Those were very interesting reads! Thanks for sharing.

It got bad several years ago, which is when I permanently jumped ship to DDG. It’s nowhere near as good as Google used to be, but on the other hand, it’s also nowhere near as bad as Google is now.

It’s a perfect metaphor for the working class.

Mitt Romney says “Hi.”

Guidance counselors. One of them tried to convince my parents that I was on drugs…in 4th grade. Turned out that I had an undiagnosed mental disorder.

And on the third try, you think you accidentally failed to hit the last key, and so you have to start all over again.

I’m also considering just getting a portable, 128GB FLAC player with a minijack connection and moving on with my life without getting involved in networking at all.

Yeah, I’d say that this is definitely the way to go. My .mp3 player only has something like 8 gigs of storage, but it takes a MicroSD card. With a 1 tb card, I can carry all the music I want (and realistically, given that your collection is pretty small, you could get away with a whole lot less than that).

Will the circle streak be unbroken?

I live in a “first past the post” country that forces a two-party system and penalizes voting your conscience unless it aligns with one of those parties. While there may be flaws in Ranked Choice Voting that could emerge in fringe cases, it is so obviously superior to our current system that it is hard for me to worry too much about the nuance of how it might not be 100% perfect 100% of the time. Any (democratic) system is better than what we have now.

The happiest place on earth, y’all!

Is it sufficient to set the Enhanced Tracking Protection to “Strict” (which claims to block cross-site cookies in all windows), or is there something else you have to do?

I was already going to crawl over cut glass to vote for her/against Drumph. Walz doesn’t change anything for me, but if Internet comments are to be believed, picking him does make me slightly more optimistic about our chances come November.

Well, it took them 60 years to make Pearl Harbor…

Thank you! This was exactly what I was looking for.

We know this what the real purpose of this is, it seems like they’re going to sell it as a necessary tool for people who are too stupid to use a basic search function? Per The Verge:

“Microsoft’s launching Recall for Copilot Plus PCs, a new Windows 11 tool that keeps track of everything you see and do on your computer and, in return, gives you the ability to search and retrieve anything you’ve done on the device.”

Oh, and apparently “Microsoft is promising users that the Recall index remains local and private on-device.” Something something Brooklyn Bridge…

I’ll keep using Windows as long as programs like Open Shell and OSSU are able to deal with the bullshit. But if there comes a day when they no longer work…well, Linux awaits.

Privacy isn’t dead, but it will be soon because those of us who seriously care about it are the 0.001%.

It’s because the first time doesn’t always work. I swear, sometimes it doesn’t!

The “Blocked since install” stat on uBlockOrigin is always an eye-opener.

Yes, this exactly! I still cannot fathom how Discord took off. It offers literally no advantages over forums, and introduces some massive disadvantages.