That had Monthy Python vibes.

Memes come and go too fast for that.

This is what I call a master class on starting a soft revolution: you take over a symbol of the opposite ideology, in the most outrageous and ridiculous way, make it known to all, and completely subvert it and deconstruct it, piece by piece, until it stops making any sense to its former self.

Somebody help get my ideas straight on this one, please.

To my knowledge, Bing and Google search engine are the default options available out there, to the point other search services relay service from those, give or take a few tweaks (DuckDuckGo, Startpage, etc).

Now lets remove those from the picture and what is left?

I read a post yesterday announcing Ecosia amd Qwant were joining efforts to build a fully european search engine (hopefully, yes, but I’m not holding my breath on it). Maybe that is an option. But what else?

At some point it just makes more sense to run emulators, like it is already done with the classic gaming consoles.

Ideally, we would get a push to release source after a given time, in order to have true conservation efforts.

7 Kingdoms had its source released and was almost instantly ported to run natively on Linux. And from someone who played that game as a teen and truly enjoyed it, I admit it’s not that much of a game! There are thousands of titles that deserve this attention.

Off the top of my head I can think of:

• Black&White
• The Punisher (this title was even censored due to graphical content)
• the original Starcraft and Warcraft
• Pharaoh
• Anno 1602 (I am aware a FOSS “clone” exists)
• Evolva
• Syndicate

I could go on forever…

Yes, please.

Whoever voted for that guy now gets to enjoy his (hopefully short) mandate and whatever “unforeseen” backlash they get from it.

All the rest get to cry and fight for the reestablishment of a democratic regime.

Don’t call it a hammer. It’s universal key: it can open what is closed, close what is open, loose what is tight, tighten what is loose.

If on one side I feel a good degree of enthusiasm to see Europe get off its ass and do something in the means of establishing more web services on european soil, on the other side I really don’t have much hope of seeing that much of a result coming forth.

Can someone remember StumbleUpon? It was more effective at listing and divulging web content than search engines.

At this point, I think having a huge listing of websites, where one could sign up their site or or have it signed automatically when then registering it, would be more efficient than relying on a handful of search engines.

I actually meant wi-fi but my brain fizzled.

Wireless!

Simple. Most FOSS are built for privacy and thus do not harvest data to send to some server somewhere in the world for whatever obscure reason. The data is locally stored on your device and stays and dies there.

No callback, no selling nor surrending data.

Personally speaking, I’d quicker have all data banks destroyed than surrendered to whatever purposes, if I ever decided to build an aplication that somehow compiled data.

Their loss.

No, no.

I literaly mean you pull a cable between yours and your neighbors house. Then the next house and so on and so forth.

Like building a record breaking lan party.

How much is your average subscription over there?

Make a large enough LAN and you get a small internet hub.

At this point, I wonder why people aren’t simply laying down cable between eachothers homes to create communitary networks.

It’s amazing, isn’t it?

Isn’t this an extreme security issue for companies?

Leave the brains alone.