I would like to make the argument that the increased attention from Google will exert an enshittification pressure in code quality due to the sudden appearance and accumulation of trackers, until the web is finally sold to any big publishing company, and, eventually, to an AI training company.
Browsing HN is a relief in times of Surveillance Capitalism
Edit: HN uses google tagmanager and analytics; amplitude and branch.io
I don't see any requests to any analytics or Google Tagmanager, actually the only requests I see when opening a post are to the `news.ycombinator.com` domains to fetch the document itself, a CSS file, a JS file, an image and a couple of SVGs, nothing else.
If you see requests outside of that there's something fishy going on in your browser, I believe.
The amount of problems remains stable, as a universal constant . Problems are neither solved nor created, only transformed. By switching from Telegram to Matrix, new problems arose. By switching from Matrix to Session, by switching to Signal, where we are now, fewer problems arose
David Graeber argued that there are bullshit jobs, that keep people busy with tasks that are useless for their development or the society.
He didn’t take into account that there are destructive jobs, whose workers significantly contribute to the destruction of the conditions which render the planet habitable.
The planet would be better off if those folks received a UBI for staying at home
Yeah. I can no longer stand the smell of smoke no matter how far away. My wife hates me because we can’t sit on terraces to eat and drink next to smokers and traffic smoke
Where I live, "beautiful bc," it was decided that emissions testing was ineffective so we stopped doing it. Also there's a rash of catalytic converter thefts. A real catalytic converter is expensive. A metal tube the same size and shape is less expensive and deters future theft. Put it together and there's a significant number of cars whose exhaust is way over legal limits but they only get caught if a cop feels like noticing. And the police are not known for treehugging.
Smoking is outlawed in parks, but allowed on sidewalks.
Out here in the Southern US that's just the norm. I can smell poorly running 10-40 year old trucks and cars every day along side the newest diesel truck trying to roll coal on a Prius for shits and giggles. Add on top of that smelling peoples cigarette smoke two cars over and seeing them litter the cigarette butt.
We didn't get a Bar smoking ban locally until recently and at first it only targeted bars that serve food.
The USA actually has pretty strict emissions standards for diesel engines, so most cars on the road are relatively clean burning gasoline cars. But in parts of Europe or Asia, diesel vehicles are much more common, and their exhaust has a distinct smell from the sulfur and nitrogen oxides they produce.
>USA actually has pretty strict emissions standards for diesel engines, so most cars on the road are relatively clean burning gasoline cars.
If by that you mean bad smelling poorly running clunkers everywhere then yes. But mostly because we don't do emissions testing at all outside of one or two cities in my state.
I'm aware we're technically strict, but I don't see the EPA shutting down roll coal culture any time soon. It took us this long to catch Cummins[1] after VW got dragged through the courts. At this point I find it hard to believe any diesel motor truly passes US emission standards.
For me, it’s not only the price you pay. Having a username attached to each your searches is the opposite of privacy, no matter how much you trust their legalese wording
I go the opposite way. I trust a company that takes my money to pay its costs to keep my privacy. As opposed to a company who "doesn't know who I am". (Apart from unique fingerprint https://amiunique.org/ over many queries over many months)
They try to. But every time a browser gets better at existing methods, it also gains new features which become new methods of identification. The web browser environment is broken. And if you get to fight it by using something with better protection, you're only exposing yourself more because no other users do the same thing.
99% of people are probably signed into a google account when they search google. If you want the sort of privacy you seem to want, stick to the dark web and similarly inconvenient tools.
To maintain your level of privacy requires a drastically different lifestyle than most of us have or want.
They didn't state anything about their desired level of privacy other than not wanting a username attached to every search. That's not equivalent to needing to use TOR for every search.
>99% of people are probably signed into a google account when they search google
What is the relevance of this statement? Obviously this wouldn't apply to the parent poster, it doesn't refute anything the parent said, and at least anecdotally it's not true at all.
>If you want the sort of privacy you seem to want, stick to the dark web and similarly inconvenient tools.
Privacy is a spectrum, not some binary choice between having a username (and often real name) attached to every search vs. using the dark web for every search. You can land somewhere in the middle, for example: "I don't want a username attached to every search".
There is no technical reason Kagi needs usernames, but they choose to require them. For some people, that points to the company not being as privacy-friendly as other people seem to think/claim.
I dont browse signed in to my Google account, which I barely use. But Google has an open account on each of us, even if we block their servers at the firewall level
Oh well I don't assume I'm in anyway "anonymous" no matter if I got a username/ipadress/cookie/deep-state-monitoring attached to my searches. Things I html-POST to the web is no longer private.
Well, the Linux based Maemo OS I had in 2005 0r 2006 on my Nokia 770 was already promising, although the hardware was quite slow and limited, but it was an open system one would have root access to out of the box. Then it evolved into Meego, which was even better and was then employed by the Nokia N9. Nokia already had the OS to transition to from the old Symbian, but after the Microsoft deal, they scrapped it to adopt Windows Mobile, and the rest is history.
Maemo and MeeGo and other Nokia OSs were more coherent than Microsoft's phone OSs at the time, and Symbian would have had a long life on cheap devices. Smartphones were expensive back then.
In the UK there was a brief period from 2009-2011 where everyone seemed to replace their Nokia with a Blackberry before iPhones became common (BBM was a big thing)
I can remember one Christmas, perhaps 2010, where my Facebook feed was just folks posting their BBM pins. Ah, what a throwback.
In retrospect, a better idea than giving out your phone number as WhatsApp requires. And indeed, people were more willing to share BBM pins than phone numbers.
In the UK + US they did.. In the EU, Nokia was king, but there were many other brands and OSes (windows mobile). Japan always had a different market though.
Nokia was still a large player, but was loosing ground.
Android at the time (the betas) resembled blackberry, and didn't feature any touch capabilities.
Right after the iPhone was released, Android changed its UI.
Nokia was globally dominant until 2010, when Android started rapidly eating its market share.
Japan and the US were both countries with their own weird mobile phone markets. The US market was not as relevant in the 2000s as it should have been. Mobile phone adoption was lower than in Europe and the plans were ridiculously expensive, mostly because of the dominant business model. The plan was the primary product and the phone was a generic device locked to the plan, making the market uninteresting for phone manufacturers.
I don't know if I've ever seen a Blackberry phone knowing that it's a Blackberry phone. Blackberries always sounded like the Atari ST: a device you constantly heard about but never saw in the real world. And when I saw some statistics much later, I was surprised how popular it had been in the US.
Not really. It was the Nokia board that wanted to be taken over. They were looking for a mark, and Microsoft walked right into it. Nokia dropped the phone division on Microsoft and Microsoft then had to write it down.
I found about these new tablets shortly after buying an iPad mini.
As much as I’d love to have an e-ink device, I don’t regret my purchase because you cannot yet plug those devices directly to a screen using a usb-c connector
Browsing HN is a relief in times of Surveillance Capitalism
Edit: HN uses google tagmanager and analytics; amplitude and branch.io