As a programmer, jobs that say no Gen AI mean we value quality and people having real skills and learning instead of shipping low quality code to production as fast as possible to make the business metrics look good.

They did out feature Chrome by keeping Manifest V2 support.

AI is a monument to capitalist’s arrogance 🤣

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Does your cooperative have a website? I’m always interested to discover more co-ops.

Interestingly, Afinum is also a German based private equity firm which owned majority shares of Threema since 2020.

Kind of strange to see the company bouncing around between owners, but hopefully it can remain a good product and not become enshittified.

https://www.startupticker.ch/en/news/threema-transfers-ownership-the-second-time

This is a private equity firm? Was Threema doing financially bad?

I don’t think two separate forms are needed for GDPR consent and ATT. Apps I worked on took the result from ATT and used that as the user consenting to be tracked in the app for GDPR.

I guess companies want to make it cumbersome as possible so user gets fatigued and just clicked through it mindlessly like with cookies banners on every website.

How was there double consent required?

Without ATT companies use dark patterns, opt-out, and over burdensome Privacy Policies or Terms of Service to get what they claim is consent.

When users get a straightforward choice to allow tracking or not, like with ATT, most don’t allow it.

Proton isn’t emulating Windows, it implements Windows APIs on Linux. The code still executes natively on the CPU.

It is a full blown Linux OS. You can switch out of the gaming specific mode/UI to a Linux desktop environment using KDE. There you can install your own software and use it like a normal computer.

The only limiting factor is that the root file system is read only by default (can be disabled). If you want to install system level packages, you can work around this by using something like distrobox.

I think most proprietary apps these days have frequent updates because they don’t actual have in house testing and use frequent updates to constantly roll out changes. They are also constantly changing the app with feature switches/AB testing to increase important business metrics.

This same strategy can be seen in the gaming industry with games being in an alpha/beta state for years, at least they are upfront here of the unfinished quality of the software.

None of this would be possible if software was still shipped on physical media. Companies would actually have to test and think through product functionality before releasing it.

Even the non glass icons look terrible, they include some automatic blur being applied.