Thom, HP-UX™ evangelist

Dutch pension fund ABP - which manages €544 billion as of December 2024 - is ditching Tesla, Facebook, and Google. Why? You know why.

Again, Americans have no idea what's begun here. The Netherlands alone is one of the largest investors in the US, and as public sentiment here against president Musk and figurehead Trump deteriorates even further, those investments will shrink. The long-term effects will be crippling.

I wrote a thing. I've been diving deep into The Open Group and its UNIX certification stuff for years, and this is only the first time I've written about it.

Despite claims to the contrary, in reality, macOS is not UNIX-certified. Apple cheats so much it's actually kind of sad.

https://www.osnews.com/story/141633/apples-macos-unix-certification-is-a-lie/

Fun fact: it seems Ars Technica is no longer linking to the source articles/blog posts/etc. they get their news from? I've seen it a few times now in the last few days.

So the email client situation on GNOME is an abanonded client (Geary), or an overengineered semi-abandonded client (Evolution)?

That really needs to be addressed, I would say.

Spotify, shit as it is, is just one of many streaming music providers. There are no switching costs, and you can choose between a ton of providers. That's why Spotify doesn't need to be regulated under the DMA.

I swear to god people are allergic to basic facts and reality these days.

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It seems the Social Web Foundation does not wish to be reminded of their partner's role in genocide and election interference.

No response.

https://exquisite.social/@thomholwerda/113194340312609224

Yeah this Social Web Foundation thing is a complete non-starter with Facebook in it.

Why are some corners of Fedi so horny for corpo approval?

Okay my nerds, hit me with your must-have and favourite Windows 3.11 applications and games (no DOS stuff). I want to see just how much crap I can stuff into this Windows 3.11 VM.

In case you're using Firefox on mobile - so myself and like four others - disabling Firefox' new Facebook data collection feature is quite a bit harder than on desktop, but it can be done:

1. Go to chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml
2. Use the search field to find the entry for aboutConfig and enable it
3. Go to about:config
4. Search for dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled and set it to false

Done. This only works on Android, because Firefox on iOS is just a Safari skin.

Since I was told Geary is apparently no longer actively maintained and not a GNOME app, and I tend to find Evolution a bit overkill... Does #GNOME have an official email application...?