Honestly, I had no idea DuckDuckGo had its own web browser lol. This article reminded me to try out DuckDuckGo's search engine again, and compare its search results with those of Google Search. I was actually surprised to find out that DuckDuckGo churned out way better search results. I'm definitely gonna use it instead of Google from now on.
"We believe there is an opportunity to help verify the online identities of American officials. Hosting a Mastodon server on .gov domains is one possibility. 10x will explore this changing internet landscape, validate the extent of the problem, and identify if government technologists can play a positive role in solving it."
Last year The Markup revealed that tax prep companies sent sensitive personal information/tax related info/financial info to #Facebook without clear disclosure or expressed consent. This was primarily happening because of the #Meta Pixel, which collects data on websites that implement it - regardless if you have a Facebook/Meta company account.
Afterall, who files taxes and expects that information get sent straight to Facebook/Meta when using a tax prep software?
I know things are rough for tech folks right now but wanted to put out there that I will be doing small remote #PHP#testing#online training sessions over Zoom. Small classes (3-4 folks and me) in the evening Eastern US time for maybe 90 minutes a session for 4-6 sessions. US$200. Need to firm up the materials but email me chartjes AT grumpy-learning.com. Might do a version for the same price that is just recordings.
Did you know the internet is carried around the world by around 800,000 miles of fragile cables that sit at the bottom of the ocean? It's a precarious system that is constantly breaking, and relies on a global network of ships to be on hand to repair them, and keep the world online.
In this long read, @theverge tells the story of the people doing that job, the struggles with recruitment, and what happens when "the world's most important infrastructure," falls foul of Mother Nature.
Looks like I'm likely to lose a summer teaching gig because I won't/can't commute to a campus to teach in person. I managed to hold a fairly well-attended and well-received online-only course for two years but the organization is pushing hard to eliminate online teaching.
I am a low-vision person and cannot legally drive a car. This campus is far enough away from me that even if I wanted to I could not commute there(1). This mad push to make everything in-person again has numerous consequences for #accessibility, even for relatively privileged people like me.
(Profi-)Astronom*innen kleben die ganze Nacht mit dem Auge am Teleskop-Okular und schlafen dann tagsüber? Weit gefehlt! Wie unser Berufsalltag tatsächlich aussieht, verrät euch Karina Voggel morgen Abend um 19 Uhr live bei #FragenAnsUniversum
I'm in the #Humanities Commons instance, and we have free profiles like https://hcommons.org/members/stevemccartyinjapan that include a link to the old blue bird of Twitter, and members are increasingly leaving, so our admins at @hello might want to reconsider having that item in the next version of profiles.
Mittlerweile dominieren Satellitenkonstellationen wie Starlink nicht nur die Erdumlaufbahn, sondern zeitweise auch unseren Nachthimmel. Aber wie schlimm ist es wirklich, auch für die Radioastronomie? Gyula Józsa vom Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie verrät es uns am Dienstag Abend um 19 Uhr live bei #FragenAnsUniversum
Do you yearn for the “good old days” of the internet? The acronym-based chat clients, the Geocities sites filled with dancing hamsters, the MySpace pages filled with glitter GIFs and MIDI tracks?
@molly0xfff writes about a time when being online was simpler, but how with the tools at our disposal, getting back to that would be easier now than ever. Here’s more from her newsletter, Citation Needed.
Ne du, so was wie #DuckDuckGo, #StartPage & #Ecosia liefern Daten ihrer Crawler wie #Bing (M$) und/oder #Google. Pseudonymisiert ist nicht anonym, denn die sind vertraglich dazu verpflichtet.
🧵 …hier noch eine Liste von aktiven und öffentlich nutzbaren #SearXNG Instanzen über #HTTPS und/oder #Tor. Die Liste zeigt nicht nur den #online Zustand der #Suchmaschinen an, sondern auch deren Geschwindigkeit und Nuzzeit.
"A billionaire got mad, bought your favourite social media site and ran it into the ground. A different billionaire got mad, bought the magazine site you liked to read on your lunchbreak and shut it down completely. "
A cabal of notorious and/or legendary #european#legislative#transparency orgs and people is looking for someone who can build an #online#platform. Are you made of the material that is worthy of joining this Oceans eleven of democratic badassery? Do you know someone? Pls boost #fedihire#development
Do we need another social network? AirChat thinks so. Built by AngelList founder Naval Ravikant and former Tinder exec Brian Norgard, it has you talking your posts instead of typing them, and as your followers scroll, they'll hear your voice, with a transcription of what you've said.
Having seen it in action, @TechCrunch says it has some fundamental differences from the now-defunct Clubhouse that make it a more promising experience. But does its content moderation policy raise too many red flags?
Oh look it works again, thought when it wanted to access #X anonymously it didn't work anymore. Apparently it now works again like on #Twitter and you can distribute its anonym here in the #Fediverse over a #Nitter instance. It's more convenient to avoid the data collection frenzy of this #web recording for your #privacy.
🧵 …and that's why I use the plugins and tools mentioned above and don't use the internet unprotected:
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