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Cake day: January 28th, 2024

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  • Privacy, for one thing. I don’t use Google, Bing, Windows, or any Meta software*, and Yandex aren’t much different.

    Security, though, is another thing. I live in a NATO country, and I would imagine the Russian government are monitoring Yandex (and other RUnet services). Frankly, I think contributing any data to such a government would be against my interests.

    There’s also a lot of censorship on RUnet. Yeah, Google has that too, but Mojeek and Brave Search do not.

    TL;DR: Google is data-hungry and supplies data to the NSA; Yandex is data-hungry and supplies data to the Kremlin; Mojeek and Brave Search are good; DDG and Startpage are the best for the average user.




  • Amateurs! It’s gotta be silver!

    • Looks nice in jewellery
    • Antimicrobial properties
    • An essential component of camera film
    • Highly conductive (e.g. used for electrodes and thermal paste in computing)
    • Catalyst in many chemical reactions
    • Used to make mirrors
    • A critical component of solar panels
    • The only metal capable of incapacitating werewolves, and also somewhat effective against vampires