Go educate yourself. Unlike other countries where words seemingly have lost all their meaning, the EU has clear rules about what you are allowed to call free range. But, keep doing what you are doing. I am sure being insufferable and calling people names on the internet will convince a lot of people of your standpoint.
The sad thing is that machine learning methods are actually pretty good at classifying data. So Spotify could implement an "AI" enhanced search that works with your search terms if they wanted. Unfortunately, they no longer seem interested in improving their product.
I worked on a couple commercial C++ applications that used vcpkg. It's not as convenient as nuget, cargo or npm but it think it is a massive improvement over manually hunting for dependencies.
C and C++ projects often predate Gradle by decades they will not change their build system without a compelling reason.
Gradle is written in Java and requires a Java Runtime.
At least for C++, CMake has pretty much become the standard build tool.
Dependency resolution on Linux was 'solved' by relying on the distribution. Today, there also exist package managers for C and C++ like vcpkg or conan and they also integrate with CMake.
True which is why WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Telegram still reign supreme. Don't forget that its a minute for each person I want to contact, why bother if I already have the phone number of everybody I know. SimpleX targets a different market than the previously mentioned Messengers, and that's OK, but it also means its a no-go for anyone outside that market. Signal on the other hand is targeting the same market and thus is a viable alternative and for that reason I could convince my friends and family including my grandmother to use it instead.
With Signal you just have to install the App and make an account to start chatting with your friends and family. SimpleX requires me to send a link or QR code to everybody I want to interact with. You will have a hard time convincing anyone to do that. Compare that to the first Twitter exodus, people chose Bluesky over Mastodon because picking a server was 'difficult'. The average person doesn't care about technology at all and will always pick the path of least resistance.
SimpleX is cool, but fails the "my grandmother can use it" requirement. Signal has the huge benefit that is just as easy as WhatsApp. With Simplex you have to invite each of your friends individually.
That is exactly what it says. They knew about security issues in their library and didn't fix them for years. This isn't being ignorant, this is negligence.
I do, use Signal if you care about privacy. They are the only game in town when it comes to reasonably secure chat software. Sure, I would prefer a federated alternative but I haven't found one yet that is always end-to-end encrypted, open source, implements forward secrecy, and is user friendly enough to be used by my grandmother.
Yes, but getting angry at a guy who doesn't shower and lets cockroaches crawl all over themself over a dispute about video games when you are a multi-billionaire is arguably more pathetic.
The choice of init system is up to the distro maintainers because init scripts are usually created and maintained by the packager of a given application. Debian for example chose its init system via a democratic vote. Distros that focus on different init systems exist, like the Debian fork Devuan.
There was the time when Daniel Micay was the project lead and I wouldn't trust him either.
The current leadership seems fine though. I dislike that they only want to support Pixel phones but other than that I don't see any issues.
Its hard to give you something concrete. The topics you gave as examples are vast.
For my own purposes I add feeds to my rss reader based on what I come across by reading other articles in my reader.
Maybe checkout some communities about the topics you are interested. Lemmy has for example a large and enthusiastic Linux community. Brodie Robertson also covers a lot of different Linux topics. You can also take a look at recordings of developer conferences. The people that give talks often write a blog as well.
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The creator of that apparently got really angry when people told them that it looked like garbage.