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Kissaki

@ Kissaki @beehaw.org

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  • US justice department plans to push Google to sell off Chrome browser

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  • Being the gateway, access point, and ad server of the internet certainly does not bode well for fairness or openness, or stability (in more ways than one).

    I hope something comes out of it. I'll be interested to read the courts assessment and reasoning.

  • Who wants a stretchable screen?

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  • Finally, when something is hard to read because it's small I can stretch it!

  • Freevee sent to Amazon graveyard

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  • but is US only

  • Give Up GitHub - Software Freedom Conservancy

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  • The article is pretty bad.

    It argues in bad faith against GitHub, conflates addressing the reader and their own community (suddenly "we …"), fails to see how despite not being FOSS you can be pro FOSS, names the vendor lock-in but fails to present advantages and disadvantages… I think the tone is pretty bad as well.

    For the most part, I dislike when projects and people self-host. It's a barrier to me to read and participate. Different interface and UX, no account, different needs for registration, Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, unclear long-term stability.

    I like Forgejo and Codeberg. It has a good and well-known user interface, is fast to use, FOSS, and has a centralized platform., and is working on federation which could ease pain points of distributed and split hosting.

    I find SourceHut UI unstructured; very confusing.

    When GitLab came up, there was a time when I used it for my new projects, and moved some onto there, but eventually moved back to GitHub. Hosting it myself at work; self-hosting it is huge, heavy, bloated.

    The main reasons I still use GitHub are that it is free, feature-rich, fast, familiar, and one platform. I much prefer a low barrier to entry and uniform between projects as long as GitHub acts well enough, even if it is not FOSS itself.

    I would hate to see people follow this article and further spread out FOSS, increasing barriers to entry. I have left exploring projects and contributing because of that barrier on multiple occasions and projects.

    I'm hopeful for Codeberg and Forgejo. Codeberg can serve as a centralized platform already. Should Federation land, it can serve as a base for self-hosted instances, reducing many pain points of a heterogeneous and self-hosted-distributed field.

    Side story: When SourceForge became shit, I created and executed an issue ticket migration for a significant FOSS project. Thankfully we can change platforms like that when you're not fully locked in but have accessible or natively distributable data.

  • TubeSync: Sync YouTube playlists offline. Because YT Music is too costly

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  • Four Dead In Fire As Tesla Doors Fail To Open After Crash

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  • The title made it sound like a full lock-in. But one survived.

    Harper grabbed a bar from his truck and handed it to another bystander, who managed to break the back window and pull the young woman to safety.

    Tesla has faced criticism in the past for the design of its manual release levers, which are considered poorly designed and unintuitively placed.

  • Any other free and open source racing games out there? (Other than supertuxkart of course, though that is a fun game at least to me)

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  • Suggest a Replacement Music Player

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  • I've always used aimp2, but my library broke file path metadata and the fixup tool fails to relocate them. I've looked at FOSS and free alternatives, and am not really, fully satisfied with any of them.

    IIRC, I found none of them sufficient. Strawberry, Clementine, Audacious, MusicBee; all have dissatisfactory UI / UI structure for me. Foobar is way too minimal. From my exploration, MusicBee was the most reasonable, acceptable for me. The customizable tab setup is a confusing mess too, but otherwise… I've been using that for a while.

    At some point I started implementing my own music player, making use of the BASS library like aimp2 does. But not much has come of that [yet?].

    Maybe I can recover my aimp2 metadata, and will switch back to that.

  • Bluesky crosses the 15 million user mark

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  • Does it still require SMS verification? Or was that lifted? That's where I stopped my out-of-interest signup last time.

    /edit: It does not anymore. But my handle is taken now. :(

  • Bluesky crosses the 15 million user mark

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  • Bluesky Social is a public benefit corporation.

  • Bluesky crosses the 15 million user mark

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  • ‘It gets more and more confused’: can AI replace translators?

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  • I'm playing the free hexceed, which - I have to assume - has an automated translation to German.

    The exit button is labeled "Ausfahrt". Which means road exit, not program exit. German has different words for them.

    I found it very funny. Seeing the program leave as a road exit. But as a translation it's bad of course.

  • GIMP - GIMP 3.0 RC1 Released

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  • GIMP - GIMP 3.0 RC1 Released

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  • To PIMP?

  • Annoyed Redditors tanking Google Search results illustrates perils of AI scrapers

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  • Just like it took a decade for media and mainstream to pick up Reddit, it'll take a decade for that to seep through.

  • Chatbot that caused teen’s suicide is now more dangerous for kids, lawsuit says

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  • They are for adult weirdos.

    Where do I sign up?

  • Anthropic publicly releases AI tool that can take over the user’s mouse cursor

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  • IIRC Windows has an accessibility feature where the cursor jumps to the primary default action in opening dialogs.

    Doing it screenshot based seems inefficient if y du could iterate through windows and controls.

  • History's Major Downtimes: Lessons from the Biggest Outages

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  • draw.io changed license from Apache 2.0 to non-FOSS license on August 27, 2024

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  • lol; Thanks Dave Kinne! /s

    Note: This is from August. So it's been a while since then.