So basically “pasteurisation was found to have worked”.

Depends on your sector of work. Imagine you’re a therapist or a lawyer…

Slightly wondering whether this is a roundabout way of creating Ad-Free YouTube playback capabilities. “Hey community, we are adding support for ad enabled streams. Would be a shame if you hated that so much you wrote some ad blocking plugins.”

Slightly misleading title, I was surprised that the Russians advanced to Kyiv with 36 tanks.

Depends on how you define private. It’s not “private” in the sense that it is accessible to the public interner. It is only more privacy-friendly in the sense that say, unlike Facebook, there is no need to use your IRL ID data, there are no weird algorithms baked in, and no targeted ads. Nothing would keep 3rd-party scrapers from profiling your posts that are public, but at least by default it’s not evil.

… until Meta will arrive on the fediverse…

I don’t think it’s about a craving for centralisation but for newcomers and people still learning the core ideas about decentralisation it’s about a promise of more active engagement and more varied content.

Kindof proud to say I never installed anything after Windows 10, including that.

Nothing. The fleur-de-lis is a commonly used decorative symbol, it was used as a symbol of chastity and virtue before any families adopted it for themselves. It is mostly used as a symbol in connection with the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Joseph

I think the only answer is “Doom”

Depends in what field. Proton, at least, doesn’t scan your email contents and metadata to sell it on to advertisers.

And here was I thinking locking up a murderer is for the protection of the public…

But the friendly mines are friendly! They are kind to you when taking off your leg and they never lie to you!

They hid it behind the real moon so you can’t see it because it’s very secret

Have you seen any of the new The Peripheral series? It’s a great adaptation of the Gibson novel and again, not at all 80’s.

Wrong answers only in reply to this one ⤵️

I mean it even harvests typing data and Outlook also includes calendars etc… It’s really bad.

But yes, I just suggested a re-evaluation of the use of Microsoft Outlook to my company …

I’ll have him, I have enemies

Flagged on HN. Awaiting verification whether the claims are true I guess?

https://github.com/vndee/local-talking-llm

“Shockingly”? Did whoever write that title even see Barbie?