WolvenSpectre

@WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google now requires JavaScript⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It turns out it went multi-engine, probably to prevent getting cut off of Google’s Results. It probably mixes results from multiple engines like the old multi engine search engines in the old days of the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google now requires JavaScript⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When they were purchased it was with the understanding that they would get no user data and that Startpage does not collect it, and it has the same CEO who started the company so I believe him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google now requires JavaScript⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I should have said “by default” because that is how most people will use it, but the power users will use other engines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Replacing an old mini fridge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Difference between the manufacturer and some seller making a sign. If the Manufacturer is calling them “Mini-Fridge” on the packaging they are asking for a lawsuit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google now requires JavaScript⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AFAIK Startpage gives you google results with your privacy intact and less ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google now requires JavaScript⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Uses Bing results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Post Apocalyptic Fantasy and Post Apocalyptical High Fantasy are two phrases I keep seeing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America Must Free Itself from the Tyranny of the Penny⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well except that if you are doing it with cards you have to worry about being skimmed. Here in Canada they have chip and pin but guess who gets stung with purchases 4 out of 5 times when it happens because it doesn’t ask for the pin all the time.

  Now if you do it through a smartwatch, phone, or some other device that can’t be skimmed when it isn’t being used, then that is the way to do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America Must Free Itself from the Tyranny of the Penny⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are loose plans to do that here in Canada long before that, but nothing solid right now. My guess is they are going to have to move from rounding to the nickel to rounding to the dime and pricing and taxes will have to follow. From when I was a kid a penny and a nickel are worth 1/5th of what they were in purchasing power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America Must Free Itself from the Tyranny of the Penny⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for this great article. For those who are paywalled you can read it using Archive.IS archive.is/…/worthless-pennies-united-states-econ…