Russia is reportedly planning to block WhatsApp as well.

That can work for small improvements but not for active development at the pace of Chromium and its forks.

Thinking of starting Tchia, given its recent addition to Game Pass.

I switched off after having found that its privacy settings prevent extensions like Dark Mode from reading your dark mode status in the OS. There’s a workaround but I might as well use something else.

That’s overkill. Shaun’s video on Harry Potter is less than two hours long and tells you all you need to know.

I haven’t played it yet. I prioritize Game Pass, since those games come and go, but on Steam the library is semi-permanent. Sometimes I really feel like playing a particular game from my library, so I prioritize that over the ones I like on Game Pass.

We know WhatsApp uses the Signal protocol for encryption, but it also collects a lot of metadata. Arguably still better than Telegram that collects everything. Its secret chats may be e2ee but nobody uses them even for discussing sensitive matters, and they don’t work on the Desktop.

I bought Dreamfall Chapters. It’s the only one of its series that doesn’t feel too dated to be playable to me.

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I bought Dreamfall Chapters, which is back to its historical low on Steam. I’ve heard good things about it, and Dustborn from the same dev looks super promising.

Depends on whether piracy is less of an ethical issue than supporting a sexist transphobe.

The corporate overlords are inherently right-wing, which is why they fund, build, and embrace those platforms. There’s no revolt in joining them.

Instagram is banned and blocked in Russia but it hasn’t stopped the people from using it at all.

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Yeah, the previous Sony games on PC can be bought anywhere in the world but in Russia, yet the latest cannot be purchased in 170 countries, including some EU members like Estonia and Lithuania.

That’s what they say, but I’d expect it to be producing some results even in the event of Bing being down if that were the case.

It didn’t return any search results during the Bing outage, as experienced by me personally and reported by others. At least one blog post claims it relies on Bing.

As far as I know, Startpage uses Bing, not Google now. The same is true for Ecosia.

Its Russian founder recently praised Musk in an interview for Tucker Carlson.