runeofdoom

This is going to get me to try Kagi.

I've thought about it several times, enough that I did track my searches for a week. Between work, hobbies, and just life I searched (overwhelmingly DDG and Bing) over a thousand times in a week. (A evening of prep for my tabletop RPG racked up over a hundred all by itself.)

I've bailed on Google - wading though the flood of SEO'd garbage just stopped being worth it. Bing and DDG have been mostly working, but I definitely feel like they're missing something. $10 a month is definitely worth it to try it out, and if it works for me, worth it to keep paying. I'd been hesitating because worrying about my search count seemed like a substantial negative for me.

I expect that the overlap between "honestly care for childrens' quality of life" and "understands the ramifictions of this bill to any significant extent" is near zero. (Though there are doubtless many people who have inaccurately convinced themselves they are members of both classes.)

And if you are in a position where nation-states are a likely adversary, you'd best assume that all commerically available hardware is compromised.

Has capital gotten smarter, or labor gotten dumber? I'm sure all the people The World's Richest Man, Elon Musk, is currently refusing to pay what he owes them would rather have gotten their money in advance.

So they really want you to use Tor - where the fact that you are connecting to a Tor node is extremely obvious, and flags you as a being part of the fractional percentage of internet users who do so - but don't want you to use a VPN, the use of which, while still not exactly baseline, is increasingly common? That may give you privacy, but it hardly seems like it makes you anonymous. Rather, wouldn't that send up a giant beacon for anyone at your ISP who cares to look at connections they (or the authorities) might want to pay more attention to?

“We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective.” -Kurt Vonnegut, University of Oregon speech, 1990

Oh, sure, give us the boring, mundane explanation that makes sense. What's next? Claiming that sprites, and elves (and probably even Steve) aren't real either?

/s

The Eye of of Argon by Jim Theis is legendarily awful in SF circles.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eye_of_Argon

Why is it for sale?