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Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34873574

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/mozilla-warns-germany-could-soon-declare-ad-blockers-illegal/

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Showroom7561

in reply to schizoidman • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

This is grounded in the assertion that a website’s HTML/CSS is a protected computer program that an ad blocker intervenes in the in-memory execution structures (DOM, CSSOM, rendering tree), this constituting unlawful reproduction and modification.

Dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard of.

Will they make Reader Mode in browsers illegal, too?

What about "dark mode" or "resize font" when the website doesn't offer those accessibility features?

Will they make the "mute" function on browser tabs illegal, since it modifies the website author's intention to play audio upon page load?

I will continue to block ads, spyware, trackers, unwanted elements, popups, and social media links, "illegal" or not.

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mcv

in reply to Showroom7561 • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

This is exactly it. It has always been up to the browser to decide how to render a website. There have always been differences. The idea that a browser can honour or ignore parts of the content has always been part of it.

If anything should be illegal, it should be websites 's constant attempts to bypass user preferences. Some of that shit is plain malware.

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manxu

in reply to schizoidman • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I speak German legalese (don't ask) so I went to the actual source and read up on the decision.

The way I read it, the higher court simply stated that the Appeals court didn't consider the impact of source code to byte code transformation in their ruling, meaning they had not provided references justifying the fact they had ignored the transformation. Their contention is that there might be protected software in the byte code, and if the ad blocker modified the byte code (either directly or by modifying the source), then that would constitute a modification of code and hence run afoul of copyright protections as derivative work.

Sounds more like, "Appeals court has to do their homework" than "ad blockers illegal."

The ruling is a little painful to read, because as usual the courts are not particularly good at technical issues or controversies, so don't quote me on the exact details. In particular, they use the word Vervielfältigung a lot, which means (mass) copy, which is definitely not happening here. The way it reads, Springer simply made the case that a particular section of the ruling didn't have any reasoning or citations attached and demanded them, which I guess is fair. More billable hours for the lawyers!

[Edit: added "The way I read it, coz I am not 100% sure, as explained later.]

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Dr. Moose

in reply to manxu • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

and if the ad blocker modified the byte code (either directly or by modifying the source), then that would constitute a modification of code and hence run afoul of copyright protections as derivative work.

Insanity - modifying code that runs on your machine in no way is even remotely related to copyright.

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Jarix

in reply to Dr. Moose • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Cracking code/verification systems on your computer is also code running on your system, there are literally people in prison for running the code that cracks a program, BECAUSE of copyright laws.

So I'm not sure your setting how bad it already is for users.

(What should be, is not what we are talking about, for the record)

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Kokesh

in reply to schizoidman • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

How can it be illegal? Makes no sense whatsoever.

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Redex

in reply to Kokesh • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I know I'm gonna get a lot of hate for this because everyone here despises ads, but I can see an argument for it. I don't know if it is legaly sound, but morally, it boils down to the fact that you are literally using a service without paying for it. The website is offering you a product and the payment is ads. If you don't want to pay for it, don't use it, otherwise you really are just stealing it (even if that "stealing" costs very little to the site). I personally use an adblocker and agree that ads on most sites are obnoxious, but I also feel like people make adblockers out to be completely black and white, which they are not.

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mad_djinn

in reply to Redex • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

'using a service without paying for it' alright. do you want us to sign contractual agreements before visiting websites? Most companies want people to use mobile apps these days because of the legal implications of editing those apps. The ads are baked in.

it comes down to the philosophy of internet systems you ascribe to.

I'd like to see your reaction to that television patent that forces people to stand up and clap after the advertisement.

I'd like to see your reaction to me placing sticky notes on my physical screen over the advertisement's location such that I never perceive the content.

I'd like to see you kneel, subordinate human worker. Do my bidding. Watch my ads. It's the moral thing to do.

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Redex

in reply to mad_djinn • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I'm not advocating for you being forced physically to watch ads, I'm saying that as it stands, ads are the payment method and you actively blocking them means you're not paying for what you're using. I'm not criticising people for that, I'm simply stating a fact. If everyone on the internet was to use adblockers, most of the web would die out, and first to die would be actually useful sites that provide helpful information that they invested time and money into making, such as news, review sites, etc. Perhaps the threat of adblockers itself is benefitial for the internet as it might force websites to find alternate, better payment methods, but I don't see what you could replace ads with since people won't be willing to pay a monthly subscription for every site they visit, and most people won't pay for donations if you try a donations based model.

