I re-downloaded Brave the other day, and I was disappointed to recall how bloated it feels. The attention tokens, crypto wallet, in-house search engine, trialware VPN, etc.—it’s for someone, but not me…

Ironically that looks kind of badass

I always assumed that the authors of a project also provided the packages. Apparently not, but I cannot imagine why…

Yeah, you’re absolutely right. Some people just can’t handle the “anonymity” the internet proves and take every chance to be a dick

I don’t think the Fediverse has a mental health problem. I think people online tend to be terrible, regardless of the platform…

I really like this idea, but I don’t think it should be opt-in. Generative AI tools have such a high potential for misuse that some form of provenance should be baked into the network architecture

I would try to have those discussions via a GitHub issue instead of social media. Actual developers (versus fanboys) would appreciate the feedback.

If you are a Mac users (which I am assuming yes based on your preference toward AAC), the program Pine Player does an excellent job with batch conversion. Otherwise FFMPEG is probably acceptable as well.

VMWare offers free personal licenses, and it’s one of the best VM solutions imo