Yeah, the environmental issues that are orders of magnitude less problematic than literally pumping the toxic chemicals into the atmosphere like with fossil fuels, vs comparatively miniscule amount of solid waste to store inert.

Fair enough. Yeah, I never thought of open and closed source as two exclusive options, but two of many.

I myself publish an application which isn’t open source, but I publish the source code, as I believe my users have the right to know what runs on their computer, and have the freedom to audit, modify, and compile their own builds if they so wish. But I don’t want someone to take and resell my application. I have yet to encounter someone calling my app closed source, but I can see how someone could.

To make it more specific I guess, what’s the problem with that? It’s like having a “people living on boats” and “people with no long term address”. You could include the former in the latter, but then you are just conveying less information.

I am not aware of any definition of closed source published by OSI.

Closed source (or proprietary software) means computer programs whose source code is not published.

It’s not closed source, since the source is publicly published. It’s source available.

He can’t pretend to save the world if the world isn’t ending.

I said Vivaldi is not open source a 2 comments ago. I said I recommend Firefox and derivatives, including Librewolf, I said Brave may be more secure, but shouldn’t be used for reason that have nothing to do with it. Since you are not reading my comments anyway, I won’t spend the time.

None, because it’s not a real department, and has as much legal meaning as any made up department you and me can think of. But if course if Trump acts as if it’s real and listens to it’s opinions (which have the same legal weight as any private person’s opinions), then it doesn’t matter it’s not real.

I don’t dispute Brave may be private in the current version, but with all the things they did they are not trustworthy, with many write ups online, some going as far as to call it malware. You are of course free to disagree, if you don’t think your browser adding extra tracking to your links is a deal breaker.

I don’t know where you are reading that Vivaldi is closed source. The source code is right here: https://vivaldi.com/source/

It does have fingerprinting protection, it has blocking trackers and ads built-in, and you can enable site isolation and turn off third party cookies if you choose to.

I’ve never heard of Cromite so don’t have an opinion, but Brave is super shady, with crypto-shilling, ad-injecting, adding tracking codes to clicked URLs that didn’t have them, something so privacy ruining you’d be better of using Chrome. They can’t be trusted, and I’m not even getting to the CEO being a questionable figure. Nobody should use it, let alone anyone caring about privacy. People prioritizing privacy should be using Firefox or Vivaldi, both privacy focused browsers.

Vivaldi is not closed source. It’s not open source either (they don’t accept PRs), but the source is available.

I use it for a few years now, it’s very customizable. In my opinion the best Chromium-based browser. I recommend either Vivaldi or Firefox depending on your needs.

A drone is an unmanned vehicle, e.g. SpaceX drone boats serving as mobile landing pads, Ukrainian drone boats carrying explosives, drone research submarines, ground drones for mine defusal, etc.

This is definitely not a drone. It’s a quadcopter.

Same deal on Android. OEM launcher apps override the app icons for the OEM’s calendar and clock apps, and there is no way for a different app to achieve the same effect.

Glad I’m not alone

It’s just a phone number on the website. It’s macOS/iOS that decides that clicking a phone number should open FaceTime, and the restaurant has nothing to do with this - they just put their phone number on their website.

Believe it or not, most of them don’t live in the US.

I imagine because it’s supposed to encompass blog writers, comic authors, and other creators of, well, content, that isn’t necessarily a video.

The food how to basic uses in his videos is all expired food. He is not wasting good food.

Why is it insane? Is it surprising that people make joke offers? Joke offers exist on any online auction site.

The sellers are players. Of course people are going to troll by creating such offers. Doesn’t mean anything.