sudneo

@sudneo@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secure encryption and online anonymity are now at risk in Switzerland⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
  • Years of great track record, consistent position over basically a decade, 7 years of 5-6 digits donations to nonprofits aligned with those objectives: “whitewashing PR”.
  • 1 tweet about a different topic: “here is their real position on privacy.”

  Sorry, no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secure encryption and online anonymity are now at risk in Switzerland⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
  • proton.me/blog/european-tech-alternatives
  • proton.me/blog/apple-ends-adp-in-uk
  • proton.me/blog/big-tech-data-requests-surge
  • proton.me/blog/trump-controls-nsa-fbi

  Just in the last few months. Their position has been always crystal clear on this issue. Please stop spreading misinformation for a personal grudge. Even one person who doesn’t switch from Gmail or Outlook to Proton (the closest privacy a friendly replacement) because of your bs is an unnecessary damage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secure encryption and online anonymity are now at risk in Switzerland⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you seriosuly not see how your claim is a nonsequitur? Like, how can someone in good faith quote a sentence that talks about antitrust and who supports big tech or “small tech” and conclude that “Nazis are on his side”, so he must be a Nazi.

  I don’t know what more needs to happen for people like you to accept he supports nazis.

  For once, he needs to support a Nazi and their Nazi ideas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they are just getting started with learning programming, be kind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Foregejo : codeberg = lemmy : blahaj.zone

  Forgejo being a fork of gitea

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough, I am also not attached to kagi, mostly I want companies with good business models to succeed in tech. I want to see ad-revenue based companies (and all the connected industry) to crumble. A man can dream…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But yandex is useful for those who search in Russian. The low utilization probably comes from a mostly US/EU customer base, but when it is used, it is useful. I would disagree with disabling it. The best would be letting people decide what back ends to use, but that requires a whole rewrite of the search logic on their side, so it’s not happening any time soon…

  BTW in EU we still use a lot of gas and oil from Russia, so it’s quite difficult to avoid giving them money (especially because we don’t know where energy came from for every product we buy).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think their customer base is basically 90% made of people that - like me - would quit in a second.

  Good thing is that there is no vendor lock, it would be a shame, but changing search engine is quite simple.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I agree. In general I will personally try to evaluate if the good that comes from a company succeeding outweighs the fact it’s a US company. I won’t use a dogmatic approach, but I will definitely be careful to choose even more carefully than before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At least in Europe that’s still quite impossible, who knows what their gas and oil is used to produce. Which means you might buy some european product and also give them money. Anyway, everyone has their lines and I respect that.

  I think most people are unaffected from the actual data, unless they search in russian, which is useful for me as a Russian language learner for example. I mostly search grammar stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know the details, so maybe there is a reason, but I am not part of the “outraged” crowd. I think kagi use case is neat and innovative, bot protection is meh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically you could extend that reasoning to plenty of EU countries that also send aid to Israel (e.g., Germany, where Hetzner is located, or tuta, etc.).

  At some point one has to make compromises, and everyone can place the line where they wish. Considering 1000 searches per month, the price is going to be between $0.20 and $3.84 (synchronous). So let’s say $2, which is probably an order of magnitude more than the real cost. Of that 2$, the margin is maybe 1$? That 1$ becomes profit for some Kazakh company, which ultimately means $0.2 in taxes. If this was in Russia, that would be $0.018 to the federal government, but let’s say that it doesn’t matter. Of that, 40% goes in weapons, making it $0.08/month. In 1 year, that’s $0.96.

  Now, as I said I wouldn’t be surprised if this was an overestimation of 10x or more, it also assumes that absolutely nothing goes to Kazakh government, which is fully used to bypass sanctions, and a 50% margin for the company. It also assumes 1000 searches (the average was around 300 if I recall correctly) and that yandex is used for each one of them.

  Every cent count, absolutely, but it’s objectively such a tiny amount that a one-time donation to UA army or some humanitarian relief org will offset you for like 15 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since they implemented privacy pass, there is now something stopping them from doing both. See help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/privacy-pass.html

  Obviously with it you trade the need to trust them for your own personalization (as they can’t know it was you searching).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but they don’t (their privacy policy is exemplary). They have a whole shpiel about their business model. Just few weeks back they released a feature that makes it technically impossible for them to see who did searches, so no trust is needed anymore. They implemented a very novel protocol, quite cool.

