Sometimes I use chromium for some specific sites that won’t work in firefox, and unfortunately, the difference in performance is noticeable.

We don’t need to let it happen first. We should be already on the streets.

At this point, the shutdown might even be strategic, to make it more difficult for the us to gather leaked information

But the thing with anything that involves network effect (like any os adoption) is that the growth is very slow at first, but it grows faster and faster as more people get in. We used to be grouped along with “others” in charts, then came the “counted with less than 1%” mark, and it took a long time. Then the 1% milestone, then 2%, much faster than from not counted to counted, then 3%, faster than it moved from 1 to 2. Now stats vary from 3 to 5 %, depending on the source. It’s getting really fast, and will grow even faster. This is a very significant difference

Oh, that kind of super-resolution has been gaining media attention, but there’s much more beyond the “ai”. There are several mathematical methods, based on inverting a point-spread-function, statistical methods, super-resolution based on extracting subpixel information from a sequence of low resolution images, and several other methods and approaches, including the use of machine learning, but not in the generative way. It’s a very diverse and complex field of research

For people who don’t know, china doesn’t have satellite imagery with the same spatial resolution as the private companies like planet labs (the one recently prohibited to publish imagery from the war region) do , but they have been investing a lot into super-resolution technology to compensate. This is much more interesting than it can look at a first glance.

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So people will think the news about it are april 1 jokes. Pure genius

Institutions don’t want to or simply don’t care. Anything else said is just an excuse to give a good-looking response

Judging by the quote, they’re likely going to bluesky. They will say that mastodon has a too restricted reach. It’s like a pattern. Every time I see someone coming with that “there’s no ethical [thing] under capitalism”, instead of promoting the anticapitalist things or the most ethical choices, they use the phrase to justify using another capitalist thing.

reaching milestones always feel like the first time (╥_╥)

Suddenly realizing I use linux for more than 10 years

[despair noises]

When they close, it will be a huge loss of information in the internet…

Open source android apps really need to be more known!

The big tech is, indeed, trying to extend their reach to linux and open source in general, but it’s still the best we have, and it still goes against them. The good thing about open source is that it’s resilient and highly adaptable. A few distros have been making experiments with other kernels, and if things go too bad, they might replace linux with anther one and we will persevere. It’s also possible for some group to fork linux and create a parallel community version, like happens with a lot of open source software developed by big tech companies. But you don’t need to worry, because linux remains fine and will probably be for a good while.

We’re 0 days since last windows update broke functionality

At least something good amid all the bad news regarding the future of software systems

I don’t know how online banking access is around the world, but here in brazil, they made it completely impractical to use from computers by applying artificial restrictions. Some payment institutions doesn’t even support access from computers anymore. Meanwhile, accessing from the phones has been made easier and less restrictive, so basically everyone has to do banking from the phone. It has even become a popular thing to have a separate “banking phone” to use at home, but many people can’t affort that.

Their strategy:

• announce they will make extreme restrictions
• people get crazy over it and backlash
• announce that they’re listening to people and will soften the proposed restrictions
• people relax and accept the restrictions, while the media portray them as the good guys

But what if they starting requiring that you remove the sideloaded apps? We’re getting trapped