Path: ...!news-out.netnews.com!postmaster.netnews.com!us13.netnews.com!not-for-mail X-Trace: DXC=m^b^=bi^_cgReJ8HHRm8_lHWonT5<]0TmdjI?Uho:XeklL51CP6LDLlbW1`8N7NZDmhVf@N?CODXc[?@9Eb6SfOecAL;bm;L\Ja9U>7b1lIBJbDm_:F?^H3ik X-Complaints-To: support@blocknews.net From: Andrzej Matuch Subject: Re: cpu-x Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy References: <66399f10$0$6551$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <663fba6f$1$6436$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <66420697$1$8482$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <6643705f$1$2363137$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <6644ae37$5$1258343$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <66455eba$0$2363132$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> User-Agent: Pan/0.146 (Hic habitat felicitas; d7a48b4 gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pan.git) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 17 May 2024 11:58:03 GMT Lines: 53 Message-ID: <6647464b$0$2422121$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 X-Trace: 1715947083 reader.netnews.com 2422121 127.0.0.1:35019 Bytes: 4102 On Fri, 17 May 2024 03:28:23 +0000, RonB wrote: > On 2024-05-16, Andrzej Matuch wrote: >> On Wed, 15 May 2024 23:50:04 +0000, candycanearter07 wrote: >> >>> Andrzej Matuch wrote at 12:44 this Wednesday (GMT): >>>> On Wed, 15 May 2024 03:28:23 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>> [snip] >>>>> We do read open-source licences and understand them. They are >>>>> designed to be read and understood. Unlike proprietary EULAs. >>>>> >>>>> Case in point: the question you were asking about below. >>>> >>>> That's definitely a good thing. The licenses are also shorter, so >>>> even if it were difficult to understand, reading it wouldn't take >>>> that much time. >>>> >>>>< snip > >>> >>> >>> And aren't updated as often. >> >> That's a good point. The licenses users of proprietary software might >> have agreed to on day one will become so different by day three that >> the terms might not be so agreeable. We've all received those e-mails >> from services telling us that the terms have changed. Many of those >> terms have, in the past few years, become increasingly restrictive. > > That's why I don't bother reading them, I know they're going to get more > restrictive every time. And it's also why I'm moving most of my mail > away from Yahoo and Gmail and to other providers, like Vivaldi and > Yandex — and maybe Posteo. I don't trust Google (or Yahoo) to NOT shut > down my email account if I don't toe the Woke line. Google was started > with grant money from the NSA and its CEO for several years was an > ex-CIA wonk. I'm not sure how woke Posteo is, but I know that e-mails from Gab and Rumble are blocked by default by their spam system. I have to change the settings to make sure they come through. However, since all of my e-mail is encrypted as are the contacts and address book, I have no reason to believe they have any kind of useful access to my account. I trust that whoever maintains their spam filter isn't conservative, but that he, she, ze, xe or whatever else doesn't mind my circumtventing their decision. > No fan of Google or Yahoo anymore (unfortunately I once was). Remember > when Yahoo was the place to go when you wanted to get around the > Internet? Hopefully we'll get that point with Google in the not too > distant future. Moving their Chrome browser to Manifest 3 might be the > first chink in their armor. (We'll see. Probably not, but I can hope.) I never much liked Yahoo or found their search engine useful. Even when it was "the best," it was rather awful. I think I used to use altavista back then which gave me much better results.