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Upcoming Blender Development Fund and AI Policies — Blender
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Don't necessarily endorse it (yet!!!) but Kagi have released the alpha of Orion Browser for Linux. I'm very happy with Vivaldi right now but I'm definitely keeping an eye on this.
I quite liked Orion on my Apple devices. It let me use plugins from Chrome and Firefox inside WebKit on all my devices, so it's good to see they're expanding outside the Apple walled garden.
I think Chrome will be an incredibly hard monopoly to dislodge, but it's good to see browsers like Firefox, Orion and Vivaldi are still trucking along.
I think we're due a big backlash against US big tech soon. They will crash the economy with their AI shit eventually and legislators will be out for blood. So seeing infrastructure being put in place now to dislodge them is always nice to see.
I quite liked Orion on my Apple devices. It let me use plugins from Chrome and Firefox inside WebKit on all my devices, so it's good to see they're expanding outside the Apple walled garden.
I think Chrome will be an incredibly hard monopoly to dislodge, but it's good to see browsers like Firefox, Orion and Vivaldi are still trucking along.
I think we're due a big backlash against US big tech soon. They will crash the economy with their AI shit eventually and legislators will be out for blood. So seeing infrastructure being put in place now to dislodge them is always nice to see.
Oh this looks interesting, had no idea it existed. Looking forward to testing it once the linux version is more videly available.
Android version would be rad too, maybe in the future.
I think they're planning to release on everything eventually.
Apple was first because they're using WebKit as their engine, which is very mature in the Apple ecosystem.
But Kagi are good eggs. I pay for their search engine and it's an extremely high quality product worth £10 per month.
The whole concept of supporting extensions from different browsers is kind of wild. I mean I guess once Firefox moved to WebExtensions back in the day the core of the extension is not that different across various browsers, but still. No one else has done it.
I've set a 1 month deadline to close my Facebook. Announced it to the few friends who are addicted to that shithole that if they want to reach me they need to outside of FB.
I'm going to delete my Reddit account too.
I've trained my brain to only open ResetEra in Private Browsing so auto-fill doesn't try to guide me there unless I'm specifically prompted to go.
I'm also thinking of going smartphone free. I'm considering a dumbphone with 4G hotspot built in, so I'm adding a bit of friction between myself and a web browser or harmful social apps. I don't count Metacouncil in among that because the pace of discussion here is quite measured. I can post, disappear until the evening and spend another 15 minutes catching up before I go about the rest of my evening.
It's the infinite scrolling that's evil.
GrapheneOS has been great for my privacy but I think it's time for a proper digital detox so I can enjoy my hobbies again.
I'm going to delete my Reddit account too.
I've trained my brain to only open ResetEra in Private Browsing so auto-fill doesn't try to guide me there unless I'm specifically prompted to go.
I'm also thinking of going smartphone free. I'm considering a dumbphone with 4G hotspot built in, so I'm adding a bit of friction between myself and a web browser or harmful social apps. I don't count Metacouncil in among that because the pace of discussion here is quite measured. I can post, disappear until the evening and spend another 15 minutes catching up before I go about the rest of my evening.
It's the infinite scrolling that's evil.
GrapheneOS has been great for my privacy but I think it's time for a proper digital detox so I can enjoy my hobbies again.
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Yeah closing all my Meta/Facebook apps have been great for the sense of morality, but aweful in keeping in touch with people. I dont blame people, we just got too used to facebook being the place where one keeps in contact.
I also closed Reddit awhile back and been instead been on lemmy and actually find it as good for what I wanted out of it.
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I have been thinking thought about what I should do when it comes to promoting my game, metacouncil and mastodon, as much as I love them, I do realise I need to be present in more mainstream platforms.
You could set up accounts and just have auto-post on from some sort of one-to-many cross-posting app. You don't actually have to engage with those communities if you don't want to - so long as users understand that you won't interact on those platforms I don't see what the issue is.
For forums that you may be on, you can set up a professional account rather than use a personal one, and only login during "work hours".
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