They’ve been open sourcing parts of it the entire time. Looks to me like they’re doing what they said.
You can easily monitor network connections to see what addresses its sending packets to. You can’t collect information without sending it somewhere. Run Firefox through a proxy, and you’ll see it is far from private. The source code will show you what they’re sending, but nothing about what they’re doing with it after it’s received.
Open source =/= private. Chromium and Firefox are open source, and both have horrible privacy defaults. I have far more trust in Kagi than Mozilla or Google. There are many ways to verify privacy than other than reading the source code.
Besides, they have shared that they plan to open source the browser once the project is ready, and some components are already open source. Making a project open-source is a much bigger task than people realize. While community contributions may take some maintenance load off of your staff, they now become responsible for much more external code review, which requires more scrutiny due to coming from outside sources.
I mean, I’d imagine the goal is to avoid being mediocre.
If Orion fully supports the Firefox extensions I use and is as privacy respecting as I expect, I’ll likely switch to it as soon as I can. I’m sick of Firefox prioritizing features very few people want.
I did not say he said something transphobic, reread my message. I said he was banned for the transphobia in his discord, the community space that he runs and is responsible for, especially in the case of actions by other mods.
My bad on the date, but I really dont think it being 3 years ago makes a big difference. He was still an adult at the time.
Besides that event, hes just an asshole. This is obvious from the email exchange and from his blog posts.
He was banned from Free desktop two years ago for the transphobia in his discord. It wasnt some decade old messages from when he was a kid.
The bots comment wasnt even directed at the PR author. Its just a misconfigured bot, not really that big of an issue.
If your goal is simply having a backup then Immich is probably overkill. Why not just use something like Syncthing?
Looks nice! I’m getting it set up on an old Pi right now for a new media center in my basement.
I use the Nix package, so neither. Although I also use flatpaks for other stuff so I doubt it would require many dependencies I’m not already using.
I highly recommend giving Jujutsu a try. It didnt take long to learn at all and just feels so much more flexible and intuitive.
I would highly advise against it. While its not very likely someone will be targeting systems running the game through Proton, its also not out of the question and malicious code can do serious home even through Wine/Proton.
Most vulnerable COD games have community patches and servers to avoid this. Theres Plutonium for WaW, BO1/2 and MW3, a community patch for BO3, and AlterWare for MW2/3, Ghosts, and Advanced Warfare. I’ve used Plutonium before with Proton and it worked great, and AlterWare has instructions for running it with Proton.
Besides the security these community launchers/patches have quality of life and performance improvements, they’re definitely worth using.
Better UI and many of the tools for managing wine prefixes are higher quality, rather than relying on something like Winetricks, which is actually a 20000 line bash script.
The browser isnt paid though. https://help.kagi.com/orion/faq/faq.html#business
I agree the $5 a month option is pretty useless, but I also think $10 is completely reasonable for everything you get.
Also even if it was paid why would it have issues with a package manager? Paid software generally just uses an account or license key to verify payment, with the executable being frwely available. JetBrains and Burp Suite are two software that come to mind and both are in many repositories.
Edit: To be clear, the browser will only be for Kagi and Orion+ members during the testing phase, likely just to control the size of the testing group. After that it will be free.