Which is really dumb on Europe’s part since they’re trying to regain digital sovereignty. All this digital ID bullshit is doing is forcing themselves back onto giant US tech monopolies

I feel bad for anyone you’ve ever had a relationship with. You act like an abuser.

Edit: Seriously? You downvoted all of my comments? You just keep getting more petty

1: I clearly established a boundary and you insisted on pushing it. Learn to take a fucking hint.

2: You know what’s even better? Not using AI at all.

You don’t have to use built-in AI

I don’t care. It’s bundled in with even the basic plan, which means you’re paying for it, even if you don’t use it. And no, it’s not magically better to use open models.

I don’t get how this concept is so hard to understand.

and you can downrank/ban websites.

Holy shit, I’ve been wanting that for years. I’ll have to check them out.

Edit: Aaaand they have a built in AI despite calling themselves “human-focussed”. That’s a turnoff. If I’m paying for a search engine, I’d prefer to have a subscription option with the AI stripped out so I’m not subsidizing it for others.

Plus, I’m thinking about it I’m not exactly on board with needing an account with a search engine. That makes it super easy to track you. Meanwhile, using noai.duckduckgo anonymously via a VPN is way more private

the palantir nazi

Peter Theil?

Unfortunately, politicians are not known for admitting mistakes. Quite the opposite, in fact

It needs to PISS OFF.

It should be off by default. As it’s set up right now, DDG settings don’t keep on privacy respecting browsers due to cookies being cleared regularly. Since their AI is on by default, that means it regularly gets shoved in your face.

This is a ‘you’ problem

That’s kind of shitty. I mean at least they have a “no” option, but seems like it should be the default.

What’s frustrating is that all browsers default to the “Yes AI” version when you pick DDG as the default search engine. So if you have a privacy browser that periodically dumps your cookies, the AI keeps getting turned on.

This wouldn’t be a problem if DDG just made it fucking opt-in from the start instead of opt-out. Hopefully with the poll they’ll finally make the right choice and fix it

But if you’re applying for an engineering position it’s unnecessary. Most companies require an engineering degree from an ABET accredited university, which means they get access to your transcript to make sure you actually went through that program

No. Twitter was always a terrible idea that was doomed to be slop

Or put Moonlight on a Raspberry Pi and hook it up to your TV for 1440p/144hz or 4K/60hz with significantly less latency. Plus you won’t require an app on the TV

Ender 3 Pro since it literally can’t connect to anything on its own?

Who is that?

Fyi, it’s “their client” not “there client”.

“Their” means an individual or group of individuals owns something.

“There” is referring to a place.

I’m not trying to be pedantic with this comment, based on your server I’m assuming English is a second language and wanted to help

Because they’re incompetent bastards?

That information becomes less value the older it is. If you go dark all of a sudden tomorrow, that information will be worth a small fraction in a year. And there’s the old saying: “The best time to plant a tree is 30 years ago. The second best time is now.”

By “tonnes”, do you mean 2,000lb or 1,000kg? In an engineering context, “ton” is the former and “tonne” is the latter.

“Tonne” is also synonymous with “long ton” (dur to converting to 2204.6lb), as well as “metric ton”.

And for anyone reading this, please contribute to the map when you find a camera irl that’s not included

No, don’t rrmove it from the list. Make a note acknowledging the issue so others see it

One of the big takeaways I’m getting from this is that if I ever want to dodge surveillance, I need to cycle through a bunch of silly walks

My point is that you’re arguing that Russia (which is currently ruled by a genocidal, authoritarian regime and is trying to force all of its citizens onto state-controlled social media to monitor everyone) would be a good ally in the fight to keep E2EE alive.

The amount of cognitive dissonance in your comments is disturbing

Ok, we need to ally with Russia

Yikes…

I have to wonder if this a large portion of this is due to the monarchy being a significant part of theur national identity. While monarchies aren’t necessarily authoritarian, the two concepts are frequent bedfellows

The Mihon dev team has already announced that they’re going to get authorized and continue their work.

It’s… an interesting choice given what they’re working on, but they also took steps to stay legal

Not only that, you don’t need to provide any identifying information to them during signup. You can even pay them by sending cash through the mail

Your good

*You’re

Why is this furry-themed?

The inconvenience of switching and learning a new thing is the largest deterrent.

Honestly, oftentimes it’s not evem that, it’s the perception of learning being difficult.

I have some friends decided to pay hundreds of dollars to hire a plumber for something pretty simple to fix. As in, it’d take $50 and an hour once you factor in learning and practice runs. And they’re always complaining about not having money, yet they got mad when I told them how easy it was

Can second AirVPN being slow as shit

It’s not letting me register. When I have my VPN turned off it can’t conbect to servers, and when I have it turned on I get swamped with recaptchas and the veriification code doesn’t send

Do these ATMs enforce KYC?

Someone needs to develop an open source replacement for android auto and really stick it to Alphabet

And by doing so you’re normalizing your kids to surveillance, which is a big part of why privacy is being eroded

Firefox still doesn’t support tab groups on mobile. That’s a non-starter for me. Hopfully Ladybird has their shit better put together than mozilla when they finally release their browser

Still in development

Maybe that will finally kill off the giant amorphous blob of human rights violations known as FIFA

Wireless android auto hasn’t worked with VPN’s for years. It’s because the service is now baked into the OS, preventing it from split tunneling.

Switch to wired and it’ll work

Snaps still suck