Because you don’t need to have significant experience or rent a VPS in order to do that, and I can respect that

I’m not saying you have to self-host… You could still use something that’s open-source and remotely hosted.

Sentry (error logging and bug reporting system) is like this for example. They have a hosted plan, including a generous free plan for open-source projects, but Sentry itself is open-source.

Not that the functionality does not exist (p2p, literally) but if my grandma cant receive the family pictures its not basic.

What about encrypted messaging apps? Maybe your grandma can’t figure out Signal, but she could probably work out how to use WhatsApp (which uses the same encryption protocol) given how popular it is in some countries.

discord on FOSS projects

I don’t understand why this was even a thing to begin with. FOSS projects using non-FOSS platforms is kinda weird, especially platforms with unclear financial situations like Discord.

case insensitive by default, yet case preserving

This isn’t just a Windows thing… It’s the same on MacOS by default.

because it creates new attack surfaces, new opportunities for bugs, and is very unlikely to accurately deal with all of the edge cases.

Unicode case folding has been a solved problem for a long time. The Unicode standard has rules for which characters should be considered identical, and many libraries exist to handle it (you wouldn’t ever code this yourself).

Same on MacOS - when you format a drive, you can pick whether it’s case sensitive or not.

So far, nobody has proven that any major phone apps are constantly listening and sending that data somewhere. That would be huge news if it ever happened.

For voice assistants, they’re tuned to listen specifically for wake words like “hey Siri”.

How would this be enforceable, though? Part of the benefit of the Fediverse is that multiple different apps can communicate with each other (for example, you can see Lemmy posts on Mastodon). Even if Lemmy implements something like this, what’s to stop someone from commenting using a different app that doesn’t implement it?

I’m actually surprised we don’t see more spam on ActivityPub-powered systems, since spammers don’t even need to have an account with Lemmy, Mastodon, etc and could instead have their own ActivityPub server to send the spam. I guess they don’t do that since the spam instance would be defederated pretty quickly.

Just because the company has a high valuation, doesn’t mean they’re making a profit. They’re indeed losing a lot of money and will go bankrupt if they don’t get new investment and/or increase their ARR soon. Right now, they’ve only got 12 months left before they’re out of money. https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/openai-could-be-on-the-brink-of-bankruptcy-in-under-12-months-with-projections-of-dollar5-billion-in-losses

have a Warrior container

This is an ArchiveTeam project, which is a totally separate effort to the Internet Archive. As far as I know, they’re not related other than the fact that ArchiveTeam use The Internet Archive for storage.

Forced launchers like uplay and origin are the issue

These are usually first-party though (made by the same company that makes the game), not third-party.

they literally have no means to directly collect voice data from you

The Facebook app doesn’t collect voice data either though, or at least I haven’t seen any actual data proving it. Some Android phones show a dot on the screen when the microphone is in use. The Facebook app doesn’t even ask for microphone permission unless you use a feature that needs it.

then complain about them later.

I don’t see where they’re complaining? They don’t seem to be asking anything of the C devs other than help with API definitions.

Sounds like the equivalent of Alt+SysRq+B.

In this case, the issue is really the C kernel devs, not the Rust devs. Some are not open to new ideas at all. Take a look at the conference video he linked to for example: https://youtu.be/WiPp9YEBV0Q?t=1529. He clearly states that he’s not trying to make the C devs learn Rust.

Title is basically clickbait given it’s Cox Media Group doing this, not Facebook. They’re partnered with a bunch of companies.

Except it’s not Facebook doing this, it’s Cox Media Group.

Did Lotide do anything better than Lemmy or was it just a different alternative?

I mean, it’s trained on internet content, and there’s probably a lot of articles that say “Google” and “monopoly” in close proximity.

If you use premium, the creators still get paid by YouTube for your views. If you use an ad blocker, they don’t get any money from your views.

When you see an ad on YouTube, the creator gets 55% of the revenue and YouTube gets the remaining 45%.