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On my Paperwhite from 2018, the battery life is better on KOReader than on Amazon’s firmware.

I use it on my Kindle and I love it. I can use better and more dictionaries, the controls are ergonomic and customizable, I can easily override the font so that every ebook looks exactly the same. It supports epub and with it my Kindle is faster, the battery lasts longer and it supports dark mode on an old model while Amazon officially doesn’t. Amazing software all around!

Ecosia is a non-profit, so being profitable is not their mission. Each month they publish a breakdown of their expenses and donations. In January they got around 4 million euros, so I’d say they are certainly successful at what they do.

As a stylistic note, it’s funny that philosophy graduates often can’t help but mention that they are one at every opportunity they have, as if that carried a particular a certain intellectual prestige. They do that while perhaps missing the point: a critical mind does not need to announce its status and does not rely on declarations of prestige to be one.

It’s also funny how a marvelously rational philosophy graduate can then support the most banal moral positions. The life of the mind is quite something.

Sometimes the writing itself is a guide for the mind of the reader, and the indirect path prose can take is part of the message.

Not everything has to be written in digestible snippets of text.

While you're definitely right about it having a steep learning curve, it's also true that not many RAW editors do what Darktable does. Darktable aims at serving advanced, tecnically-minded users. It's complicated, but in a way, it's nice it is, for those who need it.

Still happens to me when using software that is GPU intensive, like Blender. When I drag a slider, I hear the buzzing of the GPU.

They’ve been there for a long while, I don’t think they’re new.

After being a user for a long while, my enthusiasm for Kagi has decreased. Their UI is lovely, but I feel in the end they are just repackaging other indexers. I’ve started using Google + Ublacklist and for me it works the same. I also don’t like how much they have focused on AI, given even their Quick Answer, when it’s wrong, it does so with such confidence it makes the tool quite untrustworthy.

There is a certain justice in the use of OpenAI as a name for their product, given that OpenAI has turned the generic technical GPT name into a brand.

Thank you for your work. While looking for references of past artifacts, this website has been so valuable.

Sorry, but I don’t think families who escaped in those times were exactly just innocent property owners.

I wish this worked on Windows too. In general, I'd love to see all those lovely GTK4 apps on Windows, they look so nice.

Note that the latest version of this wallpaper is CGI. [1]

[1] https://mspoweruser.com/new-default-windows-10-light-theme-w...

The two best SDF modelers in existence are MagicaCSG[1] and Adobe Substance Modeler[2]. There are also a few others, like Womp, but those two are the most feature-complete. Blender is also adding them as part of geometry nodes, and there is also an add-on that is working on adding SDF for hard-surface.

[1] https://ephtracy.github.io/index.html?page=magicacsg & https://www.patreon.com/magicavoxel

[2] https://www.adobe.com/products/substance3d/apps/modeler.html

I do not understand how a browser can launch in 2024 without caring for privacy. Arc is probably the worst browser ever in this regard, making it mandatory to have an account.

Their interface on top of Chromium is written in Swift, so they're bundling all the stuff that is necessary to make Swift run on Windows, top of of Chromium.

And the fact that humans have feelings does not mean we can’t use them as slaves when needed.

See? Ethics are like that: there must be something we give value too, if we want to stop somewhere and build something. In that case, the core value being raised is that the ability to be aware, suffer and have emotions is morally valuable.

And RPGs, which have probably gifted some of the best written games ever (Planescape Torment, Fallout 1-2, Disco Elysium).

Some video games have shown you can have incredible writing and narrative in the format (recent ones that stuck with me: Disco Elysium and Outer Wilds).

The vast majority of video games, though, and probably the most commercially-successful, are written really badly and show no particular regard to narration. The cliches are so bad, the writing either childish or more or less intentionally B-movie style.

I think games can still get a lot better on this front. In other areas, the medium has developed and experimented a lot. But, aside from indie games and a few noteworthy exceptions, I don't feel videogames focus a lot on telling good stories. At least, they don't do this as much as other media, such as literature or cinema or songwriting, have done in their history.

But BlueGriffon is discontinued. Today, nothing that is actively maintained fulfills this purpose, except from SeaMonkey Composer.

I wish there was a WYSIWYG editor that has CSS support and modern HTML.

Obviously, this is about creating the infrastructure for a continent-wide surveillance program, using children pornography as a troy horse.

The problem is that EU institutions are so far and detached from the member states that most citizens are completely unaware of their doing, at least until said European laws get implemented locally.

I’d love to see more about the artworks the author shares at the end. The idea of creating renders of realities where light works differently from ours is fascinating.

Meh, Perplexity is just GPT/Claude/Gemini with a mediocre web search attached to it. The latest rumours about them adding ads to their search and the fact that they are VC-funded do not prospect such a bright future for it.

I personally haven’t lost faith, because search is still the best out there. I’m really happy with it, no complaints and I’m not planning on cancelling.

Speaking about their whole business, I think three things left me a negative impression:

- the tshirts were really unnecessary. I didn’t understand that. I am not sure the world needed more trash being produced and for sure it was not a good use of their money.

- I think AI as a tool has a place in their offering (Quick Answer, Summarizer). I don’t think the Assistant stuff makes sense for a search engine.

- the apparent lack of care for privacy that appears in the quotes in the blog posts are not good and I hope Vlad changes his mind and addresses that properly. Everyone needs privacy. Moreover, GDPR is no joke and it should be followed properly.

This is amazing! Thank you for sharing it.

It was a good idea to put a yellow balloon as the main subject and make it the only colored bit of the video, so that the eye focuses on it and not on the horribly deformed backgrounds that violate Euclidean space in just so many ways.

I guess there goes Affinity's only reason one might prefer them over Adobe. Personally, I use all their programs quite a bit (Photo, Designer, Publisher). I like them, but I don't think they're better than Adobe's offering. If they'll eventually shift to a subscription model, I guess I won't be interested in Affinity anymore, given their products are inferior.

Funny that he is now into… cryptocurrencies. The man has experience with bogus markets.

Because those companies chose to operate in the EU. Regulating its market is one of its main tasks, and certainly not a waste of time. That depends on the perspective. From the perspective of a company abusing its market dominance, it is indeed a pain. For the perspective of companies which are not dominant and consumers, it is really desirable for the EU to be active in this field.