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If you want to begin to understand this I recommend you read two books, in the following order: The Abolition of Britain - Peter Hitchens The Abolition of Liberty - Peter Hitchens

Synopsis: Two worldwide wars led the flower of Britain to be torn to shreds by shrapnel into rat food. The millions of broken homes, (furthered by the subsequent exodus of native Brits which continues somewhat to this day), and society which has never really recovered led to the spivs taking charge. Hence the phrase 'mediocre mafia'.

Things are changing for the better, and will continue to do so. But right now we are seeing the light of the past fade and the lunacy (PR1D3overPrinciples) of a nation only just coming to terms with this loss from 1914 onwards - hence 'special relationship' sucking up to 'USA'/'YU-ES-AY'.

I'll explain it, since no other local has bothered to.

In the UK, those who know don't call the so-called 'DfT - Department for Transport', we call it Department for Roads, because that's what it is.

But those who actually know are not yet a majority. The majority think 'Dr Beeching' (an mere frontman), destroyed the railways, yet have never heard the name Ernest Marples. Since the Marples creature unleashed carnage decades ago, there hasn't been a single government in Westminster which has not been anti-railways.

Nobody wants 'HS2'. The railway industry does not want it. The PR for it is ridiculous even by Unicorn-chaining HM Gov standards (see: Gareth Dennis), even the contractors admit its a farce.

Not only does 'HS2' reflect the bigotry of UKpolitik against real civilised transport, but it reflects a much greater stagnation and overall decline in the 'yu-kay' formerly Great Britain.

double-O says it's not going to reach Birmingham. Word is it will be scrapped. I would have Kim Johngson, Goodun Broon, Warmonger Bliar et al replant every tree they dug up along the route; all whilst singing that old favourite: "all the world's a stage, for ...'

Here's an idea: (medium-complexity) port of android to TCB which partitions /hardware/ (cpu-cache, RAM), on a per app basis. Android's app-based permissions API doesn't require too much work to do this.

My perspective: Either cheap-monolithic-SOCs get really cheap, (for low end devices), with long-term-support, and low power, or compartmentalised architectures start to gain the traction that will kill of SOCs.

Now more than ever a truly independent alternative to Google is needed; (with its aims to improve from what Google left behind circa 2016).

Is anybody aware of a search engine which would prioritise results properly, i.e: 1) works without JS 2) first-party JS 3) 3rd party verified libraries 4) any JS a) No ads b) non-JS, non targeted ads etc

The business model would be the ability to run advanced searches and a live-search (instead of cached index), as a premium product (say varying from 2gbp/month upwards). And given the relative simplicity of the operation compared to Google - I think it would be profitable.

You are incorrect.

If you use any currently standard protocol such as wireguard, openvpn, IPSEC with Suite-B ciphers you are getting 'enhanced-privacy'* from eavesdroppers on your local network, which eliminates alot of low-tier/easy MiTM attacks.

A two-layer/double tunnel is pretty-good for mitigating against most commercial data collection by eavesdroppers. (Though your tunnel-exit/last-VPN-hop, (varying by client-destination protocol), and the destination IPs/sites will still be able to collect data of course).

*Consider privacy a vector. Suite-B ciphers are not perfect, letalone their freely-available implementations.

When you say 'any of that data', you are incorrect. Simply to function (voice recognition) the echo microphone is constantly on, in the same way that any input device needs to be on to function.

You're not only incorrect, but your comment goes on to be incoherent, did you think before writing this comment?: 'Just because it’s technically possible doesn’t mean it’s actually possible.'

How is it a "colossal failure"? Amazon has tens of millions of these devices which are a 24/7 microphone, and with the wireless transceivers even more data-collection capabilities.

THe data is worth more than $10-billion alone.

All this musk-style motivation 101 BS is direct from the CIA's manual on domestic espionage - frustration from within.

The means define the ends. If you treat people like shit, or as morons who need BS pressure techniques, you'll get a demoralised company.

Treat people well, set them clear targets and say it without fluff when they're slacking. If you can't tell somebody they're not good enough, you cannot help them to be good enough. None of this psychobabble BS where you're constantly second-guessing in a failed attempt to retain them on the rat-race for the rest of their life. Stop building ratrace companies.

Why is stress after trauma a 'disorder'? And how is it a solution to drug people up, making them forget this?

Most providers now block Gmail addresses containing . or +

Who competes with Walmart in the USA?

