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Re:Stand with Ukraine on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @12:57PM (#30687723)
Perhaps i should clarify, the graphics are free to use by anyone, with no rights reserved by artist. Though I wouldn't mind some recs on a good(& fast) print on demand service. Thanks!
Re:War in Ukraine: Marshall Mud is winning again on Monday March 07, 2022 @10:06AM (#30588621)
parasite
But I'm pretty sure we treat out prisoners better here in America. I seem to remember hearing about how they are actually commuting a lot of sentences to combat prison overcrowding. A land of laws requires some some sort of punishment for criminals.
Re:Against an increasingly user-hostile web (2017) on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @03:57PM (#30352605)
and nobody seems to have mentioned Webbkoll in the comments anywhere yet: seems like a nice service, though i got 403 and 503 errors for a couple pages that i tried. Luckily it looks like DuckDuckGo and Startpage really do have zero cookies. I haven't heard of HERE WeGo before; looks like they use Amplitude analytic(never heard of them).

I'm kind of put off at the suggestion to use BAT to regain privacy(like blockchain is a cure-all for everything cyber) but then again, was this written in 2017?

Overall i agree with much of the essay, though i have a few nitpicks, like i'm not sure i feel quite so optimistic about the state of open-source browsers Chromium and Firefox(i am using Firfox).

Also, don't use YouBoob.

have i forgotten anything?

Interesting, it looks like most of the liquid gets separated out early on in the process and released downstream(with processing???). Seems like a good opportunity to collect the pee part.
Re:The web starts on page four on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @11:29AM (#30179772)
pinboard, interesting, i guess bookmarking is a step in the right direction, but wouldn't it be better if browsers actually wrote functional bookmark systems and provided standard import/export methods?
Re:The Federation Fallacy (2019) on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @02:14PM (#30167595)
> its content is openly licensed

Interesting, I know SE/SO itself is not open source: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/313483/is-stack-ove...

Wikipedia is apparently fully open source however: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download

Re:Google is wrong. Apple’s iMessage is a failure on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @09:07PM (#30003444)
>don't care for Finder

have you tried columns view? Command(⌘) clicking on links is also nifty

Re:Now DuckDuckGo is building its own desktop browser on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @09:32AM (#29649813)
Couldn't find it in the article but I'm assuming it will only run on current officially supported Win and Mac OS
Re:Reddit files to go public on Thursday December 16, 2021 @11:06AM (#29579609)
reddit is probably the trashiest social media site around today(for it's size).
Re:Firefox Relay on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @10:43AM (#29254550)
another options is to buy a domain with a cpanel and set up a forwarder and filter to a specific folder in your secret main email account. The extra benefit here, since you own the domain, is that you can create a send identity of your [email protected]