look on the bright side, most of these are more likely leaks instead of breaches – following the discussions around Crowdstrike and it’s pretty clear that getting the box checked on the compliance form takes priority over any actual security measures

GitHub has managed to conflate “git” and “GitHub” in a lot of people’s minds (including people who should know better) – git may be decentralized, but to people who think git is GitHub, it’s meaningless

mind share – GitHub is the Coca-Cola of git, Codeberg and SourceHut are the RC Colas – people are already on GitHub, their projects are already on GitHub, their workflows are already on GitHub, their friends are already on GitHub, their co-workers are already on GitHub, and on and on …

it’s the same issue with Facebook – everyone knows Facebook is shit, but leaving Facebook means convincing your friends and family to leave Facebook, and convincing their friends and family to leave Facebook … outside of a global event like a pandemic, a nigh impossible task …

• “let’s abandon our industrial base and move manufacturing overseas”
• “we can’t use overseas products because of national security”

Shimmy Shimmy Mumm-Ra

https://thefreeworld.noblogs.org/post/2024/03/18/cloudflare-has-created-the-largest-most-rigidly-exclusive-walled-garden-in-the-world/

gas pedal – it was friction fit and would slide off and get jammed into one of the panels pressing down on the accelerator

Teslas go above and beyond – and the Cybertruck takes it to another level past that …

psst – you are never important to your employer

How to Bullet Journal – a quick intro by the original creator (biggest problem is that it’s been turned into a craft project by Instagrammers, more weight put on picking out the right washi tape than keeping track of tasks)

I’ve heard of GnuCash but I have no experience or knowledge of it

• open source, multi-platform
• aimed at individuals and small business
• Features
• looks like it can direct connect to your bank (but a Reddit post indicates might not be the most intuitive)

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EDIT: only came across it because I was looking at the Guile language and GnuCash is listed as using Guile

EDIT 2: unwarranted advice – for memory and ADHD, take a look at the original bullet journaling (not the Instagram/TikTok fad it’s turned into)

in the case of technology (specifically anything cloud based * ) – if you have your needs split across multiple services, if one of them goes down / gets hacked / goes belly up, you only lose access to what was stored on that service – if everything is on one service, then you lose access to everything

* the cloud is just someone else’s computer

a Chromium browser trying to throw shade …

standard is treat them the same way you used to treat Netflix logins – one club card number gets shared among family and friends

EDIT: no one ever used their own Netflix login and no one ever uses their own club card number

Please fill out this Cambridge Analytica form to express your doubt.

drunk mimic …

Startpage was bought out by advertising company System1

• EDIT
• Qwant seems decent
• a lot of claims Duckduckgo has morphed into being a frontend for Bing
• SearXNG (updated replacement for SearX) gets good reviews, but have to be prepared to hop instances as Google blocks them
  • Random SearX Redirector
• Kagi is a subscription service that people seem to love

it’s a nuanced conversation

that ship sailed back when they abandoned the “don’t be evil” motto

when the punishment is less than the profit, there’s no incentive not to deceive …