transister.social

drove by the troat this morning on my way to cowork!

(it's what we call the floating train, "train"+"boat"="troat")

i told my therapist sometimes i work through problems myself without her help and i feel bad because it’s like pirating therapy, and now we meet twice a week

got curious about the @ONLYOFFICE drama and it’s pretty funny how awful of a company onlyoffice is!

the russian owner/founder of onlyoffice did a fake open source project to extract free labor from community contributions while profiting off that unpaid labor

onlyoffice is in no way truly open source. i wouldn’t even consider it open core. many parts of the source are obfuscated or intentionally broken so you have to use their paid versions. the code is restricted through (arguably and likely unenforceable) additions on top of AGPL such as “you have to use our trademarks in any derivative work”… which would give them authority to restrict any derivatives from existence since they control licensing of their trademarks.

which hey what a coincidence that’s what they are trying to do now!! a fork, Euro-Office, are attempting to create an actual open source office suite and branched onlyoffice maintaining the AGPL license (their github goes into why they felt a branch was necessary - basically the many problematic behaviors of the russian company behind onlyoffice)

onlyoffice’s response is basically crying about being branched. yknow, a fundamental part of open source.

sorry but it’s absurd to claim to be open source and also be a little bitch about someone branching your project because it hurts your feefees and makes it harder to profit off of unpaid labor.

btw it’s pretty obvious how shit the company is just by going to the onlyoffice website. allll the hallmarks of late stage capitalism: surveillance cookies, popup ads harvesting pii, a self-obsessed old white man owner, tons of dark patterns trying to convince you self-hosting requires paying them hundreds of dollars a year.

(the last might not be misleading though, they remove functionality from the community edition over time to force paid usage. for example: they removed the ability to edit documents from mobile devices arbitrarily and without notice… but you can pay to get that functionality back!!)

great to see the Euro-Office fork push back against fake open source capitalism bullshit like onlyoffice.

rating: a++++ would rabbit hole again

my daughter told me she loved her other mom more than me so I said “love doesn’t have a magnitude” but she hasn’t taken physics yet so she got confused

dude at my cowork having a long, loud video meeting while using the “quiet space: no calls in this area” sign as a coaster just got interrupted for an impromptu etiquette lesson given by a moody tgirl

kinda wished he whined about me interrupting his meeting being rude because i had “[your bitch ass] interrupted the rest of us first” loaded up and ready to fire

you can now get a new gmail username for your existing gmail account !!!

you keep all your data and your old username as an alias in the same account (ie, you are still contactable at your old email)

(since they announced this on tdov 🏳️‍⚧️ and this is something a lot of trans folks can benefit from, it would have been nice to give a hat tip to us but google is not a trans friendly corpo lol)

o7

are there actually people who click a news link from some social media post, see the paywall, and decide yeah it’s worth $4 today and the hell of cancelling a subscription i don’t want

Now I'm curious how the data looks for us nerds over here on the fediverse: where do you register your domains?

If at multiple places, let's interpret this as if you were registering a domain today, where would you register it?

tackily if you don't mind boosting I'd actually like a lot of data on this I'm really curious!

fyi to my fellow domain collecting girlies: .org domains are going up in price 20-30% on 2026-06-01.

This affects all registrars (it's an increase in price from the registry that runs .org).

You can renew in advance - domain expirations can be extended up to ten years from the current date - if you aren't one to give up on your domain dreams.

BTW if your domains aren't already with porkbun they should be. You can transfer pretty easily and will probably save even more money. EXODUS gives you $1 off each transfer bringing it down to $9.74.

Not sponsored, just a rare company in the space that has great prices, great support, transparent/easy to find pricing, and actually likes their customers lol

"This could be construed as a deviation, a feature, or both"

same. hard same.

you don’t have to decide now! take a night and sleep on it/she/her

local gas station wants me to use their app to age verify

not going to say this is the dumbest shit ever because i’m sure surveillance capitalism has something better on the burner

look if you don't want me to call your ceo a medicore white man, either don't send the survey or have a better ceo

this is not on me

at google everyone has to take an annual privacy and security refresher class, and one of the scenarios they use is an imaginary product called gShoe - basically smart glasses but a shoe

the upshot of the lesson was make sure your privacy policy covers data collection correctly or some shit like that

every year for like 5 years i begged them to change this because my good bitch no matter what the privacy policy says it’s not the biggest problem with a shoe camera

no war but class war babes

idk if this is even new, but youtube no longer lets you disable autoplay on music videos

cool cool cool

fediverse feature request: "queers only" post visibility, never worry about a post breaking containment again!

today i learned ao3 is also accessible at archiveofourown.gay

research study: autism may not be a male-dominated disorder, as it is equally prevalent in men and women

man: doubtful and struck by the results “because the sex difference in diagnostic rate is something that’s been pretty consistent across countries and cultures and even across different diagnostic criteria as they’ve changed over time.”

woman: not surprised by the results because other studies have shown indications of these patterns. and, this bit is unstated and my own guess, she probably thought "no fucking shit"