Will they change their business practices to respect their users’ privacy though?

Spoiler: they won’t - if they did they’d go bankrupt in a matter of months.

It’s just typical capitalism. In order to achieve anything that looks like amazing growth/innovation/pricing, you MUST f*** someone in the butt (typically those at the very bottom of the hierarchy).

I’m legit sorry that I have to be this cynical…

…but are we really surprised that Nestlé, Unilever and Pepsico don’t care about ethical supply chains ?

My father and his first wife married at 17, had their first child at 18. She (i.e. that first child) had her first child at 17, who in turn had her first child at 18. My father thus became grandfather at 35, great-grandfather at 53; and I became uncle at about 7, great-uncle at about 25. Kinda cool tbh.

I’ll just throw in the mandatory ‘always on the wrong side of history’ cliché.

Exactly. Only small businesses and individuals have to honour the GDPR, not them.

In Briar, it’s only possible to send images - not any other file, as of this writing.

They have a very clear stance on not rushing releases, and focusing on security and stability rather than features, which is laudable, but on the flip side that means one must probably wait for months, if not years, for new features.

Came into the thread just to say this. Very happy and thankful you mentioned it already. I think fossil is THE underrated vcs.

I’d like to mention https://chiselapp.com/, since OP’s wish is, AFAICT, to have a service that’s hosted elsewhere.

Try Mojeek. I don’t like, at all, that it’s based in the UK, but at least it’s not Gringoland. Easy-to-use, own web index, truly independent company with own ad syndication (no Bing).

‘Las verdades incuestionables de hoy, son las pendejadas del mañana’

Sex as well.

Well, now that y’all put it that way, I think it was pretty naive from me to think that these companies, whose business model is basically theft, would honour a lousy robots.txt file…

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What advantage does this software provide over simply banning bots via robots.txt?

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There are now studies (I/you need to look up the references since I’m now in a hurry) which posit that, especially in bigger organisations, 80% of the work gets done by 20% of non-managing individuals - because of exactly this phenomenon.

The scam isn’t ‘hard work’

The scam is the ‘a job gives you(r life) purpose’ narrative.

Nope, times a thousand. Meaningful relationships, having realistic (but still challenging) goals, self-expression, responsibility for the well-being of others and engaging in meaningful initiatives, among many others, do.

Er. ‘I am done with Google’. Watch the video on YouTube…

May I suggest Michael Lucas’ ‘Cashflow for Creators’. While not exactly a must-read, personally it helped me a lot to actually map, plan and ultimately take the decision to tell the corporate world to get stuffed.

Well, given that the world is pretty much on fire right now, it does feel a bit out of place to start rambling about Christian hypocrisy. So, like, yea, I get your point and I do believe most religious people are hypocrites (nor is that a phenomenon that only affects Christians), but…how about, if we want to follow that line of thinking, pointing the finger at the ‘’‘’‘’‘’‘‘Jewish’’‘’‘’‘’‘’ state and its genocidal ‘’‘leader’‘’, that rabid dog no politician anywhere is willing to put a leash on? We would be talking about hypocrisy at a much, much higher level and it would be, at the veeeery least, as relevant…

…and you are figuring that out in 2025?