Internet Explorer Nostalgia

Episode: 12Published: 06/07/2022

Stories

IT’S A ���SEARCH ENGINES AND BROWSERS ARE NECESSARY AND CURRENTLY STILL BAD��� ROUNDUP!!!

Links:

• DuckDuckGo dinged for passing Microsoft trackers through their browser app
• These mailers were delivered through the EDDM service of the USPS
• Brave���s tonedeaf ad campaign is still getting roasted on twitter
• The official Brave stance on the effort seems to be
• The EFF has a good site that talks about browser fingerprinting, and gives you a way to see it in action for yourself
• Kagi is an interesting new player in the search engine space that is still in beta
• Searx lets you host your own private instance of a search engine

Lightning Round

• Seth Green can���t make a show because he thinks his stolen NFT is THAT important
• Can you actually, like, own stuff, man?
• Microsoft continues innovating by renaming a bunch of stuff and putting it in a folder
• Lotsa layoffs with more on the way
• Google brings us right back to Hangouts by merging Meet and Duo into just Meet
• CloudNativeCon and KubeCon EU Highlights
  • Another big trend was the discussion about GitOps

Intro and outro music by James Bellavance