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I don't see how we should automatically trust them because we "own" the hardware. If its not open source and able to be verified by third parties, what does it matter if we have the "keys"? $500 for proprietary hardware just seems odd considering the goal here.


Exploding might be an overstatement, but it did hit an all time high for daily queries this week.


I’ve also been all-in on DuckDuckGo for over a year now. I feel like it always gives me good results. I only speak English, but better support for other languages would be fantastic for those who can benefit from it.


I mainly search in English as well, but when trying to find local news, books or part of a song lyrics in different language it doesn't perform as other search engines would perform.


Well, even though I had it installed, I never really used it.

Does this change anything with GPG Keychain?


The first Decider to switch a medium+ business to Linux is going to get his/her ass fired.


I'm not going to discount your anecdotal experience, but this is literally the first time I've ever heard of issues like that on a Mac. The only copy/paste problems I ever run in to is copy/paste from a VMWare VM to the host OS.


I don't think this is a reasonable scenario for the vast majority of people, even if you know someone who can SSH to your desktop for updates.


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Well, that and both Doom/Quake have native ports and open source implementations that beat the pants off the original windows binaries.


Scanbot is fantastic, I've been using it for years now.


I was paying $5/mo for Ars Technica, and recently switched to paying $50/year, because they were giving away a Yubikey with it. You don’t get any more content, but no ads and full text RSS.


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