I mean, this is correct in many cases, unironically.

It should be one of the core purposes of a programming language to help humans to write the code they intend. If a language doesnt do that then it’s bad.

Ecosia is building a custom search engine index, ETA summer 2025

Andy Yen is a right-wing Libertarian that have no idea what he’s talking about.

That’s enough for me to leave. Add on to the fact that Proton has been severely mismanaged since its inception. He’d rather prioritize crypto wallets and shoving AI into email than getting basic shit working.

I just moved away from Proton to Posteo for mail and calendar and Addy.io for email aliases.

Nobody? What sentence would you give Hitler?

Hmm, I haven’t had that issue

https://grayjay.app/

So what should a decent IT department do to give developers the access they need to do their job while maintaining a decent level of security?

Give them a Linux machine?

I bought a custom domain and use it with Proton. If Proton shuts down or something I can easily use the same domain with another provider.

I’ve been using Linux at home for a decade now and have never needed to install a driver.

I think the negativity is more about it being used for AI than to solve any important problems with the world.

After they decide to abandon their AI project can we use them for something meaningful?

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1f6lste/fido2_not_working_on_firefox_nightly_android/

Maybe you’re on iOS?

Meanwhile mobile Firefox doesn’t even support YubiKey / FIDO2 for some godforsaken reason.

Because politicians are loyal to mega corps.

This isn’t accurate. The issue is that part of that open source software is using non-open source APIs which are paid for by the WordPress Foundation. Making money off open source software is harmless and AFIK he has no issues with that. However, using an enormous amount of resources where your foundation needs to pay $$$$$ for without contributing anything is what this is about.

The same issue is with Linux, for example. The OS is open source, but the repositories are hosted be e.g. Canonical, which needs to pay to maintain them and for the enormous amount of bandwidth and usage from people updating their packages. That isn’t free.

It’s very common for companies which fork Ubuntu / Debian to contribute back in some meaningful way, whether that’s source code or donations.

WP Engine doesn’t contribute anything.

The search engine magic isn’t just about caching pages. It’s also extremely expensive / complex to:

• maintain an index of all the websites in the world. This is an extremely high cost
• refresh that index in almost real time. How long will your self hosted crawler take to find new content for every website in the world?
• there’s also the algorithm for weighing results. The order of results and their relevance is not easy at all. How many times a word appears on a page is a terrible metric.

A hosted search is also a lot more environmentally friendly - that gigantic search index and all the energy poured into the work is something that can be shared by everyone. If everyone did that themselves at home, you spend that same amount of energy for every single household.

It could have been USB 4 Spec 2.0, couldn’t it?

And you won’t get good search results in exchange.

This x100. Obviously anyone who has fun using well crafted tools to explore a vast frontier of information is a shill. /s