Then again, they do make mention a bout this being open source, and ,living in some github repo already (https://osintradar.com/faq#contribute )...but, oddly, they don't link to said repo.

See: https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb?tab=readme-ov-file#%E...

I hate all these TOS that always favor a company...but what if alot of society started hurling bricks back at tech companies in a sort of retaliation...not unlike Luddites damaging ye old machines?

If your place is indeed the least sweatshop job, then congrats and enjoy the good parts! :-)

On a different note, i do see what you mention about some op excellence skills (e.g. project management, requirements gathering, etc.) being areas of concern at my $dayjob. But, i kinda always saw them as skills that are valuable in any era, and need not only be in this AI era....but everyone's mileage and environment certainly can vary that expectation. Also, at my $dayjob, the business lacks so much funding to pay software vendors fairly, properly that we get what we pay for....so its often low quality output. Its not low *code* because we employee and contract regular, full code devs....but it certainly often is poor quality...and i wonder as low code offerings and opportunities - paired with more solid AI development asistance - continue to emerge, i suppose something like a SRE role can become that much more important - regardless if one works in low code or low cost arena.

As an American I'm super disgusted with the current administration and the awful things they are doing...but I'm also a big supporter of open source and an advocate of every group's sovereignty....so if increased digital sovereignty for many nations (and my good friends all over the world), plus more software freedoms for everyone globally is one of the unexpected manifestations...then that's wonderful, at least something good comes out of the current chaos! As Europe, Canada, other nations start pilots for using their own instances of open source software (like Owncloud,etc.), i welcome that and wish them all the best!!!

I've heard of zotero maybe a year or so ago, and was curious about it, but never took the plunge. I manage the bulk of my info/knowledge base across mostly locally-saved text files, with a few other tidbits leveraging PDFs and word process files (.odt, .docx)...and really i only use the latter for pasting in screenshots. And, then of course simply synching them across devices using syncthing.

While my approach works great for the majority of the time, i can imagine there might be some functions that some other tools might bring me which i might be missing...I suppose one thing that i lack is a graph of linkages for content that might live in different, separate files but might be related, etc. So, would you be willing to share your opinion, experience for what makes zotero better than text files on a disk? :-) Thanks!

I beg to differ...I have a feeling the needle will indeed move, but it won't be a single big jolt. Overall, I think it will be oh so very slow over this and the next couple of years. Sure, some percentage of windows users will migrate over...but i think the bulk will keep using windows until the machine literally dies, and will ignore as many error messages and warning that microsoft displays to them. ...and that death of windows usage will take time, hence why i think it will take time...but i do indeed feel that the needle will move...its just that its only beginning now, but not yet ending. ;-) Time will tell of course.