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by fsflover 5mo ago
The real alternative is GNU/Linux phones.
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by fsflover 5mo ago
This is called enshittification. Business behaves like with with the lack of regulations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41277484
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by fsflover 5mo ago
By which measure is the Google's free AI better than the one at DuckDuckGo? Happy user of the latter.
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by fsflover 5mo ago
It should be illegal to mislead the users like this. The search terms weren't generic and didn't match anything.
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by fsflover 5mo ago
> weren't quite as good A lot of people keep saying this, and yet I never saw a reasonable example. Whenever DDG fails for me, the Google's results are even worse.
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by fsflover 5mo ago
Where did you find that?
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by fsflover 5mo ago
So your argument is basically "since it's not perfect, it shouldn't exist" aka Nirvana fallacy. Concerning doing your own research, are you reading all research paper on all topics in the world? Or do you sometimes r
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by fsflover 5mo ago
Please provide examples for "the most respectable wrong beliefs". Do you consider, e.g., the climate crisis as one?
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by fsflover 5mo ago
> Basically I think it's good if people stop trusting Wikipedia on contentious topics. Why? Is there a better source of information for those not able to spend years following all news from all sides?
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by fsflover 5mo ago
Links?
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by fsflover 5mo ago
Open source models don't exist. Open-weight ones do, which are more equivalent to freeware than free software.
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by fsflover 5mo ago
The problem does affect the US, which is why I mentioned a US organization. I don't see how the surplus affects anything. I don't believe they have enough funds for everything. EDRi is relevant for EU: https://edri.org&
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by fsflover 5mo ago
Why downvotes? Here is a relevant link: https://www.eff.org/issues/dmca
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by fsflover 5mo ago
How? All drivers are part of Linux and free software.
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by fsflover 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperTuxKart
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by fsflover 5mo ago
My 20-year-old laptop still runs latest Debian with all security and (optionally!) feature updates.
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by fsflover 5mo ago
How about PineNote?
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by fsflover 5mo ago
One way is to support https://eff.org or https://edri.org .
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by fsflover 5mo ago
Apple fans are arguing that simple, local apps require more resources, and it's normal: > Userspace apps spend more time paging and are slower. This is right in the current thread. In reality, both local apps and websites do not hav
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by fsflover 5mo ago
I am aware of them. This only proves my point that it is extremely rare.
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by fsflover 5mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27897975
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by fsflover 5mo ago
Your comment lacks any specifics. Can you elaborate?
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by fsflover 5mo ago
The Snowden revelations explain very well why we need the oversight and much more. They are relevant here.
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by fsflover 5mo ago
Bloat makes new software slower, not new features. This is confirmed by newer versions of Firefox or KDE that do not get as much slower as iOS, if at all.
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Goal shifting?
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by fsflover 5mo ago
It is relevant. I gave a counterexample, demonstrating that the software must not become much slower with improvements, unlike what Apple fans want to believe.
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by fsflover 5mo ago
The browser itself did not become slower. JS-heavy websites did. But a lot of other websites still work fine, including HN. This confirms that there is no need to make newer software slower. It's the bloat that makes software and websi
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by fsflover 5mo ago
You seem to be much behind the progress in LLMs. Modern ones provide correct, verifiable citations just fine.
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by fsflover 5mo ago
Some context: PureOS is convergent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19328085 Why FSF Endorsing PureOS Matters https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25504641
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by fsflover 5mo ago
And yet a smartphone running an FSF-endorsed distro does exist, so it's possible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librem_5 . Not free of firmware blobs though.

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