I’ve tried it. I like that they’re carrying the torch of OpenBoard, but I don’t like that swipe typing requires manually downloading a third party library.

My only gripe with the Samsung keyboard is that their only alternative distribution is Dvorak, and by now I’m 100% a colemak user even on touch screens. So I use open board with swipe typing.

Find people you still talk to who talk to those you want to contact and ask for their number. It can take up to two or three hops but you can find contact info of almost anyone in the world just by asking. Even faster if they’re people you know or knew at some point. Facebook is only a theater of staying connected and not actually connecting to anyone anyways

Using fomo and marketinp to force people into debt for a phone. Definitely the moral and sensible choice.

Where’s the “Apple is the only tech giant that respects your privacy” crowd? Just because your data isn’t being publicly auctioned doesn’t mean they aren’t harvesting it and infringing on your privacy.

1. Yes, you can share location, the widgets aren’t as fancy as Google integration with everything.

2. Not feasible without the constant data harvesting in the background, which it doesn’t do. It doesn’t log your every move as Google does. Privacy vs surveillance, will always be at odds.

3. Depending on the area. In my country public transportation is way better on OSM than on Gmaps. Oftentimes Gmaps won’t even have large structures like train stations or bus terminals. It depends on users and contributors.

Often times people have resolved all the rational arguments to act on a decision but lack on an emotional excuse to figuratively pull the trigger. I’d bet on someone high up had already made if their mind and you not using WhatsApp was the perfect excuse to just have the whole team finally migrate.

Where, pray tell, do you think the link says the money goes? I already decided you are a deranged nutjob. But I’ll indulge your madness just out of curiosity on the mind of the deluded.

Once in a while you find a person on the internet so misinformed that you have to question whether they’re a shill, a bot or a troll.

Firefox is the Mozilla foundation. You can most definetely donate to them.

They currently depend almost entirely on Google’s tainted money. Because donations aren’t enough to cover even a fraction of the costs of developing a free web browser. This is a good experiment to find privacy respecting ways to fund the project without depending on Google’s bad practices.

Depends on the country, but usually a “background check” is nothing more than paying a lawyer to check if you have ever been convicted, accused or investigated for a crime. Prosecutors have an archive and a office of records to collect and share that public information. This is why clearing records are important in courts and settlements. It’s a big mark to say the person is actually alright and won’t be found in the records if searched, as they were cleared. Other than that it is usually just a phone call to a previous employer to ask if you were an asshole there.

It’s vague on purpose. They saw the peasants ravaging MS for giving too many details. It’s vague enough that most people won’t give it a second thought and opt in anyway. Because it is the new shiny thing from Apple that they totally just invented and not copied from other companies.

I mean, you can look all over their marketing material. They’re not coy about it, they just gave it an euphemism. They called it “awareness of your personal context”. That is just code for “it sees and records every single thing you do”. The other euphemistic term is the “product knowledge about your devices’ features and settings”. They even throw some contradictions “it is aware of your personal information without collecting your personal information”??? How? How could I be aware of the plot of Frankenstein without ever “collecting” some form of record containing the plot of Frankenstein?

No, QuickLook is fancy preview, it has nothing to do with AI and there’s no need to send or process the content. Apple Intelligence is more like recall, recording everything to feed Siri and ChatGPT.

Not one to one, but it is an AI that sees and records everything on the screen and device data to predict user actions and so the AI can work the prompts with some context. It’s still an app that sees your screen 24/7 then feeds it to an LLM. Sure, Apple says it is local (but it will phone home if the task is too complex sending your, encrypted, data along with it), and they claim OpenAI will sandbox chatgpt to prevent profiling (even though we have absolutely no reason to believe Altman is being sufficiently candid), and that it will be opt-in (though we know Apple will present the thing specifically designed for maximum FOMO).

Look at Apple. They announced a pretty similar thing to recall but managed to get praised as creative innovators by using the correct combination of buzzwords. Creating a sense of privacy and security though from a technical point of view they offer neither. Google learned that it is not the tech, it is the marketing. MS botched the optics when they were on a downward reputational spiral, Apple nailed the optics banking on their locked in sla…users inside the walled garden. Google just has to figure their own strategy to good optics on the tech.

If I want something new I use gnooks. Their recommendations are usually spot on with my tastes. The secret to reading is immediate access. I got an ereader and that multiplied my interest in reading. Without it I wouldn’t read as much as I do.

I do. I track my reading on Storygraph because it motivates me and helps me keep up the habit when I hit a slump or end up with some uninspiring piece. I don’t have to fumble for a new book to read because all recommendations and interests are neatly registered and organized. My progress is tracked and I can celebrate my success. I also have a huge library of digital books, over 2 thousand. By tracking I can keep a log of what I have and haven’t read. Sometimes, after a long while, you forget the names of specific books in series, or where you were last off in a particular author’s collection, etc. It helps with it all. But I don’t connect or share that with anyone. Nor do I feel the need to push it on anyone. Friends and acquaintances are not that into reading as I am and they see no use for a social network about books, and I don’t want nosy strangers rummaging though my reading history.

I thought that Kagi would have way more users. That blog was an interesting read. If that is their financial management, they’re doomed to fail. The founder also seems somehow worse than Brave’s. But it does give me a chance to mention something I’ve been thinking about for the past 6 months.

There’s right now a massive trend towards co-opting in tech. Where startups and corporations use current trends in the tech savvy consumer to push products and services that ultimately actually go against the trend. Privacy, security, federation, climate change, open source. But just like most con men, it’s all performative, not substantial. They are trying to get fast to the wallet, then run for the hills with it. It reminds me of common greenwashing from oil companies, I call it privacywashing. In the end they still get to keep your data, and push anti-consumer tech like blockchain scams and fraudulent AI.

OK, in terms you understand. The criticism “GIMP is not like Photoshop” is crap advice, its shit and your shitty attitude is offensive and insulting to the hard work of devs. Go keep sucking the adobe boot since you seem to like the taste of dirt on leather so much. “Just clone Photoshop” is a meme useless attitude to have.

See, the thing with this argument is that, however much I agree with the basic idea, it’s still not useful. We can agree, sure, that overall the UI and UX (two different things) on GIMP is not as subjectively good as Photoshop. But saying, it’s easier, it’s faster, it’s whatever, still does not help at all. It’s still all just vibes and impressions, it’s not actionable.

“The default UI is not like Photoshop” is inactionable. It’s different from the opinions I left on this thread. That GIMP need to have a way to save and reload layouts, that’s an specific feedback, concise, concrete and actionable. I also agree that some workflows take too many clicks, maybe have simplified tools to do common actions. That is also actionable, specific, concrete.

Your comment offers nothing to go on with. It even manages to ignore and bypass my criticism, it doesn’t address the “Industry standard” bias and privilege. Because when pros try GIMP the response “It doesn’t work the way I expected and are used to, so I don’t like it” is a garbage feedback. The only thing you are offering is “clone photoshop”, and that’s just not what the project has ever been about, or will ever be about. So the conversation is fruitless.