I suspect some fresh faced PFY came across a dusty old router deep in a closet somewhere and made the cardinal sin of touching a piece of equipment that they do not know is the beating heart of their operations.
I don't recommend Kagi because it lacks privacy and you have to pay for it.
It lacks privacy because you're required to log in AND pay for it. Logins enhance the chance your queries are logged; and providing payment information is a good way for law enforcement to obtain your identity; even when you've done nothing illegal. If you don't believe me just look up how Geofence Warrants work in America and how they've backfired in some cases.
If a company as big as Google complies with Geofence warrants; Kagi has no chance at all in resisting them, even when they're issued in an illegal and unconstitutional manner.
I call it the "Google Effect". If you know you can find information you need by typing "a certain phrase" into a Google search engine...your brain will "encode" those steps; often linking back on your other skills like using a computer and accessing Google.
TL;DR: You didn't learn how to drive there. You learned how to type a piece of information into a piece of technology to get your answer.
Unless you force yourself to learn the route somehow; you'll never learn it.
Beyond not using reddit, and only landing on reddit when a search engine leads me to it directly, I've been using SearXNG locally to query many free engines at no cost to me.
I don't agree with the assessment of the OP or the original blog article. Grayjay is Open Source software.
It is, however, NOT FREE SOFTWARE and I do know that organizations like the FSF and OSI do not consider it to be free.
The free status of this software was never misrepresented by Louis Rossman. He blatantly explains that there is a cost to this software and that the license is how he plans to enforce his means of collecting this fee on the honor system.
He also outlines how he cannot; and will not...stop anyone from forking this software and basically removing the payment bits of the code and just redistributing it under a different name. I strongly recommend someone does that...and maybe license that work under a much more unrestrictive free license that FLOSS-Only users might find more palatable.
I get that nobody wants or needs to trust Louis to keep his word. He's gotta run a business at some point...and distributing this software this way on the honor system might not pan out quite the same way he hopes it will. I do hope that at the point where he and his compatriots choose to stop maintaining the application; that they do immediately retcon this restrictive license; and re-release it under a new, free, and unrestrictive Open Source Software license.
It's ridiculous that we blatantly ignore the solution staring us directly in the face.
Decriminalizing, destigmatizing and demystifying sex and sex work would solve so many damn issues.
The obstacle to this clear and easy solution? Outdated Religion, biases, beliefs, and traditions That are in no way based on fact, and do not actually reflect what all people are choosing to believe in traditionally, emotionally or spiritually
Do we need the capability to have orgies and fuck our mates in Public? No. Should we be able to talk about sex and intimacy and other things in public to a willing audience? Hell. Fucking. Yes.
I was being specific to this claim of pseudoscience; which seems to be based on the fact that we don't have any other verifiable facts and instead it attacks the theory as pseudoscience despite there being no other prevailing proof of harms like biases, claims and lacking refutation.
To be honest. any company that purchases such a place should be required by law to either: rent it out within 3 months of purchase or sell it to another interested individual and not a company or other legal holding entity.
If you live in the USA; Go raise a fuss and holler and make sure that your local House Representative knows that this shit is absolutely facist and unacceptable.
Melody Fwygon @ fwygon @beehaw.org Posts 2Comments 143Joined 2 yr. ago
I suspect some fresh faced PFY came across a dusty old router deep in a closet somewhere and made the cardinal sin of touching a piece of equipment that they do not know is the beating heart of their operations.