In case you were wondering what exactly this MS money is:

Francisco Mingorance, Secretary General at the Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) association, explained that as part of the settlement reached with Microsoft last year an innovation fund was set up using Microsoft’s cash.

Some €1 million of that has now been allocated to Fulcrum, an open source project to aggregate products from smaller tech vendors to rival the hyperscalers, he said.

Sounds really good.

“It’s happening,” he said. "There’s been work going on for over a year on this, you know, coding and everything, testing, proof of concept…

Um. “coding and everything”? “Proof of concept”? So they don’t really have anything (yet)? Well, let’s hope they get there anyhow.

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Right. Not in my case anyhow, my blog is even a top ten search result for a specific topic.

FWIW every user gets a unique IP address.

It would be the nice thing to do to inform those keeping up these blacklists whenever the owner changes. Maybe they do. Or maybe they’ll do it on your behalf if you ask.

Their websites or their servers? Frankly I have no idea what you’re talking about.

I never liked IceWM, it’s way too limited as a window manager (refering to key- and mousebinds mostly, manual tiling).

That said, antiX has plenty more to offer.

That was a few years ago. Prices and offers change constantly. Netcup.

Somehow I have difficulty believing that the Chinese are capable of fully respecting the GPL.

OTOH they’ve already been using their own Android spin for a while; how did that go so far?

No direct answer, but even as a US resident you should consider going EU.

Most hosting providers dangle convenience (“one click solution”) to make clueless customers pay way too fucking much. Or customer service, which I always found to be about the same regardless of price: good enough, miracles not included.

FWIW I pay ~€7/mo for a full (root access, self-installed) VPS with 80GB storage, 4GB RAM, 4 CPUs (edit: this was a few years ago. Now their cheapest offer is €8/mo for 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage).
The same would cost $72/mo (with less storage) on Linode 🤣

Ouf, you got me down a rabbit hole. I’ll start at the end, where I clicked on a comment of yours laying out why Andreas Kling and Brendan Eich are assholes. This FOSS tendency to support 100% meritocracy becomes a bullshit lie the moment some lead devs use their position to spread vile views, deny harmless PRs to improve phrasing etc.
I have yet to meet a single self-proclaimed “centrist” who isn’t just a racist/misogynyst/homophobe in sheep’s clothing.

Meritocracy enables sociopaths.
Well really it should be “Pure unadultarated meritocracy in FOSS development enables latent sociopathic behavior to come out unchecked in nerdy devs” or some such, but that’s not much of a slogan.

Anyhow, about Kagi & Vlad & the writer of this blog post (I really read it all) - I am always so skeptical about FLOSS trying to go financially sustainable. Usually people applaud it because they think it’s a solution to “slow development and clunky UIs”, and usually people like Vlad like to support that feeling without really committing to anything.

Also always interesting the lack of commitment when you press them about data collection. You can’t run a web app like this without data collection, and the distiction between personally identifyable, private, anonymised or anonymous is - facile because as legal terms they were coined by people who have no clue about fingerprinting and such.

All in all I’m glad with the road I have chosen in device & software usage and just like the Brave hype did not get me, neither will the Kagi hype or the next one.

Great breakdown, esp. the license issues and the case in point of MINIX. Subscribed.

I just checked, Archlinux already has uutils-coreutils in [extra], but there’s no surprise there, they’ve always been relatively unconcerned about such things.

Thanks for sharing, always nice to see!

But nowadays I’d be surprised if one of these display devices ran Windows or some similar crap that is NOT Linux.

Ubuntu/Canonical did, imho, the right thing to offer paid support for what is otherwise a free OS. That’s what companies care for, that cannot afford a full IT employee or even department. Of course Redhat et. al. also offer that but Ubuntu seems more suitable for smaller solutions?

We do not collect data from sites and users as claimed by A_norny_mousse@feddit.org.

I have a faint inkling of how a service like yours would work and I do not see any way it could work without doing just that. Since both users and site owners need to create an account.

Seriously stop protesting so much. It makes you look bad.

No misconceptions on my side.

Your business is about three things:

• convenience for the visitor
• web sites being able to signal “we care about privacy”

Both these things are what makes the hype around web privacy/anonymity.
You pinky swear that you don’t sell or otherwise abuse personal data, but you still get class A data about which users visit and deeply interact with which site.
Why should I lay all my eggs in one basket in the first place?
Of course the same could be said about a secondary or tertiary email provider but then quite a few exist who are at least as trustworthy as your solution.

I said your business is about three things; I think it’s easy to see that the first two lead to you growing your business.

About your elaborate emoji- and buzzword-laden replies, let me reply with Shakespeare: “The lady doth protest too much, methinks”

People have every right and reason to be extremely skeptical about offers like these.

BTW I deleted one of my comments because I realized I was wrong. That seems to have rubbed you the wrong way?

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Regarding those screenshots:

But then visitors immediately have to create an account with pportal .io to actually get at the newsletter/sign-up/etc.?

I had a quick look at your main page but it did not answer that question.

I understand that a web dev who wants to offer this has to open an account or get an api key of they want to use your service.

Also I could not find a link to the git repo.

edit: according to OP’s answer it is as I thought. Yet another company that collects data both on sites and their visitors. Another iteration of the good old Free model a lá Google.

edit2: my personal recommendation is still that people get themselves at least one extra email account with plus-addressing. From a trusted provider of course.
edit3: an option for true aliases would of course be better

In case anyone had the same kneejerk reaction: no, this is not about privacy etc. Just performance, according to OOP.

Still, this reads like a reaction to a recent overblown debacle.

edit: no, it actually does say “hardened security” in the README, lol, but the whole project seems to boil down to some compiler flags.