This is the planet wide equivalent of the microwave interfering with the wifi signal.
shifty
joined 9 months ago
Instead of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, it'll be 6 degrees and we're all bakin'
More than meets the eye 😏
I cancelled my Kagi subscription as soon as they started rolling out their "AI" features.
Edit: Otherwise I was happy to pay a monthly fee for privacy respecting search. Now I use a mix of 4Get, SearXNG, Startpage
My challenge is getting the seeds to sprout when I try to do the same. Indoors is still too cold for sprouting so I'm going to try a heating pad next year.
Its not even summer yet...
Some food for thought, (excerpt from Louis Rossmann's reply to the top pinned comment):
"with regards to products: if you want to only buy shoes, razors, cars, caulking materials, etc, made by companies & people who support all of your political beliefs, you're going to lose that game very fast. you will waste your life doing the following:
- researching every item you buy to death
- making these items yourself once you realize it's impossible to find each item you want made by someone who mirrors your ideology
- give up & live in a cave
The moment you go down that road of throwing away software products and services because they are made by people whose political beliefs do not reflect yours, you are going to end up living in a cave. That is a lonely world. It doesn't even work!! People who bought the Tesla Model 3 a few years ago would have Ford F-250 Turbo Diesel drivers speed up in front of them and roll coal in their face. And now that same person is getting called a Nazi!!!
the political beliefs of the software i use are irrelevant to me. They only become relevant when these questions arise:
- does it stop me from using the software the way i want?
- do their political beliefs keep them from being able to make a functioning product?
for gnome, #2 is yes. gnome was bad 10 years ago,it was bad 5 years ago, and it's bad now. i used gnome for a very short time period earlier in 2024 out of morbid curiosity. my machine had 128 gigabytes of ram, rtx-2080, threadripper 2950x processor and gnome still lagged. XFCE just worked! on top of that, gnome sucked to use. i am not using gnome: whether it's "woke" or "anti woke" or whatever else.
if we're at a point in the world where we choose our web browser by the political views of its programmers... we're screwed"
Not required. SF does have an ordinance to cover some costs depending on the number of employees. But its not some nationwide law.
If you're a fancy tech bro in SF all your costs are covered, health/dental/vision/life insurance, commuting stipend or govt subsidized account you get to put pre-tax money in and the company might match, matching contributions for your retirement 401K. The techbro class doesn't care about the cost of BART, many of them take an UBER for 3-4x the BART faire and not bat and eye at the bill (or use the company UBER account for free). If you're just some random minimum wage worker, you'd be lucky to live within an hour or two commute of SF and afford housing.
Imagine working minimum wage in SF and commuting in by BART + BUS / MUNI Lightrail / CALTRAIN / FERRY. Gotta work at least 2 hours just to cover the costs of your commute every day.
Specifically leather belts and footwear.