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New comment by rcMgD2BwE72F in "Fingerprints are the new cookies"

rcMgD2BwE72F — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:38:29 +0000

>Generally, how can society discover new products and services?

I'm surprised you can't imagine a society where the consumer would be the one recommending products and not the producer. Any entrepreneur can find one first consumer to test their new product. And that first consumer have access to a great communication network to recommend that products to their social network — it's called "the Internet". Social networks are a great platform for people to share interesting things to their friends, family, colleagues and also to people they don't actually know ("the Internet" can connect you to strangers). Such networks cost little to operate when the content is created by users, instead of producers and their intermediaries (people favors short, insightful written text instead of catchy commercial once detoxed).

Being born in the 1990s, I did experience that "Internet", when advertising networks didn't exist and when people intentionally interacted to make connections and actively look for information. They were happy to tell about things they discovered, with little to expect in return ("influencer", aka mercenary, wasn't a job yet).

New comment by rcMgD2BwE72F in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

rcMgD2BwE72F — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:14:21 +0000

Are they physically forced to vote for Putin? And how widespread is the electoral fraud?

New comment by rcMgD2BwE72F in "What's Earth's dominant species by mass?"

rcMgD2BwE72F — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:14:29 +0000

>Humanity isn't perfect but it's pretty awesome, and may ultimately be the only reason that the species that exist on this planet are able to continue to exist.

For now, the contrary seems most probable. It's humanity that's threatening most species on Earth right now.

New comment by rcMgD2BwE72F in "Religious scholars met with Anthropic"

rcMgD2BwE72F — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:09:14 +0000

>I doubt we'll see nationalizations because that's not America's style (thank goodness!)

Laughing in a TGV

New comment by rcMgD2BwE72F in "September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy"

rcMgD2BwE72F — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:59:50 +0000

>The most sensible thing the EU could do right now is make peace with Russia

Let Russia leave Ukraine and have your peace.

New comment by rcMgD2BwE72F in "Google ending ChromeOS support two years early"

rcMgD2BwE72F — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:08:42 +0000

I'm browsing from a Pixel 9 phone running GraphenOS phone, plugged into a 4K monitor, and paired with a bluetooth Logitech MX Vertical mouse and a MX Keys Mini keyboard. Works prefect. I don't miss my Macbook Air M5 much.

New comment by rcMgD2BwE72F in "I'm Tired of Being on the Network"

rcMgD2BwE72F — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:15:45 +0000

I get no high from my phone/apps since there are no ads and no perverse incentives. I'm not the product of the services I pay for.

I'm happy Fastmail (made by a small company) is much better and faster than Gmail (made by a advertising behemoth). Idem with GrapheneOS vs Pixel OS. The less friction, the shortest time spent using the phone, the most time to enjoy spending time outside and with friends.

New comment by rcMgD2BwE72F in "I'm tired of being on the network"

rcMgD2BwE72F — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:10:22 +0000

Not true. I'm a customer of 3 top French online banks and of two top global brokerage cie and the apps work great. I have no issue whatsoever except with one health insurance app but their Web app is better anyway.

Only thing missing is contactless payment but there are European banks that support GrapheneOS without Google Pay so alternatives exist. And I can use Garmin pay with my watch (and offline and without Garmin Connect thanks to the FOSS GadgetBridge appp) if that was necessary.

New comment by rcMgD2BwE72F in "I'm tired of being on the network"

rcMgD2BwE72F — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:27:11 +0000

Get GrapheneOS. Install FOSS apps whenever possible, via Obtainium. Signal if need be. A RSS reader. No social networks. Get a Kagi subscription to ensure no ads and bias.

Voilà

New comment by rcMgD2BwE72F in "Goodbye Google"

rcMgD2BwE72F — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 07:33:17 +0000

It won't stop but it will slow down to a crawl.

Eating too much fruits has never been healthy, but gorging oneself on raw sugar is worse. Perfect is the enemy of the good.

New comment by rcMgD2BwE72F in "Goodbye Google"

rcMgD2BwE72F — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 07:28:34 +0000

Fentanyl: what's the pressing issue? Coffee has been around for centuries.

If you really want to blame something, it really all comes down to one word: substance use disorder.

New comment by rcMgD2BwE72F in "US interest rates raised for first time in three years"

rcMgD2BwE72F — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:44:47 +0000

No, because the US are the slowest to electrify their grid and transportation.

New comment by rcMgD2BwE72F in "Volkswagen Just Built an EV That Can Go Nearly 900 Miles on a Charge"

rcMgD2BwE72F — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:55:29 +0000

>Most people

Did you mean fat people?

I'm curious to know if the evolution of the average car size tracks obesity.

New comment by rcMgD2BwE72F in "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"

rcMgD2BwE72F — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:35:39 +0000

Everything uses energy. AI is uniquely bad due to its scale. Comparing AI inference and training with posting a one-line comment on a website is like comparing wildfires with candles because they both produce heat. It's true but useless as an argument.

New comment by rcMgD2BwE72F in "Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results"

rcMgD2BwE72F — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:01:50 +0000

Too bad the new Kagi settings does not support allowing some paywalled domains to show up.

New comment by rcMgD2BwE72F in "Ox Alpha"

rcMgD2BwE72F — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:25:53 +0000

To secure a foothold in the market, with the hope of ultimately being the Winner-take-all (in the West).

New comment by rcMgD2BwE72F in "Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code"

rcMgD2BwE72F — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:47:29 +0000

When did torrenting die?

New comment by rcMgD2BwE72F in "The AI Credit Resale Economy"

rcMgD2BwE72F — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:52:04 +0000

What's the source of information?

New comment by rcMgD2BwE72F in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

rcMgD2BwE72F — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:55:00 +0000

>This is pathological. Like I find myself not ever looking at the top result in a search, because that is where Google has been putting ads.

Why put up with that? Is Kagi too expensive for you?

New comment by rcMgD2BwE72F in "Pixel Watch 5"

rcMgD2BwE72F — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:53:34 +0000

I'm pretty happy with a Pixel 9 running GrapheneOS and a Garmin that I never connected to a Garmin account. I use https://codeberg.org/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge instead (then synced to my computer with syncthing), and I don't miss anything from Garmin.

I'm 100% Google free, and far happier with tech that I ever was.