Please don’t mistake this for an endossement of DDG. But nobody trusts Mojeek’s leadership, nobody can access Qwant because they block hardened browsers, and Ecosia’s business model is selling your data.

If you have a VPS that can access Qwant and a way to transfer links between it and your general high risk VPS, Qwant might be a good option for a lot of users.

From a non-privacy perspective, if someone wanted to de-google for BDS reasons, I’d probably tell them to switch to Ecosia.

I doubt she cares or was surprised. And none of our business anyway.

That sounds like a dream come true for many of us who prefer taking ownership of data in our own hands but unfortunately things are not that simple.

How?? If it costs more to send data, Netflix will just send you lower quality video. You should want them to send you the same data or more data, but in a standard file type so it works with all your software and devices.

But hey, maybe companies will cut back on their node_modules folders now.

Good. Let’s hope it picks up momentum.

Says a .kr website. Like obviously I want DPRK to be 2.68 milliard richer at the expense of Binance, but it’s not like “North Korea will hack your computer” doesn’t work in all the accuser’s favours.

I hate HTML5, and absolutely think markdown or plain HTML or RSS or Gemini or some other standard would be a massive improvement. The problem isn’t picking the standard or creating the browser, it’s having content available.

Maybe you can campaign for a law that says if a data centre servers js, it legally has to be bombed. If a website doesn’t work without js they have to pay for a person to come to your door and operate it for you.

Why do you say that? How does it relate to the article?

Doubtful. The task of running an LLM and playing a video game is the same, so it just comes down to which has more customers. A lot of people spend many hours playing video games. There might be more LLM users, but they use the LLM for a few seconds a day, as opposed to an hour or more.

That being said, they’re both non-issues compared to beef production, which involves torturing cows. This activism should be directed there, then you can move down the target list once factory farming is outlawed.

The security of Tor is built on the assumption that one actor owning a majority of the nodes is improbable to the point of being written off as a non-concern. The tool has always been run and maintained by the USA government. When they opened access to the public, they owned the majority of the nodes, and with the amount of compute available to the NSA (look up the size of their official data-centres, add in their hacked bot-farms), it’s almost certain they still do. If it wasn’t their plan to always have supremacy, they aren’t doing their job. The purpose of Tor is to hide traffic from USA’s enemies. A few tens of thousands of private users is just reducing their power bill and painting targets on their own backs, not successfully hiding from the NSA.

Smug Reddit-level takes left and right in this thread. The kid successfully hacked a website, you can assume he knows what he’s doing better than you and followed all the best practices short of not using Windows. They didn’t get his account from his Edge credential store. He probably used some Firefox-derivative. Tor browser if he was stupid. He probably “hardened” Windows every way he could think of, again, short of disconnecting from the internet. Windows simply does a good job of spying on you, that’s all it is.

There are even people in the thread recommending running Windows games on Linux as a way to avoid this surveillance. If you put Microsoft Flight Sim on your Linux computer, then that’s now a Windows computer. Microsoft owns that computer, same as the Windows one. If you install Nvidia drivers, Nvidia owns that computer, and the USA can ask Nvidia for your accounts and whereabouts instead of Microsoft. If you put Steam on your Linux computer, that’s now Steam’s computer and the USA can ask Steam.

There is no “safe” amount of malware.

How many protestors did cops in Hong Kong kill? Correct me if I’m wrong, but I feel like your phrasing is intentionally designed to imply a number greater than zero.