Waterfox is bad too, yeah. They're owned by the ad company System1. I'm not entirely sure on SeaMonkey. They could be good. They're not chromium or Firefox Quantum. Could be a backup to Pale Moon.

Yup. Firefox will be switching to MV3, but last I heard they're keeping WebRequest from MV2. For now. When every other extension developer has moved to the larger and more popular MV3 format, FF will not be able to keep WebRequest if they're going to compete with "modern" chromium browsers. Which seems to be their intent judging from history, as they're going more and more chromium-like.

Bad. It's googles way of forcing the internet to become a package deal, together with Custom Elements/DOM. It'll break most ad-blockers that are extensions, and those that do get re-written are going to be nerfed and allow some ads through. Not enough to cause an uproar, but enough to get people used to it and excuse it with "it's just a few relevant ones". DNS blocking won't work either, as those kinds of ads are served as first-party ads, which is a part of the site itself (and MV3 adblockers can't block Site Elements). Pale Moon still uses the more powerful XUL/UXP addons and allows for the best combo of eMatrix and uBlock Origin.

Bad. They're both google chromium browsers for one. They're also both proprietary closed source. Vivaldi sends home your unique ID and telemetry every 24/7, while Opera is CCP chinese owned.

I'd definitely recommend Alastair Reyonolds for Space Opera. As well as Micheal Cobley, Gary Gibson, and Peter F Hamilton. Throw in Robert Reed and Elizabeth Moon too. Oh, and Julie E Czerenada.

We have those. Have had for a long time. It's hindered by beuracracy though. Flight licences and production "costs".

Not that kind of non-binary. Just means more than on/off or zero/one, which is what our current computers are based on.

It could turn us into Borg, or other non-evil Transhuman versions of a machine-man marriage. Could be good, could be evil. Tech itself is neutral. There are quite a few "evolutionary" paths we could take. "Regress to monkey/animals", stunted/fixed current human, machine-man marriage of individualistic or collectivist, bioengineering.

I'm glad Elon Musk is still doing Space exploration research. It's sorely needed, especially for the future of mankind.

I hope BCI causes "the singularity". Not a fan of the widespread/vague use of the term though. For me it simply means computers becoming sapient. Which likely won't happen until we have quantum CPU's/non-binary computers though.

Yup. It's quite obvious.

I was interested in the show when it first announced. I shouldn't have been. It does look to be trash now, yeah. I won't even hate-watch it (I rarely do either).

Earthsea is probably the last I would recommend. Much too Fantasy, and vague magic Deus Ex Machina. Depends on what you like I guess.

Nothing really, I just did this as a write-up for another forum. Comes in handy now and then ;)

I've got quite a few books. Almost entirely Fiction.

Space Opera Sci-Fi and Comedic Fantasy.

Number of books: 216 (In no particular order):

Barry Sadler

Casca 1: The Eternal Mercenary (1979)

Casca 2: God of Death (1979)

Casca 3: The War Lord (1980)

Casca 4: Panzer Soldier (1980)

Casca 5: The Barbarian(1981)

Casca 6: The Persian (1982)

Casca 7: The Damned (1982)

Casca 8: Soldier of Fortune (1983)

Casca 9: The Sentinel (1983)

Casca 10: The Conquistador (1984)

Casca 11: The Legionnaire (1984)

Casca 12: African Mercenary (1984)

Casca 13: The Assassin (1985)

Tony Ballantyne

Recursion Trilogy

Recursion, Macmillan, 2004

Capacity, Macmillan, 2005

Divergence, Macmillan, 2007

Julie E. Czerneda

Web Shifters

Beholder's Eye (1998)

Changing Vision (2000)

Hidden in Sight (2003)

Robert A. Heinlein

Citizen of the Galaxy (1957)

Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980)

Life, the Universe and Everything (1982)

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (1984)

Mostly Harmless (1992)

Eoin Colfer

And Another Thing... (2009)

H. P. Lovecraft

Necronomicon (2008)

Ursula K. Le Guin

Earthsea Quartet (1993)

Gayle Greeno

Ghatti's Tale

Finders Seekers (1993)

