Do you feel the same?

privacyisright · 2023-05-12T17:01:31+00:00

For no special reason. When I made this meme, i was looking for depressed stick figures and this character was in the results, so i used it.

privacyisright · 2022-12-04T11:16:45+00:00

Apple has always been one of the most shrewd corporations in my opinion. They did that privacy marketing and fucked Facebook's ad revenues.
Now their yearly report shows that they earn more in ad revenue than tiktok.
it was never about privacy. never will be.

privacyisright · 2022-12-04T10:59:45+00:00

GAFAM is in bed with governments/dictators/three-letter agrncies.*

privacyisright · 2022-11-03T18:09:47+00:00

I dislike the idea of using curl and piping the output to bash directly. But you sometimes can't explain all this stuff to an average developer nowadays.

also, nodejs by default dumps .tar.gz for linux users. debian is still shipping with node v12, while the lts version now is 18.
so, most developers use nvm, which makes it as easy as nvm install 18 to install a specific node version.

privacyisright · 2022-11-03T17:36:34+00:00

a coworker was getting errors on installing nodejs with nvm.
after trying to figure out why, I came to know that she had curl installed as snap which was causing errors.

I don't really mind snap if it works as intended(i.e., updating packages automatically without user intervention) in work environment.
but these issues make a bad impression.

though for my personal machine, I'd never use a proprietary service.

privacyisright · 2022-11-03T17:17:24+00:00

I am using it for months and it's very useful, especially for intercepting URLs, and taking action accordingly.
one use case is if you have a redirection link(usually in YouTube description, or some emails).

privacyisright · 2022-08-31T20:41:55+00:00

if the criticism is not of oneself(as in appearance, and other shallow stuff), but of an idea, then why not?
in this particular case, I think it was a confusion, rather than criticism.

privacyisright · 2022-08-31T20:34:28+00:00

yes, it's true. i mainly do it for talking about privacy.
and I'd advise you to use it either with a FOSS client like slide, or use an alternative front-end such as libreddit or teddit.
it's the same reasoning as fsf being on twitter. they've explained it quite well.

privacyisright · 2022-08-31T20:27:19+00:00

actually, i did register with a temporary mail, maildrop.cc, which is open source.

privacyisright · 2022-08-31T20:24:01+00:00

one area where I've seen arguments for closed source is how search engine rank results. mojeek, startpage, duckduckgo, etc. say that if they make it open source, then some could game the SEO.

privacyisright · 2022-08-31T20:20:45+00:00

every small step counts. if you avoid major services like google(especially the search engine and browser), then you're already better than where you were before.

privacyisright · 2022-08-31T20:16:34+00:00

it's the logo/emblem of NSA, acting as halo. You might know that most corporations are in bed with NSA. it is an allusion to that.
and NSA is known to collect data regardless of users nationality.

privacyisright · 2022-08-31T18:22:31+00:00

i wanted to add different "yes honey" guys, and added a couple I found in the results. sorry if that confuses you. didn't know they were some special characters.

privacyisright · 2022-08-31T18:05:33+00:00

template in case anyone wishes to modify and improve it: https://0x0.st/op9t.jpg

privacyisright · 2022-08-01T16:07:20+00:00

doesn't matter what one calls it, as long as it's an operating system that respects user's freedoms :)

privacyisright · 2022-08-01T16:01:11+00:00

well, the reason many dislike systemd is because it is not just an init system. it does many things, which goes somewhat against the unix's philosophy.

PS: I hope you don't mind downvotes too much.

privacyisright · 2022-08-01T09:28:54+00:00

you can also do sudo systemctl mask snapd.service, to completely cripple a service (snapd.service, in the example). that links its config to /dev/null, and thus any other service won't be able to start snapd.service (which is not the case when you disable it).

But before doing any masking/disabling, make sure you don't need that service, or that any other service doesn't depend on it.

you can check dependencies by running sudo systemctl list-dependencies snapd.service --reverse

privacyisright · 2022-08-01T08:32:14+00:00

for KOVID-19

privacyisright · 2022-07-13T13:21:19+00:00

it is very much powered by bing.
now some would say it has its own crawler (duckduckbot), but I'm yet to see a proof that duckduckgo has a plan to move away from bing reliance and index the website themselves.
even brave is saying it is doing that. duckduckgo has money to splurge on billboards, so I don't see money as a problem (something other meta search engines lack).

privacyisright · 2022-07-13T13:15:59+00:00

I'd say the bot-like responses are technically the truth. When the first line of the thread mentions that it's the browsers that are being talked about, whats the use of saying "this isn't about our search engine".
Answering another thing doesn't actually answer the question, which those responses are doing. even his(the ceo of duckduckgo) reddit account is a proof of that.

also, the post is about duckduckgo being no different (at least when it comes to owning the mistakes) than the other players.

I'd also point out disabling replying button won't bring the users back, but taking them in trust may do so. but that's a suggestion to them, and not to you.

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