Lariscus

I like it, but that still leaves metadata like the fact that I have an account at all. With the low user numbers of Kagi any privacy guarantee by them is an illusion. Since Kagi is operating out of a country without any privacy laws that could protect me, I will not use their services.

I used Kagi for a while and liked it but I no longer use it because it is a US company and searching with them requires an account that makes tracing my search queries back to me trivial.

Web Environment Integrity was abandoned two years ago. Do you know of any renewed efforts to reintroduce the proposal?

Thats incorrect, it is free software but incompatible with the GPL.

Have you submitted a bug report?

I don't understand half of the stuff you just wrote. I just selected the SSD in the installer and told it to install the OS. Why make things more difficult?

I am using Fedora Kinoite for a year now. It is finally the stable desktop Linux experience I was looking for. The limitations people are constantly talking about really don't seem like a big deal to me. For everything not available as a Flatpak there is distrobox and there is always layering as an escape hatch.

Making it easier for tech companies to steal my art. Sure, I will get right to it. In what world do these thieves live? I hope they catch something nasty!

Is a Flatpak release planned? I am interested in Grayjay but don't really want to deal with a binary that lives outside of my distros package manager.

I hope these things are never allowed around here. Roads are already dangerous enough without people driving around in tanks.

A piece of paper and any kind of pencil will do just fine for writing papers. There is no need for a laptop.

What you are saying about KDE is misinformation. Plasmashell in KDE 6.2 uses between 300 and 500MB RAM depending on the age of the session.

AI companies have chosen to either ignore robots.txt entirely or they just rename their crawler so it technically doesn't apply to them.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-anthropic-ai-ignore-r...

[1] https://www.404media.co/email/87e0e07a-7d24-4788-b417-1821b4...

Is it time for our 'tech companies complaining about EU regulation' article again? Must be a day ending in Y.

But that sounds boring and reasonable. Who cares that the whole project costs a lot, is apparently wildlife endangering, and has dubious benefits. Drones go brrrr, look like fancy future tech and I can put it in my CV to impress my next employer.

Unfortunately they do and they really try to scare you away with the GPL boogeyman. It is a fair criticism. I would recommend to ignore the installer entirely and rely on a package manger like vcpkg, conan, apt, or brew instead.

You can find the manual installer here:

https://www.qt.io/download-qt-installer-oss

Yes, closed source libraries are a pain to work with. This is why I like the GPL/Commercial dual licensing model. You can try it out for as long as you like, have full access to the source code and can even create commercial software for free. You are only required to pay for a license if you want to create closed source software. I consider this an absolutely fair deal, yet the blog author seems to take issue with that which is what I am criticizing.

I guess that is just one of the many risks you have to take if your trying to build a business. A couple of hundred dollars in licensing fees are not going to sink your product. For a side project that you don't expect to make any money it might be too much, but in that case you could just as well open source the project.

'Qt for Application Development Enterprise - Small Business (ADE-SB)' is $499.

I have little sympathy for that kind of argument, imagine a carpenter complaining that they have to buy wood and nails. Besides, a Qt license for small businesses is nowhere near thousands of dollars. Only in software development do we expect quality tools to be given to us free of charge with no strings attached.

I have a very low opinion of developers who decry having to pay for a commercial licence for otherwise LGPL licensed software libraries. They expect to be paid for their work, and ensure that by creating closed source software. That's fair enough. Yet, the devs that solved the actually difficult parts of creating a UI library have to be utter saints who freely bestow a gift of code upon the world.

Simple, stop being scared at made up ghosts from your computer and start being very concerned about the very real threat that is ever increasing global temperatures and pollution. The only people that want you to be afraid about AI, are the people who are either selling AI or are paid by the people that sell AI. It legitimizes their grift and keeps the hype going. The "threat" of AI is nothing compared to what is in store for us once large areas of our planet become effectively uninhabitable.

I replaced Gimp with Krita. It is often said that Krita is made for digital painting rather than photo editing but I haven't missed any features so far.

I recommend actually reading the CRA[1] the requirements for non-critical software are easy to follow. If your product does not fall into the categories described in Annex III you are making non-critical software.

The requirements are described in Annex IV, V and VI. You must do a conformity assessment and provide a declaration of conformity. For non-critical software you can do the assessment yourself see the first five points in Annex VI. The only thing that maybe requires a bit of effort is that you must write some technical documentation including a cybersecurity risk assessment. For critical software the process is more involved because it requires certification by a "notified body".

If a startup in the EU fails because they have to write a bit of documentation once in a while they deserve to fail. Also if a startup wants to create security relevant software I expect that they follow some security standard and the CRA makes sure of that. None of these requirements are something only a billion dollar company can do.

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

CRA requires integrators of open source components to perform their own due diligence. Open Source contributors are not held liable for security breaches. In fact this regulation will probably increase investment in open source projects because companies are obliged to share vulnerabilities they have discovered including any relevant patches they might have developed.[1]

[1] https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/eu-cra-what-does-it-mean-f...

Wagie, wagie! Get in cagie!

Boss needs help now don't be lazy

Zero breaks will make you crazy

I'll tell the guards to get their tazie

Need to get those new iPhones

Got to pay those student loans

Work your fingers to the bones

Bosses need vacation homes

Don't trust unions, vote in pairs

Buy all of boss' consumer wares

We'll stay seated in our chairs

And make our bosses millionaires

Love your work, love the pain

Feel the life drain from your brain

Think of all you have to gain

As your dreams go down the drain

Come on wagie, join the crew!

Don't you want your wages too?

And if the boss man makes you blue

You deserve it, you're a screw!

Weekend comes 'round after ages

You can come collect your wages

Throw your parties, have your rages

Then get back into your cages

In other words, the companies set to gain the most from dismissing any fears about the negative effects of AI join forces to fund dubious research that argues in their favour.

The C3000 is great. Unfortunately, they only sell it for the US homeschooling market, it is no longer available in Europe.

I looked up some science kits recently and was quite disappointed. Nobody produces anything close to the great kits I used to enjoy as teenager. I was especially fond of my chemistry set. The new versions all seem neutered in comparison. I guess science kits can't compete with all the distractions available to modern teenagers, and these kits were quite expensive making them probably a hard sell. Still, I wish someone would make these again.

Joseph Heller claimed he would have never written it had he never read The Good Soldier Švejk.