I just was updating my browser setup on my Linux laptop today, and wanted to install an extension I used to like using a few years ago ... 'TrackMeNot'. I couldn't find it on the Chrome Store at all. I had a feeling why... yup!
Of course they would gin up a reason to suppress a plugin that lets users obscure their search engine activity. Slimy Bastards. At least the extension is still available, and still works, if one locally installs the unpacked version: https://github.com/vtoubiana/TrackMeNot-Chrome
We should indeed all move to Firefox (despite their own stupid issues -- someone please start a new browser engine, even if it's a Herculean task these days!)
I haven't kept up with it, but OpenCores is a balwark against this type of thing. FPGAs, while not as efficient as fab silicon, AFAIK lets one implement CPUs, interconnects and peripherals without any predefined channels to target for subversion. The NSA or other boogeymen couldn't craft a backdoor for your FPGA CPU, since the FPGA is just a 'blank slate' until programmed so they have no idea even what to attack beforehand. The chip could be literally anything once programmed. FPGAs by design have to faithfully implement the basic gates, with no jiggery-pokery, otherwise it would be evident immediately that something was up. Right?
Freeze their stock ticker. Dissolve their corporate charter and sell the assets to the highest bidder (excluding any banks of equal/larger size, of course). Corporate death penalty needs to be a thing.
Remember Mitt Romney said it himeself! "Corporations are People, my friend". People can be jailed or executed, and have limited lifespans; so ...
Nextcloud's news reader is pretty good -- but you need to host a Nextcloud instance first :) (Hint: you should, to free yourself from google/icloud or whatever you use)
That's because (yes, others here beat me to it) -- the economy is not the stock market. People's costs of living and wages aren't getting better, they're getting worse, even as giant corps have record profits and that is reflected on the stock tickers. If the average person was heavily invested early on in some of these corporate behemoths and could actually share in the rapacious profits, maybe things would be different... but that's not the case.
The Deputy White House Counsel reiterated
to Co-Conspirator 4 that there had not been outcome-determinative fraud in the election and that
if the Defendant remained in office nonetheless, there would be "riots in every major city in the
United States." Co-Conspirator 4 responded, "Well, [Deputy White House Counsel], that's why
there's an Insurrection Act."
.. they were planning to use the Insurrection Act to stomp any resistance to Trump staying in office. Full-on dictatorship-style military coup and mass arrests, or worse. (Not news, but still stunning to see it in writing in an indictment.)
Different tools for different jobs. If performance was the absolute, only metric then garbage-collected languages would not exist (and trust me, I'm no fan of Java, but like Go a lot -- and its GC is pretty good AFAIK). Python has its place, even if it will never be as fast as C/C++/Rust.
Rename it "Bob"! Any press is good press :p