Do you know if ecosia is still using google under the hoods?

What's preventing GPT-based bots to earn karma by writing real-looking comments?

The future of the internet really seems like a dark one...

When was the last reddit exodus? where did people move to?

Most software I use feel too big for a starting point. I tried solving bugs for a smaller project, but my pr took literally 4 years to be approved. In others, I tried to look into some issue, but they were fixed before I finished my attempt.

It all turned into some sort of barrier to get started.

Thank you for your comment. What a coincidence that you mentioned openstreetmap, because adding data became like a hobby to me. While it's some form of contribution, I wanted to go deeper into some project, be a developer.

It's hard to explain, but it's mostly the social aspect of it that I struggle with.

As someone from a developing country, I still prefer most of my software from standard packages, in order to take less space.

And before someone comes to tell about how cheap storage is nowadays, it can be cheap for you, but it isn't for me and for a lot of other people.

Other person reporting here.

Me too. Pine64 devices, especially the phone are the things I always wanted for a long time :(

One of the nice things about Debian is that we don't need to rush an upgrade, because our previous versions will still get security upgrades for a long time. Love it.

Yacy has been there for a long time, before the concept of fediverse, and before our increased concerns about privacy.

Such a nice project, but too bad it never gathered a strong userbase.

Indeed. My university used to have a lot of issued dues to old automation software that needed windows xp, so they could never upgrade the computers in the lab.