I am all in favor for spreading donations across many - especially smaller - projects. I think that there are two levels to donations:

• The monetary one. Donating helps fund development either by paying for a full-time dev or by helping the dev stay financially stable to do a bit less work hours so they have time for the project.
• The psychological one. Most people that publish their code online are not expecting this to become big. And when a stranger from the internet appreciates their code enough for a donation this is a huge motivational factor.

I even tend to think that donating 5€ more to GIMP is less valuable than giving the money to some random project.

Interesting read!

Thank you for putting in this amount of effort highlighting some shortcomings of the Fediverse

YT links without post body? Not clicking on that. This is not helpful for discussion, just kinda spam.

But Linux consists of more than 1 GUI?

as a predictive load for evening daily swing

What do you mean by that?

Not sure. Couldn’t the bots just decrypt it the same way?

Ahhh, didn’t read to the end. Hm. Still not convinced. I don’t want captchas etc to use the internet

Lmao

While I’m at it, what is the community opinion on NoScript? The first few weeks were a bit of a pain, but now it is actually quite convenient.

I read about one. Let me see if I can still find it…

Edit: I can’t.

Thanks for your reply! Is the web annoyances list better than the built-in one in uBO. Should I disable the standard one?

OnlyOffice vs LibreOffice?

W

You can pay via Crypto/bank transfer and probably with cash soon.

The Discord thing is a valid point.

I don’t agree on the trust part with you. EVERY SOFTWARE we use boils down to trust. Because let’s be honest, we all don’t read the source code. (most of the time)

And finally there are downsides to such messages: Where do they stop? If someone searches for how to suicide, they should be getting relevant information for their query. Overall, I thought that if you find all the aforementioned things bad, you might like this one. From a liberal perspective, this is great.

Weeeeeird, I asked him on Mastodon, let’s see what he says.

From the linked source (2023), which I assume you can understand as a German speaker:

4. Fazit

Insgesamt hinterlässt Brave einen durchwachsenen Eindruck. Die Voreinstellungen des Browsers sind nicht ideal. […]

Unklar bleibt, ob man zur A/B-Testgruppe gehört und welche Daten dabei an die Domain »variations.brave.com« fließen. Ebenfalls fragwürdig ist die Abfrage von Affiliate-Domains über die Domain »laptop-updates.brave.com«.

Passt man die Voreinstellungen an und installiert keine weiteren Add-ons, hat man einen Chromium-Ableger, der offenbar keine Verbindungen zu Google initiiert, aber dennoch unnötige Verbindungen beim Start aufbaut. So ganz passt die Außendarstellung bzw. das Versprechen zum Schutz der Privatsphäre nicht zum tatsächlichen Verhalten in der Praxis.

Can you link to where he says he uses Brave? Maybe I’m wrong here, but this seems sceptical.

More quotes:

In der Empfehlungsecke findet ihr einige Suchmaschinen, die ich für empfehlenswert halte. Brave Search gehört nicht dazu.

Ich erhalte oftmals die Frage, weshalb ich den Brave-Browser nicht empfehle und wieso ich nicht am Brave-Rewards-Programm teilnehme. Zunächst einmal basiert der Browser auf Chrome – das genügt für mich schon, um einen möglichst weiten Bogen darum zu machen. […] Als datenschutzsensibler Nutzer verzichte ich darauf gerne. Auch das »Werbekonzept« finde ich wenig überzeugend.

(I really don’t want to be toxic, but at least the Mike Kuketz talk is you spreading misinformation)

Mike Kuketz called Brave ambivalent and saif that their outward presentation does not match the Browsers behaviour

BTW, another argument is: Don’t use Chromium-based browsers, browser engine diversity is important for an open web.

To be fair, at this point it is LaTeX or raw txt.

idk, this seems like a 99 IQ strat

GPT-4 is for Ultimate users ($25/month). The “weaker” models like GPT-3.5 will be rolled out for Pro users($10/month) in the next few weeks.

PS: FastGPT+ Summarizer exist as well, but this was not what I was talking about. Those are both somewhat limited AI tools, the GPT thing is the full blown access