Especially when you realise that our tolerance for AI propping up the rest of the economy has stifled the "natural selection" that weeds out poor performers and poor business choices and rewards innovation and success. An imprecise economy is a worrying thing.
We really are going for full atomisation of the individual and erasure of human warmth and biological naivety aren't we. History is prehistory.
I don't subscribe to it and I think I can insulate myself from whatever technology driven horrors we uncover/create psychologically pretty well but it's not exactly great.
Remember. The axis is quickly being diminished (venezuela), and the financial and water situations are far worse now, as is the political one (coming off of a war which destabilised leadership).
Just hope that it's not out of the frying pan and into the fire. I have a great appreciation of the everyday Iranian, and they deserve better.
Maybe not for crypto, but they did spend a year or two surreptitiously installing their own VPN service on your Widows machine without any opt-out ability, and then failed to remove it, its Windows service, or multiple scheduled tasks once the brave uninstaller had been run.
The best part was this whole scam sitting as an unresolved issue on GitHub for months after they finally acknowledged it (after first denying it lol).
Closest browser I’ve seen to an actual virus in maybe ever.
And it’s a good lesson for developers that once you lose trust there are many of us who will never make the same mistake again purely out principle.
Mozilla does not have commercial bits. They do receive money from Google to be the default search engine, and the binaries they build report telemetry, but the versions found in Linux repos often either patch out the telemetry or disable it.
For technical users who are in the know, yes. I would not recommend Brave to less-technical friends and family knowing that they would surely be duped by some dark patterns in Brave's UI/UX.
Even Firefox, which is the best we have currently, surprises us a few times a year with questionable decisions. Still, it's what I recommend to people.
Spent a few months down in Hobart sussing out an antarctic science degree- really cool marine industry nexus down there with world leading research, all of the antarctic operations, and this stuff. Definitely the most nautical feeling city in Australia
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