My friend, you seem to have a higher opinion of middle management than I; they seem to be frantically adopting AI almost as fast as the C Suite to me, and pushing for every “cut costs and defer security features” measure that they can.

It was a pretty straightforward switch. If you pay for Protonmail, you also get free email aliasing through pass mail, which is a massive privacy boost

Yeah, if you’re hitting the search engine to bring up YouTube instead of going to the site or something, probably the $10 a month tier makes more sense.

Basically, yeah

The $5 a month tier is more than enough for me; I don’t think I’ve gone over the 300 queries a month in almost a year, and I feel like I search a lot. Those couple of times I have, all it means is starting a new 30 day period a little early. It’s painless.

Zero substantiating information or details in this three sentence “article”.

Appreciate the details from both you and velma@sh.itjust.works

I’m not even sure what you’re implying, but apparently it’s unpopular.

I’ve never heard of it, or this Dan Saltman person. What’s the story?

That’s a bad headline, Reuters. Surveys don’t show how things work; they show what people think. I wouldn’t be remotely surprised if it was true that social media was bad for democracy, but this isn’t enough to say that’s the case.

Where’s the love for nix flake update ?

More? I dunno, only if you’re trying to minmax searches, which I apparently do. Just different. 😎

Haha if I did I’d just go to wkitionary.com and search there or something

Interesting! I guess I must search a lot less than I feel like I do. I do some things like type in URLs rather than searching for a known URL, and going to Wikipedia directly and then searching there; maybe that stuff helps more than I’d think? Or maybe we just use the Internet differently, which is fine too.

That’s wild to me; I feel like I search a lot, and I only go over the 300 searches rarely. Those few times I do, it’s painless to just start the cycle a few days early.

$5 a month is really not expensive, though. That’s less than the price of a AAA game for a full year. Google is only free because they make their money selling user data. How cheap does a good search engine need to be?

I feel like the article is focusing on the wrong target here: the watermarks are not the problem. The problem is the vast and interconnected ubiquitous surveillance machine that makes it possible to track these watermarks around and, therefore, determine who is talking to whom about what.

While we can’t make use of the information in the mark ourselves, it seems like, if we can figure out how to spot them, it should be possible to make watermarks with fake but legitimate-seeming values in other to confuse things.

Haven’t grifters been fleecing people about harvesting gold like this for decades? What’s different about Uranium?

It’s not, but it takes a court and a bunch of very expensive lawyers to figure that out

Huh, I was able to view the article just fine without seeing anything about needing a subscription.