I did, not for the first time, but it did not work. It passed, despite a majority voting against it (314:276), because it was not an “absolute majority” (361 votes). What a farce.

What the fuck do we do now?

“The Torment Nexus is now Open Source” is not something to be proud of

Have been using it for a while and it works well

SailfishOS seems to be the best candidate at this time

The actual rules for LLM translation seem aimed at covering that

Been using the secure knot for 2-3 decades by now

The other day i was thinking how back then, in police/detective stories, the idea of “the perfect crime” was a repeated one, through convoluted machinations the criminal in question managed to fully avoid getting caught and paying for his crimes. Then as the years passed i realized all they needed was to be rich, they get away daily with crimes much more severe than any stuff that would put us in prison for life. Yet again i remember Benedict on The Last Action hero going “Because in this world, the bad guys can win!” and he was right all along…

Oh yeah, he will get away with it, he very much shouldn’t and i dearly wish he didn’t, but he will, unless the world changes extremely drastically in a hurry he will…

Nice to know! Thanks!

It’s been a month, i wonder if we have established the trustworthiness of the new maintained or not

Yes, an explicit No to AI, also LibreWolf said the same, no AI, that means that every fork will have AI disabled

WHOA!

Basically they’re sticking GenAI as deeply as they can into every recess of the OS, to everybody’s protest, which is actually driving a push for people to move away from Windows, they’re doing the best advertising for Linux we’ve got in ages

Now i have an itch to go reread Dungeon Meshi

MUCH prefer AnySoftKeyboard as it has niceties like easy switching of language on the fly, arrow keys and other stuff like that, i just wish the autocomplete was not worse than not having any as it actually wastes your time showing you whatever incorrect and extremely unlikely suggestions it wants instead of something that actually follows what you’re writing

The point is that by fighting back they cannot get any more accurate than that, which helps, even if it’s incomplete and imperfect.

There’s also the spite angle, because fuck them, i am not gonna give them shit if i can help it!

Basically this. The project head might be a bit too paranoid, bellicose and problematic, but at this time a phone with GrapheneOS seems to be by far the safest way to have a smartphone, and the project head’s personality might be a part on this as their stated objective is to be able to resist state-level actors, you likely need someone who’s more than a bit “out there” to have the right mind for this

I have family that believes this and LIKE having ads, so yeah… 😓

Edit: Archive of the page

I keep meaning to learn Forth since reading the Wiz Biz books ages ago

Ah fuck!

Edit: After reading more info on the situation it seems like there was no malice, but this has been handled in an outright lousy way, this software has important privileges on the phone and was handled spectacularly bad for an app aimed at people who care about privacy.

However, there was a silver lining here for some of us which was pointed there: The upgrade to version 2 was a potentially breaking one, so they published it in a way that would not upgrade automatically, so lots of people including me still have version 1.30.0.4, and are unable to automatically upgrade, need to do multiple manual steps to get to version 2. I think I’ll wait a bit before upgrading to see how they handle things, OR if there’s a fork by a person with a modicum of common sense.