I moved to Kagi paid search engine and haven’t looked back.

There are open source search engines albeit you’ll need to host it somewhere.

Any major search engine (think Google, bing, etc) are just place for companies to pay to get into the top results.

5+ ads each being 3-5 min long.

I was in India and the ads were straight up music videos…

You can be but it’s very rare to find someone that is.

For programming I always tell folks you need 3 skills: adaptability, self-reliance, and strong problem solving (thinking outside of the box, etc)

The most lacking skill I see new students is self-reliance. Learning to do your own research, knowing when to ask for help and when not to, etc.

Nothing. This is a PR move by meta, nothing more. They are trying to seem “hip” and push their ads.

Meta, Google, MS, OpwnAI, etc gave akeasy scrubbed fediverse. Probably associated accounts to folks real names.

I suspect this will happen during USAs election… you know when the world stops existing for a few days.

I run ClaysOS and GrapheneOS (current on graphene OS).