The galaxy brain move is buying an old dumb tv for a pittance and use it for watching Jellyfin/Plex/stream from a browser with uBlock Origin/DNS filtering – all running on some relative’s “obsolete” smart toaster from last year that they happily gift you because “the new version’s bagel mode IS LIT – pun intended – but it needs the 128 gb DDR7 ram of the new model, can barely toast on the old one any more”.
Thanks for the link, hadn’t heard about that project, the list of target features looks very promising
But they all suck, or rather the Internet kinda sucks these days. Google very much included in the sucking.
In Google Search’s prime DDG was still terrible and not a viable competitor even with the privacy advantage. Now both services are almost comparable, so it’s kind of a no-brainer to ditch Google.
Yeah, search has degraded along with the Internet, you almost need an LLM now to filter out all the garbage hits. For a while, adding “reddit” to your search term was an OK high level filter to remove blogspam and e-commerce sites, but interacting with reddit is so annoying now that it’s barely an option and many of the quality reddit posters have moved on while the state and corporate astroturfers are running the show. Never mind that the “reddit filter” also removed results from much better sources, like specialist forums.
Yeah and, like Starmer with his burner phone, using Tim Apple™ Phone with “trust me bro, I’m not gonna tell anyone what you’re doing on your phone, bro, I only gave the fascist president of that hostile country 24 carat gold as tribute that one time, bro, it’s not like I’m on his side or whatever” security features.
Then again, people with nefarious purposes are usually highly motivated.
What does Mozilla doubling down on AI and becoming less appealing to core users mean for Firefox forks going forward? How independent of Mozilla are the biggest ones in practice?
Germany has done a lot of good with green energy too, so it’s not all bad
I agree, but the high global integration has also been a winning hand for Europe in the last few decades. There will be some pain and odd bed fellows.
I’m guessing it wouldn’t be very effective for European travellers to the US that already have a lot of their communication based on American servers/infrastructure.
Most campaigning wasn’t along party lines though.
But it’s a curious trend in Sweden, to revisit old referendums to go against the outcome.
I thought Anon meant movies that people say they liked because of their undeniable, objective quality, but not genuinely enjoyed watching. I guess they’re saying There Will Be Blood is some kinda masturbatory “quality porn”.
At this point I can’t imagine why people would want to live on or visit Sicily. The appeal of the food and culture is undeniable, but the island’s place on the frontlines of climate change really overshadows that by a wide margin in my book: summer temperatures that can go near 50 c, water shortages (the mafia taking over water distribution!), horrific wild fires. The list goes on.
The problem is that it isn’t clear what kinds of exposure private credit and other actors in the shadow banking space hold, because they generally operate on a model of financial obfuscation to get around banking regulation (i.e. being actual banks). What is known is that they are deeply intertwined with financing the AI bubble, even if all their exposure is through debt instruments, crypto schemes or insurance contracts (that probably is not the full scope though), they will be hit hard when their “borrowers” can’t pay back.
It’s the difference between a nice gesture and giving away his life’s work to take a stand. It’s still a nice gesture, but I doubt he will financially notice the lost streaming royalties from his fanbase on Greenland. Boycotting Amazon is probably the bigger thing here.
yours to hear
Though, from the snippet above it seems he just gave Greenlanders the right to listen to it, not actuallly gave the territory of Greenland all economic rights to his catalogue
And possibly the most parts of shadow banking, i.e the alt accounts of major financial institutions.
Fun times ahead!
The thing with the CoD lobbies of 19 years ago compared to today is that they are filled with the same players. Only now they have boring jobs, cholesterol medications and just want to put a game on to relax, it’s like what a bar would have been like 20 years ago. It can get rowdy, but mostly it’s civil and passes the time between chores and problems.
If you are Swedish you will remember the Green Party spokesperson Åsa Romson crying as her government announced a crackdown on migrants. Left wing leader Nooshi Dadgostar would (will?) have done the same in Romson’s situation, albeit, hopefully, without crying. That’s just the way it is when you’re a minority partner in a government led by a party that copies all their policies on crime and migration from the far right.