In other news, I just tried Kubuntu in an older laptop a few weeks ago, and I’m pleasantly surprised. Superior to Windows in almost every way.

I don’t think it’s “ready for Grandma” yet, but pretty darn close.

Holy crap it’s a full-page ad!

Yes, because of Proton, I’m seriously considering dumping Microsoft now. My big holdup was my library of Steam games. I just found out about Proton a couple of weeks ago, and as it turns out, most of my games are pretty compatible.

I participate in Street Complete already. But I was interested in something more game-like.

I was thinking about the exact same thing! Open source, OSM mapping with a Pokemon-like travel and collection game. But I’m super busy in grad school at the moment, so I can’t do it. Just put the idea out into the universe for now.

There are PeerTube servers that allow a certain reasonable amount of content for free.

PeerTube is also a Fediverse service, and does the longer form videos, like YouTube. It mostly works fine; it just lacks content.

So, you’re being negative about an alpha release of someone’s hard work without checking it out first?

Sad to hear this news.

We’ll, uBlock 😎

Proton indeed looks like honeypot to me.

What makes you think that?

Genuinely asking, since I literally signed up for their paid email service earlier in the week.

Proton has labels & folders both.

They are in competition with Mastodon, and have a marketing budget.

Five years from now, those platforms will become enshittified as their budgets dry up. They will need to milk the users for revenue. Well see another surge in a few years, until they learn that Mastodon is actually better.

And then #2 will be copied by other people and AIs, becoming seen as fact.

And then #2 will be copied by other people and AIs, becoming seen as fact.

Russian cunts

Kinda repeating yourself here.

Brave’s CEO is so anti-gay, he dished out 4-figure checks to fight gayness.

I’m not a fan of that, and Brave has issues with being Chromium-based, like Vivaldi.

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Yeah, I do not think Python is a very good comparison.

I was thinking more like Clojure:

1. Enthusiastic and friendly geeks trying to push their language on the world trying to make it a better place. They are both definitely not a little cultish!
2. Language intended to be simple to learn with a limited and regular vocabulary, but can handle complicated work with ease.
3. They both say that learning their language will make your mind better able to do other languages.
4. A bridge between languages. Vanilla Clojure runs on the JVM and can invoke Java commands. But it has also been built on other platforms like JavaScript (ClojureScript), .NET (CLR), Python (Basilisp), BASH (Babashka), and others I think.
5. The parts of both languages can be broken up, mixed, and matched, and used for other parts. In Esperanto, the fundamental elements can be broken down and made into other words. In Clojure, you’ve got functions and lists - and higher order functions that work on functions and lists, and lists of functions, and functions of lists.
6. Did I mention: Friendly & welcoming geeks that lo-o-o-ove newbies! Seriously, both Clojure nerds and Esperanto nerds are unnaturally nice and would like to welcome you to the club. They’ve got tons of free resources for you to learn it.

Honestly, I think both are right. Both are simple languages that expand your way of thinking, and are probably both worth learning, if you’re into that sort of thing.

Bluesky seems to work better as an alternative.

Until they run out of VC money.

Then the enshittification happens, to pay the bills.