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markko

in reply to Redex • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

If everyone on the internet was to use adblockers, most of the web would die out

Websites existed before internet ads came about, and while it may be true that most would die without ads I'd be happy to see them go because the vast majority of websites have no value and only exist to try and make a few bucks off ads.

Hosting for most websites these days is virtually free. For about 80% of mine I only have to pay for the domain names, and I have no desire to serve ads to my visitors under the guise of covering costs.

The alternatives are directly charging for access to a service, or providing it for free and relying on donations or payment just for extra/bonus features/content. These methods are very successful when something is actually worth paying for.

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Redex

in reply to markko • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Hosting costs heavily depend on the type of service, YouTube's costs are very much not negligible, but it is true that for most sites it is very cheap. But hosting costs aren't the only cost, many sites provide useful reviews, news, or testing that costs them money to produce, which they pay for with ads. Yes, some sites survive using alternative payment methods, but I'm skeptical that this can scale to the rest of the internet. My fear is that we'll end up in a situation where 90% of the internet is just YouTube, Facebook, Reddit and other giants and people get all of their news, reviews and other information from those sites, which I think is worse than having ads.

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MonkderVierte

in reply to schizoidman • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Eh, next try (Nr. 7? 8?) of Axel Springer, a tabloid that wanted to declare their site as a protected piece of art you aren't allowed to modify (block stuff).

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jaykrown

in reply to schizoidman • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

You can make ad blockers illegal, but you can't actually enforce it unless you have a dystopian totalitarian government with a secret police to track down anyone using one. Does Germany have that?

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jnod4

in reply to jaykrown • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Had that

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pewgar_seemsimandroid

in reply to jnod4 • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

longer in the eastern part

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Blackmist

in reply to schizoidman • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

We are all criminals on this blessed day.

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ulterno

in reply to schizoidman • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

In that case, make sure the judge gets to watch 4x 10 minute ads for every 30 minutes of watching anything in 720p after having paid in full for the highest tier 4K subscription plan.

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uhdeuidheuidhed

in reply to ulterno • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

The wealthy people will just pay to have the ads removed.

As always, this law doesn't exist to benefit workers like you and me. It exists to benefit our rulers and should be another example of how government representatives do not represent their populace.

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nutsack

in reply to schizoidman • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

maybe in the future a service offers a flat monthly fee to not have any ads and distributes the money to all of the content platforms that would otherwise show ads. basically it's like a little government taxing users and giving the money to the capital owning class all over again

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cley_faye

in reply to nutsack • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Another way to subsidize a very small handful of extremely large businesses that are already richer than some countries, and outright kill small actors? Sign me up.

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nutsack

in reply to cley_faye • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

yea

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Destide

in reply to schizoidman • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

At what point do we just redo the web? I'm thinking Gemini but with more geo cities

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uhdeuidheuidhed

in reply to Destide • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I'm already getting into self-hosting.

It's surprisingly easy, and can be done with a VPN that has port forwarding.

Wouldn't be surprised with how shittifed the web is becoming that we end up with alternatives to DNS since it requires forwarding on port 80.

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aurelar

in reply to schizoidman • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Time to switch back to text-only browsers.

I don't live in Germany though, so I don't have to worry about this legislation or do anything about it 😂

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CosmoNova

in reply to aurelar • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Germany is the biggest economy in Europe and if this somehow passes it could spill over to the EU commission in no time. The Brussels effect could then take care of the rest. Laughing off fascist laws because they do not affect you right now is exactly the reaction fascists like them want you to have so they can corner you.

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aurelar

in reply to CosmoNova • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

I agree, you're right. I'm kind of sick of this firehose of bullshit raining down from on high. Freedom is dying in so many different contexts all at the same time.

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Sonolus gioconlus musicante super figo ganzo clonante tutti gli altri e afancul!!!

