Pinta is a fork of an older version of paint.net: https://www.pinta-project.com/ I have no idea if it is any good. I just thought that this might solve your problem.

Which distro are the Germans switching to?

Read the issues on that git and you’ll see that it only works on comments visible from your profile which has a maximum limit. It doesn’t get everything, because of that profile limit. There is a python script listed in there but it requires an API key.

In a podcast I listen to where tech people discuss security topics they finally got to something related to AI, hesitated, snickered, said “Artificial Intelligence I guess is what I have to say now instead of Machine Learning” then both the host and the guest started just belting out laughs for a while before continuing.

If you use Firefox you can turn on the thing that they just enabled in Germany by going to about:config and setting these options:

• cookiebanners.service.mode 2
• cookiebanners.service.mode.privateBrowsing 2

They are both set to ‘0’ right now.

They are testing this setting, so if something goes wrong then change it back.

More information here: https://community.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/firefox-cookie-banner-handling/

Caveat: I just learned this on Lemmy in some other thread I can’t find again.

Yep and for some people it’s too hard to think about extensions so just having them install Brave is a perfect recommendation (for now anyway).

Read this: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/21/magazine/palantir-alex-karp.html

My reply was purely to get to the accurate information versus your reply which says that they are “collecting data from their search engine not the browser” as it’s important that people reading know what’s actually going on.

I’m not here to argue about whether they should or should not do that and I’m not going to (and when I used Brave I consciously went into the menu to opt into this to improve their search engine so we could have a competitor).

Google rewrites links in Google search (not that you use it but maybe you do sometimes). So, if you want the links you click in Google search to not go through a Google referral URL and instead go to the link advertised in the search result, then Privacy Badger is useful for this purpose.

https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409406835469-What-is-the-Web-Discovery-Project-

If you opt in, you’ll contribute some anonymous data about searches and web page visits made within the Brave Browser (including pages arrived at via some, but not all, other search engines). This data helps build the Brave Search independent index, and ensure we show results relevant to your search queries. By “data” we mean search queries, search result clicks, the URLs of pages visited in the browser, time spent on those pages, and some metadata about the pages themselves.

My emphasis.

I just discovered this on a relative’s computer. Any trick to removing the VPN service?

Which phone do you use?

🤔😔🤷🤷🤦

I tested it in Firefox InPrivate, Edge, Brave, and Chrome and all are identical for me. I think they just fucked up YouTube. 😂

Every time I went to sign up for their site they required that I list my Twitter account. But, I’ve never had consistent interconnected social media profiles.

There’s a bot that goes through and identifies link rot so editors have a backlog queue of them to go through.

To people who say the link won’t work: I opened a private window in Firefox and it worked for me.

Survey research is hard – especially when you are a student learning to do it.

It’s not a blog. These are the strongest of the tech journalists from Vice News’s Motherboard (tech section) who started their own separate venture independent of Motherboard.

• https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/22/business/media/404-media-vice-motherboard.html
• https://muckrack.com/media-outlet/404media

Someone should make a github just to make it easier for people to find them all in one place with sources and update the list as we get new ones.