Both factors are related, I couldn’t find the article I was looking for but this one touches on it too. There’s a section for cell phones specifically

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galápagos_syndrome

The term “Galápagos syndrome” was originally coined to refer to Japanese 3G mobile phones, which had developed a large number of specialized features that were widely adopted in the Japanese market, but were unsuccessful abroad.[6][7] While the original usage of the term was to describe highly advanced phones that were incompatible outside of Japanese networks, as the mobile phone industry underwent drastic changes globally, the term was used to emphasize the associated anxiety about how the development of Japanese mobile phones and those in the worldwide economy went along different paths.

When a technology advances quickly and gets adopted in the local region (ex. Japan), it can be difficult to change when other parts of the world move forward with a different standard.

The opposite can also happen, where a region is slow to change and then haphazardly moves forward when the benefits are proven elsewhere. American payment systems for example

How long did Digg last with that again

Also, the poor and disadvantaged people are more likely to be outside / not in shelters.

https://www.thecanary.co/global/2026/03/15/apartheid-israel-reserves/

I get the proportionality bias, the feeling of wanting to make things even, and also the survey / voting record based statistics. I still feel that violence towards civilians will only cause more hurt down the road, and so we shouldn’t cheer it on. Regardless of which side inflicts it.

I don’t know if this news article is referring to civilians, I haven’t read it yet. My comment is specific to this comment chain

Disinformation is bad no matter which side it appears to be “helping”. It would be just as easy for the other side to intentionally spread disinformation on Wikipedia in order to discredit it.

Does it? I haven’t seen complaints about bricking, and limine should make it trivial to undo a bad update. It wouldn’t need a redownload

Also these stats aren’t based on downloads

I’m not familiar with Manjaro, what was wrong with it?

Limine is also a good reason for people who want the benefits of Arch but are worried about bad updates. Being able to rollback to an earlier snapshot in the boot menu is nice for new users

Why are they so hell bent on finding a reason to scan eyeballs

Ignoring how stupid this whole concept is, why is the payout based on news articles in the first place. Why would someone bet $900,000 in the future if it’s possible for someone to force a bet in their favor through threats.

It’s like betting on whether Schrodinger’s cat is alive or dead, but you can’t open the box and the payout is based on what different journalists say about it.

“The attempt by these gamblers to pressure me to change my reporting so that they would win their bet did not and will not succeed,” Fabian said. “But I do worry that other journalists may not be as ethical if they are promised some of the winnings.”

He said that journalists are in a unique position to “exploit their knowledge for insider trading on the platform.”

A few months later it is then

Thank you!

I was curious about what parts of it felt alpha, whether it’s the power user features vs basic browsing.

I’ll just try it later and report back 😄

Well that’s not great :(

Using it very briefly I’d say it’s more like Alpha currently…

Is it usable as a daily browser, or should I wait a few more months before trying it out?

Edit: see the reply on my comment

I’m not sure if I understood this criticism. The Reddit thread links to this page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20251203060750/https://kagi.com/changelog#5340

Our image search became even better with the inclusion of two more sources: Yandex Image Search (widely recognized as one of best image search services) and Openverse (vast collection of openly licensed images). Kagi is doing the hard work so that you don’t have to.

Are they financially supporting or sponsoring Yandex in some other way?

To me, this sounds like they added the option to run an image search on Yandex? I use a browser extension for image searches that has a number of options including Google, Bing, Yandex, Baidu, Sogou, etc., and users are free to choose which ones they want to try searching on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/search_by_image/

I also remember seeing Bellingcat (who has done excellent investigative reporting on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine) using Yandex tools to gather information because it has information on the region that other English/Chinese focused tools don’t.

I don’t doubt that Yandex tries to manipulate information in favor of the government in Russia. Rather with the right browser protections, someone can take advantage of their free tools and cost Yandex money without Yandex benefiting from it. It’s not necessarily a bad thing for Kagi to let people do that?

Neat :D

That’s not the only feature: if you place a file named .XCompose in your home directory, you can add custom combinations! So, if I want to send a heart, I can just hit Compose < 3 and I will get a ♥. Besides emoji, I also find myself often looking up various arrows and punctuation: now I can simply hit Compose - > and get a nice → arrow quickly.

From what I remember, they were going to “use AI” to handle moderation. It felt like a grift from the beginning

We have mandatory paid sick days, and while it’s not quite the same thing, it does simplify things for the workers. Instead of a patchwork of different laws and workplace rules that might let some people fall through the cracks, everyone knows that they have X number of days that they can use (with documentation). That’s what I thought the other user was referring to

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/employment-business/employment-standards-advice/paid-sick-leave

Fingerprint readers and touchscreens can be hit or miss for Linux support.

I think this is a list of supported readers. When you get a shortlist of devices you want to purchase, compare its fingerprint reader with this list: https://fprint.freedesktop.org/supported-devices.html

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Do the senior engineers NOT sign off on changes to systems that can take down the production servers? Even if we take out the LLM created code, this sounds like a bigger problem

If you want a version of this community that excludes company/legal/legislation news, there’s !tech@programming.dev