Assange has been held in […] Prison on the outskirts of London for five years, and he previously spent seven years in self-exile at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London […] until his asylum was withdrawn and he was forcibly carried out of the embassy and arrested in April 2019.

12 years… fuck…

A colleague at work uses Edge as primary browser on MacOS 💀

Access to Usenet providers is not free

This is the Dark Forest theory of the internet.

Sorry, it was nearly a year ago, I don’t remember the exact details. I’m an experienced IT specialist and they were not common issues I could easily debug and resolve myself. All I remember is I followed some tutorials to address some errors, which ended up creating other errors. I gave up after a couple consecutive evenings of troubleshooting.

I had high hopes for Atlas for gaming.

I formatted and started a fresh install. My main games (League Of Legends, Escape from Tarkov) would not install, with various errors. Then I ran into system errors with permissions.

Also came across this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctONKQByx-M

Back to Win10 Pro + debloat script.

I have same CPU and GPU, with C: on an M.2 (Read 7200 MB/s - Write 5700 MB/s) and 32GB DDR5. When I right-click my desktop/wallpaper, I have the blue spinning wheel for 3 or 4 seconds before the menu opens 😬

SearXNG is a metasearch engine, aggregating the results of other search engines while not storing information about its users.

Why use it?

• SearXNG may not offer you as personalized results as Google, but it doesn’t generate a profile about you.

• SearXNG doesn’t care about what you search for, never shares anything with a third-party, and it can’t be used to compromise you.

• SearXNG is free software, the code is 100% open, and everyone is welcome to make it better.

https://mdrsearx.com/info/en/about

Blockchain technology =/= Cryptocurrency

But I agree with you, the blockchain technology is amazing for transparency and integrity.

One thing I miss in Firefox is tab grouping. Yes there are 3rd party extensions that do that. But Chromium based browsers support that natively.

if you use your imagination real hard

“Stop right there, criminal scum. You are infringing our Intellectual Property!” /s

I know it is due an upgrade… but I can’t really convince myself to spend 1000€ on a new rig (mobo, cpu, cooling, DDR5, M.2) when I am still able to do everything I want with this decade old CPU.

The only game I’m having stutters in is Escape From Tarkov (CPU intensive, and optimized for single-core).

Other than that, It runs everything I throw at it without a flinch.

My i7- 4790K from 2014 thanks you.

Adguard DNS does that for free : https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html

Yes, SearXNG is a good self-hosted replacement.

Black Friday deals bring discounts, as low as 45$ per year for some providers

I went the lazy route and bought a ready to use (4 bay) Synology NAS. Yes it it proprietary and expensive, but the tools just work out of the box and are easy to maintain.

I’m still rocking an i7-4790K from 2016 with a 3070Ti and 32GB DDR3. While I know my rig is due a refresh, there isn’t a game or VR game or program I’ve thrown at it that it can’t handle properly.

But I can’t upgrade to Win11 because no TPM 2.0. And I don’t have 1000$ to throw in a new mobo + gen 12/13/14 CPU + DDR5 + M.2.

Pros: access to custom firmwares and programs, vastly extending the vanilla console features. For example Bluetooth audio worked years before the official Nintendo patch. Other notable examples: tweaking device performance (CPU/memory), game saves manipulation, webbrowser access.

Cons: don’t use it online (including browsing or gaming) or accept the risk of potentially getting the console and the N.account permanently banned. Game and console software updates require special commands. Custom firmware and trying things out isn’t particularly easy for non-technical people. Bad manipulations can permanently brick a console, turning it into an expensive paperweight or door stopper.