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They do usually “grow” “up” but i agree, even encourage this dynamic.

Part of (what i would call “real”) maturity is recognising when it’s ok to stop acting mature and just have fun.

Maturity is realising there is no such thing as an adult but still behaving like one at specific times because you understand that that is the better way to get things done in that setting.

Everyone grows up, many people can behave in an adult way (including children), but actually maturity often still feels rare.

The result of this kind of infrastructure is torture.

Imagine having to downgrade your bed from being a cold large stone slab because some rich people who also own the empty building across the street decided to spend money to stop you from doing so.

Physical and mental torture. Definitely violence.

Or like the other comment mentioned, could now for the first communicate with His daughter and family.

This is a common stereotype but there is a reasonably sized group of Linux enthusiasts who work on macs.

Macos is a real unix based OS. (As opposed to unix compatible GNU “Gnu is Not Unix”) and they claim the performance (apples own chips), even in a vm is amazing.

I had at least one coworker who did this, i also remember Emily Young (Who some remember as Anthony from Ltt) also had quite a few apple products in her house.

How does piped compare to invidious?

Threefold,

Dominate the news with anything that is not epstein files.

I actually looked this up earlier today because i didn’t understand part of it.

An ssh key is, as i understand it, a way to encrypt the connection so only a device that has they key can unlock it.

There are 2 parts, a private key which should never be shared and a public one which can freely be shared.

You usually generate both keys on the device that connects to the ssh, keep the private key on there with the public key going on the server. Thats the part that confused me. (Why is the secret one not on the server i don’t want people to access)

But the way it works is that the public key is used to encrypt/lock something.And only the private key can unlock it.

Any other device that tries to connect just gets an encrypted connection they don’t have the key for. Because these keys are so long no current day tool can guess or crack them. So it is the absolute safest way to establish an ssh connection.

Quantum computers might in the future be able to break them but solutions for this are being worked on.

There are also some systems where you have 2 key pairs where the server also has a private key, to authenticate both ways.

That the company that produces a product is itself owned by company in other nations.

If you already know that this is common its not complex but if you don’t i can see how its confusing at first.

I read this back in april,

The entire research were very nervous about doing this cause they essentially post misinformation. So they filled it to the brim with clear signs that its fake, tons of pop culture references and nonsensical wording.

Its rather subjective but it wouldn’t be the first time updating arch has broken my system and its fair that some people don’t want to deal with that and much prefer some more mature.

And i have no qualms with people who do use debian for a main system but i do assume everyone who do are retired folk with a long career in computing behind them and aren’t in the market to change to another.

I wouldn’t want to be perceived in any other way.

Being critical towards operating system: Great

Actual argument: fair

Solution: oof

Debian is by all means great, for many things, but for a main pc? Shivers

Sweats in “linux vr is one of my current hobby projects”

The real story is not about Chines influence on data center opinion.

Its openai reading conversations of their customers.

I mean we all already assumed they do before but this is so blatend, it smells like manufactured consent. You need to go from “suspect it happens” to “its normal to be like this”

That would be ok if it wasn’t a lie.

Which for duck it definitely was for years, and considering they still have a long term deal with microsoft, still is.

I have another reply in this thread somewhere that lists my sources.

But here is another I hadn’t listed. (Source used by Wikipedia)

“One of the bigger customers that is unaffected for now is the search engine DuckDuckGo, company spokesperson Kamyl Bazbaz confirmed to WIRED. “They’re retiring the self-serve version,” Bazbaz says. Brown says Brave’s understanding is that companies that have inked private and long-term deals with Microsoft will maintain access to the APIs.”

Just ask yourself, what does Microsoft get out of it? If for the first decade at least it contractually includes free passage from bing and linkedin trackers.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/duckduckgo-browser-allows-microsoft-trackers-due-to-search-agreement/

Now I little after this came out they do claim they removed them (odd how that suddenly changes after it was no longer secret)

But then much more recent as listed on wikipedia, verifying they still have some long term deals with microsoft in 2025… microsoft is not going to make a deal with a perceived competitor for nothing in return.

By August 2025, Bing planned to cut off access to its search APIs in a push to sell more AI-related APIs, though DuckDuckGo believed that larger companies like it with long-term deals would not be affected.[62] Bing had dramatically raised rates for its search API in 2022 after ChatGPT debuted.[62]

There is also more general proof that while duck may technically use other sources also. It really is mostly bing:

During a Bing API outage in 2024, DuckDuckGo stopped showing results, indicating that Bing provided a substantial portion of DuckDuckGo’s results.[69][70]

I literally do not understand how they managed to take such foothold in real privacy communities. I used to love brave till the i was repeatedly pointed to the scandals that many people are aware of and informing others about… but considering ddg i rarely see anyone pointing this out. It actually smells like a huge successful marketing adventure to sell bing to privacy enthusiasts, but for that i obvio do not have proof.

I often imagine this meme with bing instead of google and a cute duck go as mr incognito

Lol, it’s littered with predatory ads.

I appreciate the attempt but self hosting searxng is free, has no ads and

You can include presearch results as part of your searxng results, its already listed by default

Brave nor duck duck go can be trusted.

Brave has been known to inject their own referral links in people urls.

Duck duck go serves bing results and has to give Microsoft special acces to do so.

The actual alternatives are:

Firefox based browsers (waterfox, librefox)

Self hosted searxng for search-engine. This one will get results from all possible configurable engine and allow zero trackers.

Notable mention: self hosting isn’t for everyone, startpage.net is to google what ddg is to bing, but it hasn’t had any scandals proving that they give special acces to google yet. Still self hosting is not that hard with docker, i do recommend a local searxng.