karma search? never heard about it…Aaaaannd it’s not available in my country.

cars will never be green. While cars have their use, we should limit the usage of 1 person per car.

This is a total capitulation. Trump said “jump!”, and we are saying “how high?”

‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’ - then fuck your girlfriend. How can you be in a relationship without trust?

I guess this is a win-win situation 🤩

org mode is king!

But then, what is it a master of?

It’s about master copy. You have a master copy, and you have the development copies that are a copy of the master which is where you make your changes.

If i had to guess, the problem is that people don’t know how to use git and develop in the master

It actually says what it does in the name without using the idea of racism and white supremacy.

The origin of the words blacklist and whitelist doesn’t have anything to do with racism. If someone looks around and only sees racism, then who is the racist?

master.

I grew up with master before the master nonsense. It’s ingrained in me. So i use that in my projects. Some projects i contribute use main, and i don’t give a fuck. It just fucks up my memory muscle - but nothing that an alias doesn’t solve.

EDIT: and btw, fuck github.

I don’t agree to ban it, since we would go stone age. But there should be incentives to use european alternatives.

This thread should be called “how kids get traumatized by school teachers causing them to hate school”

OP writes “instead of their american counterparts”, and then puts signal.

Firefox as well any opensource doesn’t have a country. You can build it and use it. Avoid any centralized service.

The 4 freedoms of software are:

Freedom 0: The Freedom to Run

    You can use the software for any purpose, without restrictions.

Freedom 1: The Freedom to Study and Modify

    You have access to the source code, allowing you to study how the software works and make changes to suit your needs.

Freedom 2: The Freedom to Distribute Copies

    You can share copies of the software with others, whether for free or at a cost.

Freedom 3: The Freedom to Improve and Share Improvements

    You can modify the software and share your changes with the community, helping others benefit from your improvements.

as long as these freedoms are observed it doesn’t matter the country of origin.

unfortunately for me, the ETF currency is USD.

This is the 3rd time, that i remember, that some german state moved to linux. It always ends up with moving back to windows, because:

• Corruption/money
• The users will complain until death about linux, because now the workflow is different, and they don’t like it.

And what metadata is Signal leaking?

We don’t know. We don’t have access to what’s running on their servers. (yes i know that the source code is available, but there’s no way to check if that’s the same thing running on the servers). And this is a problem for me: i have to trust a walled garden.

The government seizing an entire batch of amazon servers seems unrealistic

Usually the government goes there a just takes whatever is in the rack they want. Screw the legal business that are there. That’s what happened with the pirate bay raid. If the US government wants to shut it down. It just needs to knock on the amazon door.

the data would be encrypted anyway. Do they even store messages on servers, anyway?

The problem is that you have to trust them. You have to trust a chain of organizations based in the US. Signal pays millions (who pays for this? i have my doubts that monthly donations will pay for this forever) to amazon for the servers. So using them and sending them money is the same as giving money to amazon.

If you are fine with these risks, then use it. Better using signal than using messenger and whatsapp.

I register on reddit 17 years ago. Before the great migration from digg. I remember /r/programming being the first sub to reach 100k subscribers.

I got banned for saying in the /r/europe sub that russia banning youtube in russia was a good thing because then we in the west would get less russian propaganda. Got banned for a couple days. Left and never looked back.

/r/programming is dead already since around a decade. All the good discussions moved to hackernews and lobsters.

EDIT: never forget that spez admitted to silently edit user comments that criticized him

yes. Metadata. some protocols leak more info than the others.

Also servers in only one place (institution), only makes it easier for the government to go to that place and seize them.

Maybe add Signal; It’s easier than Element, but it’s also centralized

signal runs on amazon servers. Anything that can’t self host and isn’t federate isn’t worth it. Matrix (and element) fill this requirement. But IMHO, the best is XMPP where you can self-host or use federated servers located in other countries.

Maybe add Delta chat

Delta chat is basically email.

Remove Stremio

Why? Because it’s torrents?

Other alternatives would be viaplay or britbox. Unfortunately there’s no legal alternative that’s available in all europe.

Add aurora

Aurora is just a front-end for google playstore. You should add f-droid