PrivacyDingus

For MetaGer, there isn’t a free tier as far as I understand or can see. You need to pay for credits but key creation is gratis.

Swisscows is Bing, Kagi has multiple sources. If you’ve not enjoyed using Bing in the past then your decision is pretty much made for you there.

eurgh, maybe this is just the crowds I swim in then… I’ve only ever heard derision for ads.

Do people often tell you they like surveillance because personalised ads are useful? That’s a madness

Two things can simultaneously be true, Daniel can be an individual who engages in very problematic behaviours and GrapheneOS can still be the most-secure and reliable OS out there.

I would love for ancaps and right libertarians to stop misusing ‘anarchism’. They already did a land grab once with the word libertarian.

The best work on this is being done by ORG IMO: https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-online-safety-act-isn’t-working

Kick them some change if you can afford it too.

Using Cursor =/= “Vibe Coding” people need to really stop with getting jumpy about everything in such a way.

Unfortunately, the petitions sub exists in order to divert justified and righteous anger into clicktivism. Your MPs inbox, however, is open.

Ah yes, Pavel Durov, Tucker Carlson and “Vigilant Fox” the holy triumvirate of Good Information.

This would be a great thing to happen; under a Starmer gov’t (and any inbound Reform administration) it is not gonna.

Also petition.parliament.uk is a tool created by Westminister to divert energy from real action to signing a petition. If you wanna get involved with doing something like this then look to and support Open Rights Group, Big Brother Watch, Privacy International etc.

Probably because they pull from Google

All Watched Over by Machines of Glue on Pizza

As an owner of both a pinephone and a pinebook pro I would say don’t with the phone unless you’re really prepared to completely upturn everything you do with a phone. It’s really not at a place where it’s a simple consumer-grade device to be used in place of your current smartphone. My pine now gets used as a part of my home automation setup and it works well for that. The pinebook, however, is absolutely magnificent and I take it with me anytime I need a device I’m not so worried about losing and that crucially CAN CHARGE OFF A PORTABLE BATTERY OMG!