he gave a whole dog and pony show

No, they responded to your argument that crypto uses tons of electricity, and responded that the one they use, Monero, doesn’t do that. Then later responded and said they pay bills with it.

What more do you want?

There are a number of services that take crypto, such as:

• some merch sites, like https://based.win/
• VPN providers like Mullvad
• donations like Tuta

Btw, all of those take Monero. If you look, you’ll find more.

Yup. There are a handful of useful coins, and a handful of legit exchanges. Hold your own keys in FOSS wallets, keep backups of your keys, and don’t expect to get rich quick (and instead find a use outside of investing). Do that, and you should be fine.

I’m super interested in privacy coins like Monero, so I go out of my way to find merchants that accept it. It’s reasonably stable, has very low transaction fees, and it’s fairly popular among privacy advocates, so I doubt it’ll go away anytime soon. That said, I only keep what I’ll spend, so make a couple hundred at a time.

Idk, that’s still an area of active research. I versatile certainly think it’s very different, since my understanding is that human thought is based on concepts instead of denoising noise or whatever it is LLMs do.

My understanding is that they’re fundamentally different processes, but since we don’t understand brains perfectly, maybe we happened on an accurate model. Probably not, but maybe.

They’re also slightly cheaper since they don’t take any profit from their registrar side, hoping to make it back with other services.

I was with Namecheap for years, and they’re totally fine. I am now with Cloudflare because they’re a bit cheaper and their API is well supported in various tools, and they also seem fine.

Exactly. If you want to use AI for something, cool, but you own the results. You can try suing the AI company for bad output, but you can’t use the AI as an excuse to get out of negative consequences for something you are expected to do.

Technically it’s not, because the LLM doesn’t decide to do anything, it just generates an answer based on a mixture of the input and the training data, plus some randomness.

That said, I think it makes sense to say that it is lying if it can convince the user that it is lying through the text it generates.

Eh, they should file a complaint the first time, and the state bar can decide what to do about it.

Yes, this is built from Mozilla’s sources, but AFAIK Mozilla doesn’t maintain this build script, and the build script strips out certain parts of Firefox and adds in others (e.g. logo). It’s not a fork of Firefox, it’s just a builder that replaces parts of Firefox.

So Mozilla doesn’t maintain Fennec, since Fennec is a separate build of Firefox, but they do maintain what Fennec is built from.

Two main options for self-hosting:

• OnlyOffice - focus on compatibility with MS Office formats, but full disclosure, it has ties to a Russian org (R7? Product is marketed as R7-Office), but the primary developer seems to be Latvian (Ascensio System SIA)
• Collabora CODE/LibreOffice Online - Collabora CODE is a community edition of a for-profit office suite based on LibreOffice (maintained by The Document Foundation) by a company in the UK

Both have integration with NextCloud and probably other cloud suites (I think Seafile supports both?), and I think they can both be used standalone. OnlyOffice also has client versions that can be used separately or with a cloud version.

Some technical differences:

• rendering - OnlyOffice renders in the client, Collabora renders on the server and sends images back to the client; both support collaborative editing
• format support - OnlyOffice focuses on MS Office formats, LibreOffice focuses on open formats, though both have support for multiple formats; you’ll likely get more rendering differences vs MS Office w/ Collabora, though both have their issues
• features - OnlyOffice has limited features, Collabora has whatever features LibreOffice has (read: lots)

I personally use Collabora, mostly since I use LibreOffice anyway, so I’d rather deal with some jankiness w/ the server-side rendering than deal w/ jankiness due to MS Office support. I use it through NextCloud, though I’m trying out Seafile and may swap to that instead.

Editing spreadsheets on mobile works for me, but it’s janky. Not sure how the OnlyOffice experience is though. Fortunately, I mostly just use it to edit a couple cells pretty rarely (think budgeting), so it gets the job done.

Is it? It seems to be maintained by a user named relan based out of Russia. It’s just a few scripts to build it for F-Droid and basically just removes some proprietary stuff. It’s not a fork, just a build script.

I just update every month or two, or whenever I remember. I use Docker/podman, and I set the version to whatever minor release I’m using, and manually bump after checking the release notes to look for manual upgrade steps.

It usually takes 5 min and that’s with doing one at a time.

Certain features certainly could be considered as doing that, such as:

• Firefox sync
• crash reporting
• add-on store

I certainly want those. And then there are others that I don’t want:

• Pocket
• telemetry
• studies
• AI

My understanding is that this change is primarily motivated by a recent law change in California that has a pretty broad definition of “selling user data” and this is less likely to be a fundamental change in how Mozilla operates. However, let’s see what they come back with.

Yeah, nobody other than Brits use fortnightly anymore.

A physical copy means:

• I have proof that I own it
• I can rerip if my NAS dies
• I can loan it to friends

Nope, Firefox based. It’s basically Tor Browser w/o Tor.

I’m using Fennec.

Louis Rossmann had a good video about this. Basically, California passed a law that changed what “selling your data” means, and it goes way beyond what I consider “selling your data.” There’s an argument here than Mozilla is largely just trying to comply with the law. Whether that’s accurate remains to be seen though.

You can do both (not sure how wildcard works through Caddy though), I did it per domain. I prefer doing TLS trunking per device, hence no wildcard.

I set up DNS challenge with Let’s Encrypt with Caddy, and now I don’t need to forward anything to it if I don’t want to.