Frequency illusion, also known as the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon or frequency bias, is a cognitive bias referring to the tendency to notice something more often after noticing it for the first time, leading to the belief that it has an increased frequency of occurrence.The illusion is a result of increased awareness of a phrase, idea, or object – for example, hearing a song more often or seeing red cars everywhere.
I personally find downvotes useful because there are a lot of low quality comments and content. Downvotes help me (and others) to avoid seeing them. Thus not wasting time with uninteresting posts or comments. But you aren’t supposed to downvote everything that someone says.
it is a fact. you have to be logged in to do a search or use an API key which directly associates your search query with your account.
Let’s say you don’t give them a real email, that’s good. Maybe you’re using Tor or a VPN and they don’t get your IP. And somehow you manage to make your payment anonymously. That’s great.
Well, Kagi is still getting all your search queries which are directly associated with one account. We don’t have their server’s code. We don’t know how or what are they logging. They can claim whatever in their privacy policy, I don’t care. A single entity is receiving all your search queries directly linked to your pseudonymous account. This gives them a vast amount of data about the person using it, even if they do not know who you are, probably very sensitive information too.
Let’s make a huge assumption and assume they are not correlating your search queries and they do not use this information for anything. Well, a third party actor with access to their servers could very well make use of this vast amount of personal data, whether it is a government, their hosting provider, a malicious actor, a security breach, etc.
And that’s considering the best case in which you were covering your tracks hiding your IP all the time and making anonymous payments, which, being honests, most Kagi users don’t do. So yeah, Kagi is a privacy nightmare.
it’s better to be transparent and let everyone analyze your design. the more eyes on it, the better. even the proprietary and obscured Intel CPUs have had security vulnerabilities in the past.
I just use the Collins dictionary which is the best one IMO through Tor. There’s no private (good) dictionary.
Edit: Also, installing an app for everything is not great for privacy either. They have a greater access to your device than a web. And for something I can perform in a web search, that’s my preferred method.
It’s just getting used to it. You can add the Collins (or any other dictionary search to Firefox) and it’s as easy as selecting the correct search engine and writing the word in the search box.
there was an app for Wiktionary on fdroid. But I don’t like Wiktionary’s definitions as much as Collins’.
I dont have any problem with it i simply would like to see peoples different opinions, so, this is what the system would be generally used for/what id like it to do:...
you got the reparability totally wrong. if the motherboard fries, you have to replace basically the whole device. In a desktop you just replace the motherboard and keep the CPU, GPU and RAM.
you can obviously plug an external HDD, but can you upgrade RAM? can you upgrade to a better CPU or replace your current CPU without replacing half of the phone components? No, you can’t.
and yes, Android uses the Linux kernel. But very few manufacturers release the kernel’s code. No upstream kernel support makes it quite hard to keep updating after the manufacturer stops, even for custom ROMs that have to keep using the kernel as a blob, which eventually becomes inviable.
And if you’re already limiting yourself to devices supported by LineageOS, you’re discarding 90% of all phones, which let’s be honest, if the primary reason to use a flawed OS to self-host was to recycle hardware, you’re discarding most phones anyway so not a great reason.
I use wire (wire. com) for daily chatting. I like it but I couldn’t find any good communities in wire. In session, or simpleX, there are privacy (and other) groups in which anyone can participate… Can we start a privacy group in wire so we folks can also hang around?
what are you talking about? XMPP doesn’t have such a thing as default settings. It varies from client to client. There are clients which have E2EE enabled by default, clients which make it available, others that support it with a plugin and there are others that do not support E2EE.
That’s no excuse to avoid XMPP. XMPP is an open standard, the key is choosing a good implementation.
I’m helping a friend of mine writing a long essay exposing the abusive, monopolistic and anti-consumer practices of Microsoft. First, we’ve created some sort of table of contents with the different topics we want to cover and now we’re gathering sources for each of these topics....
Bored ape NFT event attendees get their faces burned by event lighting (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/7879294...
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Petition demands that Microsoft extends Windows 10 support (ghacks.net)
Google is ready to fill its AI searches with ads (www.theverge.com)
The Risk of RISC-V: What's Going on at SiFive? (morethanmoore.substack.com)
Ian Cutress muses upon rumors around SiFive, the forerunner of high-performance RISC-V cores.
What are good private dictionary apps (paid is ok) across the platforms that you know of or use?
Seems like every dictionary wants your first born personal data-wise....
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Endeavouros alternatives?
I dont have any problem with it i simply would like to see peoples different opinions, so, this is what the system would be generally used for/what id like it to do:...
The future of selfhosted services is going to be... Android?
cross-posted from: packmates.org/users/Wander/…/111280488886937575...
Global civil society and experts statement: Stop facial recognition surveillance now - European Digital Rights (EDRi) (edri.org)
Can we start a group in wire?
I use wire (wire. com) for daily chatting. I like it but I couldn’t find any good communities in wire. In session, or simpleX, there are privacy (and other) groups in which anyone can participate… Can we start a privacy group in wire so we folks can also hang around?
Which browsers are best for privacy? (privacytests.org)
Open-source tests of web browser privacy....
Why do you hate Microsoft?
I’m helping a friend of mine writing a long essay exposing the abusive, monopolistic and anti-consumer practices of Microsoft. First, we’ve created some sort of table of contents with the different topics we want to cover and now we’re gathering sources for each of these topics....