Here we have: Tesco, Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury's, Aldi, Lidl, Waitrose, M&S.

In the UK nearly all towns have at-least 2 supermarkets, and most towns have another 3 within a 20 minute cycle/drive.

The fundamental problem with Amazon is as with Standard Oil. They have no competition, and they have no separation between their logistics/warehouse business & their marketplace. Thus, they are using their delivery business and warehouse arm (which in itself would not be sustainable) to ward-off competition. Just as when Standard Oil bought the railway companies.

In the UK most towns have at-least 2 large supermarkets in the town, and within 20 minute cycle-drive at-least another 3.

In the UK, there is choice between: Asda, Tesco, Morrissons, Aldi, Lidl, Sainsbury's, Waitrose, M&S

Who competes with Amazon? (Ebay?)

The fundamental problem with Amazon is as with Standard Oil when they bought the railway companies. Amazon marketplace & Amazon warehouse/delivery/logistics should not be one company.

There is a massive opportunity for a new marketplace to compete with Amazon; because Amazon has very little trust amongst both buyers and sellers alike - but where else is there?

Reported by the BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63301143

'Shop for insurance, the Amazon way'. If it's as bad as Amazon's existing product search, I certainly won't be.

For many searches I use site:reddit.com, because Google's results have declined massively since the easy-days of 2015; Reddit has a large userbase and I can find what I'm looking for most of the time much quicker by appending site:reddit.com than wasting my time with the sponsored-blogs on Google.

If anybody knows of any better forum/site for this, I'd like to know. (Currently I use Google/DuckDuckGO, Wikipedia, Reddit & hackernews, libgen/z-lib, some torrent sites, and some niche wikis & forums to find what I'm looking for).

Installed apps have lots more stable monetisation options (e.g: getting paid to load an sdk which runs a proxy), and not to mention they can more easily scoop-up alot more data.

Most of the claims companies like Reddit make about security/anti-spam benefits is simply not true. Once you require user to create an account/login it makes no real difference. Everything you need for the frontend can be done with JS, HTML & CSS, and the apps themselves on ios/android are nearly-always just that.

As for losing customers, I need to use Reddit to make Google effective - and Reddit knows this. They have a massive amount of power to force mobile users to use an app if they wish to. Given it comes with massive revenue-potential, why wouldn't they?

I am saying what I am saying.

The Wikimedia Foundation control Wikipedia, the subbordination is done by them. Editors are only as free as they permit - the two are inseparable, to suppose otherwise is as supposing chromium is independent from Google.

Of-course Wikipedia is a useful tool, so what? Are they exempt from criticism?

What is it you are saying? You abuse the English language; by definition a journalist is not a shill. Many mainstream shills may claim to be journalists, but that does not make them so.

It's obviously not a 'zero covid' policy.

Bloomberg here licking the CCP's Boots: "Shanghai Quietly Shuts Down Schools, Gyms, Bars as Covid Returns".

More accurately: "CCP imposes lockdown upon serf population in Shanghai".

In what way does this 'fix' air pollution?

FYI: Our politicians do not use public transport, nor do they suffer the congested roads (they prefer blue-light escorts in armoured cars).

London is exceptional in the UK in its public transport links. (The UK has had anti-railway gov.ts since WW2; what you may know as the 'Beeching Scandal' is just a front for the corruption committed by Ernest Marples and co.).

If they really wanted to fix the issue, they'd make cycling safe and punish bicycle thieves. London is congested and polluted because: People don't want to be injured/killed by drivers, who will face no punishment. People don't want to have their bicycle stolen by career-criminals who will face no punishment.

The 'Ultra Low Emissions Zone' ought to be barred under the trade descriptions act. Go and breathe from the exhaust of a Euro6 Diesel then come back and tell me how 'low emissions' London is.

Microsoft makes their products difficult to repair: Microsoft calls this a 'security measure'.

Microsoft has a bigoted hiring policy which cares more for your skin tone & nipple size than your skillset: Microsoft calls this 'diversity and inclusion'.

Mozilla has a massive trust problem.

They could still so easily regain much of their lost trust by sincerely apologising for their cock-ups (dodgy studies/data-collection, addons-fiasco, etc) and their political shilling; and yet, they do not.

The sewage they keep pumping out on their blog, and spaffing money on expensive rebrands, is turning-off the users who keep Mozilla alive.

