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Although it’s federated nature is kinda dying.

If you’re not on one of the major providers good luck getting people to see your email.

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Honestly, if you’re sharing office files you’re probably using office 365. This means everything is a web app first and therefore Linux compatible.

I tried using the desktop version of word on a Mac last week, and the latency was so bad on a shared document that I had to switch to the web app anyway.

Basically, if you just want to use Linux you’ll be fine. If instead you don’t want to use Microsoft, you’ll probably have lots of problems.

Microsoft have been brutally effective in getting their tentacles into academic institutes, and you’ll find that everything from email to logging into internal sites relies on an office 365 account.

It’s super hard to get involved as a UI person. If you’re a developer, you can just rock up to a project and fix bugs, and if you follow the coding style they’ll probably get accepted.

If you want to successfully contribute as a UI person you have to convince a bunch of developers that you know what they should be doing better than they do. It basically never happens.

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Ok but if you’re at a bus stop, and the bus is just coming round the corner into sight, you can say “this bus” even though it’s not parked up yet.

Same thing with this Friday. If it’s close enough to be in mind, you can use this.

Yes, it makes it much worse. It is absolutely a serious plan and you should worry about it.

https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/heritage-foundation/

They’ve created substantial policy for Regan, Clinton, and Trump. You should also pay attention to the shear amount of money they have. They spend 80 million plus in a year on lobbying.

He’s the president of the fucking Heritage Foundation. That makes him the head of one of the most influential political organisations in the country.

That’s much more important than what his PhD was on.

It’s very true on a Mac. Almost every time you click the green button, it jumps to full screen and then you can’t drag another window on top of it.

It’s a pain in the arse because my workflow is to have a reading screen with documents and emails on, and a work screen with whatever I’m actually doing. But if outlook is full screen, you can’t drag any other windows on top of it.

Don’t know why the first guy was saying this is a Windows thing though. I only run onto it on macs.

It would just encourage people to create sock puppet moderators.

Same problems as without those rules, just harder to spot.

Well this is it. What really enforces the policy is rejecting commits that break user space.

Now if you’ve got a large enough group of devs, rejecting commits is fine, but if you’ve only got a small group you need everyone to be working productively, and you can see why Linus ended up giving angry feedback about commits that were wasting everyone’s time.

It’s half this, and half an explicit policy “we do not break user space”. Together it meant that if you did anything that screwed up the user space you got told about it at length.

Now Linux culture is established enough that it only really needs the policy, and not the cussing people out to enforce it.

Famous email about it here: https://linuxreviews.org/WE_DO_NOT_BREAK_USERSPACE

Lots of the cheap Chinese watches Xiaomi, amazfit etc do a rectangular face. Rectangular lets you use standard screens and is cheaper and easier to get.

Same. I would take it now, so I could go back to being 20, but this time I would not fuck up all my joints because I know I’m not actually invulnerable.

Dev jobs and data scientists often get a lot of leeway.

Very big tech companies tend to be more open to it. When I was at AWS their threat model was basically to treat every end user device as untrusted, which then meant that they didn’t rely on keeping laptops locked down for security.

Eternity is fine. You just need to log out and back in. I’m using it now.

Details here: https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Eternity/releases/tag/v0.1.2

Yeah, I think the reason threads is attaching itself to the fediverse is precisely because meta don’t see it as a threat.

It’s an easy way to appear open to the regulators without actually helping any competitors.

Characteristic sleep-EEG changes in patients with depression include disinhibition of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, changes of sleep continuity, and impaired non-REM sleep.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6386825/

Yeah, I think we have multiple types of sleep because we need them, and if you’re getting too much rem sleep at the expense of other types it’s going to cause problems.