The comment section mentions that conundrum as well... quite interesting.
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The comment thread in that article is interesting. Grep for Ada.
OF course they're more prone to blackouts, and what the study says is that they're less likely to cause severe blackouts than traditional power systems, because they're distributed so that reduces the likeliness; and grids rely on other systems as baseline anyway.
DNS, most web searches, trackers in apps, location data, just to name a few. Ad blockers won't help you there.
besides not using Google?
That's a bit oxymoronic, isn't it? And the answer always depends on your threat model, so start there.
Google the puppeteer won't allow it, lest they risk more antitrust charges. See, government? We're not a monopoly, look at that husk over there, that's Firefox, that's competition.
putting people before profit feels increasingly radical.
OMFG they actually said that...
A few thousand people paying $5 per year is not enough to replace hundreds of millions.
...people or dollars? 'Cos i don't think "hundreds of millions" of people are chippin' in, it's Google that's financing "hundreds of millions" of dollars...
But yeah, that target audience is a bubble, normies don't care.
used chromium as the page rendering engine.
I believe WebKit is Chromium's rendering engine, as is Gecko for Firefox.
Opera used to have their own but now they're just rebranded Chromium.
There was a poll a while back on mastodon and the majority answered they'd be ok with 5$/year to support Firefox.
Maybe tackle that deployment hell instead of band-aiding it with docker?