A lot of folks suggest getting your own domain name for having control over your online presence but the question that I have always had is what would happen to them when I die?...
Yeah, I made this post after reading that article. There is clearly a problem with how domains and their renewals are managed. I’m not sure what a solution would look like, though.
Solution: Go to Settings > Home > Enable Shortcuts > Go to a new tab > Google will be pinned by default, hover over the Google icon > Click on the 3 dots menu > Unpin
Not sure if this is the right community, but I didn’t see a general one. What search engine do you use? Besides Google increasingly spying on its users, the quality of its search results seems to have gotten significantly worse over the last decade. What search engine(s) do you use?
You don’t need internet to access the passwords stored in Bitwarden if you have their local clients installed. It stores an encrypted copy of your database locally to your device which syncs (updates) over the internet.
Just FYI, in India the president (head of the state) is more or less a ceremonial figure. It’s the prime minister (head of the government) that you’re probably talking about.
In my country, the state provides you with legal representation if you’re unable to afford it on your own. Is that not the case in other countries (USA and Europe specifically)?
Their generous offering of 10gigabytes of free storage along with a private, ad-free, end-to-end encrypted experience always sounded too good to be true. There was no way they could sustain that business model long term. At least they’re giving users enough time to jump ship and have not sold their data to Notion (judging by their twitter replies).
rdx.overdevs.com doesn’t redirect to two different websites, it’s a subdomain (which essentially functions just like any other domain).
The name being long isn’t really a problem when most people just bookmark the sites they want to visit often and/or add the site to their home screen on mobile devices.
Moreover, using an alternate domain would incur additional unnecessary yearly cost & time to renew. The less maintenance these types of projects need, the better it is usually for them to survive long term.
There’s Revolt (FOSS, functionally the same as Discord but it’s centralised) and Matrix (FOSS and decentralised but it’s somewhat functionally different than discord). Both have their pros and cons. You can look into them.
they don’t “plant trees” but rather contribute very little amounts to existing programmes
Ofcourse they don’t plant trees themselves, it’s a search engine with a small team. They donate their entire profit which averages upwards of a million euros every month, to local tree planting initiatives across the world and that isn’t a ‘little’ number at all.
“Every search plants a tree” is a lie. It’s not every search, but rather every couple clicks on an ad
I agree, they were ‘a bit’ misleading with that in the past. Although they did state in their tree counter earlier and somewhere in their website/blog that it was roughly 45 searches (in Germany, depends on region) which raised enough money to plant a tree. They’ve since removed most, if not all of the misinformation.
They use Bing results making them useless
Since when does using Bing results make a search engine a ‘scam’? DuckDuckGo also uses Bing results, would you call that a scam as well? Ecosia uses Bing search results because it’s close to impossible to make an independent search engine which gives satisfactory results without the resources of a tech giant.
What happens to my domain, website and email when I die?
A lot of folks suggest getting your own domain name for having control over your online presence but the question that I have always had is what would happen to them when I die?...
How to unpin "Search with Google" from my search bar? (assets-prod.sumo.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net)
I found this support forum post but the solution provided doesn’t work....
What search engine do you use?
Not sure if this is the right community, but I didn’t see a general one. What search engine do you use? Besides Google increasingly spying on its users, the quality of its search results seems to have gotten significantly worse over the last decade. What search engine(s) do you use?
Chat Apps, Government Ties, and Transparency – Threema (threema.ch)
What open-source software would you like more people to know about?
I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun (www.spacebar.news)
FilePizza - Your files, delivered. (file.pizza)
Peer-to-peer file transfers in your browser Cooked up by Alex Kern & Neeraj Baid while eating Sliver @ UC Berkeley....
Swiss authorities intervene, Proton Mail not blocked in India (www.moneycontrol.com)
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Instagram will blur nudes in messages sent to minors (www.theverge.com)
Proton and Standard Notes are joining forces (proton.me)
Public Broadcasters of Europe, Let's All Join Mastodon! (www.ebu.ch)
Removal of piracy communities
Removal of piracy communities...
Zelensky’s phone call to Macron to inform him that the invasion started (vimeo.com)
Skiff, the private email provider has been acquired by Notion. It is set to shut down its services after 6 months. (skiff.com)
All skiff users have received a mail in this regard and Skiff has also tweeted about the same.
Lurkers of Reddit - my read-only, ad-free, open source Reddit viewer RDX is updated: Themes, Compact Mode and Infinite Scroll is here (rdx.overdevs.com)
Posting the updates here because most of the users of RDX come from lemmy community only....
I made a spreadsheet that ranks messengers for privacy (privacyspreadsheet.com)
I’ve been working really hard to research and rank messaging apps by their privacy. The more green boxes the better....
Ecosia plants 200 million trees (blog.ecosia.org)