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ChatGPT for iOS is available here in Germany, so I doubt they would restrict the Android version.

Also wild how this post is singling out Safari when Android seems to somehow be even worse

My guess is that it is selection bias. Older people are probably more like to use iOS devices, since they are marketed as being simple to use and maintain. So, they don't hear too many complaints about Chrome on Android, even though it's worse.

Edge shares literally every single website you visit with Microsoft, even in InPrivate (= Incognito) mode. [1] The worst part is that you have to disable a genuine security feature (i.e., SmartScreen) to prevent this. No other browser makes you choose between security and privacy in this manner. Even Chrome attempts to protect your privacy by doing hash prefix computations for their Safe Browsing feature.

Also, at least Chrome lets you set a custom encryption passphrase. Microsoft managed to import every other feature from Chrome, except this one, apparently.

Microsoft has somehow done the impossible and beat Google in its own game. Edge is a complete privacy nightmare, only rivaled by the likes of Opera and Yandex browsers. If Chrome is the fire, Edge is a nuclear reactor in meltdown.

[1] https://www.kuketz-blog.de/microsoft-edge-datensendeverhalte... (English version: https://www-kuketz--blog-de.translate.goog/microsoft-edge-da...)

This fully coincides with my experience. Every once in a while, I hear about how much DDG has improved and how its results are now better than Google. I switch to DDG for a few days, get fed up with the (low) quality of the results, eventually start adding !g to all my queries because I _anticipate_ the results to be terrible, and at some point, I switch back to Google. Every single time I try DDG, this happens. Without exception.

I know not everyone shares my viewpoint but I wish people on reddit and HN would stop hyping up DDG. It will likely never be real competitor to Google. I don't mean to blame them in any way. Even Microsoft, with all their might, still fails to match Google's capabilities.

I've skimmed a couple of books written by Fetullah gulen and what he preaches peace, love and cooperation amongst all.

He's a lovely fellow indeed: https://twitter.com/kyleworton/status/1086084532393136128

BSD peoples like the BSD2/MIT/ISC/FreeBSD-License, but have no problem too import the CDDL the Apache or the GPLx (at least in the pkg), whatever works.

If by "BSD peoples" you mean the FreeBSD/NetBSD community, then yes. But OpenBSD devs deem CDDL to be unacceptable:

http://quigon.bsws.de/papers/2015/asiabsdcon/mgp00020.html

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/ZFS-on-OpenBSD

Additionally, a report from Amnesty International:

Syria: US ally’s razing of villages amounts to war crimes: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/10/syria-us-ally...

Archbishop Hindo: violence and intimidation of the Kurd militias on Christians increase in Hassaké: http://www.fides.org/en/news/60791-ASIA_SYRIA_Archbishop_Hin...

Kurdish YPG/Asayish Forces Once Again Kidnap Christians in Northeast Syria: https://wca-ngo.org/wca-news/press-releases/607-kurds_forced...

Kurdish YPG Unlawfully Closes Aramean and Armenian Schools: https://wca-ngo.org/wca-news/press-releases/613-ypg_illegal-...

Video Shows Christian Property in Syria Seized by Kurdish Forces: https://wca-ngo.org/wca-news/press-releases/591-video-shows-...

Very strong Western values, indeed.

Turkey has spent more than $30 billion on refugees and was already host to 2 million refugees in 2015 (i.e. before the deal) [1]. So, no, that deal hasn't brought any meaningful change.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/19/gaziantep-tur...

they seem to be doing ok

Japan is not really doing OK. They are literally going extinct, have an awful and destructive work culture and have a ton of problems with sexism, to the point where it is necessary to have gender-segregated train carriages to stop groping. The only reason Japan seems to be doing OK is because their news are mostly inaccessible to the rest of the world.

The EU paid 6 billion to help Turkey with its migration crisis

Turkey has spent more than $30 billion on refugees [1]. 6B just doesn't cut it, unfortunately.

[1] https://www.aa.com.tr/en/turkey/turkey-continues-to-be-top-r...

It’s trifling for Europe as a whole, as shown by the fact that Turkey managed to process them alone.

Considering the fact that 1 million refugees were enough to revitalize Neo-Nazi parties and cause a wave of right-wing terrorism and political assassinations, no, it is not trifling for Europe. I think some of you forget/don't realize how dire the situation was before the 2016 EU-Turkey refugee agreement. 5m would likely lead to the collapse of the EU.

in the Middle East.

FTFY: in the EU.

Or to be more accurate: in whichever country you reside. Because the VPN is local.

Right, so the correct conclusion is to never use

It depends on how you "use" GPL'd software. You _can_ run proprietary software on Linux. Clearly, using GPL'd and proprietary software together is legally possible.

never contribute to

If simply contributing to projects licensed under GPL were such a huge problem, we would have industry-wide blacklists for employment. Contributing to _some_ projects can be a problem for _some_ positions but generally you are in the clear.

never write GPL-licensed software

You, as the author, have the right to relicense code you have written yourself. GPL'ing your own code doesn't increase your legal risks.

So no, the correct conclusion is not "to never use, never contribute to and never write GPL-licensed software" and the best solution is not to "completely rid ourselves of GPL". I'm not even sure what the problem you are trying to solve is. People can and do profit off GPL'd code. It is not an instant death sentence like you seem to imply.

useless to you != useless to everyone. Linux is GPL'd and very useful. Just ask Red Hat if you don't believe me.

Treating users like children, not listening to users, rolling releases without regard to stability or consistency, adding features nobody asked for instead of fixing bugs, inconsistent UIs...

None of these are unique to open source. IMHO, commercial software tends to be equally bad, if not worse.

AFAIK, SUSE doesn't employ any KDE developers but they do donate to KDE e.V.

Minor correction: It's the default on openSUSE. On SUSE (the commercial version of openSUSE), GNOME is the default.

Not to mention that there are modern languages with fast compilers too. D is an example.

I don't think that will help. After all Windows can patch the bootloader to cache the encryption password too. Even secure boot won't protect you since Microsoft has the signing keys.

I don't think that will help. Windows can patch the bootloader to cache the encryption password. Since Microsoft controls the secure boot signing keys, they can sign the patched bootloader too, so even secure boot cannot protect you. Having the bootloader on a USB drive is probably a good idea though.

Compare the quantity of libraries available for Rust and yet another 'overly verbose' language, Go. We can find Go wrapper for almost anything, and often a few to chose from.

Rust was stabilized last year, while Go was released six years ago. It is simply wrong to say that Go has a larger quantity of libraries because it is more verbose. IMHO the Rust ecosystem is surprisingly comprehensive for a language its age.