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This does not sound sustainable at all.

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I'm confident his announcement to "leave social media" was an April Fools' joke.

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Adding these rules to uBlock Origin allowed me to read the article:

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www.bloomberg.com personalization.bloomberg.com * block
www.bloomberg.com sourcepointcmp.bloomberg.com * block
www.bloomberg.com doubleclick.net * block
www.bloomberg.com google.com * block
www.bloomberg.com googlesyndication.com * block
www.bloomberg.com googletagmanager.com * block
www.bloomberg.com ml314.com * block
www.bloomberg.com moatads.com * block
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Well that's some news. If they're good news we will see. I'm a Beeper user but never heard of Texts (stupid name) before, which seem to share the same misson as Beeper. Texts was purchased by Automattic last year (according to the Beeper blog).

What does that mean? Automattic punches with some weight in the chat space now. In general I don't like it if big companies buy small products. However Automattic still seems to bet on the Fediverse, so maybe if the teams from Beeper and Texts can work together on a Matrix-based, open source chat application, we could get something really good.

I've mixed feelings about this whole thing, some shy optimizm, some less shy pessimism.

Well, time will tell.

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I know what you mean, but I think private chat and public posting are quite distinct. They'd destroy a lot more trust if they sell private messages compared to what they did with Tumblr. Especially if they continue to push local bridges, where they won't be able to read any message (you still have to trust them obviously).

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They're talking too much business to be a 'private' search. They don't make any effort to explain how their search is private at all (except the 90/10 share model).

0xCAFE ,

This looks pretty cool!

Thoughts on BOOX Tab Ultra C? (shop.boox.com)

Does anyone here have a BOOX e-paper tablet? I'm a big fan of e-paper devices—I love my Pebble smartwatch, Kindle Paperwhite, and Light Phone II. I've been eyeing the Tab Ultra C for quite a while, and I am considering the pros and cons. Mostly, I intend to use it for browsing the web and maybe some light note taking and...

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I can't speak for the BOOX Tab Ultra C directly, but I'm interested in opinions on it, because I'm thinking about buying one as well.

I have the BOOX Note Air though. Overall, I really like it. I use it to read books and learning material, do math exercises and occasionally to draw. I love that it's smart (full Android, download any app) and dumb (slow, grayscale, don't get distracted easily) at the same time.

Technically you can use it for browsing the web, however I wouldn't recommend it. It' too slow if you want to hop between different sites. It's only comfortable if you access a specific site to read on for a while. I hope the BOOX Tab Ultra C is faster (I mean it should), but if the web is one of your main use cases, I'd rather go for a proper tablet. Even if the ePaper screen is relatively fast, it's still too slow to be fun. Since you're already experienced using ePaper screen, I'm confident you can judge that for yourself though.

My motivation to get an upgrade is mainly the Note Air quickly slows down when drawing anything semi-complex or above. I can recommend it for reading, taking notes and (limited) drawing. For anything else, I recommend a tablet instead.

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That's good news, very nice!

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    0xCAFE ,

    Time to ungoogle my phone once again. Did it before, reverted it in a stupid move to try out Monster Hunter "Go"; should've never done it in the first place. Bye, bye, Google. Go fuck yourself.

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    It's not like they'd develop a new engine for iOS. They already have one which can now be used for iOS as well -- but not everywhere.

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    Maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but Marginalia (https://search.marginalia.nu/) focuses on non-commercial and text-based content.

    0xCAFE ,

    Yeah, agreed, Marginalia's more suited to discover small-web type of content.

    Another thing that'd be better as a daily driver, but requires manual curation, is to filter out specific domains in your searches. Brave supports that with the Goggles feature, Mojeek calls it Focus. AFAIK Kagi too has a similar feature.

    I don't know any search engine that's able to fully exculde paywalled content though.

    0xCAFE ,

    Mojeek has it's own index. DuckDuckGo, Qwant and Brave have a partial index mixed with meta search results.

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