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An alternate start page that doesn't offer AI "answers" and leaves known AI-generated images out of search results

Some of the newer HTML features degrade gracefully on browsers like Lynx. Others...really don't.
(via OSNews)

"Remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from web browsers."

"More than a decade after Aaron Swartz’s death, the United States is still living inside the contradiction that destroyed him. Swartz believed that knowledge, especially publicly funded knowledge, should be freely accessible. Acting on that, he downloaded thousands of academic articles from the JSTOR archive with the intention of making them publicly available. For this, the federal government charged him with a felony and threatened decades in prison. After two years of prosecutorial pressure, Swartz died by suicide on Jan. 11, 2013. The still-unresolved questions raised by his case have resurfaced in today’s debates over artificial intelligence, copyright and the ultimate control of knowledge..."

Framesets, bgsound, isindex and more

A critique of Apple's new UI design in Tahoe and where it still falls short

"Roundabout is your new online community for local life. Find what you need, connect with neighbors, and take pride in your community. "

"Your local government might be discussing surveillance tech like Flock cameras, facial recognition, or automated license plate readers right now. This map helps you find those meetings and take action."

"The German Resistance Memorial Center is a site of remembrance, political studies, active learning, documentation, and research. An extensive permanent exhibition, a series of temporary special exhibitions, events, and a range of publications document and illustrate resistance to National Socialism. The center's goal is to show how individual persons and groups took action against the National Socialist dictatorship from 1933 to 1945 and made use of what freedom of action they had."