actually BenFenner somewhere below posted links to the pale moon forum, and there was some pretty shitty/weird behavior from this dev over there. Bit of a weird vibe all round.

Because then everyone would be bitching about him using AI *and* Rust.

Eh? Wtf are you talking about?? It commits to git and you release under a licence. I can fork that repo and quite easily pass it to codex or Gemini or whatever, or even build on it myself. I get there are a lot of AI haters in here, but try and pick an angle that actually makes sense.

hi Andreas - well done for doing something, instead of just sniping from the sidelines and shitting all over someone's efforts like vast majority of idiots in this thread. As a non-member of the Computing Purity League I wish you all the best.

yeah I think there are a lot more variables involved here - any new product, even 'like for like', needs cognitive adjustment and muscle memory change from users. So change management has to be a big part of deployment. I don't know how much time or effort went into that here.

The other part is that Teams is pretty well embedded in the microsoft walled garden - so identity, integration with calendar etc all comes for 'free'. These guys are trying to stitch together a bunch of good FOSS apps into something similar - I wish them the best of luck.

yes it does. if it supports ID-entra-like user management, meetings, calendars, and mobile device management then I'm sure the entire EU got it wrong.

absolutely. the worst of both worlds. I was using WSL on a work laptop for a few months, even got as far as having linux apps launched from the start bar. But even then I still kept hitting the UX stupidity of windows and rage-wiped it for CachyOS. My boss is mad I don't get sophos updates any more but I've never been happier.

Those are two separate things. The murdering is reserved for Uyghurs, Tibetans, odd religious sects, gays, protesting students, that sort of thing.

I agree with your conclusion, but the reason Chinese appear to be less negative about Xi is that the state runs a gigantic propaganda machine, prohibits the entire population from accessing websites of their choosing, has literal slave camps euthanizing people, sends goons to harass expats who aren't kissing enough ass and now wants to literally forbid you from leaving the country to go anywhere for any reason just because you have marketable knowledge.

yes America is becoming less free and a slim majority of the population are patently retarded based on recent voting patterns but anyone here trying to argue against the fact that China is a totalitarian shit hole is either a wumao or otherwise ought to be ashamed of themselves.

came here to say this (I would have just modded up if it wasn't AC)

I love a good conspiracy theory, but this really is just a good cost-saving measure by not having to pay people to walk around, change labels, get it wrong, have confused customers make claims at the enquiry desk, etc etc. I'm honestly surprised more stores don't already do this and it's a story in 2026.

as usual there are lots of way to support the team, but particularly there is quite a backlog of app MRs waiting for test/review. If you want to support the F-Droid then it is a really practical way to help them out: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/wiki...

no mod points but great post

I find it amazing that nobody sat down and planned this out with this thinking in place - I know in healthcare it's basically impossible to do anything without having to integrate according to ABC standards and aligning to XYZ regulation. It really seems like someone just said "yeah let's use Flock, here's a search engine, have fun!". Truly mind boggling.

yes totally agree, there is good considered debate to be had on the topic. What we're getting at slashdot, though, is a non-stop supply of garbage articles about so and so says this, exactly as martin-boundary notes above.

I never played with custom filters before but holy shit:

slashdot.org##article:has-text(/\bAI\b|artificial intelligence|ChatGPT|OpenAI|GPT[- ]?[0-9]|Claude|Gemini|Copilot| machine learning|generative AI/i)

is going to make slashdot readable again.

wooosh. only the CCP are allowed to spy in China.