It’s finally the year of the Linux Desktop! And all it took was an apocalypse, the rise of the fourth reich, (soon to be) two global recessions, and continuing unprecedented damage to the world order / faith in international law.
Oh, and Windows actively trying its absolute hardest to make everyone hate it for about a decade.
But hey,… progess! The more penguins, the better.
Pirate everything, block ads, guillotine billionaires
True, but I don’t think I’d mind it I had a windows pc that I used like a game console and for nothing else. Obviously it’s way more invasive, but game piracy is pretty risky in the first place.
Though I already gave up games that won’t work on Linux, and am quite content with that so far. But if I was still determined to play pirated windows games, it would be a dedicated vlan-isolated machine which I always presume to be compromised; in that case, a hypervisor isn’t that big of an ask to gain access to previously unplayable games
I was gonna say government (legislation with teeth), but yeah sorta
I wonder what the solution to a capitalist privacy nightmare is… /s
They talk about the name in the initial announcement back in 2023 where they link to many blogs discussing the topic.
https://blog.kagi.com/small-web
The term is a bit broader than those protocols and Kagi is far from the first to use it; it certainly isn’t a “hijack” as if it was the name if another project or something. ‘Small Web’ isn’t them claiming to own the concept of the small web, or that it’s somehow only accessible through them… It’s just a feature; search, as a curated product they offer and maintain.
It’s just what they named the lens, because it’s a lens for the ‘small web’ as they defined it; like the other lenses. They aren’t hijacking the word ‘academia’ by having an academia lens…
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/lenses.html#default-lenses
Sure, maybe they could slap ‘Kagi’ in front of ‘Small Web’ just to be sure, but I doubt anyone will confuse the concept of noncommercial small websites with a paid service…
Also
In general hijacking of names is one of the dangers very specific to our modern era and not really a problem before the Internet.
Neat fact: you can trace the roots of trademark law back like 7000 years …
Worth noting that when it was initially launched, it didn’t have such an emphasis on AI.
https://blog.kagi.com/small-web
It just so happens that noncommercial small sites tend to be slop-free, and there’s a big demand for that, so now that’s how they’re marketing it.
I prefer to buy them by the gram in baggies from a guy in an alley wearing a trenchcoat
I’m pretty anti webtech but even I’ve written GUIs in wails. I hate electron so much, but what makes it worse is that there are so many better options. The people that keep pushing it are stupid*
The problem with betting against it is that “the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent”
That would be great. I’ll believe it when I see it.
“If you have nothing to hide, why are you wearing pants? Why don’t you tell me your password?”
This is a really funny thing to see a few scrolls down from an article about Tesla’s first drivingwheelless vehicle and finally “solving autonomous driving”
AI has a lot of pitfalls. It helps knowing how they work: tokens, context, training, harnesses and tools,… Because then nonsense like this makes a lot more sense; same for “count the R’s in strawberry” type things. (For the record, I later told it to use JavaScript to manipulate strings to accomplish this task and it did a much better job. Still needed touchups of course)
They work best when you know how to accomplish whatever it is you’re asking it to do, and can point it in a direction that leverages its strengths, and avoid weeknesses (often tied to perception and dexterity). Something like ASCII art is nearly a worst-case scenario, aside from maybe asking a general purpose LLM to do math.
The parts… Once oiled, always oiled. That shit is hard to clean off.
These are a decent overview
https://disroot.org/blog/matrix-closure
I don’t agree with all of those points, but that’s the gist. The metadata issue is becoming a bigger factor. I hope things like katzenpost find massive success…
As for the ecosystem: Element and Synapse are really the only viable implementations. Fluffychat is okay on android but that’s about it; most lack features or are using outdated and vulnerable dependencies / are poorly maintained / etc.
But it’s not all negatives. One great thing about Matrix is how well they handle multiple devices. It’s also been a security weak point, but not too bad and has (relatively) excellent ux (depending on impl…)
Covid. I’m being slightly hyperbolic.