i opened it up and it opened with a scene of george saying "so i guess they're saying the world is flat after all"

i would rather be tracked than spend money on a search engine lol.

I have heard of it, but I'm wary because I see its name on Hackernews-eqsue / freezepeach / libertarian-techy crowds. These are minor "guilt-by-assocation' things though. I think a lot of us vaguely fit some or all of these categories, but it makes me worry it could turn out to be another of the myriad poorly-secured righty grifts.

The head of Kagi was VP of Product for GoDaddy for awhile, and also has ventures in blockchain email and precision drones (for cargo delivery?) These are also just minor flags. (I can't blame someone too much for optimistically heading a blockchain app six years ago.)

All in all, I love the idea in theory, but a search engine is a deeply personal thing that's hard to build trust in. Google is the devil I know, etc etc.

Please make sure to post your spam in the /f/just_spam forum in the future!

cant wait for this post to get croutoned

Pine64 makes some beefier options worth trying!

Yeah me too.

they should rename "pi-hole" to just "hole"

oh uh i mean the machine is great i was just making a joke about the fruit :P

I've wanted to play with one for a long time, but I could not find any when I searched (couple years ago, during a supply shortage) and I did not search hard because I couldn't think of any actual, practical use to justify spending money on one beyond playing with it.

I was thinking of trying to set up a small NAS on it or something but I already have a NAS.

i was never a big fan of raspberries anyway i suppose

True and he does have a lightsaber...

hey, now that's unfair. UK police do important surveillance work, such as fathering children with the animal rights activists they are spying on for some reason.

Yeah I was going to link it but their mastodon instance was down at the time. How awful, but not surprising. They're a company, not ideologically motivated in the way I'd wish.

Me, learning about this for the first time: "Maybe it was a mistake? Maybe they didn't know they hired a cop?"

Their Twitter:

We hired a policeman and it's going really great. Meet our Maker in Residence, @TobyRobertsPi.

Oh no! They don't seem to see the problem. Worse, per the comments, @Raspberry_Pi has been blocking detractors too.

But hey, all cops are bastards, but maybe this person is a reformed officer? Nope, turns out he had a proud 15 years of using Raspberry Pis as a surveillance officer:

“I was a Technical Surveillance Officer for 15 years, so I built stuff to hide video, audio, and other covert gear. You really don’t want your sensitive police equipment discovered, so I’d disguise it as something else, like a piece of street furniture or a household item. The variety of tools and equipment I used then really shaped what I do today.”

I have used Raspberry Pi a lot in various police tactics over the years. They were dependable, low-cost, portable, and supported by such an awesome community.

And then, whoever runs the official Raspberry Pi Mastodon seems to have the maturity of a literal child.

Even with the most generous interpretation to Raspberry Pi, with all the goodwill they built over the years, this definitely burns them for me. Hiring an ex cop who used RPis for covert surveillance

juicero

the reuse step of reduce, reuse, recycle

ah, another machine that doesn't kill fascists

cheers

absolutely fascinating

Oh okay, so it's the exact same as folding@home except it awards you their blockchain money, $MSI.

I assume you can then exchange $MSI for MSI brand computer internals?

the cultural shift towards ubiquitous CCTV in the 90s and then the rise of cell phone cameras in the 00s paved the way for this new cultural norm of "if you're in public you consent to being filmed", and i absolutely hate it. whenever i'm in a public place i'm worried i will end up in a video like this and not even know it. i know i have a tendency to stick out, in a way that some people like to ridicule, i just thought i had largely left the need to worry about that behind when i finished high school.

I think conflating surreptitiously taking videos of strangers with surveillance sort of normalises it in a way that makes me uncomfortable. Like, I don't like having security cameras everywhere, but those ostensibly are to investigate crime etc etc. These are just creepshots for zoomers

designed to fit a surveillance aesthetic

What, pray tell, is the surveillance aesthetic

This is horrible, but I also hope these discussions gets us talking about all the other surveillance people perpetuate. Like, downloading apps which wardrive on your phone for wifi networks, giving apps ALL the data of your contacts, cameras on ordering kiosks (???), etc being pretty horrible AND widely accepted.

Yeah, orca isn't too bad tbh; it's just not really great.

It's better than, say, VoiceOver for iOS but that's not exactly a high bar.

On top of that, Chromium and derivatives (including Electron) have really flaky support for the necessary accessibility APIs. You're pretty much limited to GTK, Qt, and Firefox or WebKit2GTK for a good experience.

You know, I used to be on the "webshit bad" train and I still kind of am, but Qt is literally the only alternative to webapps when it comes to making cross-platform internationalized GUIs with good accessibility. Hopefully Odilia's addon and scripting support could improve that situation.