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  I looked at it for 5 seconds. The UI looked pretty hideous. Even new reddit looks better than it.

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  I thought they renamed their entire product line to "Copilot" by now, didn't they? Uninstalling it at this point would leave absolutely nothing left!

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  If you go back a few decades, you would see how companies would produce technological innovations with the mindset of, "If we design the best, most useful device possible, customers will come to us and buy our product". Today, that has flipped into a mindset of, "We will create this technology, force users into adoption, and exploit them as hard as possible once we have them under our control." The technology has become a means to control users, not to enable them. At leas...

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  As a bit of an aside, I learned recently why Mozilla has the weird Corporate/Foundation structure that it does: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47701441 > Basically the IRS is highly skeptical of the idea that free software development fits the legal definition of a 501(c)(3), and tends to reject such applications [1][2]. That is why Mozilla Foundation cannot use donations for Firefox development, and instead uses them for activism. Someone claiming to be the CEO of one of these founda...

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  The creator of systemd (Lennart Poettering) has recently created a new company dedicated to bringing hardware attestation to open source software. What might this entail? A previous blog post could provide some clues: So, let’s see how I would build a desktop OS. The trust chain matters, from the boot loader all the way to the apps. This means all code that is run must be cryptographically validated before it is run. This is in fact where big distributions currently fail pretty badly. This...