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I'm a FOSS developer primarily interested in low-level programming, privacy, security, and computer graphics.

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popey, to windows
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The online backlash to #Windows #Recall amuses me tremendously. I started building a similar open-source (non-AI, local only) thing for #Linux a month ago.

It would take screenshots and create a timeline video of your day. It also enabled searching across your past usage of the computer.

The inspiration was an open-source macOS app called "Rem" which does the same thing.

Ah well, I guess I'll abandon that then, as it's going to be seen as toxic thanks to #Microsoft.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwwqp6nx14o

ro,
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@popey If you enjoy working on it, then I encourage you to keep working on it. After all, if the user explicitly has to install your software, then I'm sure they are okay with it. It may in fact be useful to some.

ro, to foss
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I'm genuinely curious.. when I make applications I always make it work according to my needs instead of thinking about making it usable for everyone else. Is this normal? Am I the only one who does this?

ro,
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@phryk Right. I guess it just depends on how interested I am. I was making a basic html2atom converter to automatically generate my RSS feeds. And I basically just did some crappy regex (which works, cause I know how I write and format my HTML in my articles) but wouldn't work in 99% of use cases. See https://codeberg.org/ramenu/html2atom/src/branch/master/src/reader.rs

ro,
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@phryk It's something I do feel guilty about publishing in the first place if I was just gonna tailor this to my use case only anyway. I could have just published it in a private repository or something and call it a day.

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