Given how much they're doing for Google's market-share with this blatant self-sabotage, you'd be forgiven for thinking Mozilla is being run by Google.

What is the problem if I call you a rapist?

Perhaps it's because it's deceptive, dishonest & undermines trust.

Unless of-course you don't care about such things, then what's the problem? You don't have to read my comment, 'just' switch off the website.

The problem is that Wikipedia goes to great effort to shill for the CIA-NATO propaganda machine - whilst deceptively claiming they're an independent factual source. The problem is that the youth of Western Europe & The USA are growing up where truth is forbidden by power; buried by Google then muddied by Wikipedia & co.

The problem is when trust is eroded we cannot have meaningful interactions, we cannot even communicate, to the point that: it doesn't matter if one says 'eric4smith is a rapist'; because (as you have conjectured): 'you don't have to read the comment'.

This for me is the point the authour intends.

Having a device capable of communication practically anywhere, at any time, is something I happily carry.

Being required to carry an apple/google tracking device, constantly analysing & pimping you out, simply so you can buy an airline ticket, a train ticket, etc - is something I do begrudgingly.

Just as there ought to be a law accepting cash, there ought to be a law mandating that any online payments for things such as airline or train tickets should be accessible via a standard HTML web browser, firefox/safari/chrome. That way I could carry a linux phone without being worried if I'd get stuck at a border because I couldn't install some android app (and no, it won't run emulated because of some nonsensical 'security' measures).

This is the part which resonated with myself:

> Instead one chooses a destination and walks toward it. Along the way the route is commodified. Restaurants suggested instead of found. Parks digitally delineated instead of outlined by the contours of our promenades. >

In the UK increasingly one needs a credit/debit card, or a phone capable of NFC payments, to actually pay for things. The big-brand shops have most their self-checkouts as card-only & many shops are increasingly refusing cash. (There really ought to be a law mandating that all physical stores must accept legal tender as a condition of trade - else what is the point in cash?)

The parks and pavements here are increasingly blighted by bright digital advertising. Railway tickets are becoming harder to get in a non-digital form, for one example of the increasing dependence on phones.

Point is, the need for a phone, and a debit/credit card to go to a cafe, to take a train, etc, does remove the spontaneity and an element of joy from the experience. Being forced to carry a google or apple tracking device, or even 'just' a VISA/Mastercard makes me feel tethered to the 'capitalist' system - as this article puts it; but whatever you call it, capitalism or technocracy, the author is right.

Offense is taken, not given. If you take offense to questioning the problem is yours and yours only.

Why is it the replies to my questions do not answer the questions, instead saying 'google it'. How can google answer what is mean in that context, in that article? I have asked here on hackernews, and I have still not gotten an answer - only piffle: nobody has forced you to engage here, so don't spout nonsense such as time-wasting; I have asked you a question, not subject you to an interrogation at quantanamo.

Have you given consideration to what you have written? You slyly abuse the English language by referring to me as a skeptic, yet then you proceed to brandish me as malicious.

If the answers are '[so easily googled]', why haven't you provided any reference, or better still answered the questions posed?; (instead making yourself a considerable effort to publicly slander me as a timewaster, whilst my posts are censored).

The only real way one can mitigate sybil attacks is to permit private nodes.

It's a oneplus 2.

I'm currently using a 6 year old phone. Now that I don't take many photos and use it lightly - it actually performs far better than the previous 3 new phones I had - 2 of which were flagships. The S22 I sent back had worse battery-life than my current phone - it was doing heavy background-work, despite having all the battery-optimal settings enabled.

To the point: New phones are way too big, too power-hungry, the newer they get the more 'features' they have that I didn't ask for and don't want - not least is the data mining by everybody under the sun at the firmware level.

I've given up buying new phones. When this one cunks-out I'll buy an old-used one. That is unless there comes a real alternative to increasingly crappy android & the above issues are resolved.

As an offline-platform can make all sorts of bureacratic rules designed to censor those they don't like, this problem is far-far worse on a software-driven platform.

Imagine facebook wants to censor anti-Biden, or anti-Trump, posts. They needn't design an algorithm that does explicitly that - that could be scrutinised under review.

Instead: design an 'anti-spam' algorithm.

Within this anti-spam algorithm, characteristic Y is flagged. Characteristic Y just happens to be heavily-correlated to anti-biden/anti-trump posts. A bit of filtering later (for 'anti-spam measures' of-course), and you have achieved your censorship without being too overt.