Lava Meets Leidenfrost
Drop water on a surface much hotter than its boiling point, and the liquid will bead up and skitter over the surface, levitated on a cushion of its own vapor. In addition to making the drop hypermobile, this vapor layer insulates it from the heat of the surface, allowing it to survive longer than it would at lower temperatures. Known as the Leidenfrost effect, this phenomenon can show up in lava flows, as well.
Pillow lava is a smooth, bulbous rock formed when lava breaks out underwater. The exiting lava is incandescent and, therefore, incredibly hot — hot enough to vaporize a layer of water surrounding it. The lava can continue to expand until it cools too much to sustain the vapor layer. An elastic skin builds up over the cooling lava. Eventually, a new pillow will bud off, possibly due to a surge in the lava flow or a weak point in the developing skin. (Image credit: J. de Gier; research credit: A. Mills; via LeidenForce)
#fluidDynamics #geology #geophysics #lava #LeidenfrostEffect #physics #science #vaporization
Lava, steam... and a little lesson in physics. Exploring the Leidenfrost effect in volcanic eruptions
Over the last few days, impressive images of Etna erupting have once again captured the world's attention. Columns of ash, lava fountains, incandescent flows: the Sicilian volcano, one of the most active in Europe, reminds us of its power.www.leidenforce.eu
WhoFi: Unique 'fingerprint' based on Wi-Fi interactions
Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals
: Wi-Fi spy with my little eye that same guy I saw at another hotspotThomas Claburn (The Register)
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The researchers... call their approach “WhoFi”, as described in a preprint paper titled, "WhoFi: Deep Person Re-Identification via Wi-Fi Channel Signal Encoding."Who are you, really?
Re-identification, the researchers explain, is a common challenge in video surveillance. It's not always clear when a subject captured on video is the same person recorded at another time and/or place.
Re-identification doesn't necessarily reveal a person's identity. Instead, it is just an assertion that the same surveilled subject appears in different settings. In video surveillance, this might be done by matching the subject's clothes or other distinct features in different recordings. But that's not always possible.
The author asserts that re-identification doesn't necessarily reveal a person's identity, although I suppose this is similar to how a single fingerprint or DNA sample doesn't necessarily reveal a person's identity, right up until somebody can connect your fingerprint to your identity, say, by correlating your location with other tracking methods or something.
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Zelensky is rejecting peace, Washington should not support Ukraine any longer — lawmaker
Zelensky is rejecting peace, Washington should not support Ukraine any longer — lawmaker
Marjorie Taylor Greene criticized Zelensky on many occasions before, and urged to stop US military assistance to the Kiev governmentTASS
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Zelensky gives huge update on Ukraine-Russia peace talks to occur in hours
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had proposed a new round of talks over the weekend.Alice Scarsi (Express.co.uk)
Kremlin responds to Azerbaijan’s position on Ukraine conflict
Kremlin responds to Azerbaijan’s position on Ukraine conflict
Azerbaijan’s support for Kiev should not impact relations with Russia, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has saidRT
Famine Expert: Israel's Starvation of Gaza Most 'Minutely Designed and Controlled' Since WWII | Common Dreams
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33543697
Brett Wilkins
Jul 22, 2025
A leading global authority on famine on Monday accused Israel of orchestrating a carefully planned campaign of mass starvation in the Gaza Strip, remarks that came amid a steadily rising death toll from malnutrition caused by the 654-day U.S.-backed Israeli siege and obliteration of the Palestinian enclave."I've been working on this topic for more than four decades, and there is no case since World War II of starvation that is being so minutely designed and controlled," Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, told Al Jazeera.
Famine Expert: Israel's Starvation of Gaza Most 'Minutely Designed and Controlled' Since WWII | Common Dreams
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Jul 22, 2025A leading global authority on famine on Monday accused Israel of orchestrating a carefully planned campaign of mass starvation in the Gaza Strip, remarks that came amid a steadily rising death toll from malnutrition caused by the 654-day U.S.-backed Israeli siege and obliteration of the Palestinian enclave."I've been working on this topic for more than four decades, and there is no case since World War II of starvation that is being so minutely designed and controlled," Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, told Al Jazeera.
Famine Expert: Israel's Starvation of Gaza Most 'Minutely Designed and Controlled' Since WWII
"This is preventable starvation," said Alex de Waal. "It is entirely man-made."brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
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Famine Expert: Israel's Starvation of Gaza Most 'Minutely Designed and Controlled' Since WWII | Common Dreams
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Brett Wilkins
Jul 22, 2025
A leading global authority on famine on Monday accused Israel of orchestrating a carefully planned campaign of mass starvation in the Gaza Strip, remarks that came amid a steadily rising death toll from malnutrition caused by the 654-day U.S.-backed Israeli siege and obliteration of the Palestinian enclave."I've been working on this topic for more than four decades, and there is no case since World War II of starvation that is being so minutely designed and controlled," Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, told Al Jazeera.
Famine Expert: Israel's Starvation of Gaza Most 'Minutely Designed and Controlled' Since WWII | Common Dreams
Brett Wilkins
Jul 22, 2025A leading global authority on famine on Monday accused Israel of orchestrating a carefully planned campaign of mass starvation in the Gaza Strip, remarks that came amid a steadily rising death toll from malnutrition caused by the 654-day U.S.-backed Israeli siege and obliteration of the Palestinian enclave."I've been working on this topic for more than four decades, and there is no case since World War II of starvation that is being so minutely designed and controlled," Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, told Al Jazeera.
Famine Expert: Israel's Starvation of Gaza Most 'Minutely Designed and Controlled' Since WWII
"This is preventable starvation," said Alex de Waal. "It is entirely man-made."brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
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Evil. Pure evil. Israel is a satanic creation.
Idgaf if people think that's antisemitic. Fuck Israel and fuck it's apologists
It's a XXI century Holocaust.
This was expectable ever since Israeli leader started openly making statements about Palestinians when were extreme similar to what the Nazis said about the Jews and the Roma, for example calling them "human animals" and "vermin" and talking about having a "Final plan" for Gaza.
The Zionists are the present day version of the Nazis, and they're well on track to doing the same thing, this time around with the help of pro-Nazi governments in the West, especially the US, UK and Germany.
L'insetto che ha costruito la più antica e vasta megalopoli del pianeta Terra - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
L'insetto che ha costruito la più antica e vasta megalopoli del pianeta Terra - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Con quale criterio valutiamo l’intercorso raggiungimento, da parte di una comunità di esseri, dell’auspicabile livello di civiltà preminente? Molti tracciano la linea presso l’implementazione di sistemi d’organizzazione complessi, che naturalmente po…Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
Google, Microsoft say Chinese hackers are exploiting SharePoint zero-day
Security researchers at Google and Microsoft say they have evidence that hackers backed by China are exploiting a zero-day bug in Microsoft SharePoint, as companies around the world scramble to patch the flaw.
The bug, known officially as CVE-2025-53770 and discovered last weekend, allows hackers to steal sensitive private keys from self-hosted versions of SharePoint, a software server widely used by companies and organizations to store and share internal documents. Once exploited, an attacker can use the bug to remotely plant malware and gain access to the files and data stored within, as well as gain access to other systems on the same network.
Google, Microsoft say Chinese hackers are exploiting SharePoint zero-day | TechCrunch
The tech giants have evidence that Chinese hackers are exploiting the new bug, but warned "multiple actors" are also hacking into affected SharePoint systems.Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)
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The attack exploits SharePoint vulnerabilities originally disclosed at a Berlin hacking competition in May, where a Vietnamese cybersecurity researcher received a $100,000 bounty for discovering the flaws. Reuters reported that Microsoft was allegedly informed of the vulnerabilities in May but failed to fully address them in an initial July patch
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Several cybersecurity experts compared the SharePoint campaign to the 2021 Microsoft Exchange server attacks that compromised US government systems. Former FBI Cyber Unit deputy director Cynthia Kaiser warned that hackers "already in their systems may lie dormant for extended periods before operationalizing"
Just shows in what a poor position US is now. Allies discovered it, reported it, feds didn't prepare for it and Chinese are in. Incredible incompetence except for US allies that despite US' isolationism still care.
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I did.. It looks like the bug has been exploited for a couple of weeks now, with a patch only being released on 20th of July? That makes it zero-day
The bug is regarded as a zero-day because the vendor — Microsoft, in this case — had no time to issue a patch before it was actively exploited.
Edit: realised we might have different definition of zero day. Depends whether you consider that the vendor didn't know about the issue, or there isn't a patch available upon exploitation of the vulnerability.
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Zero day is typically defined as there being zero days since the vulnerability is known to the developer, in other words, it being unknown at the time of the exploit.
Ah thank you. I thought zero day and 1 day vulnerabilities were:
0-day = vulnerability is not known to the vendor and so there is no patch. If exploited, it is a 0-day attack.
1-day = vulnerability is known and patch is available, but not all systems are patched.
I.E. the actual number of days doesn't matter.
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Micro$oft is a nightmare.
Heck, all of big tech is a nightmare.
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I don't think that's true either, based on the reporting it's based on a bug disclosed at a hacking conference in May. No clue how this is a zero day if it's based on a 2 month old bug reported to the vendor.
Seems more like bog standard Microsoft fucking around and waiting too long to patch before it got used.
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The Hidden Cost of AI: How Energy-Hungry Algorithms Are Fueling the Climate Crisis
As AI adoption accelerates, its soaring energy demands and carbon footprint raise urgent concerns about sustainability, highlighting the need for greener technologies and policies to mitigate its environmental impact.
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Amazon is acquiring Bee, which sells a $50 device that resembles a Fitbit, is always listening, transcribes conversations, and serves up daily AI summaries
Bee is joining Amazon and we couldn’t be more excited!
Bee is joining Amazon and we couldn’t be more excited! When we started Bee, we imagined a world where AI is truly personal, where your life is understood and enhanced by technology that learns with you.Maria de Lourdes Zollo (www.linkedin.com)
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Wait why did the lord put the trolley there
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about how the left needs to appease everyone
well "everyone" except queer people, racialized people, disabled people, women… so, yknow, everyone except most people
but don’t worry, the marginalized will have no choice but to ally with their oppressors, which will go wonderfully well im sure 🥰
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I’m neither liberal nor religious, but fuck bigoted “moderate” churches in particular.
