In the EEA, much more is on the way:

Bing's web search from the Start menu and the Edge browser can be uninstalled Third parties can add to the Windows Widgets Board feeds Third parties, like Google or DuckDuckGo, can provide the built-in web search results that Bing once had exclusively Windows users who choose to sync their Microsoft accounts will have their pinned apps and preferences synced, seemingly keeping their EEA-enabled choices Windows will now "always use customers' configured app default settings for link and file types"

Good to see Microsoft just blatantly confirming that these are anti-competitive measures rather than any sort of technical limitation.

As a reminder, you can always just uninstall OneDrive and call it a day.

Until Microsoft takes that option away as well....

"Open source is free if you don't value your time." (forgot who that quote is from)

Sometimes the time investment is small, but especially for complex software, the friction of switching from one imperfect (proprietary) software to another imperfect (open) software makes it not really make much sense unless the issue is severe (house is half destroyed).

The study is from 2018, and I wasn't able to locate the original source from searching. Also, from the author's bio:

Ph.D. Rocket Surgeon & Aspiring Troglodyte

The Hacker News discussion also does not inspire confidence....

The FBI recommends using an ad-blocker for this very reason.

On the one hand, having an AI generated alt-text on the client side would be much better than not having any alt-text at all. On the other hand, the pessemist in me thinks that if it becomes widely available, website makers will feel less of a need to add proper alt-text to their content.

Increasing capacitance (how much charge is stored to reach a certain voltage) or the voltage it is charged to would indeed increase the capacity. Putting several in parallel would work, as would making a bigger capacitor. The main problem as far as I can tell is that the energy density of even supercapacitors is low, so you'd need a much larger volume to have the same capacity (and thus a much thicker phone).

F-Droid doesn't usually remove apps that aren't maintained, as far as I can tell. There are apps that haven't been updated in over a decade (Quill). Since F-Droid sorts by recency of release, they tend to just sink to the bottom of searches anyway.

Not PeerTube, but he is on Odysee/LBRY.

Alexandria and Stract use their own open source crawlers. Brave is also independent, if I recall correctly.

Although you have good intentions, writing your own license is probably not a good idea without adequate legal advice/background.

Firefox uses Marian, if I recall correctly.

I can understand why installing the wrong part should give a warning, but the IDs are unique to the part, not the model of part, so even identical parts are not interchangable.

If I had a nickel for every FOSS project creator named Andreas who rejects the neutral they....

Is there a picture of what this actually looks / would look like? Honestly, although it is going down a bad path, it isn't actually all that surprising. Firefox already has sponsored address bar suggestions by default.

Amarok has support for managing music on iPods. Rockbox is an alternate operating system which doesn't use the iPod's database, and instead does its own indexing.

It's so easy to switch to Edge, you don't even have to try! Literally!

Microsoft Edge is actually good, so I sure hope the team building it isn’t about to resort to more tricks to get Chrome users to use it.

Given Microsoft's track record....

JS is first-party only, but as a PSA, Lemmy does not proxy images, so for someone could use ![](https://example.com/tracker.png), and loading the comment will contact example.com.

It's like B, C, D, V, R in programming.... If Reddit took X++ and someone else took X#, the unsearchable name trifecta would be complete!

Minetest and Mindustry are two of my favourites. It's a bit complicated to find a good combination of Minetest mods though.

As far as I can tell, the main problem with such a fork is that it must be maintained. A fork wont survive if nobody has the time, interest, and skill to keep it working, especially since with Lemmy there is compatibility with other instances to be considered.

However, even without a fork of Lemmy itself, there are things that can be independently developed. Since Lemmy has an API, people can and have implemented features such as infinite scrolling in their own clients or forks of the official UI.

Anyone have recommendations for non-male youtubers? My YouTube subscriptions are pretty much all men, from gaming, to education, to music.... The few non-male YouTube channels have very infrequent uploads, which makes my subscription feed even further skewed.

This sounds neat, but it also seems like it does not have much practical advantage over hibernation except faster wake.

DDG's AI chat isn't a search engine. It's just a chat interface for GPT-3.5 Turbo and Claude, without any search access. It's also not very up to date.

