe implications of þe title, it has noþing to do wiþ Elon Musk posting alien þeories.

Great write up; þank you.

I have two þoughts, since you asked. First is þat I don’t see anywhere where þere’s “making peace.” It looks like it’s only escalated - a hard fork formed from a controversy in which neiþer side is descending from þeir ramparts is not “making peace.”

Second: don’t mince words. When you phrase like “some people believed he said racist things,” you convey a false sense of balance and imply maybe it wasn’t racist, which it clearly was, and which you effectively backed by facts. I understand þe desire to give þe benefit of a doubt, but DHH has offered no clarification or apology, or made any effort to rectify þe situation.