As an adult, when I entered a redesigned MacDonald’s it did not appeal to me at all. It was like being inside the architectural embodiment of depression.
Not that it matters. MacDonald’s didn’t seem to mind Trump associating himself with their brand, so I won’t be eating anything from there ever again anyway (ignoring the myriad of other reasons to avoid them as well).
If I recall, Signal has gotten better in recent years in that you don’t necessarily need Google Play to use it anymore. But my issue with it is that their backend still seemed pretty centralized the last time I checked, which could get increasingly problematic moving forward, since they’re based in the US.
US.
Time for meshnet?
I’m sorry, you didn’t actually think this beverage was healthy to begin with, right? Lol
For starters, agave is one of the highest fructose-containing sweeteners out there. Our bodies can’t use fructose directly, so most fructose metabolism occurs in the liver where it’s converted to glucose. Overconsumption of it may promote metabolic syndrome even more than glucose.
The only two sweeteners I use are date sugar (whole powderized dates), and rarely molasses. Unsweetened teas might be an acquired taste for some, but after getting used to it, they generally add plenty of sweetness on their own.
That title was extremely disappointing to read. Initially read it as, “All kinds can now be jailbroken, thanks to new jailbreak method.” and was like, “What?! Yeahhhh we’re gonna jailbreak all the things!!!”
Then I saw what it really said. Cool, but meh. Happy for all the Kindle owners but I already solved that problem by just not buying a Kindle. Such disappoint. (눈_눈)
There’s nothing wrong with offering tools, that a person may not have known about before, and which they may be inspired to make their own uses of. If I start making demands on what they “should” do, it may distract from how any number of people or communities might find use for it for themselves.
Anybody is welcome to reshare it.
Just planting seeds.
It looks like it might be one of those blockchain-based marketplaces. I noticed there were a handful of those on AlternativesTo. I skipped em because I have no interest in supporting blockchain stuff.
This matters. I wasn’t sure whether to include a remark about that or not, because in my mind, open-source and federation are implicitly mandatory.
Looking through Amazon alternatives… they all suck so far. Though this Etsy alternative looks interesting:
I just looked it up.
"The AI research company DeepSeek recently released its large language model (LLM) under the MIT License, providing model weights, inference code, and technical documentation. However, the company did not release its training code, sparking a heated debate about whether DeepSeek can truly be considered “open-source.”
This controversy stems from differing interpretations of what constitutes open-source in the context of large language models. While some argue that without training code, a model cannot be considered fully open-source, others highlight that DeepSeek’s approach aligns with industry norms followed by leading AI companies like Meta, Google, and Alibaba."
So fake open-source.
Maybe one of these options are good?
https://alternativeto.net/software/paypal/
https://alternativeto.net/software/venmo/
While we’re at it:
That sounds like fake open-source. Can I download the source, build it, have the thing run locally on my own machine, and use it without it having to interact with this company’s servers?
I’m not too informed about DeepSeek. Is it real open-source, or fake open-source?
Yeah I get that. I’ve just gotten used to leaving pdfs the way they are, and choosing to read them on more appropriate devices like laptops or tablets.
Nothing malicious that I know of. 🙃
The emulation community has Redump and No-Intro for verifying the integrity of roms. Maybe we need the same for books?
Would it work to convert it to a simpler intermediate format like rtf or txt, and then convert into html? Why html anyway, Isn’t epub more appropriate?
I am at a weird-feeling place at the moment. I got too comfortable buying things from Amazon, so my brain doesn’t know how to shop now. But I canceled my Prime soon after the inauguration, and I’m thinking I need to delete my account all together to kind of force myself to start working on using alternatives.