The US is a Republic.

And where's the paper trail for that AfD thing? First time I heard of it.

It's in the Epstein files. Bannon was seeking funding from Epstein for all the worst far-right movements in Europe.

Nice try to force digital IDs onto an entire country.

Divide and conquer is quite the everlasting success strategy, it seems.

And it's all basically US tech made in China. The irony.

I was hoping to read a post about some tiny LLM running in the browser to do live adblocking.

Once I see the first ad in an LLM I'm paying for, I'll stop using it and cancel my subscription. It's that easy. If that means I'll be missing out on some fancy new model or if that rules out an entire vendor because they trained all of their models with ad-injection, so be it. Of course I can't trust anything from any model, this will distort the relationship between my

My browser is at least somewhat neutral and since it's a client connecting to various systems outside of my control, applying some client-side filtering to get rid of the nonsense some entities push into my direction, is basically just self defense I'll have to live with.

But once I'm fighting a dedicated service provider that owns the client and is intent on selling my eyeballs, I'm not gonna spend a minute trying to cleanup whatever they're sending in my direction. There's 0% chance any of it is still trustworthy.

I think the only reason left, that we don't have to use ML to detect ads in YouTube streams, are the legal requirements for visible separation of content and ads. I doubt LLM ads will get more integrated than current Google search results screen. Maybe services that don't have enough "surface" for ads (including all APIs) will move to subscription only model.

You had full root for more than a decade on any macOS machine.

And then you didn't. What's the purpose of saying this?

All consumer-operating systems also used to be single user with administrative access by default. Shall we return to that, too?

The point of saying this is to let you realize that the last ten years weren't a disaster.

We also used to use wep encryption on wifi networks

You might add Bitcoin, Lighting or Monero to your donations page. Would've gladly dropped you a few bucks but I don't use any of the services you're offering.

Thanks for the suggestion, that’s a fair point. I currently rely on a couple of mainstream platforms mainly to keep things simple, but I do see the value in more open and permissionless options like Bitcoin/Lightning or Monero.

I’ll definitely consider adding at least one of them going forward. Really appreciate the willingness to support.

Maybe look into dual licensing. You could allow all free use but require a custom license fee for all commercial use.

>Maybe look into dual licensing.

No, no, not at all as a FOSS developer.

> I’m planning a non-intrusive in-app prompt to remind users about donations something subtle, because many users forget once they start using the app, rather than only seeing the donation info in the README.

As I mentioned previously, the above approach seems to be well enough and good.

Of all the Linux features to copy, they chose this.

I actually wish macOS would clone Alt-dragging from anywhere to drag and Alt-right clicking to resize from anywhere from Linux (at least GNOME and KDE Plasma have this built-in). That would certainly solve most of the complaints in the original post.

macOS has Cmd + Ctrl + drag to move windows. Alt + drag seems unlikely given that it's already often used for "copy" actions.

I just tried that on Tahoe (26.2) and it didn't drag the window with Ctrl+Cmd+drag. Is it supposed to work on all windows?

It's sort of hidden feature (I could bet that before "system preferences.app" redesign you could have found it there, but I don't see it anymore).

This comment explains how to do it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46585551

Oddly, the one thing it doesn't work on for me is the main area of the System Preferences window. Everything else I've tried seems to work, though.

KDE doesn't actually suffer from this problem.

*GNOME features, not Linux features. No such issues over here on KDE.

I have often felt like GNOME is the most Apple-y of desktop environments; they're very form over function. Not surprising to me at all that both would pick a design that seems beautiful until you try to use it.

Indeed, no such "invisible drag areas" here either using just FVWM2.

Shortly after Windows 10 came out I was joking that Microsoft finally made a Linux distribution (by replicating all the jankiness we usually associate with it).

Now I guess it's Apple's turn.

Wait, they implemented Alt-Drag/Right drag?

I believe the parent is referring to how GNOME 3.0 had some really bad resizing grabs. Single-pixel widths at the edges, and almost impossible to hit corners.

Latter versions significantly improved it.

Has been a major issue for me with Xfce and Gnome over the years, mostly just switched window managers.

Xfce is just ridiculous, it has 1px thin area to grab, and last time I checked they just mentioned you should use alt right click instead.

I was about to suggest Xfce as an example where window resizing is effortless due to the <super>+<right click> behavior. You can just grab the rough sector of a window to resize it.

Any reason why you're not using it?

I do! I even miss it when I use other systems. I just think the original problem could be fixed for people that does not know about the shortcut.

Sort of! Cmd + Ctrl + drag moves windows now.

I can live with that compromise for now. Thanks for the lengthy response!