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Readit Newsmeonkeys commented on Suicide Linux (2009) qntm.org/suicide... · Posted by u/icwtyjj
meonkeys commented on Vietnam bans unskippable ads saigoneer.com/vietnam-new... · Posted by u/hoherd
I've often wondered whether the world would be better without ads. The incentive to create services (especially in social media) that strive to addict their users feels toxic to society. Often, it feels uncertain whether these services are providing actual value, and I suspect that whether a user would pay for a service in lieu of watching ads is incidentally a good barometer for whether real value is present.
Don't get me wrong, I'm well aware this is impractical. But it's fun to think about sometimes.
How about a world without money?
meonkeys commented on How GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem ploum.net/2026-01-05-unte... · Posted by u/toastal
What are free, good alternatives to github?
Is gitlab still relevant?
For what part(s) of github?
Free as in freedom?
Many other tools/platforms provide decent source control and issue tracking. Nothing else has the FOSS project market share of github, and this matters especially when you're looking for the canonical home of a project and trying to judge how popular/active/viable it is (stars/commits/issues/PRs).
If you want exposure and participation for your FOSS project, it's harder to not use github.
FWIW, Forgejo does the source control stuff well. I love it for self-hosted local mirrors.
meonkeys commented on PNG in Chrome shows a different image than in Safari or any desktop app lr0.org/blog/p/pngchanges... · Posted by u/lr0
Image looks the same to me in Firefox (Linux) and Falkon as it does in image viewers (Gwenview and GIMP). Which in all cases seems kind of washed out, so I think that's the "smoky," not "normal" image but I'm not sure.
Try eog, if you have it. The colors look bright for me in that viewer.
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Hard pass. Another Linux laptop with another sus distro won't teach anyone how to focus. Save a hand-me-down laptop from the landfill, install a known good distro, and do the hard work of culling distractions.