MindSpeaker's Call (1994)

Exiles' Return (1995)

S. L. Viehl

Stardoc

Stardoc (ROC, 2000)

Beyond Varallan (ROC, 2000)

Endurance (ROC, 2001)

Shockball (ROC, 2001)

Eternity Row (ROC, 2002)

Rebel Ice (ROC, 2006)

Plague of Memory (ROC, 2007)

Omega Games (ROC, 2008)

Crystal Healer (ROC, 2009)

Blade Dancer (ROC, 2003)

Bio Rescue (ROC, 2004)

Afterburn (ROC, 2005)

Toby Frost

Space Captain Smith (2008)

Howard L. Myers

A Sense of Infinity (2009)

Frederik Pohl

Heechee

Gateway (1977)

Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (1980)

Heechee Rendezvous (1984)

Robert Reed

Marrow

Marrow (2000)

The Well of Stars (2004)

Down the Bright Way (1991)

Sister Alice (2003)

Charles E. Gannon

Fire with Fire (2013)

David Weber

A Beautiful Friendship (October 2011)

Fire Season with Jane Lindskold (October 2012)

Treecat Wars with Jane Lindskold (October 1, 2013)

Dani Kollin & Eytan Kollin

The Unincorporated Man (2009)

The Unincorporated War (2010)

The Unincorporated Woman (2011)

The Unincorporated Future (2012)

H. Beam Piper

Little Fuzzy (1962)

Stephen Baxter

The Long Earth (2012)

The Medusa Chronicles (2016)

Elizabeth Moon

Familias Regnant universe

Heris Serrano trilogy

Hunting Party (July 1993)

Sporting Chance (September 1994)

Winning Colors (August 1995)

The Serrano Legacy: Omnibus One (December 2006)

Esmay Suiza continuation

Once a Hero (March 1997)

Rules of Engagement (December 1998)

The Serrano Connection: Omnibus Two (September 2007)

Suiza and Serrano

Change of Command (December 1999)

Against the Odds (December 2000)

The Serrano Succession: Omnibus Three (February 2008)

Vatta's War

Trading in Danger (October 2003)

Marque and Reprisal (October 2004)

Engaging the Enemy (March 2006)

Command Decision (February 2007)

Victory Conditions ( February 2008)

George R. R. Martin

Tuf Voyaging (1986)

Jamie Sawyer

Lazarus War

Artefact (2015)

Peter F. Hamilton

The Night's Dawn Trilogy

The Reality Dysfunction (1996)

The Neutronium Alchemist (1997)

The Naked God (1999)

The Confederation Handbook (2000)

Commonwealth Saga

Misspent Youth (2002)

Pandora's Star (2004)

Judas Unchained (2005)

Void Trilogy

The Dreaming Void (2007)

The Temporal Void (2008)

The Evolutionary Void (2010)

The Chronicle of the Fallers

The Abyss Beyond Dreams (2014)

Night Without Stars (2016)

Fallen Dragon (2001)

Great North Road (2012)

A Second Chance at Eden (1998)

Manhattan In Reverse (2011)

Gary Gibson

The Shoal Sequence

Stealing Light (Tor, 2007)

Nova War (Tor, 2009)

Empire of Light (Tor, 2010)

Marauder (Tor, 2013)

Alastair Reynolds

Revelation Space

Revelation Space (Gollancz. 2000)

Chasm City (Gollancz, 2001)

Redemption Ark (Gollancz, 2002)

Absolution Gap (Gollancz, 2003)

Poseidon's Children

Blue Remembered Earth (Gollancz, 2012)

On the Steel Breeze (Gollancz, 2013)

Poseidon's Wake (Gollancz, 2015)

Century Rain (Gollancz, 2004)

Pushing Ice (Gollancz, 2005)

House of Suns (Gollancz, 2008)

Terminal World (Gollancz, 2010)

The Medusa Chronicles (with Stephen Baxter) (Gollancz, 2016)

Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (Gollancz, 2003)

Zima Blue and Other Stories (2006)

Galactic North (Gollancz, 2006)

Beyond the Aquila Rift (Gollancz, 2016)

