one_old_coder

If it’s legal for the Zuck to torrent all the books, it’s legal for me to torrent a few books.

Also https://www.brainbashers.com/puzzles.asp#japan

It’s very easy to compare. In France the average salary for a dev would be 50k. I don’t think my healthcare and retirement costs 100k. The highest you could reach if you’re lucky would be 70/80k but it’s for very specific companies.

It’s true because no one ever lied on the internet. 4chan is the boss of the interweb and they will confirm it.

I bought it on VHS when it was first sold in France. I still love it, except for the ending.

Why search for http? Do you have Gopher or Usenet links too?

Cookie AutoDelete can do that for specific web sites that you choose in a white/black list. I always allow PieFed even when I restart, Google is in the default black list.

The geographical data was always good, and you can use it without an account. The algorithm itself has improved a lot. It used to be very bad in the past though, it would switch the route every five minute to gain a few seconds towards the destination, but they stopped doing that.

CoMaps looks great, but it’s still buggy and I don’t know how to have some traffic data.

Cookie AutoDelete is good on the desktop. It can delete cookies when you quit Firefox, when you switch to another domain, when you close a tab… It’s fun.

Noooooo. Nothing is wrong with Tuta, they are awesome. The compromise is that PayPal knows that I subscribe to Tuta and BitWarden.

As for Waze, it has been bought by Google a long time ago. If you have Android, you can restrict the location to “when the application is running,” but it’s still Google behind.

Reward programs can link purchases to you through 2 different means:

• if you give your name and phone number to the smartphone application
• if the supermarket links the purchase to the actual bill sent to the bank account

You cannot technically avoid the second one but I know that most stores don’t do that because their systems are separated: one system for the inventory, one system for sending transactions to the banks. I’m telling this because, while they can link your debit/credit card to your purchase, it never happens because it’s a major PITA for them and it’s a manual process. But it can happen…

• Waze . They know my location when I drive, and there are no alternatives (AFAIK) for traffic jam. I don’t use an account though, it’s not tied to Google or anything.
• Kagi because all the others are worse. I may try SearX again to see if it’s good now.
• PayPal sucks but it’s good for subscriptions.
• Tuta and Bitwarden . They have a link to PayPal but the data is E2E encrypted.

Most of the time, I don’t mind a compromise as long as I can keep the data to myself and encrypted, or if the smartphone application can run without any permission.

The biggest threats for me in the above list are PayPal (they know what I buy), and Kagi (they know what I’m looking for). I could find a way to remove Kagi though…

The one about the button which ended when I woke up in Europe (https://piefed.social/c/announcements/p/1938077/the-button), haha. It hurts me to say that reddit jokes lasted longer.

France: nothing here. Gas prices have increased by 30 cents, but it’s kind of expected and I try not to use the car whenever I can so it’s still fine.

the impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will be enormous

By destroying lives with slop I guess.

Research agents spend half an hour scouring the Internet to answer your question.

So slow? What a waste of time.

It seems to be an ad anyway. Is it trained on stolen OSS and torrents?

You’re talking about lunatics while mentioning slop at the same time, it’s incompatible IMHO.

MCP? I thought that this thing died a few months ago.

I wonder how far this technology will go.

It’s technically a pattern recognition program that was never meant to generate text. It can’t go any further unless you change the whole thing.

I don’t understand either. Troll or therapy, choose one.

Which plan do you have? Is the Pro version better with “Email to note”?

Curious because I used that in the past but stopped I don’t remember why.

It seems that you are seeking dangerous behaviors on purpose. Don’t do that.

you’re not going to be able to access your bank

You would need to create yet another version of HTTP to handle that (a few years) and banks would have to handle it globally (at least 5 years from my own experience). It will never happen like that. Banks are the slowest companies to handle that kind of modification.