Stasera, per puro caso dell’espressione della consueta disperazione, il catgaming ha preso una piega inaspettata, ma graditissima. Infatti, mi era venuto un po’ a caso in mente di cercare se esistesse qualcosa tipo un server privato per VOEZ, che è quel giochino musicale che ho sul tablet per marcire con lo spirito mentre tengo tuttavia […]

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Sonolus gioconlus musicante super figo ganzo clonante tutti gli altri e afancul!!!

Stasera, per puro caso dell’espressione della consueta disperazione, il catgaming ha preso una piega inaspettata, ma graditissima. Infatti, mi era venuto un po’ a caso in mente di cercare se esistesse qualcosa tipo un server privato per VOEZ, che è quel giochino musicale che ho sul tablet per marcire con lo spirito mentre tengo tuttavia la mente e le manine allenate… e ho trovato decisamente di molto meglio; classica “cercavo rame e ho trovato oro” situazione. 😳👍
Per chi non lo avesse presente, non c’è molto da dire… è di circa 10 anni fa, ed è bellino: tutta l’estetica è di quel pulito-sognante stile anime, le canzoni sono varie pazzerelle (niente roba normie che va dallo zzz al bleh, insomma), ed è in generale uno dei pochi che mi piace. Ha anche una versione per Switch che, a differenza di quella mobile, costa un tot di base ma poi non ha acquisti in-app, ha tutto già sbloccato di suo, e funziona offline… ma, ovviamente, se sono a casa voglio usare il tablet da 10 pollici anziché il merdoso di Nintendo, e se sono in giro non voglio portarmi un secondo rettangolo di 6 pollici + bordi enormi oltre al telefono, per cui lasciamo stare. 🥱
Non so se ho allora trovato davvero cosa cercavo, perché dalle pareti del web mi sono spuntati diversi APK MOD, che non ho (ancora?) provato… ma ho trovato 1 cosa più pazza: un giochino di ritmo chiamato Sonolus, fatto per essere modulare, avendo un motore di base che può essere esteso con delle API per ricreare virtualmente qualunque rhythm game al di sopra di questa singola infrastruttura comune… oh, tanta roba in teoria. E nella pratica, che consiste in un APK di appena ~100 MB, il miraggio si conferma realtà: questo pezzo di pseudo-software, aggiunto l’URL del server che fornisce i dati per far comportare il gioco come un clone di VOEZ, è effettivamente tanto gustoso quanto pareva da lontano!!! 😻
La cosa bella di questo, quindi, è che non solo ho a (quasi) tutti gli effetti VOEZ ma con tutte le sue canzoni aggratis (+ custom, credo, senza necessitare di APK strani)… ma ho praticamente VOEZ che funziona senza Google Play Services, anziché freezarsi all’avvio senza spiegazioni, quindi posso tornare ad averlo pure sullo Ximifonino… e questo è davvero l’inizio della megafine, cazzo che bello. La fregatura sta nel fatto che ad ogni fine canzone esce una pubblicità, e gli acquisti in-app in realtà ci sono sotto forma di abbonamenti per togliere le pubblicità, o personalizzazioni del profilo online… roba di cui se ne fa a meno (anche perché le pubblicità ~~basta bloccarle a livello di OS, ma~~ finché sono solo statiche e non video sono accettabili, non danno fastidio). 🤗
Non ho ancora provato i vari motori di gioco disponibili a parte il clone di VOEZ, perché sono una marea… e quello, a dire il vero, comunque non è una ricreazione perfetta: sul look ci siamo, e anche sull’hear, ma sul feel non tanto, visto che la gestione degli input è parecchio più severa, e il margine di errore è abbastanza più basso da far si che, una canzone che sul VOEZ originale riesco tranquillamente a fare a difficoltà massima, qui mi esce un mezzo schifo persino a livello intermedio (e il video qui fa ampia mostra dei miei problemi di skill, in questo senso)… però, visti i vantaggi, dovrò abituarmici; quantomeno, se non sul tablet, per giocarci sul telefono, dove l’alternativa sarebbe il niente. 🔥

