I can only repeat myself. If you are US based privacy is a literal oxymoron for you. Not saying that's not the case anywhere else but it's especially bad for US and it's biggest allies (Saudi Arabia and Israel).

Again go ahead give me all the down it's.

>but it's especially bad for US and it's biggest allies (Saudi Arabia and Israel).

I'd say that the UK, Canada, Germany, France and the rest of NATO[0] are the US' biggest allies.

Followed by countries like Japan, South Korea, Australia and even Mexico that are much more important as allies to the US than either of those places.

Saudi Arabia and Israel are just incidental players for the US. Saudi Arabia for the oil (The Saudi state oil company is now called Saudi Aramco, but used to be called Arabian-American Oil Company[1]), the military bases, and the arms sales. Israel mostly for the arms sales and to placate many (but certainly not all) Jewish folk in the US.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Aramco

I only read about GNOME what's with Plasma?

Povilas from the linked blog post.

Indeed this is a valid point, thanks. On the X server applications will get touchpad gestures regardless of whether one is running Plasma or GNOME. However, workspace-wide gestures are not implemented in either on X yet.

On Wayland the display server is the one which handles workspace-wide gestures. Additionally, all events go through it to the applications. Perfect touchpad gesture support needs support in both. As far as I know Mutter (GNOME) handles both parts already and KWin (Plasma) currently handles neither.

Implementing touchpad gestures on Plasma would fall within this initiative, I will most likely work on that at some point in the future. Please vote in the poll so that we know this is important to you.

> Please vote in the poll so that we know this is important to you.

The poll: :)

https://www.gitclear.com/polls/linux_multitouch_apps

I'm not entirely sure if it's built into Plasma, but I remember having a (hacky, not with direct response) workspace switching gesture on Manjaro (Wayland, of course).

It's about ideas, not people.

>The Day I got Reincarnated as a Smartphone

The Anime

>That EU users most want

I have spoken to a huge range of socioeconomic classes and the people that knew what DDG was explicitly said they could not care less. Obviously my sample size is minuscule but in EU generally people are perfectly aware of the spying yet don't really care (which I disagree with but that's how it is).

This just goes to show how suspicious DDG is acting which isn't surprising considering Mr. Weinbergs previous business.

I'm from the EU and this is pretty much how I feel.

Also I kind of trust huge companies like Google more than smaller ones. Yes, I know Google is collection lots of info on me, and I know they will show me ads and try to sell me something or get me to use more of their services, but I don't feel like it's such a big issue, and I don't think it's in their self interest to abuse this data or that anyone there cares about me personally. What is some smaller company going to do with my data and who are they going to sell it to? Who knows. Can I really trust they are not collecting any data? Who knows.

I'm in the EU and my sample is probably biased, too, but most of the people I know either don't use Google or use it but dislike using it.

I'm personally alternating between DDG and Ecosia. I do use Google Images, once in a while, in a private tab.

DDG is based in the US. It doesn't matter what the company says wishes or hopes. It is by nature not private.

Also Mr. Weinberg (DDG owner) who has built himself a reputation for abusing user privacy for profit (his previous company just bulk seller private information it got from unsuspecting users).

I can only repeat myself. If the US is spying on Germany it's fine but if China is spying on the US it's bad. Makes sense.

I thought it was already established that Freud's teachings were among the dumbest shit in human history.

If he was Nigerian instead of Central European people would have probably burned him alive for insanity.

I thought this was obvious because of the Kiyv Rus

If you're thinking of the Ukraine/Russian Origin story of Kyivan Rus, do you think Scandinavians settled in the Russia/Ukraine area? There's evidence there was trade between the various empires.

I don't think that's addressing the "DNA of the Vikings" (whoever the Vikings may have been)

The ruling elite of Kievan Rus was originally all Scandinavian, speaking Old Norse, and holding to their customs. This was still the case when they conquered Kiev. But then they gradually intermingled with the local Slavic nobility, switched to Eastern Slavic as the native language, and adopted the local names.

It's the bit about the names that's most telling, IMO. If you follow the Primary Chronicle (the earliest source on this), the first rulers of Rus were Rurik, Oleg, Igor, Olga, Svyatoslav, and Vladimir. The first four names are unambiguously Slavic adaptations of Scandinavian names: Hrorekr, Helgi, and Ingvar. Svyatoslav is an unambiguously Slavic name, but if you deconstruct it, its constituent parts are "holy" and "glory", which correspond to the earlier names Helgi and Hrorekr, respectively - so it's quite possible that it was deliberately constructed as a subtle translated reference. And then Vladimir is a purely Slavic name (Waldemar is a Norse / High German cognate, but it was derived from Vladimir, not the other way around).

The most likely version is that Rus was founded by Scandinavians who conquered local slavic tribes and were assimilated later.

Von Der Leyen being president should be considered a crime against humanity.