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I use https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ together with the uBlacklist browser extension. It lets you ban domains from your search results across all major search engines and also lets you subscribe to blacklists compiled by others, such as https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist (I see now that this hasn’t been updated since last year, but there are most likely others out there.)

There’s also Ecosia that lets you choose between Bing and Google as result provider. (And for a while now they have been working on a European Web Index with Qwant to replace the US sources.)

I studied video game art in uni, but left the course after 1.5 years bc it went in a different direction I hoped for (it went all-in on 3D, and the 2D I was actually interested in was done in a month). By that point I already had a part-time job as graphic designer, so I continued that instead, and eventually managed to land a graphic-designer-ish job at a non-profit organisation.

My current job is a lot less glamorous from the outside than video game art, or even a typical graphic design portfolio would be, but I really enjoy it :)

nice! wow, at 27 USD it really is cheap :o

sadly for now I find my Garmin’s features useful, but I hope more open products like this will appear over time

oh I had to look up “repper”, I see now :)

I know many trans people know their gender identity from an early age, and have strong convictions despite society’s pressure, but being agender, I had no strong convictions about my gender, it wasn’t even there. And I always tried to be practical, and so the only option that seemed available was to just try to put up with my born sex and assigned gender no matter how unhappy they made me 🫠

Wishing you success in your career change!

What job did you switch to?

Not sure if they changed the original title or it was editorialised by OP, but the current article title is much better at highlighting the problem:

Revealed: how Russia uses mobile ‘super-app’ Max to spy on its citizens

Research shows tens of millions of people are being forced to use platform that amounts to ‘backdoor’ on their device

I sorta knew that trans people existed, but didn’t know of hormone replacement (in the '00s Hungarian tabloids only spoke of surgeries when they mentioned trans people 🙄), and since I couldn’t have passed without that, it never crossed my mind that me being trans was an option.

The biggest surprise would definitely be that I’m trans, so I look completely different now than 19-years-old me might have imagined :D

They could apply to join the EU, but it’s very possible that Spain could veto their accession on the basis that they don’t want to give legitimacy to the Catalan independence movement.

From what I’ve read Spain would only veto it if Scotland seceded “illegally”. If the rUK agreed to let Scotland leave, Spain wouldn’t really have a justification for the veto. Iirc their constitution forbids secession, so Catalonia tried to do it “illegally”. (A bit ridiculous to have such a law imho, if there’s popular support for independence.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Truss_lettuce

If you use a robot vacuum, it might help to get one without a camera, only Lidar.

(I also made a point of buying a smart tv without a microphone, but it was already hard to find one in 2023, I imagine it’s even worse now.)

E-ink devices: I think you can put all of them in flight mode, at least that’s what I do, and upload books via USB cable. No need for network features.

Speakers: Just buy a cheap and basic wired one?

Smartwatch: How would one work without telemetry? It’s kinda the whole point 🤔 I guess you can try to replace the software with Gadgetbridge.

!linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works material

I would debate the “most people” part, but I guess we move in different circles. As well as the links posted by toomanypancakes, hundreds of the Guardian’s own staff signed a letter criticising its “pattern of publishing transphobic content”.

It is notorious in the trans community for having some strongly transphobic regular columnists.

If you do an online search for “guardian transphobia” you will find numerous media reports and trans people’s reddit posts about it over the years.

I read the wiki page about the event a few months ago, and it says that most people weren’t in psychosis. They knew they were about to kill themselves, they rehearsed the mass suicide regularly. (Though they never knew before starting if it will be the real thing this time.) Also many were forced on gunpoint, several outright shot when they refused to comply. It was mostly just tragic :(

Yea, I think the first artwork was probably just an ape being amused by the fingerprints left on something by a dirty hand.

As someone periodically into genealogy, I would love to see the everyday life of my ancestors, how their material conditions and lifestyle changed over the centuries.

Occasionally it blows my mind to think about that my ancestors lived through all those historical eras I learned about. They were always there, going about their life somewhere while the large events happened around/elsewhere.

Also on the flip side, when looking at some Roman ruins in Budapest the other day, that those stones really have been there for ~1900 years. Like just imagining medieval/Renaissance people living around them, what did they think of them? I usually think of history as distinct periods, but (at least in Europe) people of most eras lived in/on the works of earlier civilisations.

I’m amazed that this is a thing xD

The Hungarian adjective “ügyes”. It’s used to describe someone when they do something ably/skillfully/cleverly. (Doesn’t necessarily imply a learned ability, can be innate.) It usually implies an activity involving manual dexterity, but can also be used for mental problem-solving.

When used as an exclamation, it basically means “Well done!”