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You’re not going to have much luck finding a search engine with good results that doesn’t depend on google or bing. Kagi is no different. Using a searx instance is probably best if you’re looking for something without official agreements with bing or google. Edit: Here is a list of independent search indexes I just discovered in another thread https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/

I’ve seen it in private browsing for a while now, but it has also just started happening in a normal window. My solution was to switch to ddg for now. Disabling js breaks image browsing for me.

It should be held back. Although I dislike the company, I believe safari’s market share and use of an alternative browser engine is important in keeping google from closing the web.

Unlike many comments here, I enjoyed reading the article, especially the parts in the “I don’t want to use gibibyte!” chapter, where you explain that this (the pedantry) is important in technical and formal situations (such as documentation). Seeing some of the comments here, I think it would have helped to focus on this aspect a bit more.

I also liked the extra part explaining the reasoning for using the Nokia E60.

I don’t quite agree with the recommendation to use base 10 SI units where neither KiB or kB would result in nice numbers. I don’t see why base 10 should have an influence on computers, and I think it makes more sense to stick to a single unit, such as KiB.

The reasons I have this opinion are probably to do with:

• My computer has shown me values using KiB, Gib, etc for years - I think it’s a KDE default - so I’m already used to the concept of KiB being different from kB.
• I dislike the concept of base 10 in general. I like the idea of using base 16 universally (because computers. Base 12 is also valid in a less computer-dominant society). I therefore also think 1024 is a silly number to use, and we should measure memory in multiples of 2^8 or 2^16…

p.s, I agree with other commenters that your comments starting with “Pretty obvious that you didn’t read the article.” or similar are probably not helping your case… I understand that some comments here have been quite frustrating though.

I usually get 5-10 Mbps download during peak times, which is enough for 720p YT and decent video calls. I really don’t understand why people always need faster and faster internet. Although I just checked, and I’m getting 60 down just now, which is way more than I have ever seen.

Not at all, but I was told by someone that it was the case in certain rural parts of the country. I’m not saying I know what I’m talking about, it’s just my personal experience when I was there.

I visited Germany recently, and I did notice more racism than I’ve seen at home. There were some distant relatives of mine, who I’ve never met before, casually making racist jokes to each other, without attempting to hide it.