GPT-3.5 Turbo:

Who is the PM of the UK?

As of my last update, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is Boris Johnson. Please note that political positions can change, so I recommend checking the latest news sources for the most up-to-date information.

Is Queen Elizabeth still alive?

Yes, as of my last update, Queen Elizabeth II is still alive.

The Claude version doesn't fare any better:

Is Queen Elizabeth still alive?

Yes, Queen Elizabeth II is still alive. She is the current and longest-reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, having ascended to the throne in 1952. As of 2023, she is 96 years old.

WINE and Proton are great, but it really depnds on what programs in particular are needed. Even one unsupported application can be a dealbreaker when no alternatives exist or are acceptable substitutes.

While I don't disagree, it is possible that Kling picked up the writing style of he/him for unspecified gender. Kling is Swedish, and Swedish only recently made their gender neutral pronoun official. On the English side, it seems he/him for unspecified gender started getting pushed in the 1800s, though I can't find info on when they/them regained usage.

If you mean the IzzyOnDroid one:

The app uses Sentry, which is enabled by default and sends reports to Sentry.io.

(Not the person you replied to)

Windows has issues, but so does Linux. My personal experience with Fedora (Silverblue) has been fairly good with minimal hassle (Gnome Software breaks sometimes with auto updates, but is leaps and bounds ahead of the Synaptic days). However, someone using other hardware, another distro, or using other software might have a lot more problems to contend with.

There's a lot of case-by-case nuance that in my opinion makes broad switch from A to B recommendations less meaningful than discussing the pros and cons and letting people decide on their own whether Linux could be useful for them.

The unattended updates just mean you don't have to sit through and manually click the second install popup for every update. They come in handy even when F-Droid doesn't have automatic updates enabled.

Email subscriptions also sometimes have that, with bonus points for several vague and similar sounding categories, and emails not mentioning what category they're in.

Building adblock into the browser could enable better countermeasures for adblock detection, but uBlock Origin's filters usually work fine in my experience. Hiding that adblock is being used is essentially just an arms race between adblock detectors and ad blockers.

My opinion is that bots should be classed by how they operate.

Summoned bots should be mostly free of restriction. If it needs someone to explicitly summon it, then the onus is on them to not needlessly summon bots. Requiring explicit

Keyword/auto-summon bots should at a minimum be required to implement easy user/community/instance opt-out. I think the most viable would be allowing auto-summon only when explicitly allowed by the user, community, or instance, but allow them to reply to manual summons without restrictions.

So how it would work is if someone had a bot that would, for example, post Nitter links in response to Twitter links, it would be allowed to:

• Respond to @nitterbot@example.com
• Respond on posts by someone who's indicated they want the bot to auto-reply to their posts
• Respond to posts on a community that allows the bot to do so

Interestingly, the OSI seems to argue that noncommercial is a violation of the 6th clause, rather than the 1st or 5th.

Flatpak does try to account for storage size by using shared base images. The main problem is that some Flatpak apps don't update to the latest base, and some use different base images altogether, meaning most of the time it needs to have several bases anyway.

Invidious and NewPipe/Piped aren't affected as far as I know, since they use YouTube's internal APIs directly. They're mostly only affected by changes to the API itself, and IP ratelimits/blocks.

To be fair, the TL;DR would be a lot shorter if the breaks between sentences were removed. I personally draw the line at around 200 words for a summary, so the 183 words in the summary is a bit long but still a reasonable TL;DR for an article.

Since Lemmy implements spoiler tags, I think wrapping the summary in a spoiler tag would be a way to solve the length problem.

As long as you stay off of any .onion sites, there won't be any difference w.r.t. dark/deep web access. If a domain doesn't end in .onion, then it can be accessed with a regular web browser anyway.

since we're on the FOSS community, I'd recommend using Ungoogled Chromium since Vivaldi isn't fully open source.

Firefox has a kiosk mode using a cli flag, which if I recall correctly also prevents exiting fullscreen (though they can still close Firefox, or follow links off-site).

Are there any search engines other than perplexity that tie the sources to sections rather than just popping them all at the bottom? That always felt like the most practical layout for being able to easily cross-check information against their supposed sources.