I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
— MLK Jr., 1963, Letter from a Birmingham Jail
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King was writing directly to leaders of “moderate” Alabama churches & synagogues in 1963.
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My Dear Fellow Clergymen:While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would have little time for anything other than such correspondence in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work. But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I want to try to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms.
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META data collection - a post from Mastodon
Linux@mstdn.ca - As a Meta employee, I can honestly tell you what we know, and I do not know how we obtain all of it.
- Your full name
- Your full home address
- Your phone number
- Your e-mail
- Your government ID
- Your consumer report history
* The name of every family member - The name of every friend
- The name of their family / friends
- Your marital status
- If you are faithful to your partner
- Your work history (all of it)
- Your education history (all of it)
- Your travel history (going back years)
- Your birth gender
- Your gender ID
- Your sexuality
- Your sexual preferences
- How often you're having sex
- Your partner's details (all the above)
- Your political ideology
- Your involvement with any group
- If you protest, we know
- If you're unhappy, we know
The amount of information we collect on you is insane. And we do it all for supposedly marketing and yes, we help the government since they have access to all this too.
So when someone says they want to avoid META or GOOGLE - respect.
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How often you’re having sex
Can they… help with improving this? Asking for a friend.
One in six US workers pretends to use AI to please the bosses
AI Productivity Statistics: 22% Feel Pressured to Use AI When They’re Not Comfortable
A new nationwide survey reveals mass adoption of AI — but at a cost. Learn more here.Howdy
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Online Piracy Almost Died. Now It's More Popular Than Ever. - YouTube
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.youtube.com
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Corpo parasite think they can abuse contract law without peasants clapping back is naive.
Also, why would I fund my enemy
They are the criminal. Like man and domination. You aren't winning either even though that other person/people died because of you.
That means you will have all your life stolen from you until you beg Ma to ressurect and summon you out of the void at least two big bangs from now.
Give these fucks a dozen if they're lucky,
That's because you think your death ends life.
Life can never end. It might do so here, but we live in an infinate number of infinately variant universes. That doesn't even touch Strange 'verses which also happens. You can escape reality. Even when you die.
/Makes a Ledger laugh
In all fairness variation and work toward the the Doc's understanding, knowledge and perception has been explicitly my objetive in study.
Thy asked for it.
/shrugs
Funny that, I do know, I have alraady seen a whole big bang roll 'verse by with absolutely zero acknowledgement or respect for the nonsense of "money" at all.
ends life
People always use these words, but the one is just a way to break line of sight and the other nobody can agree on when you really dig in.
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That speaks more toward general tech illiteracy than anything else.
GenZ might be even worse than boomers when it comes to learning how to use tech. That is why so many solutions are basically automated these days so that you can treat everything like it is a streaming site.
I had to help my parents connect up the TV as a kid, and now I have to help my kids connect up their TV/PC.
Obviously a lot wrong with that statement (I. E. Not everyone leans techy) but it does make me feel like my age group is the only ones that have a vauge idea what is going on
I think it's probably being in the age range that kinda straddled the time between now - when it's all an unshakeable piece of daily life - and the time before it existed / was commonplace. Having grown up before all of these world changing tech advances, and then being there for the ride, is just a singular experience and perspective neither our parents or our kids can possibly have.
I'm really grateful for having gotten to take the ride, but it does strike me as sad in a way.
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Yeah, I don't think piracy ever came close to dying. It definitely slowed down for a small time when Netflix was the only real player in the streaming space, as a lot of pirates didn't actually mind paying for a service as long as it worked and had content. For those people, piracy was a service issue, not a cost issue.
Now that Netflix doesn't have anything to watch and the content is spread across dozens of networks (again), piracy is back on the menu for that specific demographic. But there will always be a demo that will pirate no matter what, be it principles or be it cost.
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Hell my most played steam game, rimworld, I initially pirated and dropped before trying again later on and buying.
Back in the day you could buy Rimworld directly from the developer's website and that shit was portable. I played it off a flash drive on my high school computers. Did the same thing with FTL as well. Most of my hours in those games are not logged, lol.
me pirating everything for the last ten years
"it almost died?! On my watch!?"
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Piracy never got anywhere close to dying. TV and movie piracy dropped a bit when there were decent streaming services though.
Lots of people got used to watching what they want, when they want it. Now that the streaming services have all enshittified, loads of people are turning to piracy because it provides better service.
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If it wasn't for piracy I would have just kept reading books. Instead, I just watch all the bullshit.
EDIT: Most of the time, the people who make shows have a much better imagination than mine
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Speaking personally, it's literally that. I used to pay for Netflix, HBO, Prime and Disney+, now I don't pay for anything.
The reasons are quite simple:
- everything got more and more expensive
- some of the services started pushing ads down my throat even though I paid for them (usually the higher tier)
So I got back to torrenting + self-hosting (had to migrate from Plex to Jellyfin because even self-hosted solutions are turning to shit).
Oh that's definitely in there, but you feel a kind of resentment and 'why the fuck do i need these people?' On top of it, right?
plex to jelly fin
If you pay for it, you do not own it. Only that taken with lead steel or lies is ever really yours.
Or what's freely given, i guess, but corporations can't do that.
Paramount, the next fox news.
GitHub - haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn: Docker container running Transmission torrent client with WebUI over an OpenVPN tunnel
Docker container running Transmission torrent client with WebUI over an OpenVPN tunnel - haugene/docker-transmission-openvpnGitHub
I do have the feel that gaming piracy is on a all time low.
At the moment there isn't even a single active denuvo cracker while there used to be like 3-4.
Probably because stores like steam and gog, which are consumer friendly with fair prices for most products and not linked with stupid subscriptions.
On the other hand movie and shows piracy is rising for the anti-consumer platforms, who can pay $200 a month for seeing all decent shows and movies without ads? Very few people, and even then you own nothing.
I have a feel that music piracy will rise soon too. As Spotify already have started the anti consumer route. I'm pretty sure in a few years it's subscription won't be as worth it as it used to be, and a lot of people will find out that they have been paying for years and still own nothing.
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She retired two years ago from cracking, and started a cult.
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I do have the feel that gaming piracy is on a all time low. At the moment there isn't even a single active denuvo cracker while there used to be like 3-4. Probably because stores like steam and gog, which are consumer friendly with fair prices for most products and not linked with stupid subscriptions.
I don't know the numbers so I can't comment on that, but you do realise the vast majority of games don't launch with Denuvo right? And plenty of games that do only have it for the first 6-12 months because it's a subscription for them, before taking it out...
I've played Baldur's Gate 3 and Avowed recently, pirated, right at launch, because they didn't have DRM. Isn't it still true that nothing on GOG has DRM at all?
And plenty of games that do only have it for the first 6-12 months because it’s a subscription for them, before taking it out…
Sega, Ubisoft, and Atlus being notable exceptions. They just leave that shit in forever.
There's a workaround for Denuvo: buying a copy of the game with pooled funds and sharing the game with all the participants using online activation. It's not exactly cracking, but it is one way around it. The issue is knowing where to find such groups, or starting one yourself. I can get you into one, If anyone is interested. Just send me a PM asking to join.
You can get older stuff for free as well. Practically everything is free, but you'll have to wait longer with the newer titles because people who donated funds take priority.
Note: Unfortunately, this takes place in a Discord group. You'll have to use Discord and you'll have to have an account that is at least one-month old to be able to participate.
Sure, that's always an option. But we're not talking about buying here. To be precise, yes, a copy of the game is still being bought, but then it gets distributed among 100s of people. It's pretty much like old-school piracy: VHS tapes and burning copies of games you own onto CDs.
That being said, you aren't missing that much if you're completely avoiding Denuvo games. Out of all the uncracked ones that I've tried using this method, only two games out of the last decade or so were worth the trouble (Wukong and Hi-Fi Rush).
I don't know if universally but I think all that use basic steam drm.
I found in cs.rin.ru. There is even a post explaining how it works.
If you ever downloaded a game with a basic steam crack you already have it. The files are the same for all games.
Goldberg / goldberg_emulator · GitLab
Steam emulator that emulates steam online features. Lets you play games that use the steam multiplayer apis on a LAN without steam or an internet connection.GitLab
By comparison I don't feel as predated as in other shops.
Music piracy, while still a thing, is basically nil at this point, because the record industry didn't fuck up streaming (for the consumer). The artists don't get paid enough, but from a consumer perspective you don't have to sub to all the services to get all of the music.
We were so close to that with Netflix back in the beginning. Then the studios got greedy, and here we are.
Yeah, music piracy is kinda niche these days: mostly just people who want a local library and who have a modded iPod or similar. I use Soulseek to get flacs of the music I play on my radio show, just so I can be sure I'm offering the best possible quality.
But to be honest, I straddle both camps. I have a modded iPod full of music, but I also have Apple Music mostly for convenience.
Listening to the music you like instead of the music you are told to like
that's what music piracy has become today !
YouTube (via yt-dlp) is my fallback for if I can't find what I need on Soulseek.
The quality is fine, but I likes my FLACs.
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I was thinking this while setting up RomM a few months back. Each media stack I'm running has a bit of a different reasoning behind it, but at the end of the day it's more about convenience and owning my own library than anything cost-related.
My Jellyfin server exists because streaming services are a nightmare. Overpriced as hell, extremely limited libraries, things constantly coming and going.
I use Navidrome because Spotify supports genocide and Tidal felt too limited, and neither pays artists well. While most of my library is pirated, I make it a point to buy directly from the artists whenever possible - whether that's digital downloads, vinyl, or merch, direct support goes much further than streaming services ever will.
RomM is about preservation and convenience for my emulation library. These aren't hard to find online, sure, but knowing I have my own copies feels like a safety net in case of more shutdowns and lawsuits.
While most of my library is pirated, I make it a point to buy directly from the artists whenever possible - whether that’s digital downloads, vinyl, or merch, direct support goes much further than streaming services ever will.
You might already do this, but I'd suggest to further prioritize buying from up and coming and independent artists. You don't need to support whatever random person/corporation owns the rights to the discography of a dead musician unless you have a compelling reason to so, and you don't have to deepen the pockets of already loaded superartists/bands. Is there a Bandcamp Friday coming up, then you can wait until then to make sure a larger chunk of your money goes directly to those who made the music.
