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Just a nerd who migrated from kbin(dot)social.

  • Yet another way Canadian culture has become Americanized.

  • Assume that the government can track anything with a MAC address or ID.

  • Give that man a medal!

  • I don't have a problem with them selling ads. I have a problem with the insidious tracking that has become a part of those ads. Mojeek sells ads but doesn't track you everywhere. Also, there's SearX instances, which typically don't sell ads or data.

    They also don't use LLMs. If you think Kagi isn't giving away or selling your data, think again, because the LLM is doing it as a core function.

  • This would seem to fall in line with current foreign policy. Should we be surprised?

  • Protests are a joke. I'm talking about real direct action.

  • I'm not a fan of Kagi's approach to anything, frankly. The fact that they're charging money for a search engine, and using an LLM? Hard pass.

  • And your suggestion is instead... what? Exactly what the worst of them want to do to others? And you'll tar the people who aren't 100% evil bastards with the same brush?

    No. Forgiveness, support, and education are the only way forward. It's not about what we did when we 'reintegrated'. It's about the fact that when we did, we still denied them federal funds, no one set out to build industries or safe jobs for the average people, and no one made any effort toward education in the south. And, might I add, no one actually gave a damn about the racial tensions, except in those rare cases where they were affected. Instead of trusting that churches will handle it, acknowledge that they'll turn into cults - look at how many literal cult groups there are in the southern USA when they were the only community support or education. Instead of saying "eh, you'll figure it out", realize that no, the average people will not. They'll continue to be screwed over like they've always been.

    Educate. Integrate. Yes, demand better of them, but give them the tools to become better.

    The American Empire is in a weak state right now because of who's in charge. We have only two ways of getting it back - an incredibly massive investment into global soft power, or a disturbing investment into forcing our hard power. Since that's the problem we face, we're even more in need of each other. We need to integrate for real, to acknowledge, defuse, and support. Because I'll tell you something. I live in NJ. I love cities, and I get unnerved outside of a city on the scale of NY/NJ. My needs and my lifestyle are totally different from those of a person in a rural community. But we need leaders who want to support both - and not people who want to hurt either fellow Americans or foreign people.

  • If only the normal people inhabiting it would do something about the megarich government people when they invade.

  • Sadly I'm in US East, I don't remember the name of our server.

  • I miss The Specialists.

  • This might be more effective if he was also listed as a pediatrician rather than "just" a pastor. Pastors are not publicly accredited or licensed to practice (the 1st Amendment actually makes that impossible). It's more impactful to state that a licensed doctor is saying that.

  • Writing a good text editor is something to be proud of, so that's awesome!

    I don't use any version of Commander on this machine, and I don't plan to. I used the original from Norton back in the day, but when Windows 3 hit, I used Norton Desktop to improve it (basically into what Win95 became), and never looked at a Commander interface again - if I want two side-by-side directories, I have a windowing system. I've tried emacs and vim briefly and they're well beyond what I'm ever looking for. geany is an option, but gedit seems to be doing the job. I've never heard of kate before this thread, I'll have to look it up. Never looked at nano, but I heard of it.

    Based on the interface and what I've needed it for, gedit works, and so does Sublime Text. Honestly, Notepad++ was/is my third-most-used text editor on Windows, behind M$ Edit (I have FreeDOS Edit in DOSBox) and M$ Notepad (replaced with xed, except the .LOG function, which is sorely missed). Npp is the one I use for editing HTML/XML, Excel functions, the odd Excel macro; and subtitle files, transcripts, and scripts (where line numbers matter and I need fixed-length lines). FocusWriter is #4 on both OSes.

  • Everything in the world is propaganda or advertising. You have a choice to believe it or not.

  • Fair enough :-)

  • Yeah. I'm actually kind of upset that I have to type 'noai'. That should be the standard.

  • Honestly, I think gedit might be the best play.

  • Some of the worst slumlords NYC ever saw.

  • The only way I interact with Wine is through Bottles, honestly. It just doesn't seem worth the trouble to go through all that for a text editor.

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    Sekhmet, same generator as before.

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