Doesn’t have to be intelligent, just has to perform the behaviours like a philosophical zombie. Thoughtlessly weighing patterns in training data…

Your freedom is in the (theoretical) ability run your own instance and communities on it if you disagree with or have been banned from other instances. And your instance can federate with whomever will allow it.

Communities also want freedom – to be organized and run the way they want to be, and to be free from being hijacked or shit on uncontrollably by randos, bad actors, or even (defined by themselves) undesirables.

It’s not perfect. But you sometimes have to consider a bigger picture than just your personal freedom, to make things a free as practically possible.

Is this related to the rhetorically classic Tua Mater defence?

Hard to find non-biased info about this, but it appears to be about doxxing? Public info is claimed, but that has to be investigated.

There is a general perception now with many in the US and even more among the US’s partners that the US government is now actively regressive, making life more difficult for most of its citizens and partners, and indeed the world. China, despite its shortcomings, is mostly seen as making progress at raising living standards, moving more towards being environmentally responsible, and as a stable and predictable partner.

Whatever the complicated on the ground realities, these are some of the ways that make China currently seem to look better too many. Since you ask.

Tax wealth, not work

I also can’t find releases on mobile. I see a bunch of f-froid publishing stuff at bottom or readme. Doesn’t seem to be on f-froid now, but maybe will show up there eventually.

“The Only Good Indians” by Stephen Graham Jones. Watch out for deer. You never know.

Archaeologist Flint Dibble covered this, interviewing the actual archaeologist who works with this stuff. She definitely has ideas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps7lpR7nL5I

I like the plant

Been with VoIP.ms a long time. So long that I don’t really know what alternatives are out there. It works for me. I’ve never required any support though, so not sure about your activation issue.

Misleading headline wording. Makes it seem one thing lead to the other, rather than reality being the other way around.

Aves is really good. Used Simple Gallery Pro for years and it was great. But switching to Aves is painless for me.

AppStream makes machine-readable software metadata easily accessible. It is a foundational block for modern Linux software centers, offering a seamless way to retrieve information about available software, no matter the repository it is contained in. It can provide data about available applications as well as available firmware, drivers, fonts and other components. This project it part of freedesktop.org.

It works in the current Firefox for Android beta version.

Interesting perspective. Maybe you could find some good articles with more nuance to post?

There are a few attempts things like this. Here is one… https://fedi.directory

the /usr/bin/krunner executable is owned by the plasma-workspace package. It has a lot of dependencies. So yeah, you basically need a huge chunk of kde/plasma to run it.

A pretty similar Qt-based launcher utility (not quite so good in some areas, possibly better in some) is called albert, if you don’t want to use plasma anymore.

Maybe check out Pop! OS

But, yes, nearly all linux software will run on any distro. And even a fair amount of windows software will run on any of them with WINE (or VirtualBox if desperate). Occasionally commercial software will get packaged in an “installer” format a particular distro doesn’t know how to install. A fairly rare situation, for which there are almost always work-arounds. You can cross that bridge if you ever encounter it.

Never heard of Readwise. Interesting concept.

Not going to be nearly as convenient, but you can use google lens (part of Google assistant I think, or stand alone app) to quickly OCR a page into selectable text which then could be copied into a notes app or something. You’d have manually add a reference.

Anyhow maybe you can figure out a workflow using Google lens for the OCR copy/past part, that isn’t too onerous, if no other solutions appear. Let us know! .