The letter arrived yesterday.
I like the Gormanian and Holocene calendars; but I use the Gregorian for compatibility with the rest of humanity.
Also, as I live in Britain, I use an unholy mixture of metric, imperial, and archaic measurements.
Length of an object? Centimetres. Height of a human? Feet and inches. Mass of flour? Grams. Mass of a human? Stones, pounds, and ounces. Distance by car? Miles. Distance on foot? Kilometres. Volume of a soft drink? Litres or millilitres. Volume of beer or milk? Pints. Volume of non-dairy milk? Also litres and millilitres.
Europe/London, BST, UTC+01:00
Do you use a different calendar system, by any chance?
Yes, but one would assume I meant the 19th of the current month of the current year.
Also “They said the 19th June 2024” doesn’t work so great as a title.
American flag checks out.
Welp. Guess now is as good a time as any for me to switch to deSEC…
Wherever you like! It’s just an HTML document.
You’ll then need to tell your browser to use it as the startpage. For example, if the file is stored under:
/home/user/homepage.html
then set your startpage, homepage, or new tab page to:
file:///home/user/homepage.html
If your browser is installed as a Flatpak, you may need to change some settings in Flatseal to get it to work.
Here’s another link: https://send.vis.ee/download/025f39a333cc89c8/#PGnMTaC-uy39XXt-H0PYNA
Here you go: ~~https://send.vis.ee/download/2d46f89736b9030f/#aHY7G94XDxE_t9IT09Ez0Q~~
The download has expired.
I coded that homepage myself, so absolutely! I’ll send you a copy with the bookmarks anonymised.
I have the file saved as ~/homepage.html
, but you can put it anywhere.
Privacy, for one thing. I don’t use Google, Bing, Windows, or any Meta software*, and Yandex aren’t much different.
Security, though, is another thing. I live in a NATO country, and I would imagine the Russian government are monitoring Yandex (and other RUnet services). Frankly, I think contributing any data to such a government would be against my interests.
There’s also a lot of censorship on RUnet. Yeah, Google has that too, but Mojeek and Brave Search do not.
TL;DR: Google is data-hungry and supplies data to the NSA; Yandex is data-hungry and supplies data to the Kremlin; Mojeek and Brave Search are good; DDG and Startpage are the best for the average user.
I don’t even care if the results are good. I’m not about to use any part of RUnet.
Amateurs! It’s gotta be silver!
I mean, I see no issue here other than the conky being in the foreground.
You can try playing with Arkenfox, installing uBlock Origin, fiddling with about:config, and giving yourself an aneurysm…
…or you could try Mullvad Browser. It’s a fork of Firefox, co-developed by Mullvad and The Tor Project, with impressive fingerprinting resistance (according to Cover Your Tracks). It’s like Tor Browser without Tor.
Also, install NoScript. It helps a lot.