Stackoverflow gets quickly steamrolled by AI.

We’re not 100% there yet, but the writing on the wall is there. Just my opinion, of course.

snake_case_might_be_better_for_that

It’s not like Firefox doesn’t collect user data at all. Vivaldi is hard to seriously fault in that area.

Unfortunately, Firefox lacks some features that make it a little clumsy at times. But for general use it is great. I keep it installed and use it almost every day because I believe in the browser engine and the need for diversity in that area. It’s just not for every need. At least not for me. That’s where Vivaldi and Edge have to help.

I’d venture out there and say Vivaldi in functionality and customisation.

Privacy probably not, though Vivaldi does quite well.

Sadly it’s a Chromium browser.

Edit: a simple comparison.

Chromium - and thus Google - dominates the Internet way too much. This causes trouble and has the potential to cause a lot more trouble in the future.

This has been discussed many times before, of course.

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"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” - Carl Sagan (in No Man’s Sky)

“Sometimes people make choices that leave them alone.” - Bastion

“The Old Ones perished because they didn’t embrace change.” - Aratak, Horizon Zero Dawn

They eat them. But there is no need to do so. It’s a tradition.

Source: Britannica.

This source also highlights the hypocrisy of saying that there’s a focus on animal welfare.

I stand corrected. I misread the last paragraph.

I edited my comment accordingly.

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Where’s that from?

“Whaling in the Faroe Islands is conducted in accordance with international law and globally recognized principles of sustainable development,” according to the island’s government website. “It is sustainable and fully regulated, with a strong emphasis on animal welfare, and a requirement today for participants to be licensed to use the mandatory methods and equipment. Whale drives only take place in bays that are officially approved for the purpose, and only schools of whales found in close proximity to land, usually within one nautical mile, are driven ashore.”

The fact that it has to be justified in this way shows that something isn’t right. Just because something is legal doesn’t make it right.

Also, what kind of nonsense is this: “with a strong emphasis on animal welfare”. It’s a species hunted and killed by the hundreds! What kind of welfare is seen there!?

Humans’ way of justifying their dubious morals can be disgusting!

Fantastic. Whoever wrote this had an inspired day.

I feel such a sentiment can be misguided, because it can lead someone to be utterly discontent.

Applied properly with perspective, it can lead to discoveries about oneself, of course.

“A man chooses, a slave obeys.” — BioShock

From Andrew Ryan, the founder of Rapture, the underwater utopia gone wrong in BioShock. This is Ryan’s philosophy valuing individual freedom and rationality over collectivism and morality. I can never decide whether I agree with this or not. There’s truth in it, but it can be misguided and extreme as well.

Not saying Google isn’t spying on you, but with Yandex you get into Russian government territory.

• Yandex collects user data (their privacy policy)
• Yandex cooperates with the Russian FSB

Decide yourself who should get your information.

Largely true, though the full answer is a bit more nuanced.

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I do. I use several search engines, but depending on the topic, Bing returns accurate results, especially since they integrated Bing Chat (their AI).

And I’m not alone.

Google a) is littered with ads, sponsored and overly SEOified results and b) has too much dominance.

So I use Bing, Ecosia (which uses Bing) and a number of other search engines.

highly anticipated Windows 12

Microsoft wants to make the taskbar appear to float above the desktop by separating it from the desktop and rounding off the corners

Who gets excited about that!?

Plus, all the (always online, storing everything we say, type and look at) AI features should be looked at critically and not with high anticipation.

To add to this great advice: lemmyverse.net. Fantastic way to find your favourite - or totally new - communities.

Make others on here feel good where possible, respect all and have fun.

Leave the forced controversialism to the red alien.

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