https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant

Qwant uses Google or Bing as a backend.

That’s not filtering ourselves, that’s letting ourselves be filtered. If an algorithm does the mental work of filtering us into bubbles, that makes it harder to escape.

The problem with recommendation algorithms isn’t just the power, it’s the fact that it deprives us of a shared reality. It’s one thing if we filter ourselves into a bubble but it’s another if the site itself does it.

Grok is a chatbot, not a spokesperson.

One thing Ladybird has going for it is that they declared they’re not implementing JIT (a feature I disable whenever I install Firefox). I think if that mindset extends to other elements, it might have the potential to get a functioning product to market faster than Servo.

LLM’s in particular don’t use that much energy. Image and video generation are the real concerns.

Wouldn’t you need a computer anyway to interface with those cloud options?

I’m trying to write learning material on the Windows 11 file system (I’ve never touched Windows 11 BTW), and Microsoft seems to be deliberately confusing people about the file system.

https://update.c1ic.link/rdLEN8_backdoor_install.xlsm

Great for use against ICE, presumably.

Kinda weird that they weren’t already.

Everything is political, but not everything is about politics. Generally anything that mentions a government should come under such a filter.

Needs a “politicalmemes” community, and a rule banning political memes from memes.

With games, they’re are various categories like:

1. Demos I want to play
2. Demos I’ve played and my opinion on them
3. Demos that I might want to play, but I haven’t decided yet.
4. Games that aren’t worth putting on my Wishlist, but that I’m not prepared to discard entirely.
5. Games from my wishlist that I’m unsure if I actually want to play and that I need to sort.
6. Games that I haven’t wishlisted but might want to.
7. Everything to do with itch.io because their launcher and storefront is garbage.

In terms of manga, I use a database site but there are limitations.

1. There are some I’ve read one chapter of and saved for later, some I’ve read nothing of but want to read, and some I’m reading but put on pause because of the release schedule.
2. When it’s time to start a new manga, I normally pick out more than one. When that happens I bookmark the list and go back to it after I finished the previous one.
3. There are manga from before I started using a manga database and haven’t sorted.
4. There are manga that I’ve marked as “want to read” but for various reasons am reconsidering.
5. There are oneshots I’ve read on Reddit and saved.

As for why I don’t self-host, I don’t really want to buy more disk space in this economy. Also (and more importantly) a collection of pirated manga is far harder to backup than just a database. In terms of preservation, I have so much new stuff to read that I’m not too fussed if something goes away.

I have my bookmarks in folders and subfolders, so I can find them when I need to.

In terms of what my bookmarks are:

• 2300 Video game bookmarks
• 800 Manga bookmarks
• 600 Music bookmarks
• 750 YouTube videos to watch
• 250 YouTube videos saved because they were good
• 150 News articles and blog posts to read
• 120 Books, movies, and TV series
• 100 Various privacy services I need to switch to
• 600 Old bookmarks that I moved into a folder instead of deleting

The core theme here is that I refuse to use built-in tracking mechanisms. I don’t want vendor lock-in so I use bookmarks instead to manage them (which Qobuz makes very difficult).

I tried it. If I remember correctly it had no bookmarks, no dark mode, no adblock. Those three features are essential for me in a browser. Especially bookmarks, I have 6500 bookmarks.

I donate $50 a year to KDE and GrapheneOS each.

Gonna donate $50 a year to Libreoffice and maybe CachyOS starting June.

Gonna donate the same to the Servo browser if it becomes even remotely usable.

Used to donate to Mint but stopped because I don’t use Mint anymore.

Until someone lights a cigarette at least.

The RAMpocalypse is going to only get worse by the sounds of it.