an open source service gets bought/joins an AI company to develop a closed source version of the same service, while leaving the code ot the old clients open.

Its still open source

the code for the client they’re about to abandon is, that’s about it. the new service doesn’t share its source code.

direct, non-AMP link https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr431lr72jo

hella wicked

did you type it out on a T9 keyboard?

tablets (especially ones that could be flashed with Linux, i.e. not iPads) are way less common than smartphones, so you get fewer devices to choose from for testing, fewer users who can run it, report bugs, and support the project, and less interest in general.

Which additional platforms are supported? Bitchute Rumble

ugh no I’m good thanks

“oh neat, the scorpion is paying me to carry it through the river!”

the creator delayed the launch because he had to write the legalese for the service, and on top of that I think he’s waiting for the app stores to approve the app (the service isn’t available through a browser).

he mentioned in the past that the videos will be automatically deleted after some period of time, so that should make the storage situation a little bit more manageable.

At what price point would this device be useful?

given that it’s horribly bad at what it claims to do and was a fire risk? not even a zero point.

usually the built-in phone app will have an option to block calls from unidentified callers, no app needed.

I remember reading about Samsung TVs looking for unprotected WiFi networks, so even if you don’t give it your network details, it’ll connect to your neighbour’s if it’s not password-protected.

Windows games on Linux software and Apple hardware. what a time to be alive!

it’s the opposite, actually: she got harassed because she didn’t talk about it when talking about creating a bootable drive.

Discourse has got an ActivityPub plugin, but the forum owner needs to explicitly add it to their forum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_map#History

The mapping of transit systems was at first generally geographically accurate, but abstract route-maps of individual lines (usually displayed inside the carriages) can be traced back as early as 1908 (London’s District line), and certainly there are examples from European and American railroad cartography as early as the 1890s where geographical features have been removed and the routes of lines have been artificially straightened out. But it was George Dow of the London and North Eastern Railway who was the first to launch a diagrammatic representation of an entire rail transport network (in 1929); his work is seen by historians of the subject as being part of the inspiration for Harry Beck when he launched his iconic London Underground map in 1933.

After this pioneering work, many transit authorities worldwide imitated the diagrammatic look for their own networks, some while continuing to also publish hybrid versions that were geographically accurate.

the fate worse than quenching.

and now I’m imagining Siri speaking in a very high-pitched voice.

have you checked the documentation? https://pine64.org/documentation/PineTime/Development/Available_firmware_and_projects/

have you tried Reader mode on Firefox? I found it works really well for articles and blog posts, and it’s how I usually end up reading them.

I love stux, I have a Mastodon account on one of his instances, and I donate every now and then. he’s a good human being, and his cats are supreme.

that being said, I feel like sometimes he’s a bit ADHD with his side projects, so he creates one, and then just lets it fizzle out over time while he starts two new ones. goldfish.social was one of them, and it looks like the domain has expired and got bought out by someone else. perhaps it’s his way of learning new stuff, or preventing himself on getting burned out or something - whichever it is, I’m not judging, he’s never making promises that they’re long term commitments anyway. his Masto instances have been solid, on the other hand.