This was long overdue! …and it’s not just a meaningless fine, since a solution needs to be proposed within 2 months:

In addition to the fine, Google was ordered to end these self-preferencing practices. It has 60 days to propose a solution, after which the Commission will asses the proposal and either accept Google’s remedy or impose its own.

Do you have a source or is it a guess?

As I understand it, it’s not limited locally. Africa’s Continental Internet Exchange (CIX) connects Africa internally first, but it still links globally. It’s about sovereignty, not isolation.

In terms of networking, this is not different from Europe and other regions with many local IXPs that allow regional traffic within the continent… the thing is that in the past, Africa has not had an infrastructure that allowed connecting to another African country without it being routed through international networks outside the continent.

it’s 16:9, pretty standard. But the screenshot contains 3 screens side by side (2880x1620 each)

And what search engines do you enable/disable in SearXNG?

SearXNG is one of those “alternatives that pull from google or similar”, which is what @manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml wanted to avoid.

It seems it comes with 9 different themes.

Personally, I find the UI decent, specially considering it runs even on ie6, and that it’s ok for mobile devices too.

I see it has Tor as a dependency. Does it make use of onion routing? in which way?

Apparently, encfs is not maintained anymore either.

EncFS has been dormant for a long time now. I haven’t used or worked on EncFS in many years. I’ve left the repository here because I don’t want to prevent anyone from using it if they have a need that can’t be met otherwise. I’m sure that I have some very old backups that would still require EncFS to access, so I expect that I might have to compile it again someday.

Don’t expect any updates on this project. You’re free to fork it, of course, but remember that this is a 20+yr old codebase which was only funded by personal interest, so I wouldn’t expect it to live up to modern-day coding standards.

If you’re considering setting up a new encrypted filesystem wrapper, I’d recommend looking into newer alternatives, such as the excellent GoCryptFS.

DroidFS is on F-Droid and supports gocryptfs.

It depends.

The invalid reasoning a person might have for an argument does not necessarily invalidate the argument (if you can reach the same argument from multiple reasonings), it only discredits their ability to form arguments with a valid basis.

So a long conversation can lead to the person losing credibility, but a strong rebuttal focused on the initial argument, to me, is more important if what we want is to refute the argument.

I’d argue it’s more of an issue for them, since they do not get to counter-argument :P

Your reply refuting their argument can be read by everyone that is in an open platform, while their messages only go unchallenged on their own echo chamber anyway.

To me, it would be worse if it was the other way around: them spewing shit and me not even realizing and being unable to respond.

But I don’t understand why don’t they go after the abusers, instead of imposing a fine to the platform. This looks like a criminal case, it’s not just a matter that should be left in the hands of the platform to begin with… so why focus on blaming the platform?

Someone got bullied so hard they died, and the response is to simply ban them and then punish the platform? It sounds like an approach designed by lawyers who just want to make money, instead of actually an attempt to fix/correct the problem.

It’s like blaming the email provider for allowing the exchange of messages and video files in a mailing group that was organizing crime… instead of actually investigating the people who committed the crime and enacting laws / setting precedent that could act as deterrent, independently of which channel was used while committing the crime. Then punish the platform if they are not collaborating or if they are found to be complicit (while investigating the criminals).

From their FAQ:

How did Keybee Keyboard integrate the swipe gesture ?

The swipe is the primary user interaction gesture on touchscreen devices, for this reason in Keybee Keyboard the structure, the arrangement and the linking of common word groups are designed to make the swipe easy and fast. Some syllables and some words can be inserted through a simple combination of tap & swipe (we call it twipe) greatly reducing the number of touches for typing a text. For now the twipe is limited to the adjacent keys. Keybee Keyboard is swipe friendly.

“For now the twipe is limited to the adjacent keys” … I’m not sure what that means, but my guess is that all keys are pressed along the swipe and you can’t skip keys in-between without raising your finger… so I guess the style of swiping might be different, something in between swipe and tapping.

8 hours before your comment? :P …but it was a tiny change in the README, so let’s say that only counts as mild flirting.

I feel the opposite… I can see how a honeycomb structure might make it actually easier for swipers, since you have more keys connected around each key… in fact, it seems (from what they say in the website) that they have mathematically arranged the keys to minimize the average distance traveled from one key to the next. So I feel this is actually meant for swipers (they even say in the video that the connections are more “swipe friendly”).

But as someone who is comfortable using 2 thumbs (holding the phone with 2 hands when typing), travel distance between letters is not as big a deal, I can type 2 keys from opposite ends of the keyboard easily and in an instant. This does not look like a more efficient design for me, specially considering that the most used keys appear to be in the center, which would require stretching further the thumbs.

Considering that one of your requirements is already using .md files, which is a format pretty common… maybe a combination of different apps on different platforms would work? Specially considering that mobile UIs are likely gonna have different requirements than desktop UIs.

One approach I was considering was using neutrinote on Android (which is a relatively simple but functional no-bullshit markdown editor supporting cross-linking between markdown files) and VSCode / VSCodium on the desktop (which also supports cross-linking, and I think has some note-taking related extensions), or maybe zed, or whichever editor you might already be using that can support markdown. Then use syncthing for the sync.

However, I have not yet really gotten into it, primarily because second brain/zettelkasten note-taking in general has never really fully clicked with me, most of the time when I take notes I just use them as a scratchpad / temporary storage… without much of a proper organization … just a note meant to be scrapped as soon as it’s acted on. Often I just use tabs in my notepad app, without really saving them to a file.

syncing and collaboration without paying for hosting or self hosting. Joplin lets me workaround this with 2 Dropbox files (1 per profile, 1 being a shared profile) and it’s a pain. And the Dropbox file isn’t encrypted.

You could use syncthing so no hosting is needed and no reliance on storing your data on 3rd party services. Though you would most likely have the same level of pain as Dropbox since they work similarly (although you did not specify what is it that causes you pain).

Yes, it’s the same technique thumb-key uses but will a full blown traditional qwerty layout.

Imho, Unexpected Keyboard is the best FOSS keyboard for (western/latin-rooted) multi-language environments. It’s a pity they don’t have spell check but when you speak multiple languages the spell check can often get in the way if I’m honest… unless you can select multiple dictionaries at the same time (I haven’t really seen any FOSS keyboard allow that yet).

Thanks for pointing it out! I’ve been using it because I had the impression that it was FOSS, but I see now it’s not.

It’s a pity because I thought I had finally found an open source keyboard with decent offline prediction that also allowed for multiple-languages for prediction without having to be switching between keyboard “layouts”… I don’t think there’s any open source keyboard that has those features 😑

The thing is that this would mean you also need to list the non-free projects that you are looking an alternative for (otherwise you wouldn’t be able to map them to their free software equivalents). And in order to not repeat the same lists, you will end up also having to list equivalents between closed source software (since the alternatives to Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop are likely gonna be the same).

This essentially would make it a subset of existing places like https://alternativeto.net/ where you can find alternatives to a software and filter to only show the alternatives that are open source.

That’s actually a good idea. A very simple “click the frog” captcha might be solvable by an AI but it would work as a way to make it more expensive for crawlers without wasting compute resources (energy!) on the user or slowing down old devices to a crawl. So in some ways it could be a better alternative to Anubis.