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gardenerik
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- I agree with you that the push towards them is annoying. (Google's "Your phone has new exciting features.")
In this case, Calibre does not seem to introduce any said annoyances (probably because it is FOSS, so no pressure for adoption), but people are upset anyways.
There are many features I don't use in various software, but it never made me complain that a new icon/menu entry appeared.
- I struggle to understand the pushback against AI features. As long as the feature isn't intrusive, it seems like a minor addition, and may even be useful to some people. LLMs are here to stay, there is no denying that at this point.
- These seem like a simple text rendered using some handwritten looking Google Fonts. Or is there something I am missing?
- The icon reminds me pretty much of Kagi
- How does it compare to something like good old at[1] that spawns a browser?
- Delta.Chat is really underappreciated, open-source and distributed. I recommend you at least look into it.
Signal, on the other hand, is a closed "opensource" ecosystem (you cannot run your own server or client), requires a phone number (still -_-) and the opensource part of it does not have great track record (I remember some periods where the server for example was not updated in the public repo).
But yeah, if you want the more popular option, Signal is the one.
- Cannot find it now, but that's how it was discussed at the time when chatmail server became a thing. It is also how it is configured in chatmail:
https://github.com/chatmail/relay/blob/96a1dbac08441034c5990...
https://github.com/chatmail/relay/blob/96a1dbac08441034c5990...
You obviously must trust that the server runs this configuration, but you can always run your own chatmail, or regular postfix. (If you don't need "federation" with other mail servers, you don't even need port 25 open).
However, you can also configure your app to delete messages from the server sooner.
- I have not noticed that problem, the messages are delayed by a few seconds, but not noticeably. Only using chatmail / own postfix though, YMMV.
- It is deleted from the server only, it stays on your devices, and is also synced to new device when you add one.
- The UI was actually taken from Signal in the early days[0].
[0] https://support.delta.chat/t/list-of-all-known-client-projec...
- It certainly looks like that. For such a technical article, there are just very vague descriptions of the failure modes. The code examples do not make much sense. I would expect more in depth dive into the problems, but all we got is this mostly generic stuff.
- Is it a better idea to share private keys? In case of server breach, you will have a much harder time, won't you?
- It is also stated on every asset page :)
- A much better solution would be to use Typst, but that still might not work in all situations.
- Oh, how I hate the new Samsung remotes!
They have very few buttons, which you can't tell apart in the dark (unless you remember the layout) and everything must be done through the UI which tries to upsell you some streaming service everywhere.
- Interesting read. But I wonder, does pip not have some way to force installation from another index that would work as expected?
- Unfortunately, it's missing a lot of commonly used paid fonts (Operator, ...), but I understand that it is mostly a licensing problem.
For the last couple of years, I am a Cartograph[1] lover. But Connary had changed the license pricing this year, making it a one of the more expensive coding fonts :(
- To save power and make the site small:
The choice is yours. If you want local models, you can do that.