IDK what the situation was like specifically two years ago, but now:

They have a whole section in their privacy policy on GDPR and CCPA etc, as well at clear instructions on how to use their service 100% anonymously leveraging TOR and Privacy Pass (+bitcoin and a burner email if you don’t want people even knowing you have a Kagi account)

https://kagi.com/privacy

https://kagi.com/privacy/rights

Seems weird to put in a whole Privacy Rights section about the privacy laws that apply to them if they don’t think privacy laws apply to them.

That article is 2 years old. In the last two years Kagi hasn’t collapsed on itself, it’s not overrun with AI, the world hasn’t ended. They’ve implemented Privacy Pass, extended their browser support to Linux, introduced SlopStop for reporting AI websites, and generally continued to improve their main product.

Kagi is a business, run by people, who make decisions to the best of their ability based on their understanding of what’s going to best serve their needs/priorities.

Like any other product, the owners are guaranteed to make decisions that are not aligned with a fraction of their prospective customers needs/views. That’s what it’s like trying to serve a broad market like “internet search users”. Some of those users are inevitably going to get fired up enough to write a 20,000 word opinion piece on the subject.

For any service, you have to choose if the value proposition makes sense for you and your needs. For me, the value of most free search services has gone down the drain, and the value of spending monthly for Kagi is better than having to think about/maintain a SearXNG instance. YMMV.

Like a small curated stumbleupon. I gave it a few clicks a little while back and as you’d expect theres a pretty wide range of good to junk content on there, but it all felt distinctly human.

Since none of the pages are ad ridden its hard to imagine the AI crazies wasting tokens on something they can’t really monetize.

Literally any free search engine could stop serving searches that are slop - Kagi isn’t stopping them.

It’s almost like “free” search engines have ulterior motives for how they prioritize search results.

Which? Leaving it in a desk prevents tracking because the desk isn’t following you. Putting it on an account that is fully logged out by default means it only gets your location when you switch to that account (which you can control).

I have a separate user in GrapheneOS for service accounts like Amazon or my Philips Hue lights, and that account is fully blocked for running in the background. Once a month or so when I need one of those apps I’m sure they all phone home, but their data is heavily limited.

If that were even remotely true hopefully the press is smart enough to install on a burner “work” phone that sits in their desk drawer, or on a secondary account that is logged out by default.

“Dear AI coding agent, write for me a 10,000 page manifesto on the downsides of assigning performance metrics to employees unrelated to their actual work product. Populate it with generated images of Nvidia’s CEO getting railed by a bunch of copyright lawyers in the style of a Studio Ghibli film. Please ensure every fifth sentence rhymes with orange. Continue to generate images and short videos of Jensen Huang licking shit off the floor of a 7-11 rest stop bathroom until you have used enough tokens to meet my salary target.”

Considering 8GB systems are back in vogue, that’s a fuckload. More than half your ram just going to the computer existing.

Am I going insane or is there nowhere in the article where they mention which 6 dash cams have no security concerns?

Just FYI you don’t need a special router to block ads on the DNS level, you just need to point the DNS settings in your current router to a server that does filtering. Theres a couple of public ones set up to do that for you but you can also point them to a LAN IP and roll your own DNS server (like Pi-Hole or AdGuard Home)

Honestly, it varies. Businesses are starting to get wise to DNS adblockers, and are serving more ads from their primary domain (this is part of why you can’t block YouTube ads with a DNS blocker anymore - you can’t block them at the DNS level without blocking all of YouTube).

You’ll see a noticeable downtick in phone ads from web browsing and ad-sponsored games, but something like a TV or fridge will probably be unaffected because the ads will be served directly from the same host as the content. You’ll see fewer ads but far from zero.

Also why are you connecting your smart fridge to a travel router? Do you travel with a smart fridge?

Pepperage Farm remembers when Wikipedia was mass transitioning citations to archive sites because the original sites couldn’t be trusted to retain the information over time.

Oh how the turn tables.

I’m with you - I’d pay extra for a phone that doesn’t take calls just so I can force everyone to just send it as a text.

Have you thought about just putting the episodes on a thumb drive instead? Most things that can play DVD/BD can play videos from a USB.

If people moved to Linux

When users connect to their organization’s WiFi…

You think my employer would let me use Linux? Creeping on employees is how management feels important.

I wouldn’t use Teams personally unless under extreme duress. Unfortunately professionally it is the norm.

Did the article link change? Why are there comments about Hegseth when this article is completely unrelated to any DOD bullshit? Are the bots loose on anything mentioning OpenAI?

Not defending this human dumpster, but looking at the clip there appears to be a red hat at every single seat, seems like they came in the gift bag, he just happened to be the only one dumb enough to put it on.

Great to know! Does the pen still generally work for writing/notes? Also any clue if things work well with the newer generations?

Last I dug into Linux on the SP, it was a 3-4 generation lag on stable compatibility. My tablet is nearing EOL (because the charge port sucks and mine doesnt support USB-C charging as a fallback). If I replace it I don’t love replacing it with something used, 4 years old, that may have a short life.

Touch inputs can be a little messy, driver support for closed source hardware (e.g., MS Surface) is understandably rocky, and I’ve had bad experience with battery longevity especially on open source hardware.

My 6-year-old SP battery still has ~70% capacity, which is teriffic. I have had other laptops lose 90% of their capacity after just a year or two, so I’m skeptical of the tablet market.

I’m not saying good Linux tablets don’t exist, just that I’m looking for recommendations since the waters feel murkier to me.

I’m on the hunt for a replacement for my Surface, but sure as shit not getting anything with copilot. Curious what alternatives are out there.

Linux options seem a little light on the tablet front.