RvTV95XBeo @ RvTV95XBeo @sh.itjust.works

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Anyone know the path to hitting them with CCPA info/take down requests?

I mean, this is c/piracy, you can pretty easily go download a non-HDR version of everything. If you do want HDR just not DV, most decent DV encodes also have a HDR10 fallback which should kick in if your device doesn't support DV.

Alternatively, I'm pretty sure there are plenty of tools out there like DoVi Tool that can help you convert the HDR metadata to HDR10/10+ if that's what you want.

If that's true, why bother "monitoring" a search engine? This whole list screams of somebody who knows nothing about tech put out a vague RFP and a contractor pulled a list of "top sites" and used it to justify an egregious proposal cost.

DOGE, if you're looking for waste and fraud, perhaps here's a good source.

I think one big issue is much of the cheap debt is loans people have defaulted on. So you have to stop paying the debt, hope for minimal ramifications before it hits the open market, then buy it back up at a discount, assuming you have the funds laying around to afford the discounted rate.

Loans backed by property (e.g., home, car) which can be repossessed tend to not be as heavily discounted. So its really just if you have massive credit card, student loan, or medical debt, and are willing to put up with harassment from debt collectors on the hope that it'll be bundled into something worth less than your individual debt

How else am I gonna find out they dropped a minor update to WoW and added more loot boxes for your loot boxes in Overwatch (which I assume they will just start calling 3, despite any major change to engine or gameplay)

It's much lower risk, someone dedicated could prove you accessed a seedbox, but it would be a lot harder to prove you violated a copyright

You have my phone number? Then why do you never call?

Ahh yes, consolidation and centralization, core pillars of the FOSS movement.

if OP doesn’t keep their honey in a bucket in the basement they should be fine

First time on the internet huh? Pretty good odds OP is right now trying to figure out where to store that 5-gallon bucket of honey he just purchased, and that basement is looking mighty tempting.

In terms of result quality? In my opinion, based on my particular search habits:

Kagi > SearXNG > Brave > Startpage/Google > DDG/Ecosia/Bing

Everyone is going to have their own opinions on each of those companies, but from a results lens, that's what I find to be most/least effective.

Like all Google products, they will still make a halfhearted attempt to make it as useful as they can before absolutely destroying it with ads

Guessing Edge by default sent you to Bing, no surprise the DDG results look similar, given that they use Bing under he hood. They shuffle rankings slightly, but it's the same index.

You can also use Ecosia, if your prefer a different shade of lipstick on your pig search results.

There's not really a strong player in the open source search space.

Mwmbl exists, but per their own readme:

The quality is a long way's off from matching the commercial engines at the moment

Kagi provides the source code for many of their services, but is not truly open source, especially because at its core, it relies on applying its own rankings to other's indexes.

That said, search is a space where the old adage rings true:

If you're not paying for it; you are the product!

For what it's worth, I find value in my Kagi subscription.

Wanna bet my salary doesn't go up 6.2% when they do that?

That's probably $5/yr, most domains are renewed annually, and the more mundane TLDs, like .com are $12-15/yr (hence $1/mo)

Personally, my wife and I each have a version of firstname@fundomain.vanitytld, as well as a shared house@fundomain.vanitytld where all of our bills and shared expenses go to.

For some modicum of privacy, we also have a forwarding domain connected to SimpleLogin that allows us to do website.catchall@forwardingdomain.com for each website where we have little trust in the owner respecting our privacy.

Assuming you aren't spending $$$ on a premium domain, I feel like $1/month on a domain is a pretty small price to pay for the freedom to move email providers as needed.

I've also used some really crappy gas stoves but none have struggled that hard.

You must not be going to the right crappy AirBnBs, I've had gas stoves struggle to stay lit, which is not just bad for boiling water, now you've got a gas leak in the house!