Vinnl
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Comment · 1 day ago
Ah yeah I suppose that's fair.
Comment · 2 days ago
Open source: source code available, and can be used for whatever.
Source-available: source code available, but only for viewing, not to make derivatives.
Freeware/shareware: source code not available, but software is free to run.
Not sure what the weights equivalent of that last one is, but I feel like this is more like source-available.
Comment · 2 days ago
Open weights was already a weaker term then open source, but this is not even that. "Weights available" feels like an apt description akin to source available.
Comment · 12 days ago
It was announced a while back that they were going to look at making it an end-user OS as well. The actual, new announcement [1] says that they've produced the first Preview release for it, with the caveat:
> In all likelihood, GNOME OS Preview will be with us for a few years. However, we are explicitly not promising updates in perpetuity. If you’re not OK with re-installing your OS in a few years to switch to GNOME OS Stable, this is not for you yet. But if you’ve already been curious about giving GNOME OS a try, this is the moment!
I'm sceptical that that brought Flatpak top-of-mind however.
[1] https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2026/10/16/gnome-os-previ...
Comment · 14 days ago
> For the people who don't know, there weren't wild wolves up to 2015.
Well, if you go further back in time, there were. It's not like introducing a nonnative species.
Comment · 20 days ago
Even without JS, there is timing, HTTP headers, conditional CSS, etc.
Comment · 20 days ago
Appears to use Chromium by default, and also ship WebKit to toggle for individual websites: https://crestbrowser.com/guides/engines/
Of course this comment section also warrants a mention of Zen Browser, another Arc alternative that's been going for a while already, is based on Firefox, and is available cross-platform: https://zen-browser.app
Comment · 1 month ago
I don't use it myself (wasn't an Arc user either), but apparently it's moving really fast, so definitely worth trying again.
(See also this almost identical conversation: https://phanpy.social/#/fosstodon.org/s/117281195620828803)
Comment · 1 month ago
> I LOVED Arc.
I assume you've heard of it, but just in case you haven't: you should try Zen! It's basically Arc, but based on Firefox, open source and, more importantly, actively maintained.
Comment · 1 month ago
Well, or at least by The Civilian, a New Zealand version of The Onion.
Comment · 1 month ago
Mijn Bureau is the Dutch equivalent of openDesk and La Suite: https://github.com/MinBZK/mijn-bureau
Comment · 1 month ago
> My employer provided medical coverage would lapse before my daughter’s birth. I was at risk of not have medical insurance for the birth of our daughter
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- Solid, Tim Berners-Lee's new set of standards that aims to give people control over their data. See https://solidproject.org
- Plaudit, a project aimed at making more research freely available. (This is why you will often see me showing up in threads about Open Access.) See https://plaudit.pub
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