Disagree. Their priorities are backwards.

Company A releases a product, it runs closed-source proprietary firmware on-board, and it can’t be updated by the user even if bugs or compatibility issues are found later on in the product’s life cycle.

Company B releases a product, it runs closed-source proprietary firmware on-board, but it can be updated by the user if bugs or compatibility issues are found later on in the product’s life cycle.

According to the FSF, product A gets the stamp of approval, product B doesn’t. That makes no sense.

It has nothing to do with LLM poisoning, they just want attention

I use node_exporter + VictoriaMetrics + Grafana for network-wide system monitoring. node_exporter also has provisions to include text files placed in a directory you specify, as long as they’re written out in the right format. I use that capability on my systems to include some custom metrics, including CPU and memory usage of the top 5 processes on the system, for exactly this reason.

The resulting file looks like:

# HELP cpu_usage CPU usage for top processes in %
# TYPE cpu_usage gauge
cpu_usage{process="/usr/bin/dockerd",pid="187613"} 1.8
cpu_usage{process="/usr/local/bin/python3",pid="190047"} 1.4
cpu_usage{process="/usr/bin/cadvisor",pid="188999"} 1.0
cpu_usage{process="/opt/mealie/bin/python3",pid="190114"} 0.9
cpu_usage{process="/opt/java/openjdk/bin/java",pid="190080"} 0.9

# HELP mem_usage Memory usage for top processes in %
# TYPE mem_usage gauge
mem_usage{process="/usr/local/bin/python3",pid="190047"} 3.0
mem_usage{process="/usr/bin/Xvfb",pid="196573"} 2.4
mem_usage{process="/usr/bin/Xvfb",pid="193606"} 2.4
mem_usage{process="next-server",pid="194634"} 1.2
mem_usage{process="/opt/mealie/bin/python3",pid="190114"} 1.2

And it gets scraped every 15 seconds for all of my systems. The result looks like this for CPU and memory. Pretty boring most of the time, but it can be very valuable to see what was going on with the active processes in the moments leading up to a problem.

I think so. I’ve been using it for over a year, as another poster said Kagi feels like Google did 15 years ago, before it destroyed itself.

Every time I use a search on another machine, my first reaction is “oh my god what is all of this shit everywhere? ads, spam, AI slop, shopping garbage, etc”, then I quickly realize it’s not my computer and that’s just what Google looks like now.

dealing with incoming spam is just way more work than paying to have it hosted.

The right way to deal with spam is not to use filters in the first place. It’s not like Gmail or Proton or <insert your favorite email provider here>'s spam filters are perfect either, far from it, they still let a ton of shit through. The right way to deal with spam is to use unique aliases for each account that you can shut down if they leak.

I don’t have any problems with building beautiful things like cathedrals or making art in the name of God

What about Catholics praying to little figurines and statues of saints? Because that’s been going on for a long time