In case you were wondering what exactly this MS money is:

Francisco Mingorance, Secretary General at the Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) association, explained that as part of the settlement reached with Microsoft last year an innovation fund was set up using Microsoft’s cash.

Some €1 million of that has now been allocated to Fulcrum, an open source project to aggregate products from smaller tech vendors to rival the hyperscalers, he said.

Sounds really good.

“It’s happening,” he said. "There’s been work going on for over a year on this, you know, coding and everything, testing, proof of concept…

Um. “coding and everything”? “Proof of concept”? So they don’t really have anything (yet)? Well, let’s hope they get there anyhow.

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Let’s say it together: No, it isn’t

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For actual tutorials the Wiki is the best choice.

Reviews etc. I always found pointless, and esp. with Arch because of its user-centricity: each install will be different.

FWIW I’ve been using it for 10 years and the only gripe I have is that my hardware is getting old while Arch isn’t.

The one I’m using right now of course!

I’m saddened to think that altruism in software has gone to the gutter

Yeah me too but it’s been a long time coming. Ubuntu started it decades ago by replacing the altruism* with a warm and fuzzy “sense of community” while exploiting the enthusiasm of largely unpaid coders, Google certainly has done this for a long while, and by now it’s just how you do your basic FOSS Kickstarter campaign.

All that really brings is “more customers”, and doG knows that’s not what the whole of GNU/Linux needs.

Over the years I have developed a sense for how projects present themselves before choosing one that suits my needs. Because the sane ones, both feet on the ground types, that do GPL and accept donations (or sometimes offer paid support), those still exist, old and new.

* a form of altruism btw that does not exclude egoism!

Ah, OK. No, of course not. I was thinking more about hobby developers.

But somebody else already pointed it out: MIT makes a project more attractive for investors. Follow the $£€

Maybe there could be another reason why people choose MIT to begin with:

When you start a new repo on github it makes suggestions which license to use, and I bet many people can’t be arsed to think about it and just accept what they’re offered. [My memory is a little patchy since I very rarely use github anymore, but I definitely remember something like this.] And maybe github tends to suggest MIT.

That said, please undestand that many, many git platforms exist and there is no reason at all to choose one of the two that actually have the word git in them.

getting rid of the gpl is the motivation behind e.g. companies sponsoring clang/llvm so hard right now

And there it is. Follow the money.

Avatar checks out.

Right. Not in my case anyhow, my blog is even a top ten search result for a specific topic.

FWIW every user gets a unique IP address.

It would be the nice thing to do to inform those keeping up these blacklists whenever the owner changes. Maybe they do. Or maybe they’ll do it on your behalf if you ask.

we could modify the desktop environment and make it waaaaay lighter by getting rid of jpg or png icons and just using pure svg on it

That’s already happening.

You can also change the main color of many SVGs (icons or even desktop backgrounds) with one simple edit, one command, one click.

In web sites, you can assign CSS classes to SVG graphics and thus e.g. change their color according to a theme.

That’s my extent of fiddling with it.

IIRC they also use fonts the same way CSS/HTML does.

BTW, there are situations where an SVG is significantly larger than a corresponding raster image. It depends on the content.

Their websites or their servers? Frankly I have no idea what you’re talking about.

Reddit was already a nieche social media platform.

was niche

That was a few years ago. Prices and offers change constantly. Netcup.

No direct answer, but even as a US resident you should consider going EU.

Most hosting providers dangle convenience (“one click solution”) to make clueless customers pay way too fucking much. Or customer service, which I always found to be about the same regardless of price: good enough, miracles not included.

FWIW I pay ~€7/mo for a full (root access, self-installed) VPS with 80GB storage, 4GB RAM, 4 CPUs (edit: this was a few years ago. Now their cheapest offer is €8/mo for 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage).
The same would cost $72/mo (with less storage) on Linode 🤣

So, h264 video playback at 1080px works flawlessly, and flac audio. What about

• other codecs
• hardware accel, e.g. for h265?

Thanks. Does it support multiple accounts? How are remote calendars & contacts integrated into KDE generally, or kmail specifically?

Long transfer (possibly over network), you start wondering what’s going on. All you have to go on is a bar that doesn’t move. Would be useful to get more info in situations like these.

One of these days, I will switch to KDE.

My OS paradigm started off as a super-lightweight desktop around Openbox, but more and more I got forced to pull in Gnome dependencies to the point that I switching those to KDE dependencies probably wouldn’t make a dent in performance.

Speaking of which, what’s KDE’s mail client like?