It's bought by Avast. I immediately uninstalled it when I learned about the news. No way that they don't want get a return on investment by e.g. selling your data.
Consent-o-matic is better (actually sets the minimum amount of cookies) and is developed by university employees, whom I trust more.
Absolutely true, although imo not necessarily as a conscious choice. It's simply earth's feedback systems. We cram all kinds of animals together and accidentally breed highly contagious viruses, which come back to bite us in the ass. We destroy biodiversity and now people in certain parts of the world have to manually pollinate crops, because the insects all died. Etc.
If all goes well, earth will find a balance again that still favours life (possibly not human life). If not, earth might end up like Venus. Not a big deal for earth, but a bit of shame of all this life we currently see here.
That's very broad. Do you mean by some force outside our universe, or actors inside, possibly on earth?
One you don't wanna join ;) (Google). I'm still on the free tier of what's now Workspace and intent to move, but I'm dreading the work that comes with it.
A year or so ago Google almost killed the free tier (look up gsuite legacy if you want to know more). Back then I prepared to move away and settled on Zoho as my replacement, but in the end Google responded to the community's backlash and kept the free tier free for personal use (although there are some other restrictions put in place, so eventually a move is inevitable). Zoho might also give you the features you want.
I watched a video of a scam baiter recently. The scammer wanted playstation store credits or something. The baiter pretended to be an old lady that didn't understand much. The scammer just had no patience at all. Calling her stupid in her face and all that. Apparently there are really bad scammers.
Did not know about that seeder. Super useful tool! Thanks for sharing.
I use my own domain and have support for aliases and also have a catch all. No need to selfhost for that.
I would not recommend running your own email server. Major email providers like gmail only accept email from servers that have all kinds of measures in place to make them as trustworthy as possible. That's hard and probably not possible on a home internet connection.
Filtering incoming spam is also a pain in the ass.
It's nice as an exercise to learn how email works, but I would not rely on it.
Thanks for the hard work. I've cancelled my Patreon and switched to Liberapay.
A DSLR doesn't fit in your pocket... I'm really happy with my Pixel 6a camera. The night shot mode is really nice. Sure, I can get better shots with my mirrorless and a tripod, but I'm not gonna carry those with me all day (I hardly bring my mirrorless, let alone the tripod).
I haven't explored other camera apps. I assume they haven't implemented all the software magic that's running on that Tensor chip?
The Netherlands.
I see it more as a political and economic devide, hence grouping the German speaking countries also with the western countries.
Southern countries are seen as having a poorer economy, hence not being part of the western countries. The northern ones could be part of the western group, but for some reason they also don't mind being their own corner.
You're welcome