Anyway I think that a Webcam cover should be a default on webcams, not only for privacy, but also for th same reason why Cams and binoculars have caps by default, to protect the lens. If you use a tape, to avoid glue on the lens, you can cover the intern part which is over the lens with a piece of paper

For this the best AV (100% proof)

(A piece of tape also works fine)

Netsurf use the WebView render, it’s also used by Edge as part of the OS and Chromium. Text browser have a way simpler engine, because they don’t need a graphic engine to render an webpage. The current engines in modern browsers are 3 and some variations, Goanna is a modified Gecko, and WebView, Qt, are Blink variants, Link was an improvement from WebKit and KHTML. Before there was Presto which is obsolete since a lot of years. The other day I saw an startup , I forgot the name, which was collecting support for a new brwser with an independent engine developed from scratch, they talked about an alpha release in 2027. First I thought to put it in jokes, but better comenting it with “Good luck, guys”. In the Wiki is a list with over 70 abandoned and discontinued browser and browserprojects, a lot which also tried to make a different engine, even most of the existing browsers (~100) are fighting to survive in a saturated market. No chance to think in different engines as the existing ones.

Yes, there are three engines since 20 years (apart of some testimonil modifications and forks), because the engine is the most complex part of the browser and creating a new engine from skratch is a work for a huge amount of devs for several years. No browser company can affort to do this and stay out of the market for years until the release of their browser.

2025

It is clear that in a cultured and informed people these policies cannot subsist, which is why they do everything in their power, helped for centuries by the church and today by related information media, study plans, etc. to keep the people ignorant, obedient and submissive. But this only shows that it cannot be solved with “eat the rich”, this would be simplifying this too much, it is this whole system that puts people in a spiral that is already very difficult to undo, until a bad awakening occurs, but then it’s late.

Yes US is different, because it isn’t a real Democracy, with 2 Partys, one conservative neoliberal and other extreme right wing christo-fascists.

The Earth only can survive with Humans with Humanity, it’s not only the rich, it’s ignorance, stupidity, fanatism and greed the problem. It’s all the stupid people which vote for those which give power to the rich (MAGA rednecks, fascists, flat earther, anti-vax, influencers “Climate change is a Hoax”, buyed media fom these people with fake news, etc.).

The bottom line is not that someone is rich, but what he do with the wealth and how he earned it…

Agree, and this is why there are only three engines out there since more than 20 Years (+2 testiminial forks, Goanna (Gecko) and Qt (Blink), apart of KHTML only used by KDE in its Konqueror, grandfather of WebKit and Blink).

But the engine nowadays isn’t the main problem and pretty irrelevant, the main problem is that Google control 3/4 part of the websites, imposing it’s standart. All engines are FOSS and every company and dev can adapt these to his like. Chromiums are struggeling now with Mv3, but mostly due to the extensions frm the Chrome Store, not so with inbuild features (adblocker and other related privacy functions), in other extensions related to the UI, translators, tabs and similar, it’s irrelevant for the user if it is Mv2 or Mv3.

In the choice of a browser there are only few questions

• Does it fit my needs?
• Does it spy my data and activity? (Chrome, Edge, Opera after v12)
• Has it regular security updates?
• A good support and active community?
• Is it stable and save?

That are mainly the points, but as said, arguing about which browser is better is arguing about the wrong problem, which are the web standarts, not the browsers.

Yes, Croc is AFAIK the best alternative, no man in the middle, but if you can’t be online for the downloads, the best is Sharrr, anyway lightyears better than Dropbox or similar big company crap.

AI will be intelligent one day in the future, but until now it only can give intelligent solution in certain tasks like AI used in science, medicine, physik, etc., but not to be confused with AI for the normal user, well, sometimes certainly more intelligent as the user. It can be a usefull tool, but only if the user also use his own brain.

As I said, these things happen when the company uses AI mainly as a tool to obtain data from the user, leaving aside the reliability of its LLM, which allows it to practically collect data indiscriminately for its knowledge base. This is why ChatBots are generally discardable as a reliable source of information. Search assistants are different, like Andi, since they do not get their information from their own knowledge base, but in real time from the web, there it only depends on whether they know how to recognize the reliability of the information, which Andi does, contrasting several sources. This is why it offers the highest accuracy of all major AI, according to an independent benchmark.

The difference is easy, a ChatBot take informacion from a knowledge base scrapped from several previos inputs. Because of this much information isn’t in this base and in this case a ChatBot beginn to invent the answers using everything in its base. More if it is made by big companies which use it mainly as tool to obtain user datas and reliability only in second place. AI can be usefull in profesional use in research science, medicine, physic, etc. with specializied LLM, but as general chat for a normal user its a scam. It’s a wrong approach to AI in the general use, the Google AI proved it.

I use an AI as main search (Andisearch) because it is made as search assistant, not as ChatBot. In its base is only enough information to “understand” your question and search the concept in reliable sources in real time from the web. Because of this it’s accuracy is way better than those from every ChatBot from Google, M$ or others. It don’t invent nothing, if it don’t know the answer, offers a normal web search, apart it’s one of the most private search, anonymous, no logs, no tracking, no cookies, random proxie and Videos in the search result sandboxed. Not very known, despite it was the first one using AI, long before the others, from a small startup with 2 Devs, I use it since almost 2 years. Until now I found nothing better or more usefull for the daily use with AI https://andisearch.com/ PP

Screenshot of the original chat in Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1gq4acr/gemini_told_my_brother_to_die_threatening/

https://bearblog.dev/

• https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-browser-open-source/
• https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/66089/why-isn-t-vivaldi-browser-open-source

Yes, Vivaldi isn’t fullFOSS, because 5% of the script of the unique UI is proprietary of Vivaldi, but it’s 100% auditable and even moddeable by the user, they even show how to do it in its community. Edge and Chrome would fork it in the same moment when Vivaldi make it OpenSource, killing all other Chromium and Vivaldi itself. Maybe in the future it will go full OpenSource, there are still intern debates about it. The sense of OpenSource is to be capable to collaborate in new products, but with almost 100 browsers and forks in the market, this value is pretty debatable. For the user is more important the ethics of the company respect the user, in this case a european, employee-owned cooperative, which is given with a full transparency in all it’s services included in the account (mail, calendar, feed, blog, the Vivaldi Mastodon instance, e2ee sync in own server, etc.).

Vivaldi, good maintaned, no calls to Google, inbuild and customizable ad and trackerblocker. If Chromium, than this one.

First class T Bone steak for free, buying the new Huawai phone

It should not be missing from the Bookmarks:

• https://themarkup.org/blacklight
• https://webbkoll.dataskydd.net/en
• https://www.urlvoid.com
• https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/url

Also usefull

• https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com

There are also some more I use