It almost died when?
Any pirated content that I've looked for over the past 20 years has been easily accessible.
The only reason I've slowed down is due to the quality of today's media, not because of availability of content.
That is called engagement farming, pretty common on YouTube, there are probably 50 videos like this released in the past month, they just copy paste from each other, each getting hundreds and thousands of views.
The only noticeable decline in piracy came in the year when Netflix got famous, which got reverted in the next few years due to the launch of another 100 Streaming sites and netflix's enshittification.
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cancel big media streamers
find all the shows on the high seas
take the money you would have paid to peacock, paramount, et al
donate to pbs and npr passport 😀
Why Trump is killing the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawai'i
The real reason why Trump is killing the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawai'i
Column: The Keeling Curve, measured there, is irrefutable evidence of increasing CO2 emissionsRik Myslewski (The Register)
AI Friend Apps Are Destroying What’s Left of Society
As they become increasingly isolated, people are treating AI chatbots as friends and even lovers. We have to fix the broken society that made this possible.
A global environmental standard for AI | Mistral
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I have high hopes for Mistral. They've been working very hard on becoming an open, honest and secure player in the AI game. Being from France and thus having to adhere to the GDPR and EU AI Act. The transparency is also very welcome. They did sign the letter to postpone the EU AI Act by years, which was questionable.
Stepping out and showing the numbers, which are pretty damn hefty, is a ballsy move. Let's hope they also focus on reusing the huge amount of water that gets pulled for cooling, though.
I'm not a fan of AI for its impact on the planet, but numbers like this hopefully makes people aware and consienceous about it. It will probably be here to stay for a good while, so AI companies being honest and working towards a more efficient and greener system will be a welcome treat.
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The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble
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Trump’s FCC chairman gloats over Colbert’s cancellation days after meeting soon-to-be CBS owner
‘The partisan left’s ritualist wailing and gnashing of teeth over Colbert is quite revealing,” Brendan Carr tweeted Tuesday, adding that critics of the cancellation are ‘acting like they’re losing a loyal DNC spokesperson.’
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‘Daddy, police!’: new video shows Ice arresting Oregon father at preschool
Chiropractor Mahdi Khanbabazadeh still in detention after being seized by masked agents in daycare parking lot
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Trump administration pauses student loan forgiveness with no explanation
Income-Based Repayment plans are one of four repayment options offered by the federal government that are calculated by how much a borrower earns
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'No victory over the bodies of children': Israelis march against starvation, war in Gaza
Carrying photos of emaciated Palestinian children, a few hundred Israelis gathered in central Tel Aviv on Monday to protest against the Netanyahu government. 'We cannot believe that we need to march against starvation of children and innocent people,' Alon-Lee Green, co-director of Standing Together, which organized the event
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Identité, droit de vote, nature : quatre batailles, quatre Oui
C’est dans la chaleur du 20 juillet 2025 que l’Assemblée générale du Parti HTTPS‑VD (ex‑PPVD) s’est réunie dans la bonne humeur pour préparer la votation du 28 septembre. Nous avons échangé sur les objets soumis au vote : identité électronique, écologie, mode d’élection et participation citoyenne.
Certains sujets ont beaucoup fait parler d’eux dans les médias et suscité des réactions très émotionnelles dans tous les camps politiques. D’autres, au contraire, ont laissé les partis silencieux et semblent ne pas éveiller l’intérêt du public.
Pourtant, ces thèmes sont cruciaux pour l’évolution de notre société — et particulièrement importants pour nos membres. Les débats du jour ont été riches et engagés.
Alors à vous de jouer ! Lisez notre synthèse, échangez autour de vous, et n’oubliez pas de voter le 28 septembre.
e-ID : paranoïa ou progrès ? HTTPS choisit le code et la clarté
Le texte de la loi sur l’identité électronique (LeID) a déjà été longuement analysé par notre formation, (consultable sur https-vd.ch/2024/09/30/le-id-s…), les conditions attendues d’un service d’identité numérique ayant été largement discutées dans nos publications passées. La loi proposée crée un cadre légal clair sur un usage numérique qui existera de toute manière dans l’avenir proche, que ce cadre soit prêt ou non. Aucune législation sur le sujet ne saurait être parfaite, mais cette proposition de la loi fournit le minimum nécessaire pour faire avancer la situation dans une direction souhaitable, grâce à des garanties efficaces. Là où l’opposition à la LeID a décidé de succomber aux sirènes de la paranoïa, nous avons souhaité garder notre sang froid et regardé non seulement le contenu réel de la loi et de son ordonnance d’application, mais également le projet déposé sur github.
Contrairement à ce que prétendent les arguments du comité référendaire, la LeID ne crée pas une identification universelle. Les prestataires utilisant le système d’identification auront accès uniquement aux informations qui seront nécessaires à l’utilisation de leurs services les autres informations ne serons pas transmisent. L’accès à ces informations sera en outre conditionné à une demande dûement argumentée auprès des autorités compétentes et les données collectées ne pourraient pas être conservées au-delà de 90 jours. A cela s’ajoute le fait que tout service qui aurait perdu des données ou qui aurait compromis des accès serait immédiatement soumis à un audit, dont les manquements constatés seraient rendus publics, afin d’augmenter la transparence du système dans son ensemble.
A cela s’ajoute une possibilité à toute personne utilisant le service d’identification d’effectuer un signalement aux autorités si une mauvaise gestion de l’outil ou un comportement suspect est constaté, ce qui lancerait une procédure d’enquête.
Les garanties sont fortes et la transparence effective, ce qui répond à nos attentes.
Seule ombre constatée au tableau, la facilité à passer outre l’obligation de garder le code du système ouvert. Malheureusement ce point pourtant essentiel n’est jamais relevé par les opposants à la loi.
Pour résumer, cet e-id 2.0 apporte un cadre clair, des garanties suffisantes et le premier projet d’application est prometteur.
HTTPS-VD recommande donc vivement de voter OUI à la Loi fédérale du 20 décembre 2024 sur l’identité électronique et d’autres moyens de preuves électroniques (Loi sur l’e-ID, LeID) afin que la Suisse dispose d’un cadre légal adapté.
Le Mormont : un site pillé, une initiative solide, un contre-projet recyclable
HTTPS partage le souci des initiants quant à la conservation du patrimoine naturel du Mormont. Il s’est ainsi prononcé en faveur de celle-ci. Elle intègre la protection du Mormont lui-même et précise les exigences en matières de gestion des ressources naturelles et de l’énergie sur l’ensemble du territoire vaudois. Depuis de trop nombreuses années, l’industrie du ciment a exploité ce site sans aucune considération pour l’environnement et la durabilité ; il est aujourd’hui temps de protéger cet endroit.
Le contre-projet, bien que se focalisant principalement sur un autre problème que le Mormont, intégrerait à la Constitution un élément très important : l’économie circulaire. Cet article est très réjouissant et mériterait de faire l’objet d’une votation séparée afin de pouvoir exister en parallèle du texte de l’initiative, car il vise plus large que la situation épineuse du Mormont seul.
HTTPS vous recommande donc de voter OUI à l’initiative populaire « Pour une sauvegarde du patrimoine naturel et des ressources dite «Initiative Sauvons le Mormont» » et son contre-projet et de donner la priorité à l’initiative., car une fois que la situation du Mormont aura été réglée, il sera toujours temps d’intégrer les principes de l’économie circulaire à la Constitution.
Petites listes, grands effets : un quorum qui a besoin d’air
La modification propose de regrouper les listes apparentées avant le calcul du quorum. Cette modification permettrait une représentation plus juste des petites formations politiques, au détriment des grandes formation, qui bénéficie aujourd’hui d’un regroupement qui fait disparaître les petites formations et brouille le choix des électeurs par des jeux de politique politicienne. Les ententes communales pourraient donc se séparer en de plus petites formation affichant clairement leur étiquette. Cela générerait un léger surplus de travail aux administrations communales, mais d’une ampleur très faible par rapport à ce qui est annoncé par les opposants à la modification.
Ainsi, des listes de niche, locales, engagées, souvent éphémères mais légitimes auront la possibilité d’exister. Cela redonnerait du sens au vote, au lieu de pousser l’électeur·ice à cocher la case « moindre mal » pour ne pas « gâcher sa voix ».
Le 28 septembre, HTTPS-VD ne protégera pas les places assises. Nous devons ouvrir la voie et voter Oui à la modification de l’article 93 al.4 de la Constitution du canton de Vaud visant à préciser le champ d’application du quorum dans le cadre des élections communales et cantonales, OUI à plus de diversité, plus de débat, moins de calculs tactiques. Bref : OUI à une démocratie qui respire.
5 ans pour voter : vivre ici, c’est déjà en faire partie
Actuellement, en tant qu’étranger, pour voter au niveau communal, il faut avoir vécu 10 ans en Suisse, dont 3 sur le territoire vaudois. C’est long, très long. Surtout pour celles et ceux qui travaillent, participent, consomment et paient leurs impôts dans le canton de Vaud, mais restent assignés au silence.
La réforme propose de passer la durée de résidence en Suisse à 5 ans. Ceci est cohérent dans la mesure où cinq années correspondent à la durée un cycle électoral complet (communal, cantonal et fédéral). C’est aussi largement assez pour comprendre comment fonctionne la politique au niveau local — et savoir comment on veut y prendre part.
À une époque où beaucoup se désolidarisent des lieux où ils vivent, où l’ancrage local devient rare, encourager la participation et l’engagement est plus qu’un symbole : c’est une urgence démocratique.
Dans une Suisse où mobilité, morcellement administratif et précarité territoriale sont la norme, cette extension des droits politiques est une mise à jour bienvenue. Il ne s’agit pas d’un passe-droit, mais d’un rattrapage démocratique.
HTTPS-VD ne voit pas l’intérêt de mettre la démocratie sous clé pour une longue décennie. Nous devons l’ouvrir à celles et ceux qui ont leur vie ici depuis suffisamment longtemps. Pour cela il faut voter OUI à la modification de l’article 142 de la Constitution du canton de Vaud visant à faciliter l’accès aux droits politiques communaux pour les étrangères et étrangers. Parce qu’attendre 10 ans pour avoir voix au chapitre, c’est long pour une société qui prétend avancer.