  I have doubts considering they are an american company, but I want to see them succeed. Plus, they are remote, so at least a good chunk of the income taxes from salaries are going outside the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would they do what Google etc. do, but much worse? It makes sense that they do scrape what google etc. most likely miss (and that’s what their index is about). Even a company with Microsoft resources tried and failed to scrape the web as a whole (failed in the sense results are worse).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Open source analytics tools are still pushing for ad-driven business models that make the world (and the content) worse. Open source LLMs still waste computational power and pollute. And the list continues. Some open source technologies serve a good goal, some contribute to make the world as bad as some non-OSS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every Country That Has Their Own Lemmy Instance⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. Very interesting, I would think that is a nightmare for phishing and similar threats, but maybe they have good monitoring or oversight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every Country That Has Their Own Lemmy Instance⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am actually surprised they got that on the first place. That’s a very major domain name to have…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every Country That Has Their Own Lemmy Instance⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would lemm.ee count for Estonia?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Italy to require VPN and DNS providers to block pirated content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s Italy, there is no chance of that efficiency. This is - as usual - stuff done to prevent pirated sport content. Nothing else has ever and probably will ever be done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leo knew it was a joke and laughed because it was just a joke⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, then let me elaborate.

  Take furries. Using a moralistic approach such as yours I could conclude that they are freaks who encourage bestiality. Instead I think that consenting adults can do what they want as long as they are not harming anybody (this part was obviously implied, but suddenly you lost the ability to use context and imply things when it was convenient to build a strawman).

  Take women with control-related kinks. Using your moralistic approach I could go tell them that they are victims of bla bla bla who internalized bla bla bla, and that ultimately men who accept to please those kinks perpetrate bla bla bla. Instead, I think that consenting adults can get off the way they want.

  I could go on, but the point is clear, hopefully.

  On this topic you are a bigot. You are a bigot because you are essentially using a dogma that women can only act as victims of a system that oppresses them and nothing else. You are stripping away agency, and applying rigid moral rules grounded in that dogma. You are using a very similar approach that homophobes use to hate on gay people, you just think that you are doing it for good© reasons to defend oppressed minorities; or singular actually, because this only applies to women dating older men I suppose? Or you also have other definitions for wrong couples? Black woman/white man? Indigenous woman/white man? Poor woman/rich man? And what if this was a lesbian couple? 25yo woman/50+ woman?

  I would like to know the mental gymnastic to bend that “moral principle” so that you don’t end up against mixed race couples or similar, because if you consider people only expression of their social group, you absolutely can conclude that some (all?) of those relationships represent and perpetrate the same power inequality that exists between their demographics.

  Elsewhere you suggested to people to “check your own biases”, maybe you can take your own suggestion here and try to see if your analysis fell short.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leo knew it was a joke and laughed because it was just a joke⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it’s the same thing here, great parallel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leo knew it was a joke and laughed because it was just a joke⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “We don’t judge other people sexual preferences, unless they are the wrong ones according to me”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leo knew it was a joke and laughed because it was just a joke⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hard disagree.

  Also there are plenty of opposite examples (i.e., older women celebrities dating younger guys), what is that a symptom of?

  This has nothing to do with feminism imho. In fact, I would say the opposite, it’s an attempt to prescribe what women should do. Religious morality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leo knew it was a joke and laughed because it was just a joke⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would or wouldn’t do lots of things that I accept others might do. My morality is not universal. I leave this kind of thinking to religion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leo knew it was a joke and laughed because it was just a joke⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And this notion that you should date only people your age where does it come from? It seems a completely arbitrary moral claim to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leo knew it was a joke and laughed because it was just a joke⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People are allowed to date for whatever reason they want. As long as two adults are freely consenting it’s not up to you to be the moral police and decide what should push people to date each other.

  They can date for the looks, to look or feel younger, to go outside their comfort zone, for sexual pleasure, for pure intellectual attraction, for material benefit, for […long list].

  This is one of the instances in which the good goal of fighting abuse becomes bigotry. It’s basically like religious moralism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kagi Introducing Fair Pricing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually they have no VC in the traditional sense! They did private investment rounds, and I think they raised like 400k from like 60 investors or something. The actual numbers might be off, but I remember looking into this and it was lime 10/20k per investor on average, basically retail amounts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kagi Introducing Fair Pricing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I always found it funny that in Italian kagi is read “caghi” which is a mediumly-rude word for “you take a dump”.

  Not what you were looking for, sorry for the OT :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Co-op campaigns are a rarity these days, and that should change⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you likes it takes two, in march the same studio should release “split fiction”.

  Other titles that come to mind: cuphead, untitled goose game, overcooked (!), valheim.