I use Linux in part because it makes building software easier.

Flatpak is worse for debugging, development, and reproducibility.

Its good for user friendly sandboxing, portability, and convenience.

What does this mean?

Not for android, but I use this for PC:

https://github.com/jamesmcm/vopono

I use flatpak steam and flatseal to remove user home permissions so games don’t see my files.

I’d prefer to use Nix derivations and firejail but I couldn’t get it working last time I tried.

My preference for nix expressions to flatpaks is for better reproducibility guarantees, easier introspection, easier debugging, and less duplication.

The art of robbery.

https://github.com/jamesmcm/vopono

But we aren’t them… right?

You can be critical of the CCP but also see the increased urgency in “fixing tiktok” after US/Israel propaganda to hide Palestine genocide got stymied by tiktok.

YouTube shorts recommendations suck.

if they’re against their employer’s policy maybe they should’ve resigned in the first place.

If they want effective change they should retain their job and tear down the org from the inside.

Then donate to causes they care about using their income.

If you want to actually make a difference, leave Google, go do bioinformatics (am biased here), exact agriculture or any other shit that actually solves real problem

People get to decide what is a “real problem”.

I don’t see how finding out your labor supports genocide isn’t a real problem.

The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

No way them resigning would have gotten this level of publicity, but you know that.

You just want to prevent people from doing things that annoy you by pretending they are ineffective.

Observe your coworkers carefully and see how many really work 7 hours per day.

I wouldn’t count on your encrypted WhatsApp video actually being secure.

Use signal for that.

A counterpoint to this is that Nix without flakes is unusable to some, even if its just because of the better CLI interface.

Flickering makes it true for all xwayland games such as proton until nvidia driver with explicit sync.

Only matters if fine is at least 5% Facebook revenue probably.

Disagree. They should be forced to open it up for the community to maintain it when they end support.

I never thought id pay for Kagi and that paying for a search engine was ridiculous. Then I kept seeing loudly positive feedback from reputable people in my circle and tried the trial.

I pay for it and never have the “I only ever use !g on duckduckgo” problem.

Sorting by web pages with least ad trackers is a cheat code to find old style websites with people sharing knowledge for knowledge’s sake rather than profit.