Good. Fuck Chegg. Let cheating, plagiarizing dipshits have the dubious AI slop.

Weirdly the 3DS XL for me, I think.

CosmicRaySort.

Hence “4+”, because I agree with you wholeheartedly.

When I told people that literally every aspect of life will be worse under Trump, I absolutely meant it. Republican poison will seep into literally every aspect of our lives. And this is exactly what I mean when I say “everything is political” to those who only single out a handful of hot-button issues as “political”.

With the rise of fascism in the US, just keep “everything is political” in the back of your mind for the next 4+ years, and if you don’t believe it by then, I don’t know what to tell you.

>Owned by an asset management company that also owns e.g. online gambling sites.

>No indication of authorship

>Almost immediate, jarring, and lengthy tangent into “applicable regulations” and privacy policies/data handling

>When we established the Company [emphasis on the capital ‘C’]

Yup, this was written by a legal team masquerading as someone who actually cares about the platform.

Incidentally, we try not to use these sorts of “Forbes contributor” articles on Wikipedia when possible. They’re effectively just blogs masquerading under the credibility of Forbes staff’s actual journalism.

That said, I don’t see anything wrong with this excerpt. This is legitimate attack vector.

The two criteria I suggested were “not saturated with ads and AI trash” (technically just the latter would satisfy OP’s problem), and DDG meets both of those with no problem. Its AI “assistant” and its ads can both be trivially disabled. I use DuckDuckGo because I love its frontend and because it gives me fewer problems than Google did. I’ve only ever used alternative search engines that piggyback off the major ones (as you listed: DDG, Startpage, and SearX), so someone else would have to answer that for you.

Using a search engine that isn’t saturated with ads and AI trash also solves this problem.

insultingly tiny, unupgradeable storage aside, that’s surprisingly competitive with most modern Windows laptops

It’s still worth noting that this objectively drives up the cost for Russia compared to simply purchasing these directly. These servers went from Dell, through Malaysia, to an Indian pharmaceutical company, and then onto Russia. This accomplishes a few things:

• It drives up the actual monetary cost through logistics and middlemen.
• It limits the amount of material Russia can reasonably get their hands on in a given time period by effectively “narrowing the pipe”. So even if they can get their hands on some of it, it’s almost assuredly reduced from what they otherwise could.
• It means that loopholes are fewer and more far between and can therefore actually hurt Russia if they’re identified and closed by adding additional latency while Russia searches out a new, hopefully more obtuse bypass.
• Because there are fewer avenues, these loopholes should actually be more traceable since the sanctions limit the amount of routes the servers could take.

Sure, I agree there’s a line as a FOSS contributor and user myself, but this is well past that line. By the time you start telling the maintainers of a FOSS project which you don’t donate to (let alone one which is donationless), which has no income of any sort, which you have never worked on, and which you have no intention of ever working on that they’re “stingy” for not spending their own money on testing your specific use case and to “get off their ass”, you’re well into “PRs welcome :)” territory, and there’s a reasonable argument that they’re even past that into “lol bye *ban*” territory.

I think it’s important once in a blue moon to have these sorts of “What the fuck is actually wrong with you? We’re volunteers” public shamings of people who actually act this disgustingly entitled to other people’s work.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/buster-captcha-solver/

(Linus is, incidentally, not a billionaire; he has a net worth of about $150 million.)

Just putting this here so it’s above that absolutely disgusting, genocide-denying propaganda from polar:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

I agree, and I mean to say that following the law is a political statement in the same way that him standing up and protesting by not following the law would be a political statement. We’re all political actors; it’s just that the amount of power we have to enact political change varies.

but instead because he doesn’t want to get in trouble with the US government

I agree that that’s why he made the decision, but you understand how that’s political, right?

You’re definitely speaking to someone who’s being paid 15 rubles a comment to post here.

The OSI’s definition of open-source software is the de facto definition used by most people, and for most of the remaining people that don’t, they (mistakenly, because they define “free” software, not “open-source”) defer to the FSF’s defintion of free software.

So yes, you should be explicitly noting that what you define as “open” has nothing at all to do with the far-and-away most widely used definition(s) of “open-source”.