I don’t have a problem with them selling ads. I have a problem with the insidious tracking that has become a part of those ads. Mojeek sells ads but doesn’t track you everywhere. Also, there’s SearX instances, which typically don’t sell ads or data.

They also don’t use LLMs. If you think Kagi isn’t giving away or selling your data, think again, because the LLM is doing it as a core function.

This would seem to fall in line with current foreign policy. Should we be surprised?

I’m not a fan of Kagi’s approach to anything, frankly. The fact that they’re charging money for a search engine, and using an LLM? Hard pass.

And your suggestion is instead… what? Exactly what the worst of them want to do to others? And you’ll tar the people who aren’t 100% evil bastards with the same brush?

No. Forgiveness, support, and education are the only way forward. It’s not about what we did when we ‘reintegrated’. It’s about the fact that when we did, we still denied them federal funds, no one set out to build industries or safe jobs for the average people, and no one made any effort toward education in the south. And, might I add, no one actually gave a damn about the racial tensions, except in those rare cases where they were affected. Instead of trusting that churches will handle it, acknowledge that they’ll turn into cults - look at how many literal cult groups there are in the southern USA when they were the only community support or education. Instead of saying “eh, you’ll figure it out”, realize that no, the average people will not. They’ll continue to be screwed over like they’ve always been.

Educate. Integrate. Yes, demand better of them, but give them the tools to become better.

The American Empire is in a weak state right now because of who’s in charge. We have only two ways of getting it back - an incredibly massive investment into global soft power, or a disturbing investment into forcing our hard power. Since that’s the problem we face, we’re even more in need of each other. We need to integrate for real, to acknowledge, defuse, and support. Because I’ll tell you something. I live in NJ. I love cities, and I get unnerved outside of a city on the scale of NY/NJ. My needs and my lifestyle are totally different from those of a person in a rural community. But we need leaders who want to support both - and not people who want to hurt either fellow Americans or foreign people.

Sadly I’m in US East, I don’t remember the name of our server.

I miss The Specialists.

This might be more effective if he was also listed as a pediatrician rather than “just” a pastor. Pastors are not publicly accredited or licensed to practice (the 1st Amendment actually makes that impossible). It’s more impactful to state that a licensed doctor is saying that.

Writing a good text editor is something to be proud of, so that’s awesome!

I don’t use any version of Commander on this machine, and I don’t plan to. I used the original from Norton back in the day, but when Windows 3 hit, I used Norton Desktop to improve it (basically into what Win95 became), and never looked at a Commander interface again - if I want two side-by-side directories, I have a windowing system. I’ve tried emacs and vim briefly and they’re well beyond what I’m ever looking for. geany is an option, but gedit seems to be doing the job. I’ve never heard of kate before this thread, I’ll have to look it up. Never looked at nano, but I heard of it.

Based on the interface and what I’ve needed it for, gedit works, and so does Sublime Text. Honestly, Notepad++ was/is my third-most-used text editor on Windows, behind M$ Edit (I have FreeDOS Edit in DOSBox) and M$ Notepad (replaced with xed, except the .LOG function, which is sorely missed). Npp is the one I use for editing HTML/XML, Excel functions, the odd Excel macro; and subtitle files, transcripts, and scripts (where line numbers matter and I need fixed-length lines). FocusWriter is #4 on both OSes.

Everything in the world is propaganda or advertising. You have a choice to believe it or not.

Fair enough :-)

Yeah. I’m actually kind of upset that I have to type ‘noai’. That should be the standard.

Honestly, I think gedit might be the best play.

Some of the worst slumlords NYC ever saw.

They can’t backtrack from this. If they even try, they shouldn’t be allowed to. They’ve betrayed every ounce of morality Mozilla was founded with. This is what they’ve been since there were executives, since there was a corporation and not a non-profit community foundation. This is what they’ve been since they took money from the enemy they should have been fighting to destroy in order to make the internet a freer place.

I never remember Mozilla Corp not being awful, no. I remember them screwing up the Foundation’s work. I remember the moment the execs came in, that they ruined it. I remember that they took money from DoubleClick knowingly to become the controlled opposition. I remember that they made such a crazy rewrite of the code that it made jwz leave - and then they did it again just a few years later because DoubleClick told them to. Gotta have the controlled opposition follow the madcap “release” schedule instead of being on a responsible schedule and using meaningful versioning, after all.

And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold. The din of a million keyboards like unto a great storm shall cover the earth, and the followers of Mammon shall tremble. from The Book of Mozilla, 3:31 (Red Letter Edition)

DoubleClick and the company it cancerously infected is also a follower of Mammon.

The only way I interact with Wine is through Bottles, honestly. It just doesn’t seem worth the trouble to go through all that for a text editor.

I’m a Mint user, because I don’t want to use Windows 11, and I realized that about 95% of what I was doing on Win10 was FOSS. The only thing I miss is Notepad++.

Anything that I care about enough for that is related to one of four things:

1. Broken tech.

2. Software or systems insufficient to the need, which stand in the way of either operations or profit (usually both).

3. Directly involved with vendor or client ops, and needs to be fixed for operations to continue.

4. Billing problems for clients or vendors which I cannot resolve on my own.

Everything else, I can send an email or ask in a channel, rather than a private IM.

Sorry but no. If it’s asynchronous and I don’t need a response in a short time, I’ll email you. If I say something on Slack to a person, and don’t get a response in a short timeframe (~5 minutes), I go to someone else - whether that’s a coworker or a manager. And when I get told, “you’ll have to ask [unresponsive]”, I say, “Oh, I tried to reach out to them, they didn’t respond. Can you reach out and see if they’re available?”

That way, I’ve gotten somewhere closer to my answer, and I’ve put another person on the scent of the unresponsive one.

Until there’s a physical product on shelves, I don’t trust that it’s not vaporware.