Michael Cobley

Humanity's Fire

Seeds Of Earth (2009)

The Orphaned Worlds (2010)

The Ascendant Stars (2011)

Ancestral Machines (2016)

Ben Jeapes

Phoenicia's Worlds (2013)

Terry A. Adams

The D'neeran Factor (2013)

Markus Heitz

The Dwarves

The Dwarves (2009)

The War of the Dwarves (2010)

The Revenge of the Dwarves (2011)

The Fate of the Dwarves (2012)

Robert Jordan

The Wheel of Time

0. New Spring (2004)

1. The Eye of the World (1990)

2. The Great Hunt (1990)

3. The Dragon Reborn (1991)

4. The Shadow Rising (1992)

5. The Fires of Heaven (1993)

6. Lord of Chaos (1994)

7. A Crown of Swords (1996)

8. The Path of Daggers (1998)

9. Winter's Heart (2000)

10. Crossroads of Twilight (2003)

11. Knife of Dreams (2005)

12. The Gathering Storm (2009) coauthored by Brandon Sanderson

13. Towers of Midnight (2010) coauthored by Brandon Sanderson

14. A Memory of Light (2013) coauthored by Brandon Sanderson

Terry Pratchett

Discworld

1. The Colour of Magic

2. The Light Fantastic

3. Equal Rites

4. Mort

5. Sourcery

6. Wyrd Sisters

7. Pyramids

8. Guards! Guards!

9. Eric

10. Moving Pictures

11. Reaper Man

12. Witches Abroad

13. Small Gods

14. Lords and Ladies

15. Men at Arms

16. Soul Music

17. Interesting Times

18. Maskerade

19. Feet of Clay

20. Hogfather

21. Jingo

22. The Last Continent

23. Carpe Jugulum

24. The Fifth Elephant

25. The Truth

26. Thief of Time

27. The Last Hero

28. Night Watch

29. Monstrous Regiment

30. Going Postal

31. Thud!

32. Making Money

33. Unseen Academicals

34. Snuff

35. Raising Steam

36. The Wee Free Men

37. A Hat Full of Sky

38. Wintersmith

39. I Shall Wear Midnight

The Science of Discworld (1999)

The Science of Discworld II: The Globe (2002)

The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch (2005)

The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day (2013)

The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents

The Carpet People

The Dark Side of the Sun

Good Omens

Nation

A Blink of the Screen

The Long Earth

The Nome Trilogy

Truckers

Diggers

Wings

&

The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction (2007)

Reach for Infinity (2014)

There are non-google/bing search engines. Brave search, Mojeek, and Gigablast.

https://archive.is/x64WD

Yup. Which is why I won't use one until it's free of tracking AND google.

google is equally, if not more woke. Both are bad.

And Pale Moon + Basilisk.

Best google chromium fork. Though still a google chromium fork..

LibreWolf is still a Firefox soft fork though, and downstream of Firefox latest updates. You can remove tracking, yeah, but not the tech baked in.

You can't really remove google tech from google tech.. Only the most obvious tracking, but not the standards and implementations they want you to have, or the path it takes.

Firefox is using google Web Extensions: https://archive.ph/odk9n

Firefox is using google Web RTC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC

Firefox is using google Web Components: https://archive.ph/3zDI5

Firefox is using google GeoLocation Services API: https://archive.ph/pdS87

Firefox is using google Skia graphics engine: https://archive.ph/kqYWs

Firefox is using google Widewine: https://archive.ph/RtCSO

Firefox is using google Safe Browsing: https://archive.ph/nPaeN

Firefox is using google RegEx: https://archive.ph/lt9T7

Firefox is using google search default and paying firefox 90% of their income: https://archive.ph/QeIEt

Firefox is using google Analytics: https://archive.ph/r6Hj6

https://www.reveddit.com/v/firefox/comments/10m40qe/many_google_urls_hardwired_into_ff_ff_messes_with/

Better than any chromium browser, but still full of google tech. More than you think.

Your first mistake is using Edge. An unholy google/microsoft abomination. Your second is using Smartphones. A google/apple abomination. Out of curiosity, what search are you using? A google or microsoft abomination?

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