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And Mindustry (which is free on Flathub).

For users who've already installed Element on Android (or iOS), will there be an automatic upgrade/migration path to Element X? Or do I have to persuade them to install an app agai…

Celluloid streams using yt-dlp automatically if you ask it to open a supported URL. Parabolic is a purpose-made downloader that uses yt-dlp. https://flathub.org/apps/details/io.git…

The same announcement from their own website: https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission/112434381586...

If you want to avoid Google, F-Droid also has options: https://search.f-droid.org/?q=period

It's worth noting that this isn't a direct comparison. The packaging (tin versus squeezy bottle) isn't changing — they already sell both. Only the labels are changing, and they're …

> Every other option results in far less people discovering and interacting with your project, by orders of magnitude. Yes, this is the problem. The article suggests: try to fix it…

Until they run out. We can't recycle anything 100%. Eventually we'll have to learn to do without.

They say they are funded by donations: > How is Liberapay funded? Are there fees? > Liberapay does not take a cut of payments, the service is funded by the donations to its own acc…

Patreon knows that Patreon doesn't work - they don't fund themselves by donations on Patreon; instead they take a cut of other people's donations. And the model where some patrons …

Energy isn't the hard problem; it's materials. We're still consuming materials that we can't (yet?) make without fossil input.

> The Authenticated Transfer Protocol, aka atproto, is a federated protocol for large-scale distributed social applications. Well, there's the problem: large-scale and social are i…

What I mean is: where is the website other than bsky.app where I can see content from the network?

I haven't followed the tech of Bluesky or the AT Protocol closely: does this step mean that people can now set up their own Bluesky instances? Where can I see one in the wild?

> Beyond that: it's literal word of mouth. This is the key. If you have enough enthusiastic, loyal, (rich and/or generous) devotees, then you can make a living from their donations…

Aurora Store is a different app, but it shows the same repo managed by Google. If an app has been removed from the “Play Store”, that means it's been removed from the repo, and a d…

Chrome isn't open source.

Firefox's unique selling point was that you could trust it. Mozilla taught me that open source software was free from skeevy used-car-salesman commercial advertising tricks. This m…

Flathub, as the most popular repo, ought to be a sensible default for ordinary users. So it shouldn't be purist if that means losing widely-expected apps, but it should have distin…

> if it works in Chrome, all web developers will adopt it This is why we, tech nerds who understand the problem, must resist monopolies: object to using such APIs. Chrome wouldn't …

Can LineageOS do major upgrades without needing support? (so once it's installed you never need to reinstall, and you can keep it safely up-to-date forever by clicking a button eve…

(Strictly a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39154536 except this one has comments.)

> So your advice is to reinvent to very good and battle tested wheel of GitHub GitHub isn't analogous to a wheel. GitHub is a proprietary service owned by one company. Any patent o…

> People want a single, global GitLab network This sounds like they're trying to make a proprietary GitLab-only alternative to Forgefed. I don't understand who would want this. Edi…

When you choose an OS, you're asking to receive the service of the OS-maker's judgement. So when you choose Windows, you're opting for Microsoft's judgement. That's what this is. “…