For me the specific dealbreaker is the price. Specifically because it’s not the price of a artisanal search engine, it’s the price of an AI chatbot (both in terms of the dollar value and what they’re spending it on).
And now, to read that site’s article on javascript and see if I need to rethink whether disabling Wasm and WebGL by default is enough (Edit: That article is just a list of vulnerabilities and a guide on how to disable javascript).
it’s not worth for $10
I subscribed to the $5 plan last night for that very reason, and then immediately unsubscribed because it was the most user-hostile search engine I’ve ever used. Limit of 300 searches per month, with the 300 AI interactions that I’ll never use being a separate category. There’s also a cap of 1000 sites in the personalized results. Worst all all though the theme made my eyes bleed and every time I refreshed the page trying to get it to apply the custom CSS it ran up my 300 searches. Oh and also they only show you a maximum of two pages of results FFS. Bloody hell the issues are endless.
I just wanted the ability to uprank good sites, and downrank or block a handful. Being able to brand domains as trusted is the best solution I can think of to AI polluting search results.
DuckDuckGo allows me to block 5 sites and sync that between browsers but not uprank or downrank them.
Brave allows me to uprank and block, but not downrank or sync between devices. And it doesn’t let me uprank the au TLD (which is far more restrictive than com or org). Also after upranking anime-planet.com and searching for “The Apothecary Diaries” it didn’t show up in the results at all unless I appended “site:anime-planet.com”.
T495s here.
The Democrats make it pretty clear that they do not care about our votes, or about beating Republicans. We have to organize outside of the Democratic party infrastructure, while reluctantly voting for the lesser of two evils.
I’m not really against AI (specifically text-based GenAI), but AI does change the reality of using the internet. I need to be able to promote trustworthy domains in my search results and accumulate such a list over years.
Brave search technically has such a feature, but firstly the owner is a homophobe, and secondly the feature isn’t really as power-user oriented as I’d like.
They’re a luddite, if the site wasn’t down then I’d doubt their credentials.
And they’ll suddenly throw away that excuse that they’ve relied on for decades, just to spite the world’s developing countries by cutting USAID funding a few months sooner?
The Democrats famously adhere to American norms. Do you think they’d suddenly start bypassing congress and appoint a special government employee to go around causing chaos? They’re entire identity is “we’d love to, but we can’t because of congress”.
Why? Why do you say this? You keep getting trapped in this idea of the DNC being “more moral” in actions, despite their actions still propping up imperialism and protecting it.
I literally just explained.
Get a separate device for work. You shouldn’t be working on your personal computer anyway.
The Democrats would’ve, at a bare minimum, left USAID slower. They wouldn’t have sent Musk in to immediately halt payments, they would’ve just removed the funding from the next congressional budget. Aid organisations would’ve had warning and people wouldn’t have been suddenly cut off from their HIV medication.
Leaving the WHO is not something even the rich are really calling for. It’s a conspiracy theorist thing that Trump is pushing on a personal level. Nobody in the imperial periphery is really following him either.
I’m not going to bother responding to the last part. Unless it’s easier to organize under the GOP, it’s irrelevant. Hell the communist revolution is besides my point entirely. All I’ve been trying to say is that more people die when a Republican president is elected, and even if that might usher in a communist revolution you’d still be gambling with lives by choosing that.
I really need to switch to Kagi, but it’s American so I don’t want to give them money.
Cutting USAID killed hundreds of thousands of people. How many the Democrats would’ve killed is almost definitely less, although how much less is up for debate. Maybe the wouldn’t have cut USAID, maybe they would’ve just reduced it, maybe they would’ve cut it completely but done so more gradually.
They certainly wouldn’t have left the WHO. Staying in the WHO is just good business sense, aside from for the private hospitals but the impacts of a highly lethal global pandemic on stability and on the safety of the rich isn’t worth it.
And people will have more space to organize when under a predictably evil government than a chaotic one. Unless you’re relying on the death and destruction for a recruitment drive.
“Some of you may die, but it’s a price I am willing to pay for the collapse of the American empire” - Lord Farquaad (Shrek)
Even if the Democrats would’ve cut it USAID, they would’ve been far less sudden about it. According to people who work in humanitarian aid, the suddenness of Trump’s cuts to USAID got a lot of people killed in the developing world.
Even if the DNC haven’t meaningfully countered climate change, they haven’t done nothing either. They also likely wouldn’t have abolished USAID which, while it existed for propaganda purposes, did save lives.
It’s not a solution, but as you said it’s easier. We can and should do both. Even if voting for the Democrats saves one life from climate change or ICE, it’s worth doing.
I stopped reading them after the first 20 or so.
I’m not American in the first place.
It’s more that the lawyers have a lot of power at Fedora, because America is a failed state.
I currently use Fedora but I’d swap to OpenSUSE if I didn’t already install Fedora. None of the software I wanted to install worked on OpenSUSE but I remember my time with it so fondly.