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  • “Oven is going to be a grind, especially the first nine months or so. If work-life balance means a lot of time spent not working, it’s probably not a good fit.”

    Oh man, someone here recently shared a blog post on startup culture in software companies, which likened software to an oven, where you’d add a specific button for a customer and that fucks up your whole architecture for years to come etc…

    For just a moment, I thought this was a direct quote from that blog post.











  • Hmm, don’t think you should need to compile it yourself? They offer downloads for Windows and macOS, and on Linux, the normal Firefox from the distro sources generally already has this compile flag enabled, as far as I know.

    I mean, I actually never had a need for unsigned extensions, so never tried it myself, and obviously I wouldn’t know, if every single distro does it the same.

    As for wanting to contribute to the statistics, I do understand that desire. But I believe, for the most part, it’s the user agent that counts. I doubt, they would set that to something else in the unbranded builds…


  • Posteo is mostly just a deployment of RoundCube.

    Mind you, I do assume they have deployment scripts and code for handling payments and such, which aren’t open-source.

    I also have to say, though, a hosted service using open-source is *nice*, because they will hopeful contribute back to that, but it’s not much beyond that.
    You cannot know, whether they actually run the software that they publish in their repository, so auditing the open-source code hardly tells you anything about the trustworthiness of the actual service.



  • Yeah, we’re also still on 24.04. And from what I’ve seen, 26.04 will ship with Plasma 6.6, not 6.7.

    Maybe the kubuntu-backports repository can give it earlier than that, but yeah, I don’t even know yet, when we’ll upgrade to 26.04.
    Good point, though, about the .01 release. Maybe I’ll start bothering IT when that’s out.







  • Yeah, basically if you want to play Morrowind, at this point you want to do so by using OpenMW. You do need to own the original game, but OpenMW makes it much easier to run on modern operating systems and has lots of quality-of-life improvements, like higher resolution, higher viewing distance, as well as most loading times eliminated.