@kirby Instance drama, probably going to get fediblocked

@kspatlas Temporarily mstdn.social until I find a new home

o7 LinuxRocks

@jonah @FineWolf We clarified a couple of things and our opinions aren't as different as initially thought

@TheyCallMeHacked @libreleah @squid I could certainly believe that

Today we had @FineWolf on the podcast who wrote a blog post explainer on the recent Firefox Privacy Preserving Attribution that provided a way for regular people to understand what was going on.

Video Release: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rol5uGshVCw

Audio Release: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tech-over-tea/episodes/Firefox-And-The-Privacy-Preserving-Ads--Andrew-Moore-e2mo93v

@libreleah @squid To add to this even though modern Chromebooks have some fancy chips to ensure valid firmware, Google straight up doesn't care if you unlock it and some of the documentation for this is on the Chromium docs including a link to the schematics for the cable needed https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/hdctools/+/main/docs/ccd.md

@TheEvilSkeleton @gloopsies No matter what warnings are provided there will still be bug reports upstream and some method will need to be in place to deal with them. It's less of a problem for users who actively choose to switch to COSMIC and setup a theme (they will see these warnings) and instead those who are using a distro that ships a heavily modified version out of the box

@TheEvilSkeleton @gloopsies Both are ultimately providing a bad user experience, either they open an issue and it gets auto closed or they open an issue and no one ever deals with it because theming is not a problem upstream wants to deal with.

@TheEvilSkeleton @gloopsies I think it's ok to auto close an issue if a user is using a theme, like it's fine to auto close an issue if they're on a distro that cherry picks untested patches, or in another case, using an unsupported version of the package when the project only supports flatpak for example

@TheEvilSkeleton @gloopsies No it's a suggestion to deal with the problem from the GNOME side not a judgement on the difficulty. Theming isn't going to go away in the rest of ecosystem and as long as there is some mechanism available other desktops and distros will use them.

@libreleah That's a good way too put it

@libreleah FUTO's public stance was much worse previously, at least now they're using a new term so you can easily explain it's something different. My major issues were when they were trying to use the term Open Source and redefine it making things even more confusing.

@gloopsies If they don't want to support it that's absolutely fine and they should probably just setup a bot to auto close theming related issues.

Well I've cut up all the interesting parts of the System76 call, now to get started on putting it together

@libreleah At this point the FSF has absolutely no teeth left, it's a shell of the organization it once was

@torspedia 100%, I refuse to believe otherwise

@boss That's what I said when I first heard it lol

LIVE SOON:
People always complain about playing Terra in this game but honestly it's not that bad... no really I'm being honest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikHG67azzLg

It's 3:42am, only a few people can get me to stay up this late for a call lol