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As far as I was aware, there definitely is a shortage of "Calibre, but well designed" tools. What are these tools?

There are lots of things that do bits of what Calibre does (Kavita, Librum, KOReader, Koodo, etc), but nothing comes close to replacing it.

Money is money. Why is it a GDPR risk for one bank account paying for your proposed use case of toy projects and not another? I don't see how that changes the trust relationship for the team to do the right thing.

The child in me always enjoys it when disgruntled people use a company's projected openness against them - https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/945460-general-ideas...

The sole purpose of a press release is to generate positive interest. It is not entitled for the reader to expect the time they have invested in reading it to be worthwhile.

Fair enough, but that would surely be the result of local 'last mile' type infrastructure issues on a tiny scale, rather than wholesale electricity production (not being able to supply a whole city despite all the distribution infrastructure being in place), which is the topic of the article and threads.

There's massive variation across insect species, relatively little research and no industrialisation on the scale of current farming. It's not useful to generalise all insects and all production techniques simply to "bugs are less efficient".

In a study of 236 edible species, protein content of dry matter ranged from 6% to 77%. [1]

And a study of a particular grasshopper found it had higher protein content than lamb, beef, pork, chicken, turkey and fish [2].

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Nutritional+....

[2] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00217-019-03383-0

Farming is not an open and free market. You cannot draw any conclusions about actual costs and impact from retail pricing. Subsidies distort cost massively.

Depending on your definition, shareware models have been around for 40 years at this point. If you disagree with the terms, don't use it. That's a personal decision though, not a global moral position.

Stalking ex-colleagues hasn't even been an essential part of what I would describe as a normie job.

I'd argue that should/could be relevant, but isn't in reality. Do two global data processors more happy to work with governments/law enforcement exist?

This is the equivalent of two competing startups getting an advantage over an enterprise, just at government scale. It's a good thing.

Two competing products emerge, they are battle tested, opinions form, reviews are conducted. At that point it's a much better time for a significantly larger organisation to create a more focused realistic plan based on learnings and outcomes.

Imagine the analysis paralysis that would set in if the EU tried it from scratch - years of requirements gathering, pilots, reports...

A tale as old as time... I made money by outsourcing to third party labour to a much cheaper country than my own, using a third party low code theme builder and third party plugins I didn't vet. All of my customers got hacked.

This is the problem WordPress faces - it's powerful enough for people to get stuff done on a shoestring. But the professionals who want to do things on a shoestring are also likely cutting corners elsewhere (hosting, backups, security, etc). In many cases there's money changing hands and it's easier to blame WordPress than poor decision making.

I have more sympathy for those building with it on a shoestring for personal/charitable projects who may lack the skills/experience to follow https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/secu.... They're probably better off on Wix or Squarespace.

The 'cyberpunk' one is incredibly bland and uninspired. That may be the goal of the political site, as a form of satire.

But reducing a style with a wealth of cultural material to draw on (literature, fashion, cinema, gaming, industrial design) to 'dark with turquoise/pink highlights, cut corners on rectangles, some random diagonal lines, some token Japanese characters and a lazy neon-style logo' feels like a miss.

If this was from a human designer I was working with, I'd be having a serious conversation about effort.

Sideloading is a type of installing defined by the source of the file(s) being installed. Google will still allow installing from the Play store. The distinction is valid.

I'm pretty sure that Google replaced a shortcut for the hardware buttons on my phone to open some kind of Gemini interface in a security update and I had to change it back. And Gemini was auto-migrated from Google Assistant as the default digital assistant at a similar time(?) That alone would account for millions of users interacting with the app accidentally/unwittingly.

So as usual with these type of consumer choice/preference claims, it's sensible to be cynical. At least the Pepsi Challenge couldn't secretly swap out your water tap at home for a soda fountain, record you drinking it and claiming you prefer it to Coke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi_Challenge

Can SSIDs really infringe trademarks? Clearly the context is a bit different in a truly isolated environment like a cabin at cruising altitude where alternatives are not reasonably expected, but am I not allowed to call a network I run from an apartment in a densely populated area where others could acces it `BigCorp is crap`?