Assurdo che NON lagghi sullo Xiaomi con tanto di registrazione schermo attiva, ma, purtroppo, ha anche dei difetti… tipo che il core non è open-source — ma tutto ciò che ci gira attorno, inclusi i plugin che clonano i vari giochini, pare proprio di si — e che l’APK ha librerie solo per ARMv7 e ARMv8, niente x86+64 — ma poteva andare molto peggio: poteva essere solo ARM 64 bit; e invece, con doppie lib + supporto ad Android Nougat, si installa anche sul telefono di un pesce palla (non ironicamente). C’è anche per iOS, ~~ma di quello non ce ne fotte~~; dispiace non ci sia una build Windows e/o HTML5, piuttosto, ma il gioco è appena alla v1.0.0, quindi sarà questione di tempo. Per me, già il fatto che il gioco parta senza connessione Internet e faccia tranquillamente giocare i livelli salvati, è sufficiente a godere… 👾
Sonolus: memos.octt.eu.org/m/N6Tjx58WZN…
Sonolus VOEZ: memos.octt.eu.org/m/ZUmx6p2trC… (devo ancora capire, per mia pace mentale, come hostare un mio clone del server con tutti i dati, che nella repo git non ci sono… però top.)
#game #gaming #mobile #music #rhythm #VOEZ

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Sonolus, Next Generation Rhythm Game: + https://sonolus.com + https://wiki.sonolus.com + https://github.com/Sonolus + https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.FosFenes.Sonolus + https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sonolus/id1637055220
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Google is watching

Swinging the spotlight, for a moment, from politics to big tech. I upgraded my mother-in-law's internet service recently. As part of that upgrade, I installed a new wifi access point with better security.

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ICE Held an NYC Child Incommunicado at Secret Hotels, Then Deported Him

ICE arrested a New York high school student at a regular check-in, then whisked him to private hotels and isolated him until he was deported.

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From Book Bans to Internet Bans: Wyoming Lets Parents Control the Whole State’s Access to The Internet

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Come cambio da LMDE a Mint "vanilla"?

Scusate la domanda da newbie, spero di non evocare l'odio che hanno avuto nei miei confronti alcuni membri di lemmy.ml, ma sono molto nuovo come utente stabile su Linux.

Al mio primo approccio, a Maggio, mi è stato consigliato di installare non Linux Mint, bensì LMDE per prendere le distanze da Ubuntu etc.

Ora vedo che nel mio caso specifico ho alcune ragioni per non essere su Debian:
1) sono un utente molto nuovo e mi piacerebbe essere su una distro per la quale posso ottenere nei forum il miglior e più numeroso supporto possibile da parte della comunità
2) da quello che ho capito su LMDE lavorano molte meno persone che su Linux Mint
3) ho visto alcuni video su Debian 13 e ho capito che non fa parte della filosofia della distro inserire il supporto più recente per l'hardware, soprattutto Nvidia, e io ho un computer costruito per il gaming e con il quale mi piacerebbe continuare a giocare e a fare altre cose con la GPU etc.

Per questi motivi vorrei passare a Linux Mint, ma vorrei farlo nel modo più indolore possibile.

La mia situazione dischi è la seguente:

::: spoiler Model: ATA WDC WD10EZEX-00B (scsi) (usato solo per i dati)

Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B

Partition Table: gpt

Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 17,4kB 134MB 134MB Microsoft reserved partition msftres

2 135MB 1000GB 1000GB ntfs Basic data partition msftdata
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::: spoiler Model: ATA Samsung SSD 850 (scsi) (dove risiede quel che rimane di Windows, per ora)
Disk /dev/sdb: 512GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 1049kB 106MB 105MB fat32 EFI system partition boot, esp

2 106MB 123MB 16,8MB Microsoft reserved partition msftres

3 645MB 511GB 511GB ntfs Basic data partition msftdata

4 511GB 512GB 793MB ntfs hidden, diag
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::: spoiler Model: ATA CT480BX200SSD1 (scsi) (disco su cui tengo i giochi, che vorrei dedicare totalmente al Linux Gaming ora)
Disk /dev/sdc: 480GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B

