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The big turning point came in 2018 when I signed a legally binding commitment to ensure that Ecosia could never be sold and that 100% of our profits would always go to the planet. Today, your searches enable us to work with partners to plant and protect 1,250 species of trees across 95,000 locations globally.
Keywords plant and protect. Basically a papermill can plant trees to harvest 20 years later and in the meantime sell carbon offsets for 19 years then harvest and replant.
Can't say for sure they're doing it, but from what I hear just about every tree is eligible for a "carbon offset" and some companies abuse it by saying "this is our tree" as long as it's not cut down within x months and use it as a carbon offset or a "protected tree."
They force anybody using the android trademark to include Google Play/Services, not a lawyer but I think that's "tying" when they force you to use one thing with something else.
And juries are unpredictable.
The reason people are talking about this in such a negative light is because it did not occur in a vaccum. Nothing but mildly and moderately bad news over a swath of time adds up quickly. If there was no other bad news it could be written off, but this bad news bears the wight of all the other bad news as well.
On a similar note to what @lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee I have an instant pot and that's made cooking stuff that's cheap but usually takes time to make really easy, brown rice or a potato based soup are a click away. At of course the cost of an upfront investment.
Also, some recipes can be really cheap if you have the time. Rossotto, homemade bread (with yeast or baking soda), baked beans (from dry bulk pinto beans), pasta (homemade & store bought) naan bread & homemade wheat tortillas, and baked oatmeal are all things I enjoy that come to mind and might be worth trying. They taste good and can be made for super cheap.
Wishing you luck internet stranger
nor is the Play Store promoted over their native app stores on those devices
Google actually forces it's installation if you want to use the android trademark. It'd probably be pretty hard to market "MotorolaOS"
Sorry, but it is tech-y. Not out of reach by anybody who is interested in learning, but ask the average person to self sign their drivers (required for any Nvidea card if you want to game and don't turn on legacy bios). Or maybe you want the latest version of Spotify on Mint and therefore need to add flathub using the terminal. With help or research, sure, not hard concepts to grasp. Without help though, it'd probably be a dealbrealer.
And once you'ce done both of those I'd consider you 'tech-y'
I use Joplin for notes, though if you want daily notes specifically "Diary" might also be a good choice.
Maybe a tiny bit unstable and proprietary, but I don't think they have had any controversies or shady action.
Didn't Mozilla just do a big roadmap talking about what they plan to do in the future and it was basically all AI and Activism with no mention of Firefox?
I hope to see Firefox grow, but who knows. Especially if antitrust actions or a continued drop in Firefox usage cuts off the Google money and makes Mozilla go poof.
But of course at least Gecko is Foss so it can't disappear entirely if the community doesn't let it.
rn not much. In the future there'll be properly portable accounts using cryptographic keys and once federation kicks in lighter servers making it probably more distributed.
Quick tool to summarize a page, proofread, or compare it to another source. Still needs a functioning human brain to separate the wheat from the chaff so to speak, but I could see a LLM (especially local) being useful in some ways.
I'm sure there are disabilities or unique use cases that could increase it's usefulness, especially once they improve more.
Half the people here were like "yup that's why I didn't join" and the other half just secretly joined upon hearing that.
I think he was employed by truth social for a while, and it might have been just because of his prior involvement as a programmer. But could be wrong about him working there or wrong about that being the reason.
Gemini? The protocol equivalent to the cyber Amish?
Oh, Google stuff. Meh
I've been hearing a lot about much heavier blocking and opt in federation. If I were to predict how it all ends up, I see 10-100k users on a small group of servers siloing themselves, and the rest of the fediverse remaining as is. Or even opening up more than it is currently as the loudest people calling for it silo themselves away from the rest of the fediverse.
I won't say that one particular model is against anything or wrong, the point of free software is the freedom to use it in the manor preferred and if people get value from a walled garden then more power to them. Just not for me.
As for non server centric accounts, two potential solutions include using either custom domains (registered to the account owner, nor server owner), and/or cryptographic keys to identify an account. Nostr does both, and so does BlueSky I believe.
Not a lawyer, but AFAIK life rights looks like some sort of name they applied to whatever waiver/contract they made.
As long as you're not making up lies knowingly, you can legally discuss and speculate any details of anybody's life here in the US.