It is well known that all true investors are born with innate instincts for entrepreneurship and do not distract themselves with other careers, skills or knowledge.

Animals in Australia are suffering due to a lack of automobile infrastructure?

I find it interesting to track the reality of using these free-er devices well after launch. Sadly it always seems incredibly painful and hinted at post-launch improvements tend to be small if they come at all.

https://forums.puri.sm/t/each-update-makes-my-librem5-worse/...

I've been on both sides of the most common comments in this thread. I tried it ages ago and struggled with unintuitive interface. After getting fed up with software on my Tolino - slow page turns, soft crashing regularly (stuck in a loop of 5ish pages until a restart) and being stuck with publishers type setting because the Tolino special customisation system is terrible, I decided to give it another go.

It's like a new device. I can connect to WebDAV, I can customise almost anything, I can have better dictionaries, I even found a plugin that lets me use my local library through Libby with minimal friction. And it's fast!

But... all of that was despite the documentation, which in my humble opinion is very hard to make use of. The front end styling overloads the text with colours, styles and mixed capitalisation. And the entire documentation is a single web with anchor links. Maybe this makes it marginally easier to maintain and allows it to be loaded in KOreader itself, but it's a poor design choice for web-based documentation. A basic SSG with pre-generated search would make it much more user friendly.

A church in that sense is basically just a (social) club. There are many, many other options for social clubs that don't come with the religious baggage.

On Android https://github.com/QuantumBadger/RedReader - no account required

The hypermarket concept was more or less invented in France in 1963. Clearly joining the EU allowed greater trade options which suit large scale market leaders, but their growth would have happened anyway.

A lazy illustration, but there is not a single mention of the EU, the introduction of the Euro, or the single market on the extensive Wikipedia about the topic in the context of France, suggesting minimal impact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large-scale_retail_in_France

Realistically there isn't really any commercial value left in it though. While there were some notable unique games made with it (Titanfall 1 & 2, E.Y.E, The Stanley Parable, etc), these were made over a decade ago and the majority of games made with it are reworks/mods/adaptations of Half-Life related material.

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/List_of_third-party...

Not sure the page rank style algorithm is that useful from my limited browsing. Apparently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellie%27s_Castle is the most significant entry in human history.

So when would that be exactly? Firefox was first released in 2004 and Mozilla Corporation was founded in 2005.

According to https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#yearly-2014-... the high point for adoption was 2010 and it has been falling since then. (However, they only have data from 2010 onwards, so the high point could have been even earlier.) This coincidentally [sic] aligns to the launch of Chrome with a massive marketing push in 2008, promising speed, ease of use and security.

I find it hard to believe that there are enough people who closely follow the drama around the internal financial management and politics of Mozilla Corporation that they can be measured in the tens of percentage points of total internet market share.

Things have moved from "no one got fired for buying IBM" to "no one got fired for buying AI".

You're right, it's just a puzzle game. Strange to use the theme of chess and change a queen into a prince too.

Pawnbarian is more chess-inspired than a chess themed, but actually rogue(lite)-like and very good.

https://j4nw.com/pawnbarian/

LinkedIn didn't even disavow people pretending to work for LinkedIn until someone had too much fun with it - https://chrisduffycomedy.com/blog/2016/11/2/6-months-as-the-...

A salary of £180k put you in the 98th percentile of UK salaries in 2024 (99th percentile was only a little higher at £207k) [1]. With a household income approximately doubling that, i'd suggest your friend is in an even smaller minority.

The average house price in London in July 2025 was £565k [pp33 - 2].

There is not being able to afford something and then there is not being able to afford exactly what you want.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-incomes-s... [2] https://data.london.gov.uk/download/24rpx/37w/Housing%20in%2...