Conclusion
Le 28 septembre, HTTPS-VD recommande de voter quatre fois OUI, pour une démocratie plus ouverte, plus représentative et mieux équipée face aux défis contemporains.
Sur la loi sur l’e-ID, nous saluons un cadre légal qui va enfin dans la bonne direction. « L’e-ID n’est pas un outil de contrôle, c’est un outil de confiance — à condition d’être encadré. Et ce cadre, la loi le fournit. Ce texte n’est pas parfait, mais il est suffisant pour avancer. » rappelle Sébastien Piguet, co-président de HTTPS-VD. Quant à la réduction du délai de résidence à 5 ans pour accéder aux droits politiques communaux, c’est un pas nécessaire vers une démocratie plus inclusive. « Il ne suffit pas de promettre la participation : il faut la permettre. Ouvrir la démocratie à celles et ceux qui y contribuent déjà, ce n’est pas une faveur, c’est une reconnaissance. » insiste Nils Schaetti, co-président de HTTPS-VD. Des objets discrets, des enjeux essentiels. Le 28 septembre, nous pourrons dire Oui à une démocratie qui s’ouvre à toutes et tous.
Sources
- Arrêté fédéral du 20 décembre 2024 relatif à l’impôt immobilier cantonal sur les résidences secondaires
- Loi fédérale du 20 décembre 2024 sur l’identité électronique et d’autres moyens de preuves électroniques (Loi sur l’e-ID, LeID)
- Initiative populaire Pour une sauvegarde du patrimoine naturel et des ressources dite «Initiative Sauvons le Mormont» et son contre-projet
- Modification de l’article 93 al.4 de la Constitution du canton de Vaud visant à préciser le champ d’application du quorum dans le cadre des élections communales et cantonales
- Modification de l’article 142 de la Constitution du canton de Vaud visant à faciliter l’accès aux droits politiques communaux pour les étrangères et étrangers
Older Gens Living 'The Good Life'
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This is a perfect analogy for Boomer politics.
"When you're about to vote to ruin the country and you know somebody else will have to clean it up."
la megafine ruvida (la pazzia autopulizia)
Sembra proprio che, ormai, io non possa avere più un minimo di pace nemmeno con me stessa!!! È greve forse, ma veramente sono al punto in cui impazzisco malino se per più di qualche decina di minuti non riesco a tenere il mio spirito dissociato dal corpo, quindi palle. Prima, infatti, mi stavo semplicemente facendo […]
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la megafine ruvida (la pazzia autopulizia)
Sembra proprio che, ormai, io non possa avere più un minimo di pace nemmeno con me stessa!!! È greve forse, ma veramente sono al punto in cui impazzisco malino se per più di qualche decina di minuti non riesco a tenere il mio spirito dissociato dal corpo, quindi palle.Prima, infatti, mi stavo semplicemente facendo la doccia — come purtroppo circa ogni settimana gli spiriti delle mie pareti mi supplicano di fare, visto che sono costretti a vivere con me — e, via via che mi lavavo, mi sentivo sempre più sporca, in qualche modo. Oh, più andavo avanti e più impazzivo, perché più mi strofinavo e mi sciacquavo e più percepivo la pelle ancora ruvida, consumata, imperfetta, brutta, troppo umana e poco adatta a me; impossibile trovare pace. Ho dovuto usare più bagnoschiuma del solito (…e non che di solito io ne usi tanto, ma vabbè) e strofinare con la spugna semiruvida per qualche paio di minuti buoni, altrimenti veramente mi sarebbe esplosa la testa, è irreale. Forse in parte l’impressione di imperfezione sarà causata da quei peli stronzi delle gambe, in posizioni scomode che difficilmente riesco a togliere, perché sono talmente magra che il rasoio non aderisce bene… però giuro, se mi tocco addosso sono ruvida. Sul petto sono ruvida, sulla schiena sono ruvida, sulla fronte già mi si iniziano a formare le rughe; quindi, qualcuno converrà con me che l’aspettativa dell’esito della doccia completa non si avvicina per niente a quella che è la realtà… ok, i capelli tornano a profumare, ma per il resto non cambia una mazza e sento veramente di volermi spellare… o quantomeno di poter fare la muta come le tarantole. E invece no, devo rimanere in questo mio stato estremamente triste, e sentire tutti i miei nanobozzoli ogni volta che per qualsiasi motivo mi metto le mani addosso. 😫
(…No, non so bene cosa volevo fare con questa immaginetta creata nel tentare di dare una foto a questo post, comunque, ma questo è come la mia esistenza mi fa sentire 🥰 Mi serve veramente una motosega per contrastare il mio prurito addosso!!!)
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Voiceprinting as an identification for wealthy bank clients grew popular more than a decade ago, with customers typically asked to utter a challenge phrase into the phone to access their accounts.
ha, I thought it was just a movie trope
sometimes it feels like banks will use literally anything but recommended practices for multi-factor authentication
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ha, I thought it was just a movie trope
I wish. My bank has been trying to get me to do that shit for years when I call in.
"YoUr VoIcE iS yOuR pAsSwOrD" - no, my fucking password is my password, and this voice print shit was an obvious security hole from day 1, which is why I always answered that I didn't consent to their bullshit.
I argued with my old bank for ages about this and they continued to insist enabling it on my account was a great idea.
The film Sneakers showed the world why voice ID was a massive security hole and an all-around crappy idea back in 1992, and some idiots are still insisting it's a good idea in 2025 when it's only become astronomically easier to beat than Robert Redford and friends demonstrated.
In my case, I've been doing radio, podcasting, and other voice work for a long time and as a result there are hundreds and hundreds of hours of my voice freely available out there. People can cut and paste me saying "my voice is my passport, verify me" or anything else they like together in Audacity, no AI needed, and fool any telephone-based audio security computer on the planet with it. And explaining this in-person to the branch manager of my former bank elicited nothing more than the blankest expression I'd seen since the pet goldfish I had as a kid.
When I was complaining about the 10 pieces of paper, each needing a signature and a stamp, just to close one of my bank accounts, the clerk has informed me that some of their procedures has switched to an electronic signature instead. I was pumped! Until he finished the rest of the sentence. By the electronic signature he meant the squigly line, just on a touchscreen.
Some people strive to achieve the pure zen. At that moment I've achieved pure cringe instead.
It's strange though, because that same bank has an excellent API and batch processing available.
Nope.
Fuck TD. They enabled this horseshit automatically on my account. Surprise, surprise, it didnt work on my voice, even once.
Supposedly they disabled it three times. Guess what else happened? Someone accessed my damn account, because it was their voice linked to my account.
I'll never have a TD account again. Absolute jackasses in terms of account security, that isn't even the only issue I had with them.
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plug in AI security device
"Initializing security sweep."
"Security scan finished. All databases wiped clean."
Yeah he's invented the webcam, I suppose we merely have to be thankful that it isn't another train.
- A solution to your problem already exists and has existed for decades
- Create a problem
- Create an unnecessary ugly overhyped solution to the problem
Well well well… if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions…
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"Hey guys, watch out for this torment nexus. It could be pretty scary!"
So are you going to stop building it then?
"...No."
Oh he seriously needs to shut up.
He spends his entire time now telling everybody how a product, he is insisting on building, is going to kill us all.
You would have thought that if you were building a doomsday bomb but didn't want to die it'd be pretty easy to just stop building said bomb. But nope everyday he continues making it more and more destructive.
I mean it's a valid concern. He's also nowhere near the first to voice it. I attended a presentation from a Microsoft exec who explained that Microsoft had already developed very powerful voice mimicking technology, well ahead of anything public at the time. It required only a few seconds of speech before it could fully replicate your voice. But their ethics board or whatever stopped them, due to the massive fraud risks. Nowadays I think they've adapted the tech to voice recognition used in Teams instead.
Of course, MS wasn't the only one working on this and other people have since published these solutions, so the cat's out of the bag now.
the problem is "he" isn't the only one building AI. If it wasn't openAI it would have been someone else. And soon almost anyone with small business level of resources will be able to have an AI platform at their disposal.
I'm not saying the guy is a paragon of virtue or anything, but a voice from within the industry should be valuable to get legislators on board to do something about it. Not that I have great faith in them either.
I think is move to legislator is just to put concurrent to disadvantage. The same way he cried when deepseek got out such funny enough won't do nothing since he pushed for a law that literally said that ia can t be legally restrain for 20 year
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Oh by the way, just conveniently, we have this new product which can take care of this problem for you.
You'd have to be real ignorant of technology to accept any form of voice or face recognition to gain access to anything - even your phone.
Use a code or a pattern, everyone. This is to protect you from bad cops as much as it is to protect you from bad criminals.
I'm actually really annoyed I can't do two factor on my phone (e.g. Fingerprint + password).
Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC
Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC
Windows Recall remains controversial a year after its announcement. Now, the Brave browser has taken new measures to "protect" users from the feature.David Uzondu (Neowin)
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Brave was found to inject crypto referral links into your ~~clicks~~ url auto complete.
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Brave private browser accused of deceiving users over affiliate links
Brave CEO says he's just 'trying to build a viable business'Nicholas Fearn (Tom's Guide)
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About Brave
Experience the faster, more private and secure browser for PC, Mac and mobile.Brendan Eich (Brave Software Inc)
Uh... no? It just puts sponsored backgrounds when you open new tabs or windows notifications if you opt-in
It never replaced ads in websites afaik
They're not actively replacing elements on a web page, but they're still getting paid to show you ads and you can opt in for some crypto nonsense.
Brave Ads
Set up and manage advertising campaigns with Brave to increase website traffic and sales.ads.brave.com
Sure, so? It's still opt-in, and by default it sends the generated crypto money to creators and websites you visit
If you don't like it, don't enable it? They're pretty transparent about how it works overall
They have pretty much abandoned this feature anyways
It's opt-in for now, how many times do we have to play this game?
I'll keep using Firefox with uBo to actually block ads instead of a browser that's running its own ad delivery system.
Brave has a built in ad blocker
at this point you're just hating on brave for nothing
Sure, that sucks, but the product is good
You can't always agree with everyone
It's also just another flavor of chromium so it still helps Google maintain their monopoly.