Partition Table: msdos

Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags

1 1049kB 215GB 215GB primary ntfs

3 215GB 479GB 264GB primary ext4

2 479GB 480GB 555MB primary ntfs msftres
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::: spoiler Model: Samsung SSD 990 PRO with Heatsink 1TB (nvme) (il mio SSD nuovo su cui vorrei tenere Linux)
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 1000GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 2097kB 302MB 300MB fat32 primary boot, esp

2 303MB 1327MB 1024MB ext4 primary

3 1328MB 1000GB 999GB primary
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::: spoiler altre partizioni di cui riconosco solo la prima come quella criptata che risiede sull'SSD di cui sopra
Error: /dev/mapper/lvmlmde: unrecognised disk label

Model: Linux device-mapper (crypt) (dm)

Disk /dev/mapper/lvmlmde: 999GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: unknown

Disk Flags:

Model: Linux device-mapper (linear) (dm)

Disk /dev/mapper/lvmlmde-root: 964GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: loop

Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Flags

1 0,00B 964GB 964GB ext4

Model: Linux device-mapper (linear) (dm)

Disk /dev/mapper/lvmlmde-swap: 33,5GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: loop

Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Flags

1 0,00B 33,5GB 33,5GB linux-swap(v1)
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La mia home è sulla stessa partizione del root, cosa che credo di aver capito non sia stata proprio una furbata, ma non so come mettere solo la home su un'altra partizione durante l'installazione.

Mi potete aiutare a capire il modo migliore di passare da LMDE6 a Mint "vanilla" mantenendo il più possibile?

La mia home al momento occupa meno di 40 GB, quindi potrei salvarne i contenuti sul disco per il gaming per adesso, ma non so se è una buona idea.

#linux

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Alberto

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Devi reinstallare perché la base dei pacchetti è diversa. Il lavoro è più semplice se hai la /home separata

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fabriziob

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Ottimo! Mi potete spiegare come si fa questa cosa della home separata?

Cioè, io potrei creare una partizione sullo stesso disco o su un altro e copiarci dentro i contenuti di home, ma come faccio a configurare il sistema per puntare lì?

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Fabrizio

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modificando il file fstab in /etc.
Qui c'è la documentazione, vale per tutte le distribuzioni non solo per arch.
wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fstab

Fai una partizione o colleghi un altro disco, e inserisci il file system in fstab.

fstab - ArchWiki

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Marco Pagot 🇮🇹🔛🇯🇵

in reply to fabriziob • 3 settimane fa • •

Io utilizzo semplicemente Deja-dup.
Backup prima (su una memoria esterna)-> Ripristina dopo.
Funziona perfettamente senza sbattimenti

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fabriziob

in reply to Marco Pagot 🇮🇹🔛🇯🇵 • 3 settimane fa • •

Sembra essere l'applicazione di default per i backup in Ubuntu.
Questo significa che lo stesso si può fare con Timeshift?

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Marco Pagot 🇮🇹🔛🇯🇵

in reply to fabriziob • 3 settimane fa • •

Si, proprio quella, di default su Gnome. Non ho mai utilizzato Timeshift quindi non so dirti le differenze.

Un accorgimento importante, non modificare il nome utente nelle diverse istallazioni altrimenti la home ti creerà parecchi problemi. (Questo vale anche per la /home separata).

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fabriziob

in reply to Marco Pagot 🇮🇹🔛🇯🇵 • 3 settimane fa • •

Grazie mille per le dritte!

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Alberto

in reply to Marco Pagot 🇮🇹🔛🇯🇵 • 3 settimane fa • •

Sulla stessa scia, crea gli utenti con lo stesso ordine, affinché abbiano lo stesso uid (se hai più di un utente).

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Alberto

in reply to Marco Pagot 🇮🇹🔛🇯🇵 • 3 settimane fa • •

Sì, giusto, è un'altra ottima idea. Da fare prima della reinstallazione.

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Blisscast via Technology

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Mythical GUI Vaporware – Windows 1.0x – GUI Wonderland

Let’s discover the development and beta builds of the first version of Windows, alongside its GUI! And... was Windows 1.0 as good as the other GUIs? Our analysis and comparison will try to unveil that; tap on the link to find out!

Mythical GUI Vaporware – Windows 1.0x – GUI Wonderland

^{The Blisscast Journal}

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Cory Doctorow at CF 25: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It

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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.

