Their search engine isn't the best but none of the search engines I use are, not even Google.

So to me, they've already succeeded. Can you elaborate on the issues that make you think they haven't?

[1]: https://www.zdnet.com/article/brave-deemed-most-private-brow...

I've been using Ddg and Brave for general search and Yandex for deep-ocean expeditions (of the jack sparrow variety) and topics that US tech giants censor. I am looking for good Chinese search engine so that I can search things that Yandex censors or when Yandex's bot detection goes crazy (I get blocked with infinite captcha about 25% of the time).

The only thing Google remains good at is local search. If I want to buy something locally, nothing else comes close.

It's not about what people believe, but what they are willing to publicly push back against. If such a law was proposed today, I bet it would pass because the only discussions around it would be whether the data can be kept safe and what punishments to dole out if the car owner access this data. Arguments about privacy will be waved away or dismissed without debate.

In fact, let's make a pointless bet: I bet my imaginary internet reputation that the US or EU will pass a law within the next 10 years that requires the continuous recording and collection of data that not only includes GPS, but also face and audio data whenever a car is in motion. This law will impose severe punishments on any owner that accesses this data or deletes it.

I desperately fear for my family and want things to improve, but we are going to lose this battle.

It's the the Emperor's New Clothes in real life but for morals. No amount of Rossmanning is going to help society walk back its collective hypocrisy.

I think _your_ impression of people outside tech circles is as HN-centric as it gets :)

I also remember how we (I?) used to hard link the /tmp/RANDOM.tmp files that youtube buffered into so the video parts don't get automatically unlinked and we could then stitch them back with ffmpeg or whatever buggy fork ubuntu had in its repos. Full Star wars in glorious 240p! (I had shitty internet.)

The good old days. Back when people called streaming what it really is (downloading) and exercised their god-given right to keep what was sent to them.

Every time I try to load a PWA on my phone from my dev laptop, it breaks after a few weeks (days?) for no obvious reason. I investigated this for a bit but eventually gave up and went the electron/wrapper app route.

If we can find a real fix for this stupid issue, I would be more than happy to focus on PWAs.

Given how HTTP is now what TCP was during the 90s and almost all modern networked applications needing to communicate in it one way or another, most rust projects come with an inherent security risk.

These days, I score the usability of programming languages by how complete their standard library is. By that measure, Rust and Javascript get an automatic F.

I always wanted to mess with building virtual filesystems but was unwilling to venture outside the standard library (i.e. libfuse) for reasons wonderfully illustrated in this thread and elsewhere. Somehow the idea of implementing a networked fs protocol and leaving system integration to the system never crossed my mind.

I'm glad more people are taking this stance. Large centralized standard libraries and minimal audited dependencies is really the only way to achieve some semblance of security. There is simply no other viable approach.

Edit: What's the license for this project?

Like it or not, we're all stuck on the same boat. Normalizing the abuse and mistreatment of some parts of the world means normalizing it for everyone.

I wonder how many of Hetzner's customers are like me. I hope DRAM doesn't kill off cheap VPS providers like this one.