Anyone trying to de-google needs to be using Firefox.
Peter Thiel was also a major, early investor in the project.
That's another 'this one thing should let you know this is radioactive.'
It exists and therefore it's bad enough.
Existent**
It's fine as a browser and it does a good job at syncing across devices. Still my chrome based browser of choice.
Afaik chromium is capable pf being a browser. Does that also have syncing or is it not capable of that?
it’s bad enough.
This is debatable. i find some that people hate on AI and crypto regardless of it's implementation
Exactly this. They're acting braindead and disliking things for no valid reason
Just massively spreading misinformation
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Doing anything requires the memorization of thousands of commands that must be formatted perfectly and are specific to your distribution, into a black box that rarely provides any feedback at all, and when it does it's extremely generic.
I'm sure my inbox will be blown up by delusional people claiming you don't need it but it's just not true.
The simple act of installing software is crazy complicated and different on every distro.
My current distro has 2 separate system update apps and I don't really know how to use either of them, nor do I understand why I need to use them at all. Why does the system need me to click buttons to make it go? Just do it in the background. Then as soon as it's done I get another popup 3 minutes later saying another package needs to be updated.
Hardware compatibility is a huge problem, fingerprint readers, WiFi, facial recognition, Bluetooth, etc. etc. Very few companies make computers with Linux compatibility being considered at all. Everything will have drivers day 1 on Windows and then they'll trickle down to Linux a year or two later.
Nvidia GPUs are by far and away the most popular and they're still very painful to use. And even though that's entirely Nvidia's fault, the problem remains.
I dislike Linux the least but there's no way I could recommend it to anyone who isn't a giant nerd who likes fixing computers.
Sadly, quite a few things. Here's a few:
- Application support; some popular software is built with Windows in mind.
- One-click installers; Software usually comes with user-friendly installation wizards. No command lines or dependency juggling. Also better compatibility woth past versions
- Driver availability; Linux is getting better, but Windows is superior
- Better peripheral support like for printers, webcams, game controllers.
- Gaming performance; although Linux is gaining ground, Windows is just better in this regard
- Media codecs and formats; again, Linux is getting better, but this isn't always an out-of-the-box experience
- Business integration; Windows plays nicely with enterprise tools like Active Directory, Microsoft 365, and legacy business apps.
Don't get me wrong. I use Linux as my daily driver. That also means I get frustrated on occasion when again I must consult man pages instead of just running a troubleshooter or fiddling with Nvidia drivers instead of just running the game.
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(venting frustration)
I'd argue with the installer point - if it's in the repo, and it almost always is for anything a newbie would be using, it's actually easier. Search, click, done. BUT...
Drivers though, specifically companies not supporting Linux drivers, is shit. I'm helping a friend transition to Linux and am dual-booting myself so I can help with the actual os available for troubleshooting. And fuck me, sound drivers fucking suck ass on Linux. It's because Creative is a bitch and won't make Linux drivers, but also apparently literally nobody is both running a creative card and anything above 2.0 speaker setup. I have two creative cards, a decade apart, neither works with my 5.1 speaker setup. FL and FR work, the rest are some sort of fucked and come from an incorrect speaker(s). One of these cards is like 15 years old now, and nobody has noticed or rectified it. And if I reboot straight from windows to Linux, the sound is mangled. I need to shut the system down and boot it cold. Then FL and FR work. Hours of troubleshooting last week got me absolutely no progress.
Then I need software for my Logitech g903 (there is 3rd party software available) that does profiles and switches on the fly based on the application in the foreground (crickets).
Then there is an issue where if my monitor goes to sleep, when I wake it up I get patches of graphical artifacts. On the 2D desktop. Every few seconds, for about a quarter of a second. Random location each time. Random size. I'm on a Radeon 7900 XTX, which isn't terribly new now. But the friend I'm helping, no issues at all with drivers or hardware. An older 6700 XT. But come the fuck on.
Both of us are on bazzite (I suggested it so they wouldn't nuke the system as they learn) so it's just Fedora silverblue with a few tweaks, not some out-there distro.
And, shit. If you need cellular connectivity on Linux, as far as I can tell you're fucked if you don't go the Ubuntu route. Debian doesn't work, Fedora doesn't work, Mint doesn't work, I went down a rabbit-hole and tried a dozen distros. I ended up with kubuntu, since I wanted kde, but I tried anything just to see what would work. This is on a modern ThinkPad, still under (extended) warranty. I thought ThinkPads and Linux were supposed to be like this holy-grail of free-as-in-freedom computing? Ugh.
So yeah if you have a basic system, aged a bit, nothing special, it works well. Take one step outside of that perfect-scenario bubble, and paaaaaain.
To be fair, a lot of those are due to a Windows legacy of dominating the market, which isn't going to change until there are more people elsewhere. It's a bit of a catch-22, and yet even being a small percent use in desktop Linux has started to get distros that feel and run similar to Windows enough so people who don't dabble in Windows specific software don't miss it. It's also a bit much to weigh Windows as better in many of those above features when it still have its own issues often, even though it is the dominate and supported OS.
I laughed at your last part. I have never not had to do the same for Windows as I have for Linux when a problem pops up. Google the problem. Those troubleshooters are such a waste of time, and honestly the only time I've had an automated fix that worked to resolve a situation was in Linux via purging the old driver and reloading it. The Windows troubleshooter is like the first tier on a tech support line, where you tell them, yeah, I already did all that.
Gaming performance; although Linux is gaining ground, Windows is just better in this regard
I mostly agree with you but this contradicts everything I've seen. Presumably you have evidence of this?
- Driver availability; Linux is getting better, but Windows is superior
Doesn't Linux have pretty much every driver built into the kernel with the only notable exception being the NVIDIA closed source drivers. Even those drivers are a single command away from installation, it even configures itself correctly out of the box for Wayland support.
Media codecs and formats
Got burned by this recently, was trying to use MPV for playing a YT vid, and it had no video but had audio. Turns out Fedora comes with an open-source or smth version of H264 encoders, so I had to uninstall those packages for the official Cisco ones. But I was on atomic and it wasn't fun so I ran to forums for help.
Driver availability
Not sure if it's the driver or the kernel (maybe dual-booting? But it worked on both partitions originally...) but my Bluetooth is nuked on my Linux partition. I tried to do rfkill, btusb, systemctl, etc. and the only solution I got was to rollback to an older release of Fedora atomic because it's most likely a kernel issue. That just sucks man, having to be stuck on an older version to get my earbuds to work lol. I didn't like atomic and now I'm on reg KDE Fedora, so I'm truly fucked as that's not a rollback distro.
I still love using Fedora (every time I boot into Windows I cry) and it just makes me love my laptop like it's brand-new. Tinkering is fun to me, I'll literally sit at my desk and starve myself while trying to get something to work. But some days, I want my stuff to work with minimal tinkering, and not have to worry if it'll break when I really need it down the line.
What's easier in Windows compared to Linux?
Graphics drivers. I can't say I ever had a graphics driver update in Windows that rendered my system borderline unusable, but I 100% blame Nvidia for me running windows until recently. I tried a dozen times over a decade and ended up back on windows when the Nvidia update trashed my system and I got sick of dealing with it.
On team green and running Bazzite with no issues
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What? When was the last time you tried Linux?
With flatpak, it’s usually a one-click process to install anything nowadays.
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and every distro had flatpak enabled in the package manager out of the box
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I said “usually”, and I’m talking about mainstream distros.
Also the original comment says “the whole OS is not ready for the general public”, which is also vague. I don’t expect the “general public” to install Gentoo and suffer from this issue.
I said “usually”, and I’m talking about mainstream distros.
They don't all have that either
Except:
1) Most of them are bundled terribly, forcing you to use flatseal or similar to make it work - way to much to do and understand for the average user
2) Roughly half of all the programs I install are flatpaks, and the other half are appimages. They both largely work the same, but the fact that there's a difference will be crippling to the average user. Especially if you ask them to choose between one or the other
3) Believe it or not, a lot of people are not comfortable with the app store mentality flatpak seems built around. Googling "chrome download" is far more ingrained in the average person. Aside from browsers and projects of similar scope, this is difficult to achieve on linux
Can 800 year old grandma Doris use the feature? Can the average person who writes comments on YouTube videos? Minion meme posting facebook aunts? If not, it's not ready for mainstream.
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While I agree with most of what you said, typical users won’t run into these issues unless they’re doing something more technical (e.g installing blender or something), in which case they can ask for help.
Can 800 year old grandma Doris use the feature? Can the average person who writes comments on YouTube videos? Minion meme posting facebook aunts? If not, it's not ready for mainstream.
I don’t think these people can install Windows or are pros at using it either, and in which case it’s the responsibility of whoever installed the OS to guide them through it a little like I did with my parents (they’re in their 80s and they’ve been using Linux for the past five years just fine), and I imagine those kind of people to only care about browsing the web and maybe viewing a PDF every once in a while.
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I'm the opposite of both of you. The build quality is good and the OS is good. I love having a familiat UNIX system while also having a polished desktop environment that supports 4k scaling very well (though the polish has been lacking a lot lately)
The issue for me is the insane price of their computers and the fact that you can't (officially) install MacOS on your own hardware. I have a Linux desktop and a MBP but I'd run MacOS on both if it was officially supported
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I will give you the RAM and SSD capacities are atrociously priced. USBC is perfectly acceptable for the people apple is targeting. Nobody is trying to use a MacBook as a server. Ignore the “pro” name in any consumer electronic device. It has nothing to do with anything other than marketing, and that’s not exclusive to apple. Apple did give up on the 8GB bullshit already though.
You need to take a closer look at how the M-series chips work and why they work they way they do. There are design considerations in how PC does things and Apple does things and they are not 1 to 1. What makes sense the PC world doesn’t always make sense int he Mac world.
Apple does a lot of anti-consumer bullshit which we should absolutely club them over the head for, but many of the things they pulled off with the M-series Macs were NOT possible with traditional PC methodologies. One thing’s for sure though, the hardware performs and it does so with very little energy. It’s so great a difference the entire industry is changing course to try to outdo Apple. They eventually will too, but they haven’t yet. They are just cheaper.
USBC is perfectly acceptable for the people apple is targeting.