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SpaceX Gets Billions From the Government. It Gives Little to Nothing Back in Taxes.

Archive.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Most Likely Doesn’t Pay Taxes

Elon Musk’s rocket company relies on federal contracts, but years of losses have most likely let it avoid paying federal income taxes, according to internal company documents.

^{Susanne Craig (The New York Times)}

#paynews

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Iscrizione alla Blind LGBT pride international

Questo è una specie di annuncio: “PlusBrothers il mondo positivo” si è iscritto a “Blind LGBT Pride International”, @BPI un’organizzazione nata in America e presente in tutto il mondo, che si occupa di LGBT+ e disabilità visiva.

Io sono @elettrona la responsabile di burocrazia e pubbliche relazioni per il blog PlusBrothers; il polo (HIV) negativo dell’atomo.

Insieme a @gifter il polo (HIV) positivo e autore di molti racconti su questo sito, abbiamo colto l’opportunità di iscriverci a questa comunità che sembra l’unico punto di riferimento per persone LGBT+ cieche e ipovedenti, in tutto il mondo.

Io da sola, o tutti e due, faremo del nostro meglio per discutere e mettere in atto azioni concrete per contrastare lo stigma su HIV, molto più pesante se hai problemi di vista, perché intorno ci sono un sacco di ostacoli.

Li ho vissuti personalmente in passato, essendo stata partner di un uomo che vive con HIV. E una di queste barriere è il test che, se hai una disabilità visiva, non è così anonimo come lo è per gli altri. Sei, inevitabilmente, osservato.

La nostra speranza è di lavorare in sinergia con un’intera comunità, perché prendere iniziative da soli non porta da nessuna parte.

Come primo ma non unico esempio, ci sono i test HIV fai da te.

Sembrano molto difficili da fare senza aiuto di un vedente, e i risultati soprattutto, sono disponibili solo visivamente – causando un importante problema di riservatezza.

Ogni persona, indipendentemente da condizione sensoriale o identità, ha il diritto di vivere la propria salute riproduttiva e sessualità in modo sicuro e appropriato.

Andiamo avanti, e vediamo come questa realtà potrà aiutarci ma soprattutto come noi potremmo aiutare loro.

Per maggiori informazioni sull’associazione, visita Blind LGBT Pride International (pagina inglese) ed effettua l’iscrizione.

#annunci #fediblog #hiv #lgbt #stigma

Home - Blind LGBT Pride International

In 1999, a small group of individuals seeking connection and community met at the American Council of the Blind convention in Los Angeles.

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#Hiv #lgbt #annunci #stigma #fediblog @Blind LGBT Pride International @gifter @elettrona

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Zerush via Technology

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The road to artificial general intelligence

The road to artificial general intelligence spans three key developments: current AI capabilities, the path to AGI, and the potential leap to superintelligence.

Today's artificial narrow intelligence (ANI) excels at specific tasks but fails at simple problems humans solve easily. As Sam Altman of OpenAI notes, AGI-like properties are "coming into view," while Dario Amodei of Anthropic predicts some form of "powerful AI" could emerge as early as 2026¹.

The path to AGI involves three main approaches: reverse engineering the human brain, simulating evolution through genetic algorithms, and creating self-improving AI systems. Hardware advances are keeping pace - by 2025, affordable computers may match human-level processing power of 10 quadrillion calculations per second².

Once AGI emerges, an "intelligence explosion" could quickly follow through recursive self-improvement, potentially leading to artificial superintelligence (ASI) thousands of times smarter than humans. This superintelligent AI would have unprecedented capabilities, from controlling matter at the atomic level to potentially solving humanity's greatest challenges².

The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Part 1 - Wait But Why

Part 1 of 2: "The Road to Superintelligence". Artificial Intelligence — the topic everyone in the world should be talking about.

^{Tim Urban (Wait But Why)}

#technology

Pro via Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

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Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/35918560

::: spoiler Comments
- Reddit;
- Hackernews.
:::

Pro

2025-08-18 19:15:31

Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

::: spoiler Comments
- Reddit;
- Hackernews;
- Lemmy.
:::

An update from the team
About recent events.
^{annas-archive.li}

#piracy

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katy ✨

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stop using cloudflare people

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toad31

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What would you recommend instead?

