Yeah. Someone has to put in the work for packaging an application if you want it as a .deb/.rpm etc. package and deal with any bugs that might come up, and it’s not going to be me (speaking as a user, not a developer).

That said, I also painted myself into a corner when it comes to harddrive space. LUKS can be complicated, man …

I think Github is a relatively simple issue. There isn’t really a shortage of european (or just selfhostable) alternatives, and the way git works means that most contributors have complete local copies of the codebase. TBH I worry more about the ability of american contributors to continue working on a project if the code is hosted in europe - basically a lot of open source developer teams could end up being split or shut down entirely. And the bigger projects like Linux and a lot of the intermediate layers between the Linux kernel and applications are majorly backed and developed by american companies and their employees.

That was rather insightful. And I definitely need a primer on writing good commit messages, and possibly on what a good version control commit is in the first place.

And TIL you can actually use some kind of markdown in git commit messages!

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I’d assume that most governments (other than the US) don’t have easy access even if E2EE in WhatsApp etc. is a sham - these companies are definitely intent on keeping the pretense up, and smaller countries aren’t able to disprove it.

“cootie catcher programming” … ?

Rightwingers don’t usually care about whether immigrants have citizenship or not.

I’d like to point out that I’m european, not american - this is the opposite of calling each other hypocrites.

It’s not like most european countries are in a good position to justifiably point fingers here …

Did you ever try DuckDuckGo? According to Wikipedia:

Ecosia delivers a combination of search results from Yahoo!, Google,[6] Bing and Wikipedia.[5]
Advertisements are delivered by Yahoo! and Microsoft Advertising as part of a revenue sharing agreement with the company.[7]

That doesn’t really sound that different from ddg.

They aren’t wrong IMO - if you don’t do anything that requires a lot of processing power or really need a lot of slots for peripherals, PCI cards and drives, you might as well connect your external display, keyboard and mouse to a laptop. It gives you the option to take the entire thing with you, and a lot of people have spare laptops anyway.

I know plenty of people who don’t even use their laptop much because they’re doing everything on their phones or game consoles.

Mailbox.org already provides 3 different aliases even at the lowest tier, but I’ve already filled those with non-temporary aliases and I don’t really want to pay three times as much just for throwaway-aliases …

While we’re at it, anyone got a good site for temporary addresses that are basically used exactly once? And ideally don’t immediately get flagged as spam addresses.

I’ve been there for several years as well. Works great, and I get pretty much no spam.

At one point they offered “envelope with money sent via postal service” as an anonymous payment option, IDK if they still do that.

MS Word is essentially a monopoly, but that doesn’t mean that every detail of its features is worth copying - quite the opposite, actually. And again, why do you even want to automatically capitalize the first word after a line break that is not a proper sentence stop?

Or why LibreOffice is so stubborn on keeping the menu bar default instead of the ribbon-bar

AFAIK many users, especially those used to the old UI, dislike the ribbon design.

I found that LO doesn’t auto-capitalise first letter after line breaks but only after end of sentences, something Word has been doing as long as I can remember, LO argument is that only a . and ! characters mark the end of a sentence in “proper English”. line breaks don’t qualify as a proper end of a sentence for them.

Why would you even want that? It’s dangerous to change written text automatically, a lot of people will be annoyed because they wanted exactly what they wrote. Capitalizing after . or ? makes enough sense to automate it because of grammar rules, but there’s no hard-and-fast rule for capitalization after line breaks.

Why are you censoring “jerkoff”?

Düsseldorf could be translated as “Idiots Village”

It cannot. While “Dussel” is roughly “dumbass”, “Düssel” is an entirely different word (apparently an outdated term for the ‘roar’ of water). “u” and “ü” are different vowels in German.

I made a shell script titled “update”, it updates system packages, flatpaks and python packages. Too many lines for an alias for my tastes.

What about gun adverts? YouTube has a terrible track record for policing its advertising content.