It's literally called a "pro", who do you think they're targeting?
Ignore the “pro” name in any consumer electronic device.
I do, thanks to Apple. It doesn't make it any less shameful or ridiculous.
You need to take a closer look at how the M-series chips work and why they work they way they do
You're going to have to elaborate because I already have and I don't understand what bearing that has on this discussion.
Apple does a lot of anti-consumer bullshit which we should absolutely club them over the head for,
You shouldn't "club them over the head", you should just stop buying their trash. That's literally the only thing that will work.
Daves garage actually had a good video on the shared memory architecture recently that gives some insights on why apple designed this way they did. Don’t dismiss “different” as “trash.” You sound like an idiot when you do and it makes it difficult for adults to take you seriously. PC and Mac are designed with different goals in mind, so they tend to make different choices in their engineering, and you aren’t going to like every decision either side makes.
Shared memory is different to unified memory, AMD's got an implementation of the later with their "Ryzen AI MAX+" (ugh) systems, does quite well in benchmarks.
It also doesn't hurt that Apple puts the RAM on the SoC and gives it a truckload of bandwidth. DDR5 is about 70GB/s, meanwhile the M4 Max is around 540GB/s.
I didn't know AMD had managed to switch over to unified memory too. Managing that while remaining x86 compatible is quite an achievement!
I think the next big thing will be when storage becomes as fast as ram and they unify that too, getting rid of separate RAM. Working with data directly in place could have massive efficiency boosts. But the industry has been trying to get it that fast for many years and still not succeeded. And once they do, separate SSDs wouldn't be possible, at least not as a primary storage, so it wont be an advance that makes sense for every use case.
Yeah "universal memory" is the holy grail, seemingly as hard to find as it as well.
The articles on Wikipedia about the related tech is great, it'll mention something like "Developers expect commercialisation to happen relatively soon" and then link to an article from 2004, or research papers from the 1980s.
"It just works" only works for very basic normie stuff.
I think that was @Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world's main point. Apple is great if you're a normie, but if you even think about tinkering with things, have an unusual issue on your system, or creatures forbid... want to play games, you're fucked.
My mom is an Apple diehard who has used Android and Windows in the past (2000s), but got burned by Window's shitty security and really only switched to iPhone due to iMessage being more reliable than SMS at the time. She knows a little bit of tech stuff (I guess I get it from her), but overall, she's a "normie" compared to me, so Apple (90% of the time) does what she needs.
It simplifies a lot of things
If this was me about 3 weeks ago, I wouldn't have debated this as hard. But recently my grandma had to call my mom and I to help her get her iPhone pictures to work on her Windows laptop, and she almost thought she downloaded a virus when trying to get an HEIC app. Apple's asinine proprietary file format is a plague on society, and I hated when I had to send pictures from my iPhone to my Google drive for school in HS. That's not simple, and now we have to help grandparents understand that they need to screenshot their camera pictures or else literally no website will take their damn photos.
The little things add-up for me, and so yeah, it's nice having something that "just works", but only if you literally accept everything and never complain about any of their choices.
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70% but yeh.
gs.statcounter.com/os-market-s…
Desktop Operating System Market Share Worldwide | Statcounter Global Stats
This graph shows the market share of desktop operating systems worldwide based on over 5 billion monthly page views.StatCounter Global Stats
Interestingly, the percent of Windows goes down if you look at just the United States, where it's only 63% of OSes. And it also goes down similarly when you set it to the UK, or North America, or almost any other region. But it goes up to around 73% when you limit it to Europe or Asia. Weird, why is it higher in those areas?
(Click "edit chart" to pick a different region)
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Desktop Operating System Market Share United States Of America | Statcounter Global Stats
This graph shows the market share of desktop operating systems in United States Of America based on over 5 billion monthly page views.StatCounter Global Stats
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Phantom Dust is distributed solely via the Microsoft Store, which requires a Windows environment to function. Compatibility layers such as Wine and Proton do not support the Microsoft Store, as it depends on Windows-specific services and APIs that are not replicated in these layers.
Any workplace with halfway decent IT will disable it by default.
Which may be about 50% of workplaces, but still.
Actually, Linux doesn't block windows, it just isn't windows.
Just reason saying.
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Heck, wipe the entire disk!
(based on a real life experience)
(windows just kept standing no matter what partition i deleted so i wiped the disk clean)
I recently decided to switch from using Atomic Fedora to reg KDE Fedora (cause tinkering and bypassing atomic features got on my nerves), and I almost went through with wiping everything and only having Linux installed. And then I realized I probably wouldn't be able to do some tests for college cause they use anti-cheating software (lockdown browser) which they probably wouldn't like if I ran it in a VM or wine...
But man, once I'm out of college, I'm probably wiping Windows for good! Also gonna factory reset that partition so it at least takes way less space on my drive.
(Side note: the other hesitation is that I'm 90% kernel updates nuked Bluetooth for me around March (It worked when I rolled back to January/February releases) and I do have zoom classes sometimes. Like, do I just have to buy a Bluetooth dongle to deal with this?)
Oh, wow we have had different experiences haha. It was a very steep learning curve at first as I have no background in programming. But it acted like a motivator to learn more.
I love having my operating system be exactly what I want it to be. Doing exactly what I want it to do. And I love that Hyprland depends on Wayland. Id never go back to X compositor again. Its forced me to learn a lot about the future of Unix-like computing.
Like it sounds kinda sad to say this haha but I love when my OS breaks. 99% of the time I already have a very good idea why and will have it fixed in just a fee minutes, that 1% of the time ive learned a lot about figuring out what the issue was and fixing it. My OS almost never breaks now as ive worked out so many of the bugs over time. But initially I won't lie there was a definite learning curve.
I think part of it is that computing on my personal PC is very hobbyist for me. Like I dont work on it and I dont play competitive online games. That means that I'm free to use it how I want and make it work how I like it to. So Hyprland suits my needs well. I can customize it to my liking, make it pretty, make it functional, and grow my confidence in Linux. I used to hate command line. Now if there is a terminal/CLI application I will take it first every time because my Terminal is so customized to my liking. Save on disk space, compute power, and dealing with clunky menus and inconsistent design.
This is what I mean about Hyprland making me love computing again. It just made me see my computer in a totally different light and has reinvigorated my long dormant passion for it.
Running Linux would block this feature too.
Keep In mind that you can still be captured by this feature indirectly, ~~Discord for example certainly doesn’t intend to do anything to hide your messages, they recently went public so in their eyes more tracking the better.~~
Combat Windows “Recall” Feature With DRM
Your use case What would you like to do? Given the privacy & security concerns regarding the Windows Recall feature it may be in Elements best interest to mark Element as a DRM enabled application ...BugZappa (GitHub)
Discord... Still isn't public?
They're certainly talking about it but they haven't announced a date yet.
Having said that, element and matrix are both more privacy respecting so I do agree with the recommendation in general.
Discord... Still isn't public?They're certainly talking about it but they haven't announced a date yet.
Apologies, I striked the lines out of my previous comment. It simply was an example of how you still can be captured.
Tbf, anything that isn't AI Windows blocks the feature. Including regular Windows.
People just need to not fall for the scam edition and they don't have to deal with this shit.
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I'm in the same boat waiting for Linux to be a bit more "feature complete," for me to daily.
In the mean time, check out W11 Enterprise IoT LTSC. It's the secret menu item equivalent W11 they don't wanna sell to consumers. It feels like a fresh W7 install with no AI, no bloat, no bullshit, and can even disable all telemetry. Only comes with Edge and Defender.
massgrave.dev has the iso's and permanent activators.
Edit: Adding that you can install the App Store and Xbox App to make use of Game Pass.
I’m in a similar boat, windows for work, linux for personal.
But since I’m freelance, it’s annoying juggling 2 computers. Just waiting for a single app to either work in wine or get a Linux port.
When they rolled out the update that removed the toggle for it, I remember seeing steps for how to disable it via regedit or tools which would do that for you, all with the warnings of future updates may re-enable it.
I haven’t moved from W10 yet so I’m kinda ootl on it, but that’s what I remember
You might say that they are being so very... Brave.
🎤 tap tap ... is this thing on?
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This is my setup, and I never actually use ungoogled chromium.
If I have some kind of issue that I need to work around immediately rather then figure out, I usually just open Firefox and try that.
The thing is, Firefox follows web standards. Chrome doesn’t always and websites put in custom code that works only with Chrome.
I’d rather use the browser that follows standards.
I'm out of the loop. What are the many problems with Mozilla?
I saw you mention the Mr. Robot extension in another comment. That looks to be a bad decision but what else are the "many problems?"
What does that have to do with the browser? Last I checked, browsers aren't transphobic.
You do you, but I personally refuse to make product choices based on the person who makes it. Brave is the least bad chromium browser, so I use it as a backup to my main Gecko-based browser. I'm not a fan of Mozilla either, but that's irrelevant since I pick my software based on what it does, not based on the management of the company that builds it.
I would not choose to use a product made by people I disagree with but leaving that aside:
Is it the least bad? Why not degoogled chrome? Or chromium? Even vivaldi seems like a better choice.
Ad blocking mostly. That's literally all I need in a chromium browser, because I only use it on a handful of sites that don't work properly in Firefox.
Chromium is also okay, but no ad blocker. I have that installed as well in the really unlikely case that the ad blocker gets in the way.
99% of my browsing is on a Firefox browser, and 99% of the rest is on Brave. I use it so infrequently the "time saved" metric is a merely seconds.
I don't like Mozilla either, but here are my priorities in a web browser:
- FOSS
- Privacy tools - includes ad blocking; I'd actually be okay with ads if they didn't track me
- Promotes open web standards - rendering engine diversity is critical here, I don't want a repeat of the IE era
- Security
- Performance
Firefox ticks all of them, and my issues with Mozilla as an org don't really come into play. I use a fork on my phone, but I use Firefox on my laptop and desktop because I trust the binaries coming from my Linux distribution maintainers (part of 4).
Brave also ticks all of them?
at this point, Firefox's development is not very much more open than Chromium's
Brave is the least bad chromium browser
It's pretty sleazy. Ungoogled Chromium or Vivaldi are probably less sleazy, if at all.