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P13

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Just came across Anna’s Archive this week and it’s awesome!

My wife stopped reading a book half way since she’s pregnant and could not get comfortable while holding the book. Five minutes later I had a downloaded copy loaded onto her eReader and she could continue lying down.

ooli3 via Technology

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How AI researchers accidentally discovered that everything they thought about learning was wrong

The lottery ticket hypothesis explains why massive neural networks succeed despite centuries of theory predicting they should fail

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AbouBenAdhem

in reply to ooli3 • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

TL,DR: It wasn't learning, it was just brute-forcing the entire solution space.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_…

machine learning hypothesis

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klu9 via PieFed help

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Is 'Search this Community' broken?

Lately, every time I try, I get:

No posts match your search

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cloudless

in reply to klu9 • 3 settimane fa • •

When I search for “broken” I get no result.

When I search for “test” I get lots of old posts.

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klu9

in reply to cloudless • 3 settimane fa • •

Me, too.

Maybe piefed.social stopped indexing a few months ago?

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freamon

in reply to klu9 • 3 settimane fa • •

Seems to be.

A recent post in 'lemmyshitpost' is called 'unfair competiion', but searching for 'unfair' doesn't include it:

piefed.social/search?q=unfair&…

Search results for unfair

[Join us on chat.piefed.social!](https://piefed.social/post/970751)

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Rimu

in reply to freamon • 3 settimane fa • •

This returns some very recent posts. piefed.social/search?q=I+don%2…

It's not broken in the sense that indexing it not happening, it just sucks so bad it seems broken 😉

Search results for I don't like it

[Join us on chat.piefed.social!](https://piefed.social/post/970751)

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Rimu

in reply to freamon • 3 settimane fa • •

It will be worth doing a bit more research to check if there's something we can do to improve the results we're getting from Postgresql but I have a strong suspicion that our needs are well beyond the capabilities of Postgresql.

I'd like to explore Manticore Search as an optional extra service that we can use. It's like ElasticSearch except less RAM hungry.

codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issue…

Try Manticore Search as a replacement for Postgresql FTS

Maniticore seems to be like ElasticSearch except without the huge RAM usage. https://manticoresearch.

^Codeberg.org

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Is it possible to pirate satellite radio (SiriusXM)?

#piracy

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The Rizzler

in reply to ReedReads • 3 settimane fa • •

most likely, yes. It's shocking how shitty the security measures are on so many things.

There was a game a few years ago where the DRM was so insanely aggressive it wouldn't accept a legitimate key, and it only took about 2 minutes to break the DRM

Ever wonder why big tech companies go through data-breaches constantly? but 0% of privacy friendly things ever have that problem?

That's because your data on those privacy friendly services is encrypted with its own key so anyone who wants to break in and steal data would need to break into each account one at a time...so that's why facebook, google and amazon have databreaches all the time. because of a combo of shitty security and social engineering

privacy friendly services don't allow their workers to have the ability to give away the goods

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toad31

in reply to ReedReads • 2 settimane fa • •

I'm not sure.

Visible is a data plan that offers unlimited data for $25/month. If you pair it with Pandora and Blokada 5, you can get internet radio for free anywhere you have service.

You need to download and install Blokada 5 manually from their website, because screwgle banned the app from its app store for being too effective at blocking ads in apps.

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Newsmax settles Dominion lawsuit as Trump renews attacks on voting machines

Newsmax Dominion Lawsuit Settled for $67M as Trump Renews Attacks on Voting Machines

The settlement comes a year after Fox News paid $787.5 million to resolve a similar case with Dominion.

