esaru @ esaru @beehaw.org

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By default Firefox collects data and sends it to their server, which Icecat doesn't. I don't want having to use another service like NextDNS to protect me against the application that I want to be able to trust because I'm using it for a lot of personal data.

From the mozilla website itself:

Identification:

When Firefox sends data to us, your IP address is temporarily collected as part of our server logs.

And then the data that I don't want to share with other entities:

Interaction data includes information about your interactions with Firefox such as number of open tabs and windows, number of webpages visited, number and type of installed Firefox Add-ons and session length, as well as Firefox features offered by Mozilla or our partners such as interaction with Firefox search features and search partner referrals.

Technical data includes information about your Firefox version and language, device operating system and hardware configuration, memory, basic information about crashes and errors, outcome of automated processes like updates and safebrowsing.

Icecat, a Firefox fork without Firefox's privacy issues (telemetry).

Many actions against another country are not based on the race of people living in it, but for political, economic, or military reasons.

That's not normal. On my phone the location is exact to a meter and it takes 2 seconds.

Buy the paper version, cut off the papers with a paper knife, and scan to PDF, with text layer. Takes half an hour for 300 pages, a book I'd read several hours. I paid for ownership, I'll own it. Legal in many countries, research the legal situation of your country of residence.

How about the customers that are both time- and price sensitive?

I remember there was a time Google tried to be the best search engine out there, by ranking first what has most value for the user. Now it is ranking first what brings them more money, hence undermining Google's credibility, and making itself less ueful for the user. The enshittification of Google for everyone to see.

I'd expect that the advertisement is relevant to the content of the page. But I don't know, as I haven't seen a single bit of advertisement for the last 15 years.

How about kolabnow.com

Their platform itself is open sourced (see https://kb.kolabnow.com/faq/what-does-kolab-now-run and https://kolab.org/), they adhere to standards, and they are recommended for privacy reasons as their servers are in Switzerland.

You can create as many email addresses as you want and they all go to your standard inbox, which is great not only for being able to just cut-off spammy websites, but also for privacy, as you won't be connected to a single address.

Every product should include the price of what it costs today to repair the damage done to the environment by that particular product. That way the external negative effects get internalized to the individual that takes the decision, and also the damage can be covered.

The color screen of e-readers is too dark for me and substantially lacks contrast. It's very noticable. The layer for pen recognition already makes the screen darker, but the color display is adding a lot more to the darkness and lack of contrast. I would only go with an e-reader with black/white screen and even without pen recognition.

Furthermore, e-readers are much more fragile than mobile phones. The design of their screen leads to a high probability of getting broken which is a common thing, search "ereader screen broken" online. My Boox e-reader fell 50 centimeters and the screen was broken, which renders the whole devide unresponsive.

The pen recognition is not as precise as on tablets. You can draw with it, but it's a bit annoying and not for detailed work.

So my suggestion is to go with a device that costs less than 200 USD and do anything else than reading on a phone or tablet.

The fact that the NSA was apparently not breaking the law is actually more infuriating and shifts focus on the need to change the law, which is opposing the government. You see, it's always better to stick to the facts if you want to change things to the better.

Maybe deleted from the productive database (if at all, as Reddit for example just flagged "deleted" comments apparently in the past).

But Backups, does data really get removed from backups? I don't think so.

KeepassDX for mobile is on F-Droid and can use the same file as accessed from KeepassXC from Laptop, synced by Syncthing.

And pass phrases are faster to type and with less typos even though they need more characters than passwords to be the same secure.

What is still being debated in Taiwan is if it should declare independence officially, or accept the status quo of factual being independent without declaring it. This is where the three major parties have a different stance, because the DPP kinda tends to the declaration, while the KMT still declares that Taiwan is the legitimate China.

About the vote: All three major parties say publicly that they are against re-union in terms of being ruled by China's CCP. Today, even Taiwan's KMT continues to view Taiwan as the free, democratic and legitimate China. So no, no-one voted "pro mainland China" in terms of how the chinese CCP wants to rule over Taiwan.

Status quo is: Taiwan has its own from China independent border control, independent military, independent health care system, independent education system, independent currency, independent law system which is derrived from Japanese and German law, and independent political system, which is democratic.

This is not an opinion, but just the facts. It's only CCPs rethoric that pretends the opposite.

Ask anyone who works in IT and they'll confirm nothing gets ever deleted from all records and backups.

Yes, but I don't want to trust a vendor when I have Open Source.

Has Collabora made its packages reproducible, so independent people can check if their package is built from the source code without modification?