The only two there that bother me are the affiliate code thing (reminds me of the Honey drama) and installing extra software without consent. The first was a bad call and probably related with how their ad replacement stuff works (if anything, they should merely axe affiliate links; Firefox has that as an option), and this"solution" to the latter is pretty odd to me:
reinstall the browser without admin rights
Why would a browser need admin rights in the first place? I haven't used Windows in well over a decade, so I don't think that particular one would be an issue for me.
The rest can be grouped as:
- bugs - bug fixes generally don't get prioritized until enough users complain; I would be very picky if I was an at risk person (activist or whatever) and would probably only use Tor browser
- opt-in services
- their marketing department
My options for chromium browsers are:
- something with ineffective ad blocking
- Opera - I used it before it became a chromium browser, then it went downhill; not FOSS
- Brave, with all its warts
Since ad blocking and FOSS are my prerequisites, Brave basically wins by default.
Just block with unlock 🙉 why choose browser based on a ad block feature that is worse (injecting own ads/adware and therefore trying to dictate who is allowed to grab your attention) than the ad blocking extension?
I recommend Firefox, due to best compatibility with uBlock (fuck manifest v3) and additionally have a DNS filter in your network, like pihole or adguard.
On the go, use wireguard VPN to always be digitally home, and get your ads blocked (as well as tracking organisations) like that.
I recommend Firefox
So do I, that's my main. Brave is my backup for the handful of sites that don't like Firefox.
He could be next husband of Ivanka Trump - I don't care
If he provide good service for me - browser which fits my needs. I would even send him money every day
In my country, one of the most successful supermarkets is run by a fascist and he uses part of his fortune to finance our local fascist party, which is gaining strength every year by the way. Do we support fascism by buying in that supermarket? What if we suddenly started to boycott the supermarket to hell?
My point is that they earn profits by using their services and in today's society money is power. And from where the CEO got his power? From the millions of people with the mindset of "if it benefits me I don't care".
Librewolf is too restrictive and not suitable for everyday browsing. I hate it.
never tested cromite
Yeah but for example fingerprinting is either fully on or fully off
Switching defaults hurt fingerprinting more than it helps so at that point might as well stay with the default firefox
It's actually super simple: even though the community is called "Technology", there's A LOT of tech-illiterate fear mongering going on here. People behave like Microsoft is trying to spy on them, seemingly oblivious to the fact that Recall is:
- only available on devices with an NPU.
- local only, nothing goes out to the Internet (hence the NPU requirement).
- opt-in - you need to turn it on yourself.
There's nothing malicious about it. Functionality is questionable, but acting like it's malware is just showing ignorance.
So, you're saying that browsing history, in literally any browser on the market, is a bug not a feature?
surreptitiously
Oh, wait, I actually missed that! How is something that you need to purposefully turn on "surreptitious"? Like... Holy fuck, people, this is supposed to be the community of tech-literate people, so maybe stop fear-mongering in read about Recall a bit? It's opt-in, it's limited to a (as of now) extremely small number of NPU-carrying devices, it's offline.
If you don't like it, just don't fucking turn it on.
Recall sits in a secure vault behind BitLocker encryption secured with Windows Hello.
BitLocker+Windows Hello gets broken through, the world has a much larger problem than some screenshots, because that's the foundation of, like, 80% of enterprise security.
If you're afraid that an attacker sits on your PC and just waits for you to unlock the vault, then you already have the PC breached to the point where they don't have to do that, they already have access to everything else.
If you're afraid of the feature in anyway, don't use it.
So you still think it’s 1990. Got it. Well, times have changed
Times may have. Microsoft has not.
They shit on it because just like Mozilla, they made some shit decision by making some shady partnerships, and because the CEO is transphobic/homophobic/can't remember
Apart from the usual bullshit and antifeatures it has, it's still a great browser choice, just like Firefox
"Just like Mozilla".
Let's compare.
Mozilla: installed a closed-source plugin once, and then apologised for it.
Brave CEO: actively supports homophobic organisations, donates money to them, injects affiliate links to stores, whenever given a microphone will say something bigoted and homophobic.
Yeah, it's totally the same exact issue with both browsers!
Brave: injected affiliate links once, then apologised for it too. Developped a search engine to be less dependent on big companies
Mozilla is spending money like crazy, just like Wikipedia, has little to no democratic system which makes people fork the stuff they make, and prefer to use the money from donation to buy trips all over the world to educate about privacy and shit while they proceed to keep adding more telemetry and BS in firefox
They also make it close to impossible to install plugins outside their plugins website, which I've heard has some strict rules and take a lot of time to approve stuff. Closed garden bullshit again
Brave browser CEO apologizes for automatically adding affiliate links to cryptocurrency URLs
Brave, the open-source browser designed to prioritize privacy by blocking third-party ads and trackers, is facing criticism from users for redirecting URLs from cryptocurrency companies’ URLs with affiliate links, Decrypt reported.Kim Lyons (The Verge)
I just think the idea of your alternative being partially coded by the company you're attempting to avoid is a little stupid. I don't give a shit who he is. I barely give a shit who runs Mozilla.
Brave and every other Chromium fork are at the mercy of Google to exist as an alternative to Google, which to me, defeats the point. Every bit of their effort would be better spent rolling their money over to donate to browser development rather than band-aids.
And for training, copyrighted stuff is already everywhere; AI tools seem to be limited on the output side rather than raw training data.
Sure it wouldnt be rational to care about DRM being broken a small amount allowing limited amount of copyright material to be copied.
What do you think their response would be?
An unrepentant homophobe who accused people who dislike him for his homophobic views/actions as being closed-minded and bigoted for disliking him over it.
You can't make this shit up
It's probably the best chromium browser out there
Firefox has done shit too
sadly we don't have a lot of choice, but they're one of the least worse
It's not that bad. Sure, having more choice is good, but it's not as life threatening as you make it seem
Using android and stock ROMs is a bigger problem
I think it's a compounding issue, primarily of Google products just kind of being the "default."
Google pays to be the primary search engine in Firefox, on iOS, and sets themselves as the default on their operating systems. They, wherever possible also set their browser as default. Yes, Chromium is open source, but they have the ultimate final say, and no one seems to have the interest in forking it. This puts Google in a similar position that Microsoft was in in the 90s and early 00s, where they can essentially hijack the web and force their ideas through whether others want to or not.
We saw this with Google forcing Manifest v3, all Chromium-based browsers essentially just had to follow suit. That was just Manifest v3 however, who's to say what else they'll do?
Then there's my tinfoil hat worry that Google essentially being the window to the web for so many people, on an OS, browser, and discoverability level is just overall a cause for worry. That's not even considering their communications and media platforms.
I'm pretty sure if Firefox/Mozilla decides to change their policy on something, most forks of firefox will have no choice but follow the same path
afaik all firefox forks are really small, just like chromium forks
Mozilla might not have as much conflicting interests though, I admit it
Perfect is the enemy of good.
Gecko is still way more sympathetic than chromium, to me. Even if it is not perfect either.
Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC
As does Linux.
But, you can't disable Recall, that's the point...
You can just not use Windows and use Linux instead.
But, you can’t disable Recall, that’s the point…
Well... Technically you're correct - because the feature is not out yet.
No idea WTF you people are reading here, but for a "Technology" community, the comments here are just plain ridiculous...
But I digress, Win 11 here and Brave. My choices, for lots of reasons. Lots of linux boxes as well though. Each to their own and all that
If the post is worth to discuss then why should I not upvote the post and then say that I disagree in the comments.
If we all down vote those posts nobody will see it (apart of those who sort by controversial) and there will be no discussion.
If the software in question is bad, then I'd like to reduce visibility of the post while explaining why in the comments.
Brave is connected to the BAT pay-to-surf scam. Its CEO donates to homophobic causes.
The post itself is reasonable quality and informative so I find it upvote worthy. If a post is low quality or a shit post then I downvote.
To me the karma system is about quality. Not an "I agree/disagree" button.
For comments I only down vote obvious trolls, bigots/racism etc.
To me the karma system is about quality. Not an “I agree/disagree” button.
That's how it was meant to be. The original Rediquette from over 15 years ago has:
"Vote. If you think something contributes to conversation, upvote it. If you think it does not contribute to the subreddit it is posted in or is off-topic in a particular community, downvote it.
[Please don't] Downvote an otherwise acceptable post because you don't personally like it. Think before you downvote and take a moment to ensure you're downvoting someone because they are not contributing to the community dialogue or discussion. If you simply take a moment to stop, think and examine your reasons for downvoting, rather than doing so out of an emotional reaction, you will ensure that your downvotes are given for good reasons."
But 99% of people definitely use them as an Agree/Disagree button.
people just scroll around up voting headlines that they think sound good or support their identity
I try to counter this by randomly downvoting everything
Most people never bother to read anything beyond the title of the post. Let alone click the link to the article.
Now, i don't know how everyone sees up/down votes. But I always thought that content and comments that is relevant and promotes discussion is good. And comments that aren't are bad.
Rather than a measure of others opinions.
I upvote the post because I support the feature, and would like to see more browsers implement more privacy focused features.
I upvote the anti-Brave comments, because fuck Brave.
Honestly it largely is.
Personally I like sharing crash reports, but even then, the user should be able to turn that off if you like.
Telemetry should be 100% opt-in.
Honestly it largely is.
I mean, by definition, it isn't.
It's anonymous and not malicious in nature. It's a diagnostic and engagement measuring tool.
diagnostic
I think it is useful to send crash reports, but the user should have power over it (see: when macOS generates a crash report, it asks the user if they would like to send it)
engagement measuring
That is your data they are taking to make money off of without your consent, and I consider that malicious. There are ways to do that with consent. See: Steam’s annual hardware survey
That is your data they are taking to make money off of without your consent
I mean... They're a for-profit company, so literally anything they do is to make money.
But it's not "my data", it's anonymous. The "engagement" info is in relation to features. That's why some features are removed - because nobody uses them. Or rather: not enough people use them to warrant maintenance.
And how do you know it’s not malicious in nature?
Because I have a functioning brain.
I’d like to know what your definition of “malicious” is
Malware is designed to hurt you by extracting your personal information or resources.
Telemetry is designed to give developers feedback about product/functionality usage and is anonymous.
you’re just fine with letting a Corpo run system look at everything you’re doing.
