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Just no.

  • As I understand, it's no small task to build or maintain a working search index. There's a reason it's mostly been huge, corporate entities that take on the challenge, and why smaller search providers tend to rely on preexisting ones.

    So I applaud Qwant and Ecosia on their initiative, but also understand that it may take a while before it bears fruit.

  • I understand the point of the argument, but as you say — it's a false premise because only one of them is an art tool. The other is a faulty clip art machine that literally steals from artists.

  • Very true 😄 Maybe somebody should make an exhibition of worn, dented and scratched tablets, focusing on those accumulated marks that were never intended as art?

  • Literally. I make and teach art, and everything starts with a tool that will leave a mark on a surface. Tablets are a step removed from that, but "genAI" isn't even close.

  • How the hell does using a drawing tablet correspond in any way, shape or form to using a generative "AI" that leeches off actual artists' skill, talent and labour?

    No, don't try to argue against that question. Internalise it, and understand it.

  • Both, really.

  • Not really. They give some lip service to communist dogma, but they really only have a big hard on for totalitarianism.

    It's pretty absurd in 2025 to get high on late 1980s Comintern propaganda, but here they are 🤷

  • Yeah, why do considerate mods like OP have to wade in and tell others they can just block you? Wotta revoltin' development. /s

  • I'd add "report" to that advice. If somebody is outright being jerks, that is probably against your instance's rules — and if it isn't, there are plenty others to choose from.

    Blocking helps you, but reporting people (or instances) that are just here to troll will help others.

  • I'd completely forgotten about those. Can we bring back "the right to air gap"?

  • Wait, "operating system" in French is "système d'exploitation"? That's particularly funny next to Windows 11 offers.

  • They'd have to discount at least twice that amount for me to get the Ubuntu install, though.

  • +1 re WiFi. As I recall, with older laptops you may have to dig around to find some WiFi drivers for Debian — but they're most likely there, just not in the default repo.

  • A fairly unsurprising statement from two people whose combined intellectual contributions are close to none. But they still may impress their idiocy upon a president who bolsters his lack of acuity with an impulse to tear things down.

  • EU: So, what FLOSS operating system should we adopt on a union-wide level?

    Developer 1: Our distro focuses on system- and network-level security

    Dev 2: Ours offers customisable user interfaces

    Dev 3: We built our own package manager

    Dev 4: We have immutable system images

    EU: Uh...

    Monorail pitchman: Ours is called "EU OS".

    EU: Well, that makes our choice all the easier.

  • Something speciesist Flipper jokes something.

  • On a good day he'll just redirect it to X. If he's off his rocker on ketamine he might have it display a deepfake porn video of himself performing oral sex.

    Because "Musk sucks". That guy loves a dumb pun à la "let that sink in".