Supporting on GitHub. Just a few bucks a month. It won't take many of us to get to $175/mo.

We need a competitor badly.

I do pony up for other services (not YT Premium because I won't give Google any money) and support a significant number of creators via Patreon, giving them more money by far than they'd ever see from me from ads. And I've spent thousands of hours on my own dime making written content and giving it away for nothing with no ads or tracking. So yes, I agree.

If my ISP starts throttling my traffic, I'll just switch to one of the zero other providers in my area.

Related: Internet Archive hosts zillions of abandoned games. Publishers are currently trying to sue it out of existence. They accept donations.

I've been editing OSM for years. (896,339 edits in 3,427 changesets, apparently!) For me, it's all about the free data. I once got a thank you note from someone who worked for a city with a particularly large municipal park. I'd added almost all the trails to the park and other information, and they'd used it to produce a printed map for the general public. Exactly the kind of thing I'd hoped for!

Personally, I do a lot of dualsport motorcycling and most backcountry maps around here are subpar. I map tons of trails and 2track and put them on the Garmin so I know where I'm going.

OSM is also great in lots of Europe--tons of detail.

JOSM is great.

Someone just recommended Organic Maps for the phone--it's way snappier than Google Maps, but still not great with finding addresses.

I'm on the "OK but keep an eye on it" train, here.

Devs need feedback to know how people are using the product, and opt-out tracking is the best way to do it. In this case, it seems like my personal data is completely unidentifiable.

I was coding in the IE6 era, so I'd really prefer to not end up in a browser engine monoculture again.

I had the same experience moving from GIMP to Photoshop. 😂

My simple home page is 10 KB now. And you might not think that's such a big deal, but it has more content than Google's search page and that rings in at a couple MB IIRC. 😁

I used to give Google money for services (Drive and YouTube), but I've already stopped doing that because of their evil ways. This just hammers it home that much more.

Edit: The shitty part is what a cool company it used to be. And to watch it destroy itself like this is just sad.

Firefox does something else very important: provide another rendering engine for the web. When that landscape homogenizes, you get IE6 all over again. And we never want to go back there.

I think most billionaires have a bit of their brain set to believe in themselves rather more than is warranted. It's great for making money, but maybe not something you want to put your life on the line over.

Turns out if you get rid of ads and the algorithm, you end up back in the land of sanity.

the coveted green bubble messaging

I guess some people just have different priorities than I do. :)

"Unless you give us all your money to put in our new bank, we might be facing insolvency issues."

I love that this project is still going. I rarely use it, but it's going to be instrumental in preserving tons of Windows abandonware.

Amen. When people talk about how Reddit or Twitter will always be bigger, I say, "Let them be bigger." What we have out here is fantastic just the way it is. In a global world, "small" is still millions of people.

I played quite a bit of solo mineclone2/voxelibre. Really good stuff with a surprisingly short wishlist on my part.

It's silly, but one of my favorite things is that it fires up the launcher in under a second. Reminds me of when software wasn't bloated halfway to hell. 😁

Yes, for storage, if we coordinated enough. Such technologies already exist. But IA also does tons of archival work that isn't so easily distributed. And their lending system isn't easily legally federated.

Louis Rossmann: "when the pirate experience is better than the paid experience, you have a problem."

That's not illegal, though. (All of us save copies of copyrighted media.) It's the distribution that's in question.

The law is contrary to the interests of The People and needs to change.

It's difficult to compute the additional world domestic product that was created due to vim, to compute the impact one person had on... everything.

A very sad day.

It is very unlikely there is customer confusion over the matter. Though both companies are in tech, they are in wildly different branches of tech. I don't think X.org has a valid trademark complaint in this case.

Amen. This was what stopped me from paying Google anything. Canceled premium, moved off drive, off Gmail. It's unethical to give them money or watch their ads. The company needs to fail.

The real problem with the internet isn’t Facebook or Twitter or Reddit, it’s the fact the entire experience is pretty much controlled by Microsoft and Google. As they shape your content, lock you out of areas and generally dictate what’s “legal” or even what gets found during your searches.

I agree the Google and MS are a problem, but Facebook, Twitter, Reddit are also a problem, albeit a different one.

I genuinely wonder if Facebook notices a $100k/day fine.

I asked candidates to bring me some code they were proud of and teach me how it worked. Weeded out people really quickly and brought quality candidates to the top. On two separate occasions we hired devs with zero experience in the language or framework and they rocked it. Trythat with your coding interview, eh? 🙂

I have an old brother laser I've refilled by hand a couple times. But when it dies I might just use the 5¢ printer at the library for the few print jobs I need.

Every time I find a site like this, I assume the programming is bad and the security is poor. (They don't know how to sanitize input? They don't know how to hash passwords?) It's a good reason to use random passwords on every site for when that one is compromised.

I started using one of the userspace oom killers a while ago and have been much happier. Instead of the system becoming unresponsive, suddenly Slack just dies. It's great.

I was a premium subscriber for a long time, and probably still would be if Google hadn't turned so evil that I can no longer in good conscience pay them any money.

But what pushed me over the edge with an ad blocker was a page I got to where every paragraph had a video ad in between. That was it.

Definitely. And your best self wants to buy these fantastic products.

Agree--keep off. Meta can just build their own Twitter.

Use the right tool for the job, I say.

I made a decent chunk of change with capitalism. I have a modest house and am well positioned for a middle-class retirement.

Now I work for the government in a field for which I find the capitalist options wanting.

I give away my programming guides for free online with no ads, but sell paper copies of the books for profit.

Could I make more money by charging for the online versions? Sure. But some things are worth more than money.

The quest for money doesn't ruin everything, but it sure ruins a lot of things.

Bell Labs of yore would be my dream company to work for.

When I needed Windows for a piece of software, I ran Windows on another computer. Later I got into a position where I didn't need to use that software. 😁

Another option occurs to me: maybe Norway knows Facebook won't care and just smells a way to make an easy $9,000,000. 😁

Unix has been my favorite dev platform since I first used it 30 years ago. I'm typing this on a Mac, which also does just fine. But I'm happiest on my Linux box. Even WSL was OK, but the bloat of Windows overpowers the hardware. My Linux daily driver is a 9-year-old laptop that couldn't handle Windows any longer.

What a nightmare. Not sure how the Russian people get out from under this. I'm still pretty scared about the chances of similar laws in the US.

It should never be illegal to link to a thing. To host illegal content, sure, that should be illegal. But making it illegal to say where some thing, legal or not, is located is asking for all kinds of trouble.

I switched to Aegis when google authenticator didn't allow exports. It's simple and it works.