The main point that will convince them is the decimal point in your donation check. There needs to be at least 5 or 6 digits to the left of it.

That’s from 4 days ago. Has something changed more recently?

They say various things in the other comments. I agree with most of the criticisms.

Command line mplayer seems fine to me. I have it aliased to “m” for convenience. Playlists work great (just make a shell script to play the songs you want). Need help getting to sleep? Shell script that sets the volume to barely audible, then plays some long instrumental audios. And so on.

Yeah, as a bunch of other people have said, the idea is good but the implementation is dubious. Khan Academy does allow downloading though: https://www.khanacademy.org/downloads

Too much AI, too much Internet dependence, need a complete distro including all data with single click install from USB stick and no downloading. IDK if Khan Academy even allows that.

Wtf, and E2EE and honeypot don’t necessarily conflict. Especially since monitoring traffic to the centralized servers tells you who is talking to who. Knowing what they are saying to each other (which is all that encryption prevents) is often less important.

I doubt that Signal is literally a CIA honeypot but it does seem to have some conflicts of interest.

You can’t have it both ways.

Of course I can. Jitsi Meet lets you do it both ways. I don’t know if Nextcloud has an official hosted server but they could if they wanted. I use it self-hosted and it works, the Talk app is just not very good. Jami uses a DHT instead of a centralized server which is another approach, though it might be part of its flakiness. Linphone (a regular VOIP client, not a secure chat thing) is set up by default to point to Linphone’s own SIP servers but you can change that in Settings. No reason Signal can’t do similar. Heck, even Lemmy works that way (you choose your server).

Signal is simply being evil and your defending them is unconvincing. I could opt to self-host Signal and build a special client for my users, at the cost of hassle for everyone but no serious technical drawbacks. Signal chooses to create that hassle because they want to funnel users through their servers, not incidentally collecting metadata about ALL the user conversations.

There’s actually a configurable Signal client called Amanda or something like that, though I haven’t tried it. Someone here mentioned it last time this came up.

Also, Signal’s own client isn’t on F-droid, which raises more potential questions. I haven’t cared enough to look into it.

Added: oh re Nextcloud, I see what you mean, account creation is an obstacle, though that could be handled like Hipchat used to. You could generate a randomized URL to invite someone to your private chat without their needing an account. Nextcloud has that too, though just for file access, not for chat for some reason. Come to think of it, Signal could also work that way: it shouldn’t need accounts at all.

When I’ve invited people to my Nextcloud I’ve just enrolled the account for them myself and told them “please log in with username X password Y”.

I’m put off by the centralized server. I’d want to self host without having to build a special client, something like nextcloud. That the company chose to prevent that gives me a bad impression. So I haven’t been using it so far.

I’ve played with GNU Jami a little but it was flaky when I tried it last year. Maybe it’s better now.

Thanks for 50 years of consumer CPUs not supporting ECC memory, Intel.

I dunno, clones can think creatively. You will find them immensely superior to droids.

Can someone explain what this is?

What do you mean by large? For up to a few hundred the typical orchestration tools like puppet, ansible etc. are likely enough. Plus you need monitoring. The old school system was nagios. IDK what the cool kids use now.

For 1000+ servers you probably have to know what you’re doing, and you’ll have gotten the knowledge from running smaller clusters. I get the impression that this is the level where Kubernetes starts to be worth the complexity, but I haven’t dealt with it myself.

Is this the reason for the recent webview APK update?

Manjaro itself is basically a fork of Arch, I thought. I’m not sure what its attraction is supposed to be, but I’ll take your word for it. I similarly don’t understand the attraction of Ubuntu over Debian.

I wonder if it can also convert binaries. Put a copy of Oracle through it and watch the shenanigans.

Also wonder whether they can generate movies the same way. Put in a DVD and a completely new movie comes out, with the same plot, characters, etc., but with all the names and dialogue changed and the actors are replaced by deepfakes that look different.

Fwiw look up “derived work”.

Never change, Mozilla. Oh wait.

But why? Just pick a new name and fork, if there’s something worth preserving in the distro contents. I don’t understand what the something is though.

They can’t help themselves.

Paypal and/or Stripe? Paypal sucks but it has a web UI. You can get a deposit backed credit card without much hassle too, though the fees are high.