Elias @eliasr@librem.one

@amin that's great, thanks!

@garrett

> https://searchengine.party/

Nice! However that does not seem to show which ones have their own index, that's a very important piece of information in my opinion. For example #Mojeek has its own independent index, while DuckDuckGo does not (it uses Bing), but that difference is not seen in the list.

@Fury @aral @Mojeek

@molly0xfff

> strong privacy protections
> are essential for human rights

Yes!

More things that could go in the top-left quadrant in your diagram, "legal" and "immoral":

The Holocaust
Slavery
Gulag

All immoral, yet all legal at the time and place in question.

Those who are in favor of mass-surveillance now are perhaps also people who would have upheld those atrocities; they think the most important thing is to be obedient to the state rather than to do what's right. Cowards.

@aral #Mojeek works: https://www.mojeek.com/
@Mojeek

@Ibex Sverige erkände Palestina som stat 2014 och var då första EU-land att göra det. https://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/flera-europeiska-lander-vill-erkanna-palestinsk-stat

@Kellyshenanigans I'd recommend to yell out in public, write an "open letter", that kind of thing.

If you use any communication channel Microsoft themselves may have, what will happen is most likely that your message will be routed into some "AI" system which will "listen to your concerns" and then provide a fake (as in machine-generated) response to you, perhaps they will also read it to you as audio using the stolen voice of someone who declined to have their voce used for that.

@mmasnick.bsky.social

> No one’s saying to give up using Google

Wait, no, I'm saying that. I'm saying exactly that!

Give up using Google. Right now.

@DavBot looks like it tries to be two things at once 🙂

If you want to hear me talking about my recent paper "Ticket-based multi-strand method for increased efficiency in proof-of-work based blockchains" on the MoneroTalk/MoneroTopia podcast a few days ago, here is a link to that - it's at 3:16:35 into the podcast, those things are long 🙂

https://www.monerotalk.live/monerotopia-166?t=11795

Good, fun discussion. The paper is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.09531 - please let me know if you have any thoughts about the idea.

#blockchain #parallelism #monero #bitcoin #cryptocurrency

@karlemilnikka it's interesting that Google is a company worth 2 000 000 000 000 USD and ads is their main business but still they apparently do not have the resources or competence to clean out obviusly fake ads. Either that, or they willingly keep fake ads because they make money on those ads.

If thry do it on purpose I suppose that should be illegal, a form of fraud?

@landetannien finns det en hemsida eller liknande om det?

@jajo jag tycker att C kan förtjäna en röst för att de visat att de faktiskt kan hålla fast vid vissa principer. De har faktiskt sagt nej till en del av de auktoritära skit-förslag som blivit så vanliga på senare tid. De klarade att stå emot grupptrycket och stå kvar när resten av "alliansen" gick i auktoritär riktning.

@samuel this is not something I ever tested myself but this looks like it could be worth trying, maybe: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper

@darwinwoodka @kim_harding thanks

@gooba42 @catileptic @Mer__edith This hightlights again why everyone should stop using closed operating systems controlled by Google/Apple. To have security and privacy we need to use #FreeSoftware operating systems where the user has control, such as GNU-like #MobileLinux systems.

Don't fall for the myth that "we have no choice", "nothing can be done".

You have a choice, there are fully libre #LinuxMobile operating systems that you can choose to use. Don't let Google/Apple own you.