There’s a big chunk of the Linux community that will always want to gatekeep it and push out anything that makes it easier for the layman to use

Was just a dopey idea in the first place. Nobody replaces a mouse because it’s lacking software features, they replace a mouse when the switches wear out.

I gotta say it’s refreshing to have a place to post where this kind of comment isn’t immediately deleted and the user IP banned like Reddit

I tried kagi for a month and the results were probably as good or slightly better than Google for 90% of searches but it completely falls apart any time you want something local or hyper-specific. It made me realize that the personalization that people hate with Google’s results actually saves a ton of time because I had to retry a lot of kagi searches with additional context.

Blocking ads and trackers in your browser and then using Google without an account will get you most of the way to what kagi is doing.

Big tech needs far stricter regulations but I don’t think people would like the internet very much if Google was forced to sell off services like YouTube. Nobody else is offering unlimited free hosting, discoverability, promotion, and bandwidth for video content and nobody ever will again. If the chromium project was sold off to some other shitty tech company, do you really think they’d keep the open source ‘ungoogled’ version readily available for everyone? A Google breakup would just mean that other tech companies like Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, etc get more powerful.

If there’s an appetite for breakups why not start with the companies that control our food and news

This should be what finally starts the push to ban mandatory arbitration clauses.

People grant kernel access all the time without thinking. Video game anti-cheat is a good example. It’s a pretty potent vector of attack since you can never trust these companies to keep themselves secure.

That number would be even higher if everyone used untraceable and non-reversible crypto transactions.