Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Refusing to Work for Low Wages Is a Serious Moral Failing https://rall.com/comic/refusing-to-work-for-low-wages-is-a-serious-moral-failing

ICE Subverting Biden's Priorities for Detention and Deportation https://theintercept.com/2021/05/07/ice-biden-priorities-deportation/

Time to get rid of ICE.

The Business Class Has Been Fearmongering About Worker Shortages for Centuries https://theintercept.com/2021/05/07/worker-shortage-slavery-capitalism/

Law Enforcement Groups Drive Anti-Protest Laws, New Analysis Shows https://theintercept.com/2021/05/09/police-anti-protest-greenpeace-voting-rights/

‘More than a job’: the meal delivery co-ops making the gig economy fairer https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/11/more-than-a-job-the-meal-delivery-co-ops-making-the-gig-economy-fairer

Rising food costs are causing global hunger while the rich are getting richer https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/11/what-has-grown-most-in-the-coronavirus-pandemic-billionaire-bank-balances-and-food-bank-queues

U.S. Labor Shortage? No, We Have a Crisis of Low Wages. https://inthesetimes.com/article/labor-shortage-jobs-report-low-wages-biden-covid

The Real "Big Lie" Is That Billionaires Are Tolerable - Great wealth should be seen as deranged hoarding. https://inthesetimes.com/article/jeff-bezos-elon-musk-snl-billionaire-superyacht-class-war

Fully vaccinated. :-)

@fribbledom Flatt and Scruggs

Enslaved by civilization? Time to be barbaric. #fuckcivilization #fucktherulingclass #fuckcapitalism #enjoylife

@dynamic @varx @human_equivalent Found it. https://opensearchfoundation.org/en/open-search-foundation-home/

@dynamic @varx @human_equivalent The MetaGer website also has links to some open source search work, IIRC.

@dynamic @varx @human_equivalent I think we are at a point now of ineffective search engines. An effective search engine should be company agnostic, non-tracking, open, relevant (topical and up to date), and thorough (all results). Unfortunately, users are stuck with Google and Bing. Both fail the company agnostic, non-tracking, open, and relevant aspects. Aggregators can fight the non-tracking, but all the other flaws exist. Open source search is badly needed.

@varx @human_equivalent @dynamic I thought there were effective search engines before Google; I was happy with Alta Vista. My choices in browsers were limited, being an OS/2 user, and search engines are driven by browser inclusion.

@varx @dynamic I agree; it can be used in some places and not others.

@dynamic It was never more portable than those, but it did seem to have better spam filters. Anti Microsoft kept some people away from Hotmail. As far as Yahoo! <shrug>...for me Yahoo! always seemed kind of pushy and advertising driven. Way more than Google twenty years ago. Google did have the appearance of less evil back then; certainly way less than Microsoft or AOL.

@dynamic firstname.lastname was started by Microsoft Outlook. Who would have thought that Microsoft would introduce such a privacy/security concern?[sic] Corporate norms before Outlook were 8 letter user names composed of letters from your name.

I think people abandoned pseudonymity with the rise of Facebook. You wanted friends and family to find you. I really can't say it was ever an internet norm. On Usenet, it was mostly spammers and trollers.