macallik @ macallik @kbin.social

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Grand opening. Grand closing

The scratches during the review period makes me nervous. I walk into walls all the time with my watch so that's a no go.

I'll wait and see if it's more widespread and if there's any xmas discounts before I potentially pull the trigger

I agree with you and was also thinking that maybe waiting X days/weeks before publishing would be the solution.

Hmmmm. Maybe this is why Debian pushed a curl update today even though it was also upgraded in 12.2 four days ago

What I don't like about the article is that the phrasing 'paying off' can apply to making investors money OR having worthwhile use cases. AI has created plenty of use cases from language learning to code correction to companionship to brainstorming, etc.

It seems ironic that a consumer-facing website is framing things from a skeptical "But is it making rich people richer?" perspective

At my old job, we had a VBA script that would:

1. Pull client data from SQL
2. Load data into an Excel file
3. Update charts and KPIs
4. Copy/Paste chart and KPIs into PowerPoint
5. Switch to the next client
6. Repeat steps 1-5 for +100 clients

Thirty page custom reports per client within 2 minutes (when nothing broke). It allows you to interact and automate across the Microsoft Suite. That is one of the reasons why it is indispensable to many companies

Skimmed as well and must've skipped the paragraph that had that sentence 😅

If the Circuit Attorney says that he's on a list where he can't be trusted to bring cases to court, then why is he still prosecuting criminals if the case will fall apart in court?

I don't understand why he still allowed to operate as a detective.

Depending on your privacy concerns, ChatGPT might be an option. Check YouTube for reviews and how to create a course outline

That my solution. I have a 'Sync' folder on every device's Home folder, and then I use some aliases to determine whether to grab the bashaliases file or replace it:

• alias dba='diff -s /.bashaliases /Sync/.bashaliases' # compare files
• alias s2ba='cp /Sync/.bashaliases /' # Push from Sync folder to current bash aliases
• alias ba2s='cp /.bashaliases /Sync/' # Push from current bash aliases to Sync folder

By far, the diff alias is the most used. It allows for a quick check on what is different between files w/o having to open them up

Positive psychological impact of sunlight is my guess

lmao

My uneducated guess is that Endless OS pays manufacturers to have their OS installed as it has what appears to be privacy-conscious telemetry. It won't be anywhere close to what Microsoft/Apple, but in the Linux telemetry world of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, and so it'll still have valuable data.

Some of the areas that are unlike most other distros I've come across:

• Their website for Endless OS does a lot of tracking and has a policy that is more 'business-orientated' than many distros
• Privacy policy for the OS is not available online, only when downloading program
• They use dark patterns to have the default for telemetry as 'opt-in' which might be the opposite for FOSS IIRC
• Complete list of things tracked here

To me, it's akin to the free third party apps that come packaged with many Android mobile devices. Less intrusive since it's anonymized, but also feels more intrusive because it's the entire OS being monitored. I believe I came across a headline that Fedora is attempting to use the same tracking software in the link above

This review shares a more judgmental view of their practices

This article has a more positive spin

It's worth noting that DDG did update their policy after the blowback.

Blog post reaction
Current setup summarized

Tried Brave Search and felt like it was the closest to Google Search, in terms of a modernized-feel and good UI/UX, but after reading about the company and their questionable ethics, I switched to DDG instead. I'll sacrifice my experience to avoid the more suspect company

This is going increasingly off topic.

1. Yes wikipedia does have ads every time they fundraise
2. I use libredirect to complete privacy-focused searches across various front-ends, from YouTube to Reddit to Wikipedia, and my searches are distributed across various instances, so no, a single random third party is not getting all of my searches.
3. 'The point' is to share an article on the guy who owns Brave. I've provided additional context about wikiless as requested, but if you need more context moving forward, please do a google search.

It's a free, open source alternative Wikipedia front-end focused on privacy.

https://github.com/Nangjing/wikiless

Basically you search wikipedia w/o tracking.

The owner is the guy who created JavaScript and is funded by controversial right-winger Peter Thiel

To me, it feels like the final frontier for phones before a pivot to virtual/augmented reality becomes more tangible.

Got rid of my GV # after 10 years w/ it so that I could use RCS. Not a vast difference tbh but feels a lot more modern