Jean-luc Peak-hard

Their old version with the ‘random’ option is the best way to find random, small, niche sites.

https://old-search.marginalia.nu/search?query=browse%3Arandom

so many better Google alternatives out there:

• https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
• https://ecosia.org/
• https://searx.space/ (pick any of the 50+ instances)
• https://www.qwant.com/
• https://www.startpage.com/

Any we client including Matrix webclient is incredibly vulnerable to the server just injecting JS

That doesn’t preclude fediverse clients from enabling E2EE. A web-client isn’t a requirement.

Like there is no point of E2E encryption in Twitter, Musk can read your messages if you open them on any device he can execute arbitrary code on.

Agreed, nobody should trust twitter, but I would trust most mastodon clients to send encrypted messages, if/when implemented correctly. Does it guarantee that messages will never be read? No, but it does an extra layer that wasn’t there before.

that argument doesn’t hold. you’re letting perfect be the enemy of good-and if you truly believe that, then you wouldn’t be recommending Matrix which has web clients, see https://app.element.io/

why? because it would be cool if only intended recipients are able to view sent messages.

Bought a 20 TB external for ~$270 a few months ago. It’s now $400:

https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B09VCXWPQG

Can I coin the term imagineomics?

this search engine finds smaller unique sites, lots of them happen to be neocities sites. Just refresh the page and see whats out there: https://old-search.marginalia.nu/search?query=browse%3Arandom

If these features interest you, that’s great! But you’re not the average user. Congrats tho. Librewolf may be perfect for you.

DRM is one. On Windows it doesn’t auto-update by default (maybe that’s changed now?). I recall you have to whitelist some sites to work properly. It’s just not something I can set up for my parents and expect most/all websites to work without intervention.

people (not calling you out specifically) keep suggesting Librewolf like it isn’t driving around a city in a tank. it gets the job done, sure, but most people will not tolerate its faults. Suggest something more in-between like Waterfox at least.

Suggesting Librewolf is like asking people to browse the web via Tor. it works, sure, but the inconvenience will make most people give up on gecko-based browsers and give into Google/chrome via Brave or the million other chrome-in-sheep’s-wool browsers.

Let’s recommend viable alternatives: https://www.waterfox.com/