Downvoted for censoring “Fuck”

Gave them money as in a donation or paying for the app? Haven’t used Grayjay, but I’ve payed for Immich and FUTO keyboard at least. They were pretty clear on the apps that it costs money and not just a donation.

Regardless of if you like a company or not, I don’t think you should steal from them. Either pay for the software because you think it’s good software or move to another app.

Just my 2¢.

It doesn’t have to replace thinking if used properly. This is what schools should focus on instead of banning AI and pretending that kids are not going to use it behind closed doors.

For example, I almost exclusively use Gen AI to help me find sources or as a jumping-off point to researching various topics, rather than as a source of truth itself (because it is not one). This is super useful as it automates away the tedious parts of finding the right research papers to start learning something and gives me more time to focus on my actual literature review.

If we ban AI in schools instead of embrace it with caution, students won’t know how to learn skills in order to use it effectively. They’ll just start offloading their thinking to AI when doing homework.

That’s very interesting. So much of culture often comes back to biology or geography. It’s funny how an evolutionary advantageous biological instinct of forming an in-group vs out-group to manage resource scarcity eventually led to fundamentalist Christians hating gays.

Interesting. The US is definitely not doing a good job at this then and needs to re-vamp their education system. Your example didn’t convince me that calculators are bad for students, but rather than the US schooling system is really bad if they introduce calculators so early that students don’t even have an intuition of 9 * 25 = (10-1) * 25 = 250-25.

Hey, this is called the Nirvana logical fallacy. Just because I do other unethical things in my life, that doesn’t mean buying an ethical ETF instead of a normal ETF is useless.

For example, using the Nirvana logical fallacy, I could justify not going to the gym today because I already ate unhealthy food for lunch. It is impossible to be live a perfectly healthy life, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t focus on trying to be as healthy as possible within the confines of what we are willing to sacrifice.

Same thing goes for living an ethical lifestyle.

Hope this helps!

That shouldn’t matter. This is a huge gripe I have with FOSS in its current state. Most of the freedom/privacy/security respecting apps are not noob friendly. They are designed for tech bros and you have to download them from a git instance or F-Droid. Freedom is a human right. It should not be gatekept to the technology savy.

This is why I love the Signal Foundation. They have truly beautifully written software and they have easy to follow UX. Anyone can enjoy the added benefits to their freedoms, security, and privacy without ever having to think about it.

Ah the it for sure will be as slimy as possible. I hope people just wouldn’t buy it then. Not too sure how much people outside tech nerds like you and me even care about this stuff, but I saw when the Oura ring came out, a lot of people were put off because it is subscription-based. I hope the enshitification hits hard enough that people move to more freedom/privacy/security respecting products.

I don’t think this requires any maintenance or swapping out alternatives. Just do a quick license check (I’m pretty sure that already part of package metadata) and put a little warning symbol if it is non-Free.

So if I do something like “pacman -Ss browser” it’ll put little flags against non-Free options so I know to be extra careful to install them.

I’m actually Sikh, but I would assume that Muslims, Christians, and Atheists alike, also share basic human values like don’t give money to companies that use child labor, sell weapons to terrorits, encourage dangerous addictions, etc. I don’t really care if the ETF is targeted towards a specific religion or not. My main gripe would be seeing their stock exclusion list for haram stocks are based on generic human values and not banning companies that sell pork for example.

I did a bit of research online and think EVIF might be what I’m looking for.

Maybe using the word Halal and Haram was confusing since those are Arab words so mostly used by Muslims and Christians.

Is that ETF (SNAW) you linked your default buy? I am relatively young and new to investing. I have some QQQM but wanted to move to something more ethical (ESG) and more diversified. Next paycheck I’ll probably buy one of the ESG S&P 500 trackers like EFIV.

There should be some sort of halal version of popular ETFs that get rid of certain universally excepted evil companies. I just invest in QQQM, VTI, VOO, etc and forget, but I have a friend who buys stocks weighted by NASDAQ except for Palantir manually. Too much of a headache for me lol.

It sounds good in theory, but even for someone like me who is very leftist, I allow and encourage private companies to use my strong-copylefted GPLv3 software for commercial purposes.

If more and more people write strong-copylefted software, the FOSS community will amass libraries that have no parallel available to proprietary software, and companies will be forced to use FOSS to be relevant.

For more information, read https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html. This is why GPL over LGPL, but you can use the same logic to explain why GPL over FUTO license.

For something like a keyboard where every private company will just make their own for, I don’t really care whether FUTO discrimates against commercial use or not. For apps like Immich though, I am a little saddened that it is not strong-copylefted.

Why isn’t there anything in the DMCA for stopping crawlers? They have stuff about requiring crawlers to follow attribution and whatnot, but nothing for not allowing crawlers in the first place. Stupid as shit.

What’s the point of this when Fediverse is technologically superior?

Love the idea of bandcamp, but sucks that there are no artists there I am interested in. I just download M4A (MP4 audio) files off of YouTube lol

MAGA: Trump kindapping Maduro was justified because he was acting like a dictator and was a net negative to the people of Venezuela!

MAGA after another world leader Kindaps Trump for doing the same thing: 😮

I agree on a moral standpoint, but unfortunately this does not hold up legally. Even for licenses specifically targeted in addressing AI outputs to count as derivative works like RAIL, I couldn’t find any case of it holding up in a US court. The best course of action might just be to add bot-filtering to whatever Git instance you host your copylefted works on until this issue has a legal solution. I’m curious on the FSF’s stance on AI output counting as derived works and if they’d ever consider a GPLv4 or new license to explicitly target AI. Couldn’t find anything online.

I literally just use Claude for UX. It makes my apps so pretty and intuitive and I don’t have to worry about boring UX design.

I tried it and YouTube videos didn’t work for some reason. Said I needed to sign in. Never had that issue with NewPipe.

I love FUTO’s products like their keyboard (what I’m typing this reponse on lol) and Immich, but slightly dislike their license for discrimination against commercial use and not copylefting.