I was half-asleep when I wrote this, lol. Bitbucket dropped Mercurial recently, too. Sourcehut is the only other code forge I know of that supports hg which I really love. Kind of sets a high bar for contributions, but not being vendor locked in is a bonus. And I wish they'd more tightly integrate the subdomains...
I know this is probably tongue-in-cheek, but if you wanted the serious answer:
GIMP:
- Non-destructive Editing (it's coming real soon!)
- Vector shapes, not bitmap
- Smart objects
- Full CMYK support
- Full PSD support (for collaboration purposes), hahaha
- KILL ALL FLOATING SELECTIONS
Kdenlive:
Well, I actually do use Kdenlive. I'm fine with Lightworks too, and Resolve on macOS. But it's lacking finer color grading controls, the interface is inefficient (being fixed in a future release), hardware-based decoding/encoding needs to either exist or be improved.
And the other big reason is collaboration with other Adobe users.
I ran an iPhone for many years and never updated anything at all. The apps were updated automatically.
Edit: Ah, you're talking about an iOS update. Forgive my lack of reading comprehension. Apps that have been automatically updated have been known to stop working, however.
This confused the hell out of me last month. You can install two different versions off fmpeg/gstreamer on Fedora. One version of ffmpeg—the completely free, patent-unencumbered version—is available in Fedora's official repositories. This one does not include decoders for H.264 or H.265. You can still install OpenH264 from Cisco and use that to decode H.264 video, but there is no "free" way of decoding H.265 video. For that, you need to go to RPMFusion, which is not associated with Fedora. They ship the H.265 and AAC decoders, among other codecs that cannot be shipped without paying a licensing fee. RPMFusion is a third-party and they believe they can't/won't be pursued for patent infringement.
And all of that is great, but I installed ffmpeg from RPMFusion and it still didn't work. I had to mindlessly copy commands until it did work. So you're not alone. I'm just giving you the context in case you were curious.
TIL Teslas are better designed than this BMW model 🤷♀️
It's a shame that Cory Doctorow of all people seems to have misinterpreted this. And that he is using Medium to deliver this story.
To add to this, there's Sourcehut Pages too, which is a free software code forge unlike Github. Sourcehut is very minimal and doesn't even use Javascript in its interface. The landing page for Sourcehut declares in no uncertain terms:
Absolutely no tracking or advertising
I can't say I've used the Pages functionality myself as I already have my own website hosting, but the quick-start guide seems pretty approachable: https://srht.site/quickstart
It might be easier to use Hugo to build the website files if you don't want to learn HTML/CSS. If you want to use a custom domain name, the steps seem simple enough: https://srht.site/custom-domains
Sourcehut is in Alpha at the moment, so it's free, but they intend on charging for it once they're out of Beta. You can optionally pay for it now, and the prices are pretty reasonable.
I can understand Systemd being trademarked, but does the Linux Foundation own the trademark for Systemd..? Surely not. I'd think Red Hat before I thought Linux Foundation.
I learn something new every week about subjects I was decided on for a long time, forcing me to re-evaluate. It seems like there are more knowledgeable people here than on Reddit. I do wish our visualnovels community was more active, but alas, it's a more niche subject that's bound to grow slowly.
I would prefer a search engine that not only respects my privacy but also doesn’t hide or shadow ban content it doesn’t like.
The biggest search engine with its own index that cares about your privacy is Mojeek. A lot of "search engines" are actually proxies for other search engines, as Mojeek explains here: https://blog.mojeek.com/2013/10/crawler-based-search-engine.html
This is important, because if the main search provider for these proxies refuses to show results in its index, then every proxy is also affected.
Mojeek was actually the first search engine to have a no-tracking privacy policy, going as far back as 2006: https://www.mojeek.com/about/privacy/
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Kagi is the only search engine I use which has really good results and no junk links. ...and you have to pay for it, of course. It's a meta search engine but they use their own indexes for news results and Teclis, which indexes small commercial sites with fewer than 5 trackers. One of the cool features it added recently was an icon for identifying paywalled articles.
I'd like to recommend Mojeek, my default search engine, but it still has a way to go. If you're just looking for an "answer engine" rather than a general search engine...I guess an LLM probably isn't a bad place to start?