I read some random theory on the Internet years ago that said we may well have memories from earlier, but because of how much the brain changes during development they could basically be encoded in a different file format than what the brain at a later stage of development knows how to decode. No idea where I came across that, or if it was supported by any science or was just a shower thought, but interesting to think about.

I’ve seen people mention Anubis, the other one I heard about in a blog post that’s maybe worth looking into is go-away.

Honestly I hate all these file sharing self hosting things. Looking at you nextcloud owncloud syncthing seafile etc. They all suck. All I want is NFS support in android, that’s my only pain point accessing my files from anywhere from my home network. I can already VPN/wireguard into my network from anywhere, but I can’t grab an ebook or mp3s off my NFS server from my phone or tablet, I have to have some other dumb infrastructure for it. Just (#@$^* put NFS in android already!!!

/endrant

Data copied from devices during advanced searches at entry points into the U.S. gets saved for 15 years in a database searchable by thousands of CBP employees without a warrant.

There is very little to reason to believe that any data copied by agencies like this is deleted ever. You should assume any data copied like this is kept forever, shared between agencies and corporate contractors, compiled into various databases and lists, used to train shady security contractor AI systems.

There are no comprehensive federal data privacy laws in the United States, and even if we get one in the future, it probably won’t apply to security agencies.

That might be a big scope increase compared to the type of software it is currently, but what a great idea. Maybe file a feature request in their github project?

I’m seeing the same, not even using a VPN.

I never even set up DNS for things that aren’t public facing. I just keep /etc/hosts updated everywhere and ssh/scp/rsync things around using their non-fqdn hostnames.

Molly White also wrote about this in the context of open access on the web and people being concerned about how their works are being used.

“Wait, not like that”: Free and open access in the age of generative AI

The same thing happened again with the explosion of generative AI companies training models on CC-licensed works, and some were disappointed to see the group take the stance that, not only do CC licenses not prohibit AI training wholesale, AI training should be considered non-infringing by default from a copyright perspective.

If you don’t want to host your own data, take a look at TarSnap

I’m having the same problem. There are bugs about it open with the developers, so presumably it’ll be fixed at some point.

Search Icons are missing again #2227

Icons are missing from custom search engines added from settings #2261

In the meantime, I was able to make my search bar presentable by installing the “Search Engines Helper” plugin and manually adding the search engines that are having favicon problems, then going into the search engine settings and removing the checkmarks for the broken ones.