Well, yeah, they’re run by a corporation, which I guess means they need to show infinite growth to return value to stockholders. If so they can keep growing on subscriptions for a while, but eventually they’ll turn on their customers. So fair enough.

I think that’s part of my problem with them honestly. They seem to always want to grow and do more, but I would rather have seen them focus on search and make the subscription more affordable. But as they need growth I guess that’s not possible.

Yeah, this is not the case as they run on a subscription based model.

I used Kagi for a while. I stopped because it’s prohibitively expensive, and rather than prioritizing lowering prices they kept giving me AI features I did not want at all - hell, it’s the kind of shit I was paying to get away from. Mix direct support for Russian companies into the mix, and you have an expensive AI fueled multi-purpose web monstrosity that supports war crimes. No thanks. I just wanted a search engine.

Their search results were good though. I wouldn’t mind supporting a subscription based model, but I’m sick and tired of tech bros and their bullshit.

There are some user friendly Android based alternatives out there, since it’s based on open source. Personally I’m running a device with /e/OS, which you can either install yourself or buy a phone with it pre-installed. There are also some other user friendly options out there such as the Volla Phone.

But yeah, iOS is probably a better bet than stock Android, as Apple has a history of being abusive towards their customers in other ways than by selling their data. But crucially both Google and Apple are American companies, so you should avoid depending on their cloud services to whatever degree possible. There’s no such thing as safe data if it is stored by an American company.

If these assholes get bailed out by American tax payers when this shit crashes and burns I’m gonna get real mad.

Well, I’m pretty angry about everything happening in the US already, come to think of it. Oh well. I guess it’ll all just crash and burn.

Based on 404media’s coverage of Girls Do Porn, I feel like PornHub can hardly be described as not being “unregulated and sketchy and extreme”.

Long story short, PornHub was knowingly cooperating with a porn producer operating on the basis of institutionalized rape for years. Lots of women have committed suicide in the wake. The ringleader of the network PornHub cooperated with was recently sentenced to 27 years in prison. I’m of the personal belief that PornHub executives should have been brought in to keep him company—they are as guilty as anyone in this. I really doubt that Girls Do Porn is a unique story in anything else than the fact that it ended up before the courts.

Historically death camps tend to start out as mere camps, but then suddenly they are full of people who are deemed unwanted anyway and keeping them alive is expensive and difficult so why bother.

On its current trajectory there’s no US camp that shouldn’t be expected to turn into a death camp. And as others have pointed out, thousands “missing” from a huge, poorly managed camp in the middle of a swamp is worrying to say the least.

Americans today are like Germans in the 30s, watching the trains roll by.

The reporting goes pretty hard:

‘No restrictions’ and a secret ‘wink’: Inside Israel’s deal with Google, Amazon
To secure the lucrative Project Nimbus contract, the tech giants agreed to disregard their own terms of service and sidestep legal orders by tipping Israel off if a foreign court demands its data, a joint investigation reveals.

May this be a reminder to degoogle your phone and boycott amazon. It’s not hard, and there are thousands of people on here eager to help. :)

I’d say the Clash were simultaneously highly mainstream and true to the spirit of punk. Dead Kennedys as well, albeit slightly less mainstream.

Honestly I’d say there’s a lot of punk bands that enjoyed something close to mainstream success without being sellouts.

I’d say he’s imitating the 60s more than the 70s, but he writes some good tunes nevertheless. :)

That’s brilliant. Australian culture is criminally underappreciated in Europe.

I don’t believe he did?

Just a victim of globalization I guess. Was introduced to it by a guy who did farmwork in Australia for a while.

What the fuck. Back in my day gooning meant having someone pour alcohol into your mouth, typically from a bladder container such as a wine bag from boxed wine. I have fun memories of gooning with friends in hot tubs. I guess that’s a sentence I can’t use any more.

I guess human perception is very subjective. To me the W3 is very obvious, but I have a hard time seeing a penis.

This comment sections is one of the weirder moments I’ve seen on Lemmy.

I disagree that the new one is too abstract. The w³ part is pretty pronounced, and then there’s design elements that reminds me of surfing.

I like the old one because I like the W3C, but when you see it you do get the impression that they were important in 1995 and probably haven’t done anything since.

I like this one. Positive change in my opinion. :)

Yup, the nightly builds are already getting pretty good. Obviously not ready for any serious use yet, but it’s a great project.

Yup, Signal is down. The one centralized service I’m still rooting for I guess. Disappointed they’re running on AWS.