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Sometimes a public utility doesn’t need to be decentralized to function effectively



  • Doesn’t track you like discord does to remain “free”
  • You audit the code for security and privacy issues
  • You can self-host or fork the code for yourself if you ever need to build a backup because some idiot decided to purchase the original revolt project and decided to screw with it
  • It has an open source license so the software can never be privatized, it’s essentially a public utility; for everyone by everyone

Our Story:

The Revolt project originally started back in 2019 by a group of three students from the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic, looking for an alternative to the already emerging, closed-source chat platforms. Our main focus for the project was to create an open-source, completely compromise-free platform that offered all of the same features and competed against other chat apps

  • Revolt is made with collaborative effort, and if you like coding it makes it so if you can to try and code stuff to add custom functionality or plugins or whatever else. Like a public utility you can add to it and develop it communally, though in this case it would be a public utility serving a public with a population of just you. But because of the GPL license Revolt uses, it makes it so that you need to share your changes. Whatever form the source code takes, it remains a public utility until perpetuity.

So far I really like it, anyone else using it? I'm really considering setting up the discord bridge and just using revolt
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The survey is framed to differentiate between standard android compared to custom ROMs



Advice for Helping Older Person with Spam
I'm helping my older neighbor deal with tons of spam email that she's getting. For dealing with spam I thought about using thunderbird with with some extensions and making comprehensive filters. To reduce the volume in the future I thought about using deleteme and simplelogin so that her information doesn't continue to be spread. Anyone have thoughts on the approach or maybe improvements that could be better?
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Been using Brave search for months now and pretty happy with it, also helps that they have their own index




I would think so given that the mainboard runs well with Linux but I’m not about everything else


cool, guess that means it’ll be competitive with the asus, especially when you factor in the repairability



Thought the same thing, just wondering what the DIY kit might end up costing. I’m also curious to see what would happen if you put in one of the newer 8 core AMD mainboards that frameworks is working on


It’s a third party person doing it so they’re planning on doing a DIY kit soon. I checked and seems like you would just install linux like you would on any other framework laptop so I’m actually pretty excited!


World’s First Fully Modular Gaming Handheld!
Only initial thoughts are why in their right mind are they using windows on a handheld device
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CEO might get in trouble with the SEC and FTC but that’s still left to be seen


Around 20% of the games in my library use unity, some of them being my all-time favorites


Who’s boycotting unity games? This is just spreading awareness of what developers are affected.






Yeah, I feel really bad for the devs. Some of my favorite games are being affected



I personally use calyx os and am pretty happy with it, they have a fairphone build