Zagorath

Remember, this is the same guy who, last year, posted an explicitly pro-Republican Tweet on the official Proton account, and then backtracked and tried to say they were apolitical. In his excuses, he used the extremely right-wing coded phrase “triggered” in a way that perfectly matched the way right-wingers use the term, and when called out for that he claimed he was “unaware that triggered is offensive” because “I don’t live in the US so I really don’t have ready a list of words people are not allowed to use”. Some very right-winger-complains-about-cancel-culture–coded language right there, and an excuse that falls apart the moment you realise that it would require being in tune with right-wing language enough to have used “triggered” accurately in the first place, that his complaints simply don’t work.

Here’s a link to the Reddit thread, for no particular reason.

https://old.reddit.com/user/spez/comments/1xiupm0/about_that_login_screen/

Yeah, to me it kinda seems inevitable that the AI bubble will pop. Because AI companies are having such a hard time making a profit selling their AI. The tech that they developed will still exist, and self-hosted models will definitely still exist. But the glut of AI datacentres and the price gouging on RAM and GPUs that they cause, cannot possibly last indefinitely.

I think you can tell most search engines to remove results from one particular source? So it should end up the same for you? If you can’t do it natively, there are definitely extensions that’ll do that.

If I click on a search result that goes to discord will it take me to somewhere I can see it?

I assume not, which is why I still think this is worse than using normal forums. You’ll probably get a link to join the relevant server, and will probably require a Discord account to do it.

Which is very annoying and unfortunate, but is a huge step up from all that content being entirely undiscoverable.

It’s possible that someone could write a bot that displays a mirror more exactly. Not sure how easy it’ll be to both do that and not get taken down, though.

Wow this is actually great. Still doesn’t excuse groups using Discord instead of traditional forums, because traditional forums are still browsable without an account. But the lack of indexing has been such a huge flaw with public groups using Discord. Addressing that issue goes a long way to making Discord a less shit platform for open source apps, games, etc. to run their support from.

Not “conveniently”. Intentionally. Because the ridiculousness of that point had already been thoroughly dismantled by another reply.

A domain? No. You’ll have to pay for your domain as long as you want to keep it. They’re not very expensive though. A basic .com will usually run you about 10–15 dollars per year.

Are you talking about Nextcloud core, or specifically the Nextcloud Photos app?

This repo exists solely to help you compare all the alternatives.

My quick look through the feature matrix, the best options (purely in terms of the number of features in the comparison) are Ente, Immich, and Nextcloud (there’s both Nextcloud Photos and Nextcloud Memories—I’m not sure how they work together vs separately). Unfortunately a “memories” feature isn’t in the feature matrix, but from a quick search I believe all the options I just named have it.

and well-known software like Wordpress

Sorry, but you’re using the fact that PHP is used by the framework that makes up about 40% of the web on its own as an argument against the claim that PHP might be on as much as 70% of all websites? That’s before you start getting into other platforms like Drupal and MediaWiki, or more general-purpose frameworks like Laravel.

I do think it’s worth distinguishing from the run-of-the-mill transphobe and the TERF. Both exist wherever you go, but the latter is notoriously much more common in TERF Island, while the orange fascist’s state has more regular bigots. And not just because there’s one prominent example from said island.

You’ll find that if the concept of trans people never comes up, most TERFs will genuinely come across as progressive on gender issues. They’ll be, for example, the kind of person who runs a YouTube channel about swords and showing how women are very capable of learning to fight with them. (Sadly not a hypothetical.) They obviously carry somegender essentialism—that’s basically a prerequisite to transphobia—but they often apply it much more narrowly than the average transphobe.

Lastpass limited the number of device types, phone OR desktop

The thing that shit me about LastPass doing that is that they used to do that. And I actually paid for it back when they did. Then they made it free for several years. And then they brought back the restriction, only at like 5x the price.

And in the meantime, quality of life of the service remained flat. I regularly had to go into the LastPass app and manually copy/paste because the autofill functionality didn’t work properly on Android. There was just no way it was a service of a quality that’s worth paying for. Bitwarden’s UX is incredible by comparison.

That’s actually a bit part of why unions have not traditionally been seen as necessary in tech. Employees had more leverage even without strength of numbers than many other jobs. Combined with the relatively high number of employers, the threat of an employee saying they’d just leave if they don’t get better conditions was real.

Current economic conditions change that. Fewer companies are hiring, and AI makes it easier for a new employee to learn what’s going on in your system. So the need to unionise grows.

Whether you believe it or not is another matter, but this very post still includes the words “transparency” and “always free”.

Bitwarden remains committed to open source security and transparency

Bitwarden remains committed to a robust, free forever plan for everyone

and a bonus:

The free plan is here to stay permanently

Yeah this was pretty bad. Using the slur is quite understandable because the fact that it is a slur isn’t super widely known in my experience, especially among those who haven’t had much experience with Romani people.

But adding in such an explicitly racist caricature is so much harder to justify as an act of ignorance.

Thankfully redlib still works

For now

They’re concerned about AI scraping. They want to sell access to users’ content for training, not let the AI in for free.

I go on Reddit read-only fairly often, but these days it’s quite rare that I’ll post or comment. And when I do I always take the opportunity to promote the fediverse.

Matrix is a bit of a shit show

How so?

and also isn’t a discord alternative to begin with

It absolutely is. A “Space” is the equivalent to a Discord “server”. It’s not perfect and polished, but it does the job. I’ve been using it rather than Discord with my gaming group for a year now.