If you only care about technology that’s commercially available, why are you on the technology community?

No exaggeration, this was my breaking point for switching to linux exclusively.

Large, heavy electric vehicles don’t make a lot of sense. The F-150 lightning was a neat idea, but smaller EVs make far more sense for personal vehicles.

Electric vans would be much better as a work vehicle.

Electric work trucks aren’t ready yet.

It started way before that.

People copying books and sheet music. If you’re talking electronic, then I have “pirated” reel to reel music copied from records from the 60’s.

If you’re talking computers, I have floppy discs copied and passed around from the 80’s.

BBS’s existed in the 70’s and were sharing stuff before IRC became popular.

Heck, if humans can technically make a copy of it, no matter how difficult, we will and freely share it.

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v889-released/

Since you have to opt into tracking to read the article (which I think is illegal) here’s the source.

He mentions flicker several times in the video.

The point is, if the certificate gets stolen, there’s no GOOD mechanism for marking it bad.

If your password gets stolen, only two entities need to be told it’s invalid. You and the website the password is for.

If an SSL certificate is stolen, everyone who would potentially use the website need to know, and they need to know before they try to contact the website. SSL certificate revocation is a very difficult communication problem, and it’s mostly ignored by browsers because of the major performance issues it brings having to double check SSL certs with a third party.

Don’t discard a good technique cause it can be implemented poorly.

Walked a friend through a build a month or so ago and actually ended up being cheaper buying from Frame.Work instead of from anywhere else at the time.

I need the cable company (or similar) due to the fact that infrastructure is hard to deploy, and we need Internet to participate in society.

Nobody needs Microsoft cause every single one of their products has an alternative that’s at least as good.

They survive by courting enterprises, but many of them can also switch away if they want.

I use rsync to backup, I can delete and restore the whole drive if i want at any time.

I use watchtower to keep things updated. If you schedule the rsync and watchtower correctly, you can get the backup done before the upgrade and there’s basically no lost data with the rollback.

I use uptime Kuma for monitoring, and it shoots me an email with details on what failed.

I automate my upgrades, but I also automate my backups, and monitoring.

If an upgrade breaks something, my health monitor lets me know and I can roll back to the previous day.

You can also manually add or remove search engines (at least in current Mozilla releases)

Mozilla VPN, which uses Mullvad on the backend, is cheaper if you do the annual plan.

Well, for one, some YouTubers made a cheap, open source VR headset. That was pretty neat.

I run it. It’s good if you want to just host the books. Share my 2k size ebook library with my group of friends.

No, this is completely different. Incognito mode deletes all browsing data (locally) once the window closes.

This allows you to say, be logged into Facebook on one profile, logged into Google on a different profile, and logged into your daily browsing in a third profile. Or you can have multiple logged in YouTube sessions in case you’re a content creator, you can have a profile for each of your channels.

This way the cookies for each aren’t intermixed, and it would make it (slightly) harder to correlate browsing habits from embedded cookies or logged in sessions, or just to keep tabs and browsing history separate.

They also don’t have that data. Who you talk to and when it also concealed from them.

Check out their blog article about “Sealed Sender” from back in 2018.
https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/

Also note that the EFF encourages the use of Signal.
https://ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-use-signal

This is the technology community. If you’re not interested in reading about new and groundbreaking tech, maybe you should block this one, start a consumerism community, all about stuff you can buy.

The rest of us are quite happy reading about potential ideas and research that may or may not become something profitable.