I’m hesitant with Eric as well, mostly coming out of the fact it sounds like they’re completely separate from the rebble team that kept the watches going for the past decade. But they are using the rebble discord to interact with people so maybe we’ll see.

Either way, no, the source code was only open sourced on the 27th.

Also see the actual repository.

If you have any evidence otherwise, I’d be interested as I’ve been following all of this since the original kickstarter. But I’m thinking you might be mixing what rebble is as it’s not the source code.

Either way, not sure how this will go, I’m wishful as I really don’t want to see pebble go bankrupt again.

Expect to see this in more applications, especially when dealing with AI. Why do you feel like you’ve noticed an uptick in having to complete captchas on every website you visit?

It’s an easy way for them to validate if you’re human or some competitor AI/scraper bot that’s trying to train on their data.

OpenAI is so scared about the possibility of DeepSeek distilling their model, I guarantee they are adding a keystroke/key pattern recognition system into their own front ends to combat it. If it’s not there already which would surprise me.

Expect your privacy to continue to be eroded in the name of profit technological progress.

Totally agree. Unfortunately it’ll still be attacked as “government funded media” like NPR gets even though from my understanding what you’re describing sounds more international. And I’m sure there will always be pressure from countries demanding veto power or they’ll cut their funding similar to the issues the UN has, but we can’t let searching for the best solution keep us from implementing one that’s better than what we have now.

Wikipedia is pretty large now, even for text only versions. So the most recommended option to download/read an offline version is by using “Kiwix”.

Kiwix is a reader designed to open and operate archived websites like Wikipedia that are stored in a .zim (think z-file compression but for websites).

Kiwix is open sourced and readers can be installed on your pc, phones, self-hosted as a website, etc.

You can check out their Kiwix library for a list of curated zim’s beyond Wikipedia that are updated on a schedule

You can also use their zimit tool to archive websites on your own as well.

It took a day for me to grasp all these concepts since they were designed mostly for Wikipedia archival purposes but it’s amazing how robust the tools and community are.

Like you mentioned, it’s the biased part of the business which wrestles with journalistic integrity.

ie. Return on Investment, special access or limited access compared to your competitors depending how your piece is written.

It’s not entirely surprising when journalistic integrity is at odds with the finances that fund said journalism, but it most certainly can be disappointing.

You mean giving him an easily scrape-able database of my social media interactions and interests/internet footprint via junk mail lists/marketing ads from sites I visit and sign up for?

Thank you but I’m personally going to pass.

Yeah I think he just shared the .com domain and wasn’t thinking about it/aware which is why he edited his comment and just linked to the GitHub page.

It’s really annoying, because the .com address is the top result on Google too when you search for Actual Budget.

Actualbudget.com =/= actualbudget.org

Originally the project was a closed source budgeting app to compete against YNAB on privacy and cost but the developer got overwhelmed and decided to open source the project.

I can’t remember all the details why the project doesn’t have access to the .com domain still, but you can use the .org site to see the details/source code. (You can also see the .com address hasn’t been updated, and still has the original 2020 copyright date)