In Los Angeles this March, a jury did something US courts have long refused to do: it treated the feed itself as the harm. It felt like vindication, victory even, to those of us who are critical of big tech’s outsized influence
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It’s no secret that Firefox has been steadily losing ground over the past decade or so. Despite efforts to revitalize this once beloved titan of the internet, the market share just hasn’t returned, and Mozilla’s recent choices haven’t been helping the cause.
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In 2019, I watched a fellow writer almost lose her life’s work. We were working in an advertising agency. Like most writers who end up in advertising, we were both secretly working on our novels. One afternoon, after lunch, I noticed her
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Ubuntu may not be perfect, but the amount of hate it receives from Linux users is often exaggerated. Here’s why the criticism deserves a rethink.
The Linux desktop has evolved, and it’s high time for the “advanced package manager” experience to evolve with it.
In part II of his Emacs series, novelist Theena Kumaragurunathan, demonstrates how Emacs is becoming an extension of his writing brain.
The venerable text editor feels timeless and timely in the age of AI and enshittification. A novelist argues that it is perhaps because Emacs is the embodiment of FOSS ideals
The Linux desktop has been perfecting window tiling while everyone else forgot about it until recently.
Linux desktop is often described as fragmented, but with the right perspective, it becomes clear that this description only makes sense if you see Linux as a single, unified product, and expect it act like one. It isn’t, and so it doesn’t.
If you recognized yourself in a few of these points, that doesn’t mean Linux isn’t for you. In fact, you can count it as an invitation. It just means you’ve spent a long time in an ecosystem that treats you more like
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