Capitalism. I should have known. Thanks for the context!

I thought that honeybees were the last bees that we should be saving since they harm native bee populations, which are move vulnerable.

Especially in public life (government, etc), open source should be a default. The only exception I can think of is where there is no open source project serving a need but a proprietary one does.

But we need to go further than open source and practice ethical technology. If there is overlap between open source and evils like fascism and genocide*, then we are fostering an “open source” practice that serves the privileged.

*Microsoft, Google, etc

KDE host their code on GitLab too, for anyone avoiding GitHub.

I’ve started removing as many applications as possible that are hosted on GitHub, but if you ever move elsewhere I’ll check it out because it sounds good.

Thanks. Yeah I think if a company like Ecosia is involved it could be win-win. But if it’s another purely capitalist outfit then it’ll probably be business as usual.

I forgot about the paywall and assumed this was due to their international reputational damage, over things like their pro-Israel “reporting” of the occupations in Palestine.

That sounds clever. With a stewardship, a company without the obscene wealth that Google has could actually adopt a project normally out of their reach and influence it for good.

I wish the article went into more detail though.

That’s not psychologically true. We don’t classify mental health problems according to their effects on other people. And choice is usually not what it seems in the surface.

Microwaves are very energy heavy. This isn’t very reassuring at all.

As long as billionaires are campaigning to destroy it, there is no place for that comment you made.

I don’t like touch screens, or screens in general. I miss Minidisc so much. It was and is the absolute best for me.

The iPod with the click wheel would be my next choice but they’re too expensive now. CD cases were cumbersome, and when lined up it’s hard to read the spines. They skip too when I’m walking.

I’d go back to cassettes again if they were released to the same standard as back in the day (Dolby NR, etc). I like handling the cases and they look better lined up on a shelf.

I want to start using your “PBBM” instead of “LLM”.

For anyone who mightn’t know, tipping culture is rooted in slavery and exploitation. It existed in Europe to an extent but really spread its wings - like many awful European things - in the USA.

I support workers rights, but I don’t tip. The way I see it, if the place requires tips for their staff to get by, then the staff are being financially abused and I would be propping up a system of exploitation. Prioritise places that pay their staff above the minimum wage.

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I actually support telemetry for Mozilla, especially the way they’ve implemented it. But the other features look great and I don’t want anything to do with GitHub projects. Starred on Codeberg!

That is a profound and true statement.

Apparently not.

"How does Bridge compare to other privacy browsers?

Bridge goes beyond configuration changes by modifying Firefox at the source code level. This provides deeper privacy protections than browsers that only change settings."

I hope that trend continues. Codeberg is my homepage for the time being. I’m finding substitutes there.

I’ll check out Forgejo too, thanks for the recommendation!

Most of the applications I use host their code on GitHub. I’m actively looking for replacements for as many of them as possible, because it’s just immoral to participate with Microsoft, IMO.

But that’s a poor article. A more accurate headline might be “Concerns about GitHub’s parent company, Microsoft”. But that wouldn’t generate the same attention.