FutileRecipe @ FutileRecipe @lemmy.world

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they are literally creating policy by dictate. your pet definition seems crafted to exclude this obvious use of dictate.

Someone who "dictates" is not necessarily a dictator. These are not my "pet definitions" but accepted definitions of what a dictator/dictatorship is in the political sphere. It's called context.

No one in the government should say "I'm going to dictate policy that I have control over, but this policy can be overturned by the other two branches. Thus, I'm a dictator." That's not what that word means. You are trying to use a nonspecific definition out of context to justify defending a wannabe dictator.

no one is accusing trump of being a knowledgeable statesman.

That was actually you who linked them, not him. And they shouldn't be linked. Executive orders are not a dictatorship. But let's say he meant, even though he's famous for saying what he means with no filter.

Even after campaigning for it, holding the office for 4 years, presumably keeping an eye on his successor for 4 years, and now campaigning for it again? You'd think he'd know the basics of what is a democracy, what is a dictatorship, what executive orders do, and what do the different branches of government roughly do...you know, the basics that were taught in middle school, and elaborated on in high school. These aren't niche laws or obscure cases we're talking about, but what should be common sense to the common man...much more so for someone who's running for the job. Willful ignorance is not an excuse, especially at that level...if that's what this is.

every president is a dictator day one, rolling back previous administration policy and implementing their own.

That's not what a dictatorship is. A dictatorship is where one person (the dictator) has almost complete control over the government with few, if any, restrictions. Executive orders can only be within the President's authority, and can also be overturned by Congress or the Supreme Court. To link executive orders to a dictatorship shows a misunderstanding of executive orders, dictatorships, or both.

Also, in the quote of being a "dictator for just one day," executive orders were not mentioned, if I remember correctly. And no democratic President should ever think of themselves as a dictator or wish they were one.

no one is promising to end democracy

Didn't one candidate say they would literally be a dictator..."but only on day one." I find it hard to trust anyone who ways they'd be a dictator any amount of time, and then stop. Dictatorship and democracy are polar opposites.

but if I'm going to pay for search it's something like Perplexity.

Generative AI search engine Perplexity, which claims to be a Google competitor and recently snagged a $73.6 million Series B funding from investors like Jeff Bezos, is going to start selling ads, the company told ADWEEK....“Advertising was always part of how we’re going to build a great business,” said Shevelenko.

https://www.adweek.com/media/gen-ai-search-engine-perplexity-has-a-plan-to-sell-ads/

It takes Googles results and filters out the crap and orders results differently...

It uses more than just Google's, FYI.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html

backend of a sword

You mean the hilt?

Because it's new and shiny and two years in the making. Open source never hurts, either. But Lawnchair is also a more conventional launcher with the app drawer and home screens. Niagara is pretty unique. So if you really like Niagara, I wouldn't change as they're very different.

No adblocker built in

They actually added a basic content blocker back in mid February, and plan on improving it over time:

Github source: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium/releases/tag/122.0.6261.43.1

Discussion forum: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/11000-vanadium-version-12206261431-released

So, scrub my papers for alliteration. Thanks for the tip.

my main workhorse.

I see what you did there.

After Nova was sold, I switched to Lawnchair for a bit. But development was slow, so I switched to Niagara Launcher. Welp, back to Lawnchair for a bit.

It depends on whether you need Google services or not.

I would get a Pixel with GrapheneOS regardless of if you need Google or not. Graphene does a lot more than just sandbox the Play Store.

https://grapheneos.org/features#grapheneos

Gecko-based browsers are, what, 1% of the browser market?

Last I checked, Firefox was close to 3%, but you right, still not a large number.

Guess which browser is the most targeted by malicious actors? Not the one having 1% of the market, that's for sure.

It doesn't have to attract the most attackers, especially if it is notoriously weak. You shouldn't choose software that is easier to exploit simply because it's more obscure. Do you also choose weaker encryption algorithms because no one uses them? I sure hope not.

And your comment would probably ring a little more true, except we just had the xz debacle, and guess how much Linux has of a market share? Probably close to Firefox's, both in the single digits.

Sounds very similar to Safing Privacy Network. They route different applications across nodes (Tor-esque).

After following your Github link, I found my way to the blog post that it looks like you are quoting

You mean the quote block where I said it was undergoing a large rewrite and don't submit any feature PRs? That was actually the first two sentences of the README.md on the TeamNewPipe GitHub link I gave lol.

okay with shouldering the security risk

To me, that depends on what you use the phone for. I sometimes use mine for banking as well as logging into various sites, so I want to reasonably minimize the security risk I am taking. If I wasn't, then sure.

From what I understand, NewPipe has been abandoned...

That's completely incorrect. From NewPipe's Github:

We are planning to rewrite large chunks of the codebase, to bring about a new, modern and stable NewPipe. Please do not open pull requests for new features now, only bugfix PRs will be accepted.

...and someone else forked it to Tubular which includes SponsorBlock.

polymorphicshade "stopped" development on their fork of NewPipe, which included SponsorBlock (because NewPipe did not want to include it) and started working on their rewrite of their own fork and/or NewPipe, which is now Tubular.

Probably needed to downsize without the confrontation or unemployment or severance.