Sujet : Re: Another GNU/Linux Video Extravaganza!
De : bowman (at) *nospam* montana.com (rbowman)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacyDate : 28. May 2024, 04:39:03
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On Tue, 28 May 2024 00:27:47 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
On 2024-05-27, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Mon, 27 May 2024 11:17:04 -0400, DFS wrote:
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I've been using only Opera for many years now, but about a week ago I
uninstalled it in favor of Brave, which does a great job blocking ads.
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https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2023/06/introducing-opera-one/
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That one? Wise choice. What could go wrong with an AI powered browser
owned by the Chinese?
I thought Opera was still based in Norway. It looks like I'm about 8
years behind the curve on this one.
They got bought by a Chinese consortium and fairly recently one of those
corporations was bought out.
https://cntechpost.com/2020/10/25/chinese-company-becomes-controlling-shareholder-of-opera/
Keeping track of who owns what is like trying the follow the pea under the
shell.
Real old news but they also dropped the Presto engine in favor of a
chromium derivative. This pissed enough people off that Vivaldi was spun
off. It's chromium too but modified to work like Opera did with Presto.
That said, I think I would rather have the Chinese government spying on
me rather than the CIA, NSA, etc. via U.S. social media sites.
You can't win.. It's old but I've been reading Neal Stephenson's 'Reamde'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReamdeEnough to make you paranoid. This weekend is the annual Missoula Science
Fiction & Fantasy Convention, known as MisCon. Downtown was filled with
LARPing elves, dwarfs, warriors, and who knows what from who knows what
fantasy world. I've never been but is is big enough that they sucked in
George RR Martin one year. For added amusement there was also some sort of
LDS convention. I'm guessing the ones with blue hair aren't Mormons, but
who knows. Maybe they could get Larry Correia and cover both bases.