Altavista was the shit when it came out. My classmates and friends were surprised at how quick I was getting answers or general information. Altavista, that’s it. If you’re using Ask Jeeves or Yahoo you’re going to have a hard time.

I can’t remember how I found out about it, but it’s what I used until Google came out.

They will be neutered even further soon, they’re on the project 2025 list.

I once answered a phone call inside a com closet on base. Military IT was already escorting me. Security came because the cameras in the closet detected the camera on my phone. It’s definitely physically tight security.

I hear you for sure. I very much prefer local software and saved files local as well. The problem is there’s more money to be made doing it the other way. Unless it’s FOSS you can pretty much count on the company to follow the money.

I wouldn’t expect most users to understand how to use it, but has there not been a tiktok downloader made yet? If not that’s a good opportunity for someone looking for a project.

As others pointed out, the reason it did well were the 10s of thousands of preorders from years ago.

Trump lifted the tariffs. At this point I think it was just a smoke screen so there would be less coverage of Elon taking over the Treasury.

The myth of Elon is still going strong. Now he’s taking over government agencies. Not that it’s the right move, but keeping him on might keep the stock at the insanely overvalued level it’s at. That’s all that matters.

Anonymous social media like this is not what people think of when someone says “social media”.

The generation that can’t figure out their TV remote is attempting to legislate on cutting edge technology. Fucking series of tubes all over again. It never stopped though really.

It’s a great idea. I think half the people just don’t give a fuck at all.

Among people who say they care- look how rapidly disinformation is spread about anything and everything. Billionaires would be gaming the system from the get-go. I’m just pessimistic. I really do love the idea and I hope we get there some day.

Based on how Trump 2.0 is going though we might just get that tragedy.

Do you have a list? I’d love to. I never had Facebook, and deleted my Instagram years ago.

He was going for Roman Emperor with the last one, but he neglected to consider the shape of his head. I really don’t know what haircut would look good with his strangely shaped face/head.

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That’s always the hard part.

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I hope you’re right. I would love to see it. I actually support mandatory voting like in Australia. With mostly current laws everyone could get a mail in ballot. If you don’t want to participate just check that box at the top, sign it, and send it in.

Your system sounds much better but would require a lot more legislation.

Make sure you explain open source to them so they know it’s not spyware.

They probably mean buy puts but they don’t have the knowledge to know the vocabulary.