I don’t think there are any witches doing anything in a congress.

Having technology requiring at least some understanding of it is a great filter for the internet. But that’s gone.

You disagree with that I don’t think Google engineers live paycheck to paycheck?

Oh, and I disagree with your assertion that you can’t get out of living paycheck to paycheck on 7.25 an hour. It’s obviously harder, because everyone has a minimum amount of money necessary just to live, but I’ve lived on 5.5 an hour when calculated as 7.5 hours 5 days a week 4 weeks a month (because that was easier to calculate; the actual monthly spend that 5.5 was calculated from was calculated at 30 days per month instead of the 28 the per hour calculation was made from (and if the per hour calculation was made more exact it would lower the effective remuneration per hour necessary to survive that month))

Thanks for the explanation

Hmmm, that’s a good point. It would probably be using some of the DDOS protection services. But make it cost enough and it may not be worth it for the corporations to continue that shit.

What’s the Firefox button? I don’t use any extension to remove it, but I also don’t see any button tied to FF itself that I need to remove.

Well, living paycheck to paycheck isn’t directly tied to your salary, but to your spending versus your salary. So they could easily live paycheck to paycheck, but it’s probably less common with that amount of income. I do agree with you that I don’t think Google engineers live paycheck to paycheck.

As long as it’s just text you don’t have the same insane needs for storage and data throughput as something using a lot of images and video. Keeping it contained to a small amount of topics for yourself also decreases how much it’s used and the corresponding costs associated. Since it then is spread over very many people the costs don’t get too wild for each person. Remember also that the “internet death hug” is a thing that can happen more readily to smaller disparate sites.

Don’t let your employer use your personal stuff for their needs. If they need you to have a phone for work, then they need to provide that, and you can leave that at work. The same with Alphabet- and Meta-services; that stays on the employers devices, never your own.

Exactly. The websites only need to trust that the client can receive the content, which the protocols define and we have protocols to exchange what other protocols the client can use. Just use a http://www.motherfuckingwebsite.com

And I already hate the media DRM stuff and have it disabled in my browsers.

You have https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-05-05/why-google-keeps-paying-mozilla-s-firefox-even-as-chrome-dominates (I haven’t read that article because I didn’t allow javascript there or something), and https://www.wired.com/2011/12/why-google-continues-to-fund-firefox/

Not necessarily explicitly supporting the claim made above, but the information is interesting.

Pffff, who does anything but 7-15? ;P