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- Comment on YSK: Assets in a bank, stock market, 401(k) or pension are not guaranteed 2 months ago:
So… should I start stashing my cash under my mattress?
- Comment on Linkwarden v2.14 - open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters (tons of new features!) 🚀 2 months ago:
opens chair: ooh, AGPLv3, nice closes chair: sign our CLA
- Comment on 'Something really shifted': Inside the software company that laid off 40pc of its staff 2 months ago:
Writing code never has been and never will be the bottleneck.
YES! I recently completed two code-heavy projects at work. My bosses kept asking me if I could use more AI to get the project done faster… -- and I kept telling them no! The bottleneck wasn’t my typing speed. The bottleneck was me _thinking through the design, thinking about edge cases, running experiments to validate hypothesis, testing out different API designs.
Typing out the code took like 1 day out of the 2 weeks. Code generation is not the bottleneck.
- Comment on What happens if an instance gets down? 2 months ago:
Apparently you maybe be able to migrate whole communities (and subscribers!?) to Piefed?!
https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show/comment/2668181
Piefed is part of the fediverse, same as Lemmy.
- Comment on What happens if an instance gets down? 2 months ago:
Can the spaces/subreddits whatver they are called
They’re called communities or comms.
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 2 months ago:
Fairphone 6 with Android. Waiting for Motorola+GrapheneOS phone.
- Comment on Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app 2 months ago:
OpenStreet maps is primarily a data source. I guess you could use the website: https://www.openstreetmap.org/
But they don’t have mobile apps.
- Comment on Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app 2 months ago:
Comaps, OSM And, and other apps use OpenStreet maps as their data source, sometimes as their only data source. So if the data isn’t in OpenStreet maps, it’s not gonna be in Comaps. Comaps is basically a frontend for OpenStreet map data.
- Comment on Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app 2 months ago:
I love Comaps. I have it installed on my Android phone. I contribute to OpenStreet maps when I can.
But, I don’t think Comaps is a realistic replacement for Apple or Google maps.
One: OpenStreet maps is missing a toooon of locations, businesses and residential addresses. Two: having the enter the address in a non-standard way (for the US) City, Street, Building Number, makes finding things even harder. That’s gonna instantly turn away 99% of people.
I still begrudgingly have Google maps installed on my phone… :(
I also have HERE Maps installed on my phone. It’s way more usable than Comaps and it’s not Google. But, it’s not FOSS and still owned by a big corporation. But at least it’s not (entirely) owned by the US (Magic Earth is). For me, I think it’s a decent step away from Google.
I’ll still keep contributing to OpenStreet maps, hoping one day I can switch.
- Comment on Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines 2 months ago:
Totally unbiased comparison between alternatives Does it suck: 4get: no (debunked by snopes)
😆
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (20 March 2026) 2 months ago:
A satirical website dubbed Malus (malice) has been making its rounds and fooling users after claiming it’s deploying AI tools to recreate open source projects from scratch with corporate-friendly licensing (my personal favorite is Emergency AGPL Removal in the footer links)
Hahaha. That’s funny. Oh, guys.
- Comment on Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines 2 months ago:
I wish there was a FOSS or more open option, but damn I’m glad I’m using Kagi.
Yes, I’ve tried SearXNG. No, I don’t think it’s a viable alternative. (yet?)
- Comment on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers 2 months ago:
Just recently signed up for Qobuz. I’m planning on purchasing albums as I go along so at least I’m left with something the day I decide to quit.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Aquí español 👋 an inglish obvis
- Comment on Abandoned FOSS projects 2 months ago:
This isn’t exclusive to Open Source projects. This happens all the time with proprietary apps as well: https://killedbygoogle.com/
Even things like TV shows can get killed after 1 season.
- Comment on Finally a good self-hosted calendar frontend 2 months ago:
Neat! I’m currently using GNOME Calendar and Thunderbird, but not really in love with either.