Archive Link: 23 Jun 2024 18:47:37 UTC

By: Bill Berkrot, Susan Fenton

About Reuters

Country: United Kingdom

Media Type: News Agency

Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic

MBFC Rating: Least Biased / Very High / High

Ad Fontes Media Rating: Middle / Reliable

Wikipedia Rating: Generally Reliable

Foreign Policy – Bias and Credibility

Bias Rating: Least Biased

Factual Reporting: High

Country: USA

Press Freedom Rank: Mostly Free

Media Type: Magazine

Traffic/popularity: High Traffic

MBFC Credibility Rating: High Credibility

MediaBiasFactCheck.com: About + Methodology

Ad Fontes Media Rating: Middle / Reliable

By: Pierre Espérance

Archive Link: 21 Jun 2024 22:32:15 UTC

For anybody not familiar with The Epoch Times…

The Epoch Times – Bias and Credibility

Questionable Reasoning: Conspiracy Theories, Pseudoscience, Propaganda, Fake News, Failed Fact Checks

Bias Rating: Right

Factual Reporting: Mixed

Country: USA

MBFC’s Country Freedom Rank: Mostly Free

Media Type: Newspaper

Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic

MBFC Credibility Rating: Low Credibility

Ad Fontes: Strong Right/Unreliable, Problematic

Connotation also matters. Sabaya (or saby for short) was a specific term that ISIS used to refer to their female sex slaves.

https://lemmy.world/comment/10288666

The Atlantic – Bias and Credibility

Bias Rating: Left-Center

Factual Reporting: High

Country: USA

MBFC’s Country Freedom Rank: Mostly Free

Media Type: Magazine

Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic

MBFC Credibility Rating: High Credibility

About MediaBiasFactCheck.com

Methodology

Ad Fontes Media Rating: Left / Generally Reliable

Article By Graeme Wood

The Guardian – Bias and Credibility

Bias Rating: Left-Center

Factual Reporting: Mixed

Country: United Kingdom

Press Freedom Rating: Mostly Free

Media Type: Newspaper

Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic

MBFC Credibility Rating: Medium Credibility

About MediaBiasFactCheck.com

Methodology

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Can you articulate why you don’t trust Proton? From everything I know, they have a stellar reputation and have been around since 2013 with no end in sight.

My small concern with Librewolf is getting security updates quickly. Cool project though. As I understand, the team has been better about quickly patching security vulnerabilities in recently months too.

Huh, TIL.

https://www.waterfox.net/blog/a-new-chapter-for-waterfox/

Check out Mullvad Browser. It’s created in partnership with the Tor Browser, but optimized to be used for the Clearnet. You don’t need to use Mullvad’s VPN with it either.

I’m stuck on Joplin personally, but have you taken a look at Standard Notes? I think it checks all your boxes.

https://standardnotes.com/help/self-hosting/getting-started

https://github.com/standardnotes/filesafe-relay

Here are some options I use in my rotation.

Brave Search (skip the browser)

Mojeek

Qwant (French)

Yandex (Russian)

Mullvad Leta (Mullvad VPN subscription required)

MetaGer (German meta search)

Startpage (Private Google results)

DuckDuckGo (Private Bing results)

SearXNG and similar self hosted options are awesome, but I’ve found them unreliable.

Be skeptical of Kagi… It’s promoted pretty heavily around here for something that’s not FOSS.

Not sure why you got downvoted like crazy, but Brave legitimately has a great search engine. It also uses its own crawlers unlike DDG, Startpage or Kagi who are really just meta search engines piggybacking off other companies’ results.

@rysiek Fair enough! Not official in the sense that the Bitwarden team doesn’t support it I suppose.

It definitely has some community backing though.

@rysiek

I believe Vaultwarden works with SQLite and Postgres if that were a concern.

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/wiki/Using-the-PostgreSQL-Backend

Bitwarden has a great free tier, it’s open source, and cross platform. I highly recommend it!

https://bitwarden.com/help/import-from-chrome/

If you want something that’s not cloud focused, check out KeepassXC too!

Ars Technica – Bias and Credibility

Bias Rating: Least Biased

Factual Reporting: High

Country: USA

MBFC’s Country Freedom Rating: Mostly Free

Media Type: Website

Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic

MBFC Credibility Rating: High Credibility

About MediaBiasFactCheck.com

Oh dang, you’re right. I used to use StaxRip back when I was doing more encoding and then finish with MKVToolNix, but I think the gui is Windows only.

Probably should have recommended Handbrake.

AAC is higher quality for the same compression level and generally preferred by Apple. MP3 should be fine too though.

EDIT: To be clear though, the programs I listed can handle all kinds of codecs including AAC and MP3. fre:ac is also good for ripping CDs if you’re into that sort of thing.

I’ll have to check it out. If you want to listen to Audiobooks specifically, I will say that the Open Source app BookPlayer has been fantastic for me.