Trying the full download now, the download link is broken and the torrent is stuck at 5MB of 127GB, so I'll give Lite a try...

https://www.startpage.com/do/m......

My pref's are stored as a local cookie. You can use whatever search engine you like.
*note that link has been sanitized.*

The ban on private individuals is a bad idea...

Private individuals, PI's, Skip Tracers and reporters SHOULD be able to use such software freely. Police, and the Government NEED to provide reasonable suspicion to a court and get a writ.
This kind of tool can be incredibly useful, or incredibly invasive. The real question is who(m?) do you trust as the gate keeper. I'd nominate the EU data protection people but there is no agency or entity in
the US I'd trust not to monetize the data regardless of law.

Foreign language searches on DDG are abysmal. I think Google or Microsoft will win out in worldwide results. And MS has the edge with Edge.

I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the reccomendation.

For some people's beliefs and values, whataboutism is all they've got to offer.

Well, that and projecting.

The even shout "aieeeeee!" when some something scares them.

I can remember seeing those in the theatre, after standing in line for hours. Star wars made a huge impact on my childhood. One of my best childhood memories is with my now deceased uncle seeing Empire Strikes Back. Like many I was terribly disappointed by the later Star Wars episodes. I've not even seen any of the "new" stuff. Actually Revenge of the Sith is the last movie I saw. She will be missed.

Yeah, I think they forgot to include "stupid" in the long list of his faults.

Famouly, Cloudflare has a lava lamp random generator in a wall in its HQ, but they don't use it anymore.

THANK-YOU. The police have the means to get any info they want and can prove they have a legitimate need for. They just need to go through the proper procedures. I was a DSO long ago, and there are plenty of friendly judges that will listen to your arguments, but lazy a$$ cops don't want to do the paper work, or have shown they weren't trustworthy before. Show a judge you are a dirtbag and you'll never get anything.

I use the Meta AI for illustrations for my D&D game. I'm not sure I'd pay for it but it has made a positive impact in the game. ie the players rave about having images for bad guys.

At that point, why not just go VPin [vpinhub.com]?
because you can't hip check a virtual table.
Honestly I don't know. I've loved pinball since I was a kid and could play on a chair at the Mr. Video arcade. The touch, the smell of the electricity all combine into a thing I can't get enough of.

That is not a small project. How are you going to separate the CO2 from the general atmosphere ? I worked in a grow house briefly in college and they used commercial CO2 cannisters for that effect.

I keep wondering why the EU doesn't use its infrastructure to provide services to people in authoritarian regimes - think Russia, Iran.

You could think of free-to-air EU sponsored TV/Radio channels for those countries similar to what the US did with Radio Free Europe. Another one might be a Starlink competitor operating worldwide to provide secure internet access (looks like they're only talking about connectivity in the EU for IRIS2).

The EU is sadly somewhat timid about going forward with this...