Black belt in Mikado Photo model, for the photos where they put under ‘BEFORE’
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Well, I don’t provide any data, everything is encrypted end2end, nobody apart from me has access to them, also nobody of Vivaldi. What’s more, if I lose my Sync password, no one can recover the data, the price for privacy.
But sync allows me not only to synchronize my data with my mobile or another PC where I have Vivaldi, it is also a Backup that allows me to recover all my settings, bookmarks, passwords, notes, etc. when i change the pc. I just have to install Vivaldi, enter my account and in seconds I have the browser back with all the data and settings as on the old PC. This is what the syncfunction is for.
Chrome, but not necessarly other Chromiums. Blink engine is better than Gecko or WebKit, offering more possibilities than others, because of this is more and more used by browser companies. Respect Spyware, also Firefox send Data to Alphabet, Nest and Googleanalytics (not the Browser itself, but Mozilla do), when you use sync.
Degoogled Chromium don’t, but you can not longer use Google servers for sync. Edge and Opera use own servers, but both are more spyware than Chrome itself, Vivaldi use a own encrypted syncserver in Iceland and dont send anything to Google (Google APIs that compromise privacy are removed from the code),
Otter Browser (Qt5 engine) is a nice, very fast and private browser, inspired by old Opera12, very lightweight, can be usefull for old PC or PC with few specs, same for the SSuite Netsurfer (WebKit2 and therefor only for Windows), both without sync, Brave, also privat, but without sync, apart shady practices with cryptocompanies and a fascistic CEO (donations to rightwing orgs, antivax and anti LGBT). Not very thrusworth at least for me.
Anyway, Blink is the current standard also for the most webpages, more and more optimized for this engine, like or not. There will be no other engines, because it is the most complex part of a browser and for this reason there have not been others for more than 20 years, where only the existing ones have been improved.
The rest depends on the taste and needs of each one.
This is what a pyramid scam is all about. Throughout history, for as long as capitalism has existed, every crisis ended either with a war or not, but in any case the rich have become richer with this one. As with any Ponzi scheme, the drivers of this system collapsing disappear with the bucks, leaving the bankrupt losers who believed in the system behind.
I remember this story:
Detailed and unmissable instructions to carry out such a delicate and complex task, in 15 steps.
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Pick up the cat and cradle it with your left arm as if it were holding a baby. Position the index finger and thumb of your left hand to apply gentle pressure to the cat’s cheeks while holding the pill with your right. When the cat opens its mouth, drop the pill inside. Allow him to close his mouth in order for him to swallow the pill.
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Pick up the pill from the floor and the cat from behind the sofa. Cradle the cat again and repeat the process.
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Bring the cat out of the bedroom and throw the slobbering pill in the trash.
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Take a new pill from the box, cradle the cat, now in the cat’s right arm, keeping the hind legs firmly grasped with your left hand. Pry his jaws open and push the pill into his mouth with your thumb. Keep the cat’s mouth closed for a count of ten.
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Get the pill out of the fishbowl and the cat off the cabinet. Call your wife.
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Kneel on the floor with the jack held firmly between your knees. Keep the hind and front legs still. Ignore the growls the cat makes. Ask your wife to hold the pussycat’s head with one hand while she pokes his mouth open with a wooden ruler. Drop the pill in and vigorously rub the cat’s throat.
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Remove the cat from the curtain roll holder. Bring another pill from the box. Remember to buy a new ruler and repair the curtains. Carefully sweep up pieces of porcelain figurines for later gluing.
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Wrap the cat in a large towel and ask your wife to hold him flat, with only his head visible. Put the pill in a straw gas. Open the cat’s mouth with a pencil. Put one end of the straw in the cat’s mouth and the other in yours, blow.
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Check the package insert to make sure the pill is not harmful to humans. Drink a glass of water to restore your sense of taste. Apply bandages to your wife’s arms and clean the blood from the carpet with cold, soapy water.
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Bring the cat from the neighbor’s roof. Take another pill. Put the cat in the closet and close the door on the cat’s neck, leaving only the head out of the closet. Pry the mouth open with a dessert spoon. Drop the pill inside with a rubber band.
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Go to the garage for a screwdriver to put the cabinet door back on its hinges. Apply cold compresses to your cheeks and check when the last tetanus was applied. I put the shirt I was wearing in the washing machine and took a clean one from the bedroom.
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Call the fire department to get the cat down from the tree across the street. Apologize to your neighbor who crashed into his fence trying to escape from the angry cat. Take the last pill in the box.
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Tie the cat’s front legs to the hind legs with a string. Tie it securely to the kitchen table leg. Look for heavy duty gloves. Hold the cat’s mouth open with a small crowbar. Put the pill in its mouth followed by a big piece of meat. Keep the head upright and pour a pint of water down the cat’s throat so that it swallows the pill.
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Have your wife, if she can drive, take you to the ER. Sit quietly while the doctor bandages your fingers and forehead, and while the pill is removed from your eye. On the way back, stop at the furniture store to buy a new table for his kitchen.
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Make an arrangement with an architectural firm to redecorate the house and call the vet to find out if he has any hamsters, or the like, to sell you.
Yes, maybe, but I don’t see a big problem, there are a lot of devs, even tose with FOSS projects in Discord, for example Andisearch, and some of the other AI projects, because include it`s fuctions in Discord itself, not possible in other social networks. For Example Midway or BlueWillow only works in Discord itself. That Discord tracks the user like FB and others, isn’t really a problem with extensions and privacy tools which almost everybody use nowadays to show them the middlefinger, even Portmaster itself, which blocks all this crap that pages like these want to put in your system.
That a company uses Discord, Twitter or another major social network does not mean much, they simply use the most commonly used networks. This simply has practical reasons, having contact with more users there than they would have in a network where only a tiny percentage of them participate. Perhaps with the massive migration to Mastodon and other federated networks due to the fall of Twitter, this would change in the future.
Portmaster is a good and nice app, beter than Pi-hole, but avoid to use the SPN it has, it has very bad critics of several users. It seems that it doesn’t work as promised and it’s apparently been in alpha for quite some time with no recent developments.
See comments in AlternativeTo https://alternativeto.net/software/spn--safing-privacy-network/about/
A lot of people used it in these years
You say it, not yet. I’m not sure it would make sense to publish all the source code, more than the basic one, on Github, if it is an experimental alpha product, in intensive development and improvements and changes every few days. It is enough for me that it really respects privacy and, even in alpha, it is extremely practical.
Anyway, as you can see in my screenshot above, that I use apart a lot of diferent search engines and specific site searches, depending of what I need to search. I use Andi as first search for the daily common use, for which is normally enough, giving me direct answers and not only a list with not related results.
I use Andisearch, also as PWA in mobile. It’s an AI search assistant, 100% privacy focused, no tracks, ads or logs, reader view of webpages, Video view in search results, Bangs, alternatives websearches with several engines, OpenSource. Anyway I added mwmbl to my list, it’s a very good engine, I only miss the image and video opcion.
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It must be after Franklin invented the lightning rod, seeing the two he holds in his hands.