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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do you think I USE search operators?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Brave’s not the only search engine to do this, but it’s just one of a million reasons not to use Brave. They’re a scummy company. From this rediit post:

  In 2016, Brave promised to remove banner ads from websites and replace them with their own, basically trying to extract money directly from websites without the consent of their owners

  In the same year, CEO Brendan Eich unilaterally added a fringe, pay-to-win Wikipedia clone into the default search engine list.

  In 2018, Tom Scott and other creators noticed Brave was soliciting donations in their names without their knowledge or consent.

  In 2020, Brave got caught injecting URLs with affiliate codes when users tried browsing to various websites.

  Also in 2020, they silently started injecting ads into their home page backgrounds, pocketing the revenue. There was a lot of pushback: “the sponsored backgrounds give a bad first impression.”

  In 2021, Brave’s TOR window was found leaking DNS queries, and a patch was only widely deployed after articles called them out.

  In 2022, Brave floated the idea of further discouraging users from disabling sponsored messages.

  In 2023, Brave got caught installing a paid VPN service on users’ computers without their consent.

  Also in 2023, Brave got caught scraping and reselling people’s data with their custom web crawler, which was designed specifically not to announce itself to website owners.

  In 2024, Brave gave up on providing advanced fingerprint protection, citing flawed statistics (people who would enable the protection would likely disable Brave telemetry).

  In 2025, Brave staff publish an article endorsing PrivacyTests and say they “work with legitimate testing sites” like them. This article fails to disclose PrivacyTests is run by a Brave Senior Architect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia's Federal Court clarifies: Anti-Zionism and criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nor can I in this light, but here’s the court judgment record, which details everything that this article has quoted, so it’s not imaginary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton joins suit against Apple for predatory practices that harm developers and consumers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen people dismiss this as purely praise for Slater (about whom I know nothing), but it’s very hard not to read these statements from the tweet:

  Great pick by @realDonaldTrump.

  He likes that Gail Slater was given a prominent role. Fair enough.

  10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned.

  Implies Republicans stand for the little guys against tech monopolies. Demonstrably not the case.

  People forget that the current antitrust actions against Big Tech were started under the first Trump admin.

  Suggests the Trump Admin are the bastions against Silicon Valley giants. Completely laughable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t think of a single company worse at naming products and services than Microsoft. They have an abysmal track record. Some examples off the top of my head, all of which make web searches near-impossible:

  • They renamed Office 365 to just “365” (and then “365 Copilot”). The mind boggles.
  • They named their light extensible code editor “Visual Studio Code”, despite the fact that they had a long-established IDE (for code) called “Visual Studio”.
  • They called their application framework “the .NET framework”.
  • They called the replacement framework “.NET Core”, and after a few major versions, changed to calling it “.NET”, but it’s totally distinct from the .NET framework.
  • They called their ninth major desktop operating system “Windows 7”, then followed up with “Windows 8” and… “Windows 10”.
  • Their web-powered replacement for Outlook is called “New Outlook”.
  • They recently renamed their Remote Desktop app “Windows App”. I have no words.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They didn’t make a turn into a crossing. It turned onto the tracks.

  Just to be clear for others, it did so at a crossing. That’s still obviously not what it should have done and it’s no defence of the self-driving feature, but I read your comment as suggesting it had found its way onto train tracks by some other route.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And skins, tanned, stitched, and treated with resin. Pottery is also an ancient skill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is cottage cheese the only cheese defined by some relationship to a building?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Roquefort-sur-Soulzon would have taken its name from a fortress, too, so that counts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quick fix for cracked plastic clip: thread wrap and superglue⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quick fix for cracked plastic clip: thread wrap and superglue⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve not used a Dremel - are you clamping the filament end-on, kind of like a pencil lead? Would a drill potentially work in the same way, if so, if you can align it in the chuck properly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the dumbest comment I’ve read all day but I’ve been chuckling about it for a good couple of minutes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: The Guardian is one of the only newspapers in Australia and Britain to refuse all gambling ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sonia Sodha is still a contributor to The Guardian and is a massive TERF. The Guardian is one of the better news outlets in the UK, but so long as they give her a platform, fuck them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3080: "Tennis Balls"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Qualified “explain” link for mobile users: explainxkcd.com/3080

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #11⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sad for sure, but the person running the AMA is comically tone-deaf and unprepared.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #11⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great post.

  Here’s the Dreadmoor AMA on r/pcgaming on Reddit. It’s a disaster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cooking With Fire - Feddit UK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Non-web ref: !cooking_with_fire@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  great(adj.)

  Old English great “big, thick, stout, coarse” from West Germanic *grauta- “coarse, thick” (source also of Old Saxon grot)

  (Trimmed for humor, but not otherwise changed).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3069: Terror Bird⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Funnily enough, Brontornis does now most frequently get placed in Anserimorphae alongside waterfowl, whereas it was previously most often thought to be a terror bird (though I should say there’s still plenty of debate). It’s thought to be heavier than any terror bird at possibly as much as 400kg - where the average horse apparently weighs 500kg.

  Being extinct, I assume no one ever told it how to get to Sesame Street.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With every exhale, we're smelling the inside of our lungs.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  and sometimes itn’t

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The internet used to come through the phone, now the phone goes through the internet.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In a sense, that’s what phreaking was, if a toy whistle from a breakfast cereal box counts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Untraceable airplanes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Already covered in the OP!

  they don’t show up on flight radar or adsbexchane even with government filters turned on

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Literally just a copy”—hit iOS game accused of unauthorized HTML5 code theft⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The ripoff artist made $42,0000.00

  Not quite that much ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government announces plan to open up Land Registry⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  owner:wikidata=* does exist, though I don’t think anyone tends to map land ownership other than occasional estates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who are these 3 other guys in the car with Coolio in the "Fantastic Voyage" music video?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  B-Real pops up at around 3:30 in the video, he’s not in the car.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘People spontaneously strip off and join us’: nude cyclists send message you don’t need to be buff⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A chamois is normal in cycling pants, and even underwear keeps things somewhat in-place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're remaking Morrowind as a Skyrim mod. Here's a charity livestream we held on the weekend.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  BGs have shown us nothing but good will, we’re following their guidelines strictly on assets - i.e. nothing ported, everything remade from scratch - and we’re requiring both Morrowind and Skywind to be installed… but there’s no guarantee. We’re not stressed about it.

• We're remaking Morrowind as a Skyrim mod. Here's a charity livestream we held on the weekend.youtu.be ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Specifically: tabs, dark mode, and retention of unsaved documents. They’re apps for very different purposes, but Notepad has had some nice little updates over recent years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you brewing?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did a lazy ginger beer over Christmas, but I wanted it vegan and it didn’t clear in time through an extended cold crash. I put it in a plastic keg with CO2 shortly after Christmas, but I was worried about the haziness so I didn’t share it for New Years either.

  I used quite a lot of sugar and it fermented dry, but I didn’t bother checking the OG, so I have no idea how strong it is (though I’d guess it’s 6% or so).

  End result: while most people I know are attempting Dry January, I’m drinking a lot of ginger beer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It seems likely Elon Musk has lost over half of the UK twitter daily audience by now"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pub buildings built on the cheap or converted (i.e. single storey, flat roof) are almost always a reliable predictor for terrible beer, aggressive clientele, and a regular light dusting of snow on the bathroom sinks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The country is done for⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why stop there? Time to campaign for fee, hee, jee, kee, etc.

  L, M, N and O get a free pass because they’re really just a prefix to P, not letters in their own right.