Yup, totally different, continuwuity and synapse are the main two, and although there are others, they’re just less good.

The commercial implementation is also open source, but there is a a proprietary version aimed at large enterprise customers that adds better optimization for very large deployments, and better auditing and moderation tools.

See here for all the servers, clients and bridges can also be viewed from there: https://matrix.org/ecosystem/servers/

I know helium is a chromium browser and maintains their own manifest v3 fork of Ublock, but it might be temporary.

Really good, it put into words an outline of an idea I had in the back of my brain. Probably the only original, intelligent article written about AI recently.

technically CEF, which is mostly the same but somewhat more efficient

For sure, I personally always have had issues with heroic, and don’t use GOG, which is why I went to try the new Epic launcher.

Don’t worry, I’ve never paid for a game on Epic.

I mean yeah, obviously?

Like even disregarding the fact that facebook already does that, any AI marketed as an AI agent that will do things on your behalf, including helping you with your relationships will do that. Stuff like “remember to buy a gift for X” would obviously require a profile on that person.

Not really, it’s like building your own furniture, cool, but far from practical and not worth it for most people.

The only way it would help the cause is by decentralising a service that’s mostly on one host, like bluesky, but that’s not a problem on lemmy, and the main advantage can be done by switching to a more niche instance (lemmy.world -> lemdro.id / bsky.app -> eurosky)

Very interesting article on how apple’s icon and style guidelines shaped the look of app icons, I especially liked this part:

The shape of apps is a squircle. And it has been proven to work for everyone. Companies can use their logo as an app icon. Designers can create something specifically for the platform. And both of these get to look like an app. Whether people consider the squircle a container or a canvas, this uniform appearance communicates its function: a squircle represents an app, just like how a piece of paper represents a digital document, or a folder represents, well, a folder.

Semantically, there’s something really beautiful about that. As an icon designer, I appreciate that different types of things have visual distinction.

And I agree! Having different shapes mean different, clear things is quite valuable, especially in MacOS, where having executables all around your home directory is more common.

It’s more similar to the current age restrictions on alcohol, although I do agree it’d be better to ban recommendation algorithms than an age gate.

it seems like their first language is chinese, and they can’t write well in english

because chinese social media is so much better

And across the pond the french government spent 20bn to have the government build out fiber and now basically everyone in france has super cheap fiber internet.

Paying companies to do stuff that’s against their financial incentives doesn’t work.