Notices by schrotthaufen (schrotthaufen@mastodon.social)

@nixCraft It ships without baked-in spyware

@nixCraft That’s hopefully changing when software vendor liability kicks in in 2026 in the EU.

@nixCraft I can totally see this happen with renovatebot or dependabot, and automatic merge, and release if the tests pass.

@aral I’ve seen this with a bunch of German sites as well. They call it “Continue with ads” though.

@nixCraft “ss” has the best the most unfortunate name for a program ever.

@nixCraft @catsalad I once thought it was great a company I worked at pointed out during the interview they had a burnout therapist on retainer.

@nixCraft Windows 11, google search, generative AIs, IoT household appliances

@nixCraft VB6, because the village library had a book on it.

@aral Germany would like to have a word. (Iirc we supply weapons, too.)

@nixCraft Nice try, Fed

@nixCraft An IP address encodes the physical location of your toilet at home

@nixCraft It’s a cult. Their VC idols despise regulations, so they too hate anything that threatens unimpeded capitalism, and technological “progress” at any price. (And maybe fear that China will out-AI the west)

@nixCraft lua

@nixCraft my s q l

@nixCraft With power query it is🙊

@nixCraft Why in the world is there a need for another sudo like tool? And of course it’s part of LennartOS…

@nixCraft How many of the “Yes” votes are actually people who learned on a typewriter?

@mollyquell @aral Whether we like it or not, Germany would never oppose Israel in this.

@nixCraft Writing prose

@Gargron @ramsey @anildash I’ve heard people claim that using words like “killed”, “dead”, “rape”, etc can get accounts automatically suspended on tiktok. I don’t know is this is true.