Fire up a VM to scratch that itch or change up your desktop environment if you feel like it.
Unless you have a specific need that can't be met on your distro you're probably not missing much other than "ooh shiny" and some fun tinkering with something new.
Furry porn, as mentioned above, seems to be the selling point
Sometimes it's just because the lawyers who wrote TOS grab as much leeway as they can, even if it's just to make a translation.
Librewolf with Ublock + privacy redirect
Isn't your computer a single point of failure? A keylogger will get your password database or you manually entered passwords all the same.
Not that, I meant a keyloggers could get the password to your password database in the same way it could get any accounts you log into by typing your password into a browser.
In the olden days they had 100% support for extentions
Brave may be persona non Grata around here, but props to them for actually crawling the web. Just about every other private search engine uses APIs from Google/Bing or scrapes/proxies results from other search engines.
On mobile, I may actually be using libredirect and just misremembered the name, or I might be due for an update. Thanks
Except profile migration doesn't exist in AT. They may make it in the future but it doesn't exist at all right now.
How would you feel about a law that restricts the ability to purchase hardware used for training AI?
No
Effectively, the government becomes the sole purveyor of truth
Extra no
Servo in future, LibreWolf for now imo
In a way, yes to both. If a society goes into a recession that causes people to be unable to eat (or does a murderous rampage of starvation like under Stalin or Mao) and people steal to eat that's directly caused by society.
But, if you have free will and the mental capacity to make your own decisions, especially here in a Western society that generally doesn't require you to steal to eat, it's on the individual.
Subscriptions are really lucrative. Iirc most ads pay like 0.1-0.5 cents per view, so you'd need to watch an insane amount of videos to equal the cost of a $2 subscription. I could probably make a site that brings in money if I had 5 $2 subscribers and a half 100 medium quality vids. Start scaling that up and it can be really profitable while offering subscribers a fair shake.
I think the issue could be that it's forcing the companies to include it, even if the company can include alternatives as well or when user can just ignore it. Not a lawyer, but back when Apple was in the courts I heard social media lawyers saying that Google actually had a worse prospect because when you force your competitors (other non-google phone makers that use Android forks) to bundle G Play/Services it can be considered "tying". Then if a company just uses the GPL code without following the contractual rules like that they can't advertise Android and it it could hurt their market share.
On notifications if Google play services is not installed unless the app let's you configure another server to use in place notifications won't work that use Google Play services installed on the back end.
If sandboxed Google play services is installed, assure it has the neccisiary permission to run in the background (unrestricted battery and network) access. Not just the individual apps, but the google apps specifically as Graphene installs thegoogle stuff with standard permissions.
Same goes for apps that run in the background. If you expect them to be running in the background to auto update or perform another function then it needs to be permitted in the battery settings. Background updates may also rely on Google Play services.
Edit: to clarify I haven't experienced any issues myself that weren't directly related to my decision to not use sandboxes google play services (no push notifications) despite daily driving for years. It's a particularly old and reliable project in the privacy space, and while I'm sorry you experienced issues that doesn't make it an unstable project not ready as a daily driver (any more that somebody having issues with Windows/Linux makes those unstable and not ready to be daily driven).
There's already a number of countries trying implement news site link taxes, I wouldn't be surprised if they just gave up and decided to cut that out.
I do not mean a fair use claim. To quote the copyright office "Copyright does not protect facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation, although it may protect the way these things are expressed" source
Facts and ideas cannot be copy written, so what I was specifically referring to is that if I or an AI read a paper about jellyfish being ocean creatures, then later talk about jellyfish being ocean creatures, there's no restrictions on that whatsoever as long as we don't reproduce the paper word by word.
Now, most of the time AI summarizes things or collects facts, and since those themselves cannot be protected by copyright it's perfectly legal. On the occasion when AI spits out copy written work then that's a gray area and liability if any will probably decided in the courts.
Those who don't believe in autocorrect will go strait to he'll
I'm all for FOSS browsers, but how are Firefox users marginalized folks?
Called palemoon, except version freeze is much older.
Anything else will goatsy your computer to all forms of zero days.
Expected them to double down on Google tracking, AI, and pocket while laying off Firefox engineers. Still do, but maybe slightly slower now.