I'm not, and it's not. Unlike you, I actually checked what data telemetry gathers and I'm perfectly fine with it. It's inconsequential and anonymous.
Well, semantically yes, not all telemetry is spyware. However regarding Windows telemetry it's indistinguishable from spyware - you have no idea nor control over the data gathered, measured and processed.
The crux is that Windows telemetry is opt out, opting out can't be done during installation, and historically opting out wasn't sticky. Additionally some Windows telemetry is still being sent despite opting out.
That makes Windows telemetry fulfill all spyware criteria.
However regarding Windows telemetry it’s indistinguishable from spyware - you have no idea nor control over the data gathered, measured and processed
Ah, so you're another one of those fear-mongers?
Here's the Required Diagnostic Events Fields (required telemetry) documentation.
Keeping in mind that it's anonymous - which parts of this are you so vehemently against sending to Microsoft?
That makes Windows telemetry fulfill all spyware criteria.
The shittiest spyware in history, I guess, considering it's all anonymous...
Required diagnostic events and fields for Windows 11, version 24H2 - Windows Privacy
Learn more about the diagnostic data gathered for Windows 11, version 24H2.learn.microsoft.com
Microsoft is known for making things “optional” at first then eventually forcing it down everyone’s throats. Removing offline accounts is one of them.
It’s not so much the technology itself is malware, but its behavior replicates that of malware.
This also works:
shift-F10 before you get to the network configuration, then type this and press enter
start ms-cxh:localonly
For either method, if you configure networking during setup, e.g. plug in an ethernet cable or give it the wi-fi password, it'll keep returning to the online account screen. You need to do it prior to network config.
Right. So you're all panicking just in case.
That's what's being swept under the rug as "alarmists being loud".
The lock is there. The whole thing is encrypted.
If they somehow go through encryption, they won't just have the EU on their arses, governments of the entire world will be after them, because they trust that this encryption system makes their data secure.
Optional like how it reminds me every 3 days that it wants my info for "customization" purposes, and I can only sleep the notification for another 3 days instead of telling it to fuck off?
They have been so predatory, at this point no one should see anything they do as benefiting end users.
If it does that, outrage will be understandable.
Getting outraged about something they said will be 100% optional and hasn't even released yet is just childish.
Until a windows update kicks in and somehow turns it on for the world. thanks but no thanks. I'll be disabling this not with a reg key but with local policy or DSC if I have to use a windows machine for personal again.
I switched to Linux 2 months ago.
Until a windows update kicks in and somehow turns it on for the world.
I don't know if this is a regional thing, but I've been using Windows since 3.11 and have NEVER had ONE instance of an update randomly turning on something that I've turned off before.
"Look at this fossil thinking it's still 1990", I guess?
Mate, did you miss how 30 years have passed? How the world change? Can you even begin to imagine the fine the EU would slap without a second thought on MS if they tried pulling something like suddenly grabbing these screenshots from users' devices?
I will pass on being your mate. I don't like shills.
I am curious though, what do boots taste like?
Already told you I don't want to be your mate. Maybe learn what consent is.
Also, go play devil's advocate somewhere else. You suck at it.
I believe they are talking about Windows, an OS that is spyware and no one should use
An example of Windows being spyware not standard telemetry is the Recall feature. A feature that doesn’t just tell you how the OS is used but actually takes screenshots every few seconds
Windows, an OS that is spyware and no one should use
Of, ffs, grow up.
An example of Windows being spyware not standard telemetry is the Recall feature. A feature that doesn’t just tell you how the OS is used but actually takes screenshots every few seconds
You have no clue what you're talking about, do you?
Recall only works on devices with an NPU. Do you know why? Because it runs locally. It's got NOTHING to do with telemetry, because it does NOT send data to Microsoft.
Recall only works on devices with an NPU. Do you know why? Because it runs locally.
Show code or gtfo
LOL, this is hilarious 😁
Imagine believing they can sneak gigabytes of network traffic without anyone noticing just because you can't read the code! 😁
They can process it locally to your point and send txt files of passwords/sensitive info
However, they don’t have to send anything while such a terrible feature is new. They just have to wait until enough retards accept such a feature
Holy shit, what a comment!
This is about the Smart App Control
It's not, it's about Recall.
that takes screenshots periodically to check for “malicious activity”
It doesn't. Smar App Control does code validation and reputation check. Recall makes screenshots, OCR's them and keeps them in an encrypted vault for the user to interact with.
built into the OS
It's not, you can turn both off at any time.
its basically a glorified keylogger
It's not, it fundamentally is NOT, because it doesn't log any keystrokes. SAC isn't even in the picture here, while Recall literally only makes screenshots, runs OCR and encrypts that.
Fuck me, where do you people get this bullshit from? It used to be "oh no, Microsoft will be making screenshots of your activity and sending them to their servers" not so long ago which, while still bullshit, was at least in the same ballpark as what Recall does.
Now you're throwing SAC into the mix somehow?
My clients couldn't care less about what the CEO does, heck they still think facebook is the dogs danglies and youtube is cutting edge plus Netflix is the best streaming service.\
Fighting that is way harder than then trying to explain that some software is worse than others. Heck plenty still use Photoshop because they don't understand that alternatives exist and "everyone at work uses it"
I recently switched, and would be happy to give whatever rudimentary pointers I can. I've found that Linux mint is the best option for me. You can also easily flash it onto a USB and try it out to confirm compatibility.
The biggest things are these:
1) you have to make sure to backup anything you want, because the installation wipes the hard drive.
2) you must (usually) completely erase the windows partition, since the windows updater will usually bork the Linux install the moment you try to boot windows.
3) you should turn off SecureBoot and bitlocker before you attempt an installation.
4) rather than dual-booting windows with Linux, it is comparatively simple to set up a Virtual Machine running windows inside Linux.
5) if you're getting really serious about privacy, you're going to have a TON of services that you may be unable to access, because they are full of trackers and spyware. Baby steps are recommended before trying to make a clean break from all telemetry, tracking and spyware.if you use an android, try installing TrackerControl from f-droid (or, for one that doesn't break as much stuff, Duckduckgo's app tracking protection) and enable it. You'll begin to see just how many calls to add, data brokers, telemetry, and other shit gets caught, and DDG doesn't even touch all the google spyware.
I gave been wanting to go on linux mint for almost a year. Its time I fucking did it.
Edit: I have been doing a lot for privacy, but it just isn't enough. For example I wanted to use venice.ai... but I didn't just use a tutamail email, I even used a prepaid credit card. I live in canada where you don't need to attach your name to a prepaid card, meaning it is as anonymous as possible if you want to buy something with a card (and yes, I paid for it in cash and it was activated by the store).
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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New electric bike license scheme to be tested on school-aged riders
New electric bike license scheme to be tested on school-aged riders
Get ready, children. There’s a new electric bike licensing scheme that will soon be tested as one of several methods...Micah Toll (Electrek)
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xAI workers balked over training request to help “give Grok a face,” docs show
xAI workers balked over training request to help “give Grok a face,” docs show
Slack messages: Some xAI employees refused to join invasive Grok training.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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All praise the Prince of Darkness. You think the media would know better.
Edit: Damn they already changed the title. Not to the correct one, but still better than before.
Ozzy Osbourne and celebrities slam BBC for anti-Israel bias in Gaza coverage
Rock legend Ozzy Osbourne and his wife Sharon have joined over 200 prominent entertainment figures in signing an open letter condemning the BBC for what they call a systemic anti-Israel bias in its reporting on Gaza.Eliana Fleming (JFeed)
Rock legend Ozzy Osbourne and his wife Sharon have joined over 200 prominent entertainment figures in signing an open letter condemning the BBC for what they call a systemic anti-Israel bias in its reporting on Gaza.The uproar centers on the broadcaster’s airing of “Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone,” a documentary narrated by 14-year-old Abdullah al-Yazouri, whose father serves as Hamas’s deputy minister for agriculture—a detail undisclosed to viewers.
Ozzy is a massive Zionist and genocide supporter. His death is a glad tiding.
Neox does NOT like DIRT!
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Re: Neox does NOT like DIRT!
This is a pretty huge oversight... it sounds like the first edition neox will need constant upkeep like a bike chain, etc!
Quite a departure from the typical "throw it in your bag" grigri.
I'm worried they'll be doctored to shit, maybe they can't release doctored versions of them because someone with knowledge of the originals would call them out (if you're that person stay safe!), but when (and I mean when, they're waiting until they've gotten all the good people out of the way before they try lying) they're going to be full of nothing but their common targets and enemies.
Still though release the damn files, they were on your fucking desk and you gave to podcasters
Three weeks later
HERE ARE THE FILES IN THEIR COMPLETE AND UNALTERED FORM:
Link to an empty word doc that just says "If I go to jail I'll kill myself. I sure hate trump."
Domande da fare per scoprire un tradimento: queste funziona davvero
Avatar 3: Fuoco e Cenere svela il suo primo poster e anticipa l'uscita del trailer
Avatar: Fuoco e Cenere ha condiviso il suo primo poster ufficiale, anticipando il debutto del suo trailer in arrivo in concomitanza con I Fantastici 4: Gli Inizi al cinema. Il franchise ideato da James Cameron continua ad espandersi e riporterà molto presto il pubblico affezionato su Pandora in compagnia di Na’vi coraggiosi. Dopo il primo Avatar nel 2009 e il sequel Avatar: La via dell’acqua distribuito nel 2022, Cameron riporterà Jake Sully e la sua famiglia di nuovo in azione con Avatar: Fuoco e Cenere. Terzo capitolo del franchise, ha anticipato la data d’uscita del suo primo trailer ufficiale.
Il film, invece, ha già da tempo fissato la sua data d’uscita per il 19 dicembre 2025.
Avatar 3: Fuoco e Cenere svela il suo primo poster e anticipa l'uscita del trailer
Avatar: Fuoco e Cenere ha mostrato al pubblico il suo primo poster ufficiale, accompagnando l'annuncio con la data d'uscita del primo trailer in arrivo prestissimo al cinema.Cristina Migliaccio (ComingSoon.it)
Godot getting serious
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It's the dream, except I'm seasick 🤢😅, anyone to start an off the grid village in France with programming and animating 😋 ?
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