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1 points·by dotcoma·10 hours ago·0 comments

Meta's Teen Safety Case Just Became a $1.4T Existential Threat

gizmodo.com
3 points·by dotcoma·10 hours ago·1 comments

US states are seeking $1.4T in penalties in August youth safety trial

reuters.com
2 points·by dotcoma·11 hours ago·1 comments

Brave Place Search API: The Google Maps Alternative That Costs 6–7x Less

brave.com
3 points·by dotcoma·3 days ago·0 comments

Watch YouTube Without Ads on the DuckDuckGo Browser

spreadprivacy.com
2 points·by dotcoma·3 days ago·0 comments

The Fear of Dying Before You Become Yourself

dailicle.com
27 points·by dotcoma·5 days ago·19 comments

Brave's latest browser release offers Containers for better and easier workflow

brave.com
35 points·by dotcoma·9 days ago·9 comments

We moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky

waag.org
148 points·by dotcoma·11 days ago·124 comments

Google's hand-gesture reCAPTCHA wants access to your camera

blog.mega.io
2 points·by dotcoma·15 days ago·0 comments

You can't stop scrolling (and what helps)

snowscroll.com
4 points·by dotcoma·17 days ago·0 comments

Putin Has a New Tool to Monitor Russians (2025)

theatlantic.com
4 points·by dotcoma·19 days ago·0 comments

The Retweeting Class

berjon.com
3 points·by dotcoma·19 days ago·2 comments

WhatsApp's "End-to-End Encryption" Is the Biggest Lie in Tech History

medium.com
37 points·by dotcoma·19 days ago·50 comments

Ask HN: Is Anyone Using Filtr?

kaylees.site
3 points·by dotcoma·20 days ago·0 comments

Every Privacy Vulnerability in Chrome and How to Catch It

thatprivacyguy.com
2 points·by dotcoma·22 days ago·0 comments

Trump admin abandons fight against wind energy as clean energy output surges

insideclimatenews.org
4 points·by dotcoma·23 days ago·0 comments

Ask HN: Is Pinboard.in Down/Dead?

6 points·by dotcoma·26 days ago·2 comments

Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails

korte.co
246 points·by dotcoma·29 days ago·233 comments

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1 points·by dotcoma·last month·0 comments

New Brave Origin offers users a minimalist version of the Brave browser

brave.com
31 points·by dotcoma·last month·3 comments

comments

dotcoma
·2 days ago·discuss
And Trump would badly lose the mid-term elections.
dotcoma
·2 days ago·discuss
They can certainly endure it until November. Can Trump?
dotcoma
·5 days ago·discuss
Maybe so, or sadly so, for many people. I still have a LinkedIn account (I login once or twice s week), a Twitter account (once a week) and a bsky account (once a month).

I can’t believe I used to have Facebook’s app on my phone.
dotcoma
·5 days ago·discuss
YouTube at least were honest. Broadcast yourself, I remember them saying.
dotcoma
·5 days ago·discuss
why? Go for a walk in the woods instead. Spend more time IRL.
dotcoma
·6 days ago·discuss
Or alcohol, or whatever others are doing. In Italy, where I live, people on the ‘left’ side of the political spectrum (let’s say ‘progressives’) tend to think it’s perfectly ok to smoke dope, irregardless of what any scientific study may or may not say. This seems very weird to me.
dotcoma
·8 days ago·discuss
Please tell us here if you decide to sell them.
dotcoma
·9 days ago·discuss
If only they were able to build the infrastructure to charge for this...
dotcoma
·9 days ago·discuss
it opens up opportunities for smaller companies that don't want to or cannot afford to venture in AI-search: DuckDuckGo, Brave Search, Mojeek, Qwant etc.
dotcoma
·9 days ago·discuss
> But what the SpaceX/Anthropic deal showed was even if you fall short, you can profit by selling off your overcapacity.

Do you have proof that the deal is profitable (and for how long?) for SpaceX ?
dotcoma
·9 days ago·discuss
Meta is just another company that, like xAI/Grok, is at last starting to face reality: there are going to be two or three winners in this space, and they are not one of them.
dotcoma
·10 days ago·discuss
Data centers in the sky to serve porn.
dotcoma
·10 days ago·discuss
That would indeed be a huge improvement over the current situation, with 98.5% of repos hosted directly by bsky (!)

https://atproto.barn.city/
dotcoma
·11 days ago·discuss
Reminds me of Animal Farm.
dotcoma
·11 days ago·discuss
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

-- John Steinbeck
dotcoma
·11 days ago·discuss
> the internet, DNS, email, and the web were largely built by VC-backed companies

Really ?
dotcoma
·11 days ago·discuss
But... if Waag are not self-hosting, and they're not, how likely is it that normal people will start doing so in relatively large numbers?
dotcoma
·11 days ago·discuss
You win. Cloud repatriation engineer.
dotcoma
·11 days ago·discuss
SDS, Sovereign Data Specialist ;)
dotcoma
·11 days ago·discuss
https://archive.is/S5CbX