YSK: Brendan Eich left Mozilla over his own homophobic beliefs. He is also a coronavirus denier.

Brave is homophobic Chrome with crypto on top

I've never "debloated" Windows so idk about the top half.

The bottom half is accurate. Debian, Fedora, and Mint are easier to install than Windows 10 or 11. Not that Windows is difficult, it's just a bit clunky and idiosyncratic.

I assume Microsoft doesn't care much about the installer since it's generally only used by OEMs, whereas for Linux distros it's a first impression so it has to be polished.

“Mozilla has a bit been shady lately, so we are making the difficult decision to change our default browser to something significantly more shady. We are confident our users will feel safer knowing their data is in even worse hands than before"

You should switch to Firefox with ublock origin.

Brave is a mess of a browser and a dumpster fire of an organization, even compared to the famously dysfuctional Mozilla.

You can look up your games on ProtonDB and see which will and won't work. Pirated games are no different from retail compatibility-wise but there might be one or two extra steps

Nothing new here. E2E is only available in one on one chats and is disabled by default. Dont use Telegram if privacy is your main concern.

At least it has an open-source client. Very few messaging platforms can say that, and fewer have a decent UX.

It's not perfect, but it's got a good combination of features and multi-platform availability. None of the other messaging apps support all of my devices except Matrix, and Matrix doesn't have stickers

Edit: Signal doesn't support all my devices but maybe someday! The network effect is also big. None of my family and friends are on Signal, but most have Telegram. A few have Matrix.

Also Signal is a US-based company.

Edit 2: Matrix does have stickers, i guess I'm switching

IBT is on the stronger/darker side, Darjeeling is on the lighter side.

IBT should be rich, dark, high in caffeine, with a strong flavor that doesnt get overpowered by milk, or ruined by a little oversteeping. It can still be burned if you use water that's too hot.

Darjeeling should be amber-colored, light tasting, moderate in caffeine, and should have some floral notes. The flavors can be drowned out by milk or oversteeping in my opinion. Best black and lightly steeped in sub-boiling water.

I really liked when they were "Washington Football Team" for a season. Now that's a name i can root for

These AI-generated thumbnails are awful

i think the copyright question is still unanswered: it could turn out that any LLM-generated code is a copyright violation by definition unless trained exclusively on a clean, legitimately-obtained dataset (which few of the major models are).

Will projects that allow LLM contributions have to roll back years of progress when the other shoe finally drops? Seems like a huge risk, especially for FOSS and copyleft. I think disallowing LLM-written contributions until this is all sorted out in the courts is the pragmatic move from a legal perspective.

The version available on Disney+ omits the sad song sung between Scrooge and his fiance as she breaks up with him for his avarice. As a kid i didn't like it much, but as an adult i realize that it's a critical emotional turning point for the movie.

Without that song, the whole film feels rather hollow.

The original film is one of my favorite Muppet movies and Christmas Carol adaptations. The loss of that song is a shame.

I've given up on GOG. No linux client means the whole process of installing/launching games is rather tedious. Also linux game dependencies can be annoying to resolve

Steam on the other hand just handles everything. If it doesn't work at first, it probably will with proton.

I'd love to support an anti-DRM store, but it's tough when there is so much friction when actually playing the games

Also remember to be nice. I see heated arguments regressing into ad hominems by the third comment pretty regularly. We can be better than Reddit

In a sense i agree, but the crash was in Summer in North Dakota and they are European honeybees.

Honeybees are quite invasive in North America. They kill and displace native pollinators and they are generally less effective pollinators of native plants. The release of dozens more colonies into the ecosystem is a negative thing no matter how you look at it.

North America has the greatest native bee diversity of any temperate part of the world, but if you go out into habitat and actually start counting insects you will find honeybees outnumber everything else in most places, most times of year.

The modern concept of race was invented in 1684 by this guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Bernier?wprov=sfla1

It's been utter bullshit from the start

i'd buy way more games if they had a Linux version of their Galaxy client. I already spend way too much on Steam

The biggest winnable fight right now is habitat protection and restoration. Visit natural places with them, show them how to protect those spaces, and plant native plants in your area to help the local ecosystem. Learn about the flora and fauna native to your area and teach your children to recognize and care for them.

Habitat destruction could destroy our biosphere well before climate change, but healthy ecosystems will better withstand CC.

It doesnt solve everything, but it helps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification?wprov=sfla1

Now is a good time to try Jellyfin

Brave shouldn't be on there at all. Nobody should be recommending Brave to anyone

iNaturalist

i upload photos i take of plants, birds, mammals, reptiles, fungi, and bugs. The observations (photos + location + annotation) are uploaded to a public database accessible to researchers and universities.

I've been involved in multiple species range expansions, and i've documented both endangered and invasive species. Pretty fun!

The Android app is very good. The iOS app is good for uploads, but lacks a lot of browsing features like search filters and phylogenetic trees. If you are on iOS i suggest using it in a browser except for observation uploads

You can also upload audio recordings for bird and bug sounds. It's amazing what you can learn about your local ecosystem!