PJB

Excellent to see that Microsoft’s product strategy continues to just be a flailing mess.

I think it’s just that government bodies like the EU move slow so it’ll take a while for them to bonk Apple, not that they’re “getting away with it” in anything more than the short term.

I could be wrong though.

The GPL has an exception for “system libraries” on this regard, but it’s as handwavy as the rest of the license.

The GPL isn’t meant to be a real license, it’s supposed to be a toxic waste bucket that companies don’t want to interact with. This it succeeds at.

50 generations of inbreeding later:

IANAL but since they used the word “threatened” instead of “I’m getting sued”, no case is being filed.

Pretty sure that if they were actually getting sued they’d already be radio silent.

Please don’t tell me it’s actually been 5 years…

As somebody whose primary language is Dutch, the lack of an explicit plural “you” is one of the worst things.

If I’m talking to somebody, I can’t nicely refer to a group they are part of, because “you” means they themself specifically, “y’all” makes me feel like engineer TF2, and “you people” sounds condescending.

What the fuck, transphobia on 196?

Trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

Omg bingle

Huh? Which part?

Honestly, just contribute to whatever software you’re already using! The most obvious example (that somebody else mentioned already) is Lemmy itself, but surely there are many other open source pieces of software that you use on a daily basis. If there’s something that annoys you, or think it could be improved… there you go.

At least, that’s how I got into programming.

Now require manufacturers to provide like 5 years of OS updates so devices aren’t insecure bricks once you get updates.

OR disallow banking apps from blocking custom ROMs/root, so you can just install your own updates ROM without losing updates.