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ta223··on Google stores voice searches
> * Sending all microphone input to a remote server would be really bad for battery life and data usage.

Not if you transcribe it first, and upload compressed text.

ta223··on 96 MacBook Pro’s in one server rack
That would be "'96 MacBook Pros..." or I guess, since it was written by a Mac user, "’96 MacBook Pros..."
ta223··on Why The 'Reasons to Ban Handheld Devices Article" is Wrong, Stupid
To clarify: The quality of the comment I quoted is indicative of the quality of TFA.
ta223··on Why The 'Reasons to Ban Handheld Devices Article" is Wrong, Stupid
This comment pretty much sums it up:

  I, too, have not read the original article and have no urge
  to. This article is brilliant and just my cup of smart-
  ass-take-that kind of writing.
ta223··on How to Start an Anonymous Blog
Here's how I'd trace him:

1) get access to the request logs of third-party includes on his page

2) look for requests made just before the page is published publicly

ta223··on Rally Against Mass Surveillance Livestream [video]
Quite the opposite. The video -- because it's huge compared to JS, CSS, etc. -- /does/ make sense to host on YouTube. The /player/ does not belong embedded in the page though. Take a screenshot, host that on your own crummy web server, and link to YouTube, ideally with a notice to the effect of "Clicking this link will share your information with YouTube..."
ta223··on Rally Against Mass Surveillance Livestream [video]
Amen brother, amen!
ta223··on Rally Against Mass Surveillance Livestream [video]
Let's see who's watching us on stopwatching.us:

  dig MX stopwatching.us | grep -c google.com
  >>> 6

  curl https://rally.stopwatching.us/ |grep -c 'google.*\.com'
  >>> 6

  curl https://rally.stopwatching.us/ |grep -c facebook.com
  >>> 1

  curl https://rally.stopwatching.us/ |grep -c youtube.com
  >>> 0
  curl https://rally.stopwatching.us/ |grep -c youtube-nocookie.com
  >>> 1
  hey, at least someone /thought/ about it

  curl https://rally.stopwatching.us/ |grep -c typekit.net
  >>> 1

  curl https://rally.stopwatching.us/ |grep -c twitter.com
  >>> 5

  curl https://rally.stopwatching.us/ |grep -c cloudflare.com
  >>> 3
The list goes on...

EDIT: I should note that these could be harmless <a...> links, but most aren't, and I'm too lazy to update the regexes and rerun. You get the point though.

ta223··on The Search Engine that Vows Not to Track You [video]
Don't worry, you can use DDG and still be tracked by Goolge! With content of some sort loaded from Google's servers on around 80% of all sites, this mostly happens without you doing anything. But if you're really concerned, just use Chrome and/or set your name servers to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.
ta223··on Make DuckDuckGo your Chrome default search engine
Agreed. I just searched "PRISM" on DDG, and 8 out of top 10 results had some element loaded from a Google server (GA, fonts, jquery, search box, embedded youtube, etc.) Are you using Google's DNS server? Google owns the web. Face it.