Isn't posting projects like this the most visible way to report a bug and let it have fixed as soon as possible?

"disobeys robots.txt" is more of a feature

In case you intend to play around with microgpt: use Python 3.14! I found it to be 3x faster compared to 3.13 or 3.12..

I took my setup from here: https://github.com/kyuz0/amd-strix-halo-toolboxes

Still lot to learn, but after a while you have something like Qwen3-Coder-Next-Q8_0 running and - at least for me - it works quite well, both as ChatGPT like chat-interface using llama.cpp and as coding agent

The first thing I've seen is that the article uses https://xkcd.com/2347/ without a reference.. Is it famous enough to be sure everybody knows the origin?

Accusing a former Google CEO of spying on you sounds funny in a way..

Yes, you get kicked off. If the train is too full. I got kicked off myself and friends also told me they had to leave the train for the same reason.

I like it because my first name is Frans

The reason why I pre-ordered a Time 2 for a money you can easily get better hardware and software for was the naive implication there is hardware meant to be hacked and community around that hardware with freedom in mind I want to be part of.

The reason why I cancel my pre-order now is I a clear (to me) sign that we have a "it's only software, I'm building the the important part here" situation -the same reason why I won't by a boox product until they change their mind.

The moment I'll come back will be the one when a significant part of the money you spend on a Pebble will automatically go into the software ecosystem (which makes Pebble for $200+ interesting in the first place) and it's easy to see how this money is spent.

I'm also 'scraping' content for my personal projects when I just need the data, but Eric is building a business here, and there had been a valid and clearly communicated suspicion about Eric acting like "goodbye fools, and thanks for the fish". And he agreed not to do so and he lied. How can I know I'm not buying $225 brick supported only by a single person who ditched the community?

Also, when you buy the BahnCard via PayPal, only the first time you'll be charged via PayPal. You get an invoice later, which looks like advertising but actually tells you to provide your bank details to charge you for the subscription.

Can anyone explain to me what keeps anyone who doesn't want to be monitored from just sending PNGs (or similar) containing messages encrypted in each pixels LSBs?

Doesn't all that just force everyone who has something to hide to use something else, less obvious?

Probably friction. Will you be able to convince your friends to do that?

No, probably not - but those bad guys with all their child porn and terrorist plans won't mind the friction (those will either encrypt or become EU politicians).

You would be surprised.

I mean, look at how many technically savvy people use Telegram and think it is "safe".

Ever heard of top government officials mistakenly inviting a journalist in a group sharing top secret information?

Presumably the distribution of an app that facilitates that would become illegal as well.

But would that actually stop people? I can say with certainty a law such as this would encourage me to go out of my way to create and distribute such software.