Except the lack of government AND the massive amount of pollution and resources waste.

Google talk a lot about future renewables and nuclear energy projects, but they’re increasing energy consumption before those projects start producing energy.

So Google rely on burning lots of fossil fuel to power its fast AI developments, meaning their AI plans are increasing pollution and aggravating climate change.

Any Brave alternative that works on iOS?

I’ve installed brave on some familly iOS device because that’s the best I could find at the time. But hope to find a good replacement.

Cromite use a third party repo, rather than being in the main one. And I’m hesitant to add repos for my system’s security.

Do anyone has some informations or sources on Cromite’s maintainer, whether cromite.org is safe to add to repos?

This could further accelerate the arms race between malicious srappers and websites.

My fear is this would create collateral damage, block legitimate scrappers and visitors, hassle people with an increasing number of captcha.

Please make an effort to avoid X.

If you’re looking for someone’s or an organization’s feed, look for alternatives such as:

• Look for that person’s Mastodon account,
• Look for a blog or website. It may have a RSS feed, if not try https://fetchrss.com/generator/generate
• Look for a bluesky account, and get its RSS feed with a tool like https://fetchrss.com/generator/generate

RAOP stands for Remote Audio Output Protocol and is the key to enabling Airplay on Linux

https://medium.com/@ed.sav/enabling-airplay-from-linux-1f6358c9ca1c

the company also said AI could have a “net positive potential” on climate

It’s going to get us Net Fucked by 2030

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3j9muCo4o0

I would settle for 100x slower but uncensored Internet.

It’s less creepy than asking “This is your home address, isn’t it?”

Likely bad coding or bad database design.

Best practice is to avoid using email as primary key in the user database, instead use an internal ID, so that an email change can happen without touching the primary key.

Your reply made me think of an alternative to deleting accounts : replace personal information to use a pseudonym and a throwaway email, remove everything that can be removed.

That would help once the badly coded website get hacked or its database get leaked.

Yes, assuming the site allows deleting accounts.

Many don’t have an easy way of deleting accounts. Some won’t delete an account even when making a formal request.

Recall the time when Windows came on a DVD, had no Microsoft account option on install, no ads in settings nor in the startup menu, no AI slop.

It was still shit, but it feels shittier now, and harder to setup and configure in a way that’s bearable.

Atomic distro sounds like an interesting way to avoid breakage due to admin/user mistakes, so it’s a good suggestion. But it doesn’t help much with bugs in new software releases.

So the best choice depends on what exactly caused instability in OP’s case.

Somewhat obvious tips to get a more stable experience:

• Use a distribution that favour stability over being on the bleeding edge. Like Debian stable, or another distribution that maintain LTS releases,
• Install software from the distribution’s main package repository. Avoid third party packages and repos as much as possible. If you really need a third party repo, verify it’s compatible with your specific distro and has reputation for being well maintained,
• When you do see a problem, take time to troubleshoot and if necessary make a bug report with necessary information for developers to identify the problem, so there’s a better chance to see it fixed.
• If you use Linux in a professional settings, there is paid support available out there, in some cases this get you priority for bug fixes.

Thanks for the information.

The app is distributed in a third party repo, not the main F-Droid repo, so before installating I’m trying to check if it’s open-source, had some independent review, and is safe to install.

The source is available but the license isn’t recognised as OSS according to the OSI website. https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay https://opensource.org/licenses

This may explain why it’s not in the main F-Droid repo. It’s better than closed source anyway.

Alternatives like actual cash, proof-of-stake cryptocurrency, or even EMV.

Most alternatives aren’t completely anonymous payment methods, but Monero’s anonymity isn’t worth wasting so much resources.

Monero has a disproportionally large energy usage and footprint on the environment. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-018-0152-7

Please consider less wasteful alternatives. Every bit help, it’s about keeping earth safe for human life.

Briar use Tor by default as well for Internet connections, so I don’t think Session is unique in that way. And both appear decentralized.

A difference is that Briar is Android-only, whereas session is available on more platforms https://sourceforge.net/software/compare/Briar-vs-Session-vs-Signal/

It’s good that people are working on privacy-preserving tools. But I wish they’d coordinate to avoid fragmentation. Work on common/standard messenging protocols, so that people can talk to each other even using different software.

Currently it feels like going back to the 1990s-2000s, with ICQ/AIM/MSNM being all incompatible, and every single one being unable to communicate with a large fraction of your contacts.