^{Gabe Whisnant (Newsweek)}

#politics

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TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers

I can’t imagine how this could go poorly. /s

404 Media

2025-08-18 15:17:30

TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers

TikTok Shop is selling GPS trackers marketed with viral videos that have voiceovers explicitly encouraging secretly tracking a romantic partner. Some of the videos have millions of views, and TikTok Shop’s own metrics show that that more than a hundred thousand of the devices have been sold.
One of the accounts 404 Media found
“If your girl says she’s just out with friends every night, you’d better slap one of these on her car—no, it is not an AirTag, it’s a real GPS tracker,” one clip, which has 5 million views, begins. The video shows someone putting a tracker in various hidden locations in a car—a plastic bag in the trunk, magnetically attached underneath, or on the inside of the hood. “And, unlike AirTags, this thing doesn’t make a sound, doesn’t send alerts, she will never know it’s there. It’s tiny, black, magnetic, hide it under the seat, in the trunk, wherever. It’s got its own SIM so you can track her anywhere in the world, no wifi, no bluetooth, just raw location data whenever you want it.”

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The trackers are advertised as undetectable by Apple’s FindMy system. Many of the videos encourage people to secretly install the devices in their partners’ cars if they suspect them for things like being “out with friends every night.” TikTok deleted the video mentioned above after 404 Media asked the company for comment, but dozens of similar videos remain online, and the trackers are still for sale.
“This is absolutely being framed as a tool of abuse,” said Eva Galperin, co-founder of the Coalition Against Stalkerware and Director of Cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “Anything where the justification is ‘catch your partner cheating’ or ‘get peace of mind about your partner’ is enabling coercive control,” she said.
404 Media’s reporters have previously written about the use of “stalkerware” that domestic abusers have used to spy on their partners, and on the use of AirTags to stalk people.
404 Media found a handful of accounts promoting these types of trackers, and there are several different versions on the TikTok Shop. Once a user clicks from the videos into TikTok Shop, the algorithm began to show us many more listings. One of the clips we saw has 86,500 likes, and links to a tracker that had 32,500 sales. Another from the same vendor currently has 97,900 sales, and there are several accounts offering the same products with similar branding and scripts. In the comments of one of the videos, a user says “I bought some and put it on cars of girls I find attractive at the gym.” The original poster responds with “Ok 😂.”

The TikTok content policy says that the platform does “not allow any violent threats, promotion of violence, incitement to violence, or promotion of criminal activities that may harm people, animals, or property.” We asked TikTok for comment about the videos that had been posted by one of the accounts we’d originally seen.
A spokesperson for TikTok said "We don't allow content encouraging people to use devices for secret surveillance and have removed this content and banned the account that posted it. We further prohibit the sale of concealed video or audio recording devices on our platform." However, 404 Media was able to find many more almost identical videos on the platform the following day, raising questions over how proactively the platform is monitoring to prevent content like this.
The videos skirt around the legality of what they are suggesting. One voiceover asks, over footage of the tracker being attached to a car, “it’s illegal to track people using this thing? I don’t know, I’m not a lawyer, but I’m pretty sure if you stalk someone using this GPS tracker, you’re probably gonna get in trouble.”
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The majority of the videos, though, frame the trackers as a way to spy on a partner: “men with cheating wives, you might wanna get one of these,” one video in Spanish begins. “Not everyone who uses this is crazy, they just want answers.” “Guess what my girlfriend put in my car?,” another says. Other videos start with ”Don’t let what happened at the coldplay concert happen to you”, “She seriously didn’t trust me, so you know what, I put one in hers too”, or “You got a cheating girlfriend?”
Eleven states explicitly prohibit digital location or GPS tracking in their stalking laws, and a further fifteen states prohibit tracking a vehicle without the consent of the owner. “Showing people how to do something that might be illegal is not necessarily illegal,” Galperin said. But TikTok is still allowing people to make money by marketing the tech specifically for the use of spying on a partner.

Alongside the trackers, the same creators are advertising secret audio-recording devices with similar abusive framing. “Your girl always stepping out to take calls? Want to know who she’s really talking to? Just place this AI recorder in her car—she’ll never notice”, says one post, tagged #husband, #wife, and #coldplay.

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Video advertising a voice recorder as "the legal way"
Another video for the audio devices with 136,000 views describes bugging a cheating girlfriend’s car: “I heard everything she said with that guy.” Several videos claim that secretly recording audio is legal (“Think your girlfriend’s cheating? Want to know who the guy is? Then do it the right way—legally” and “Got a feeling something’s off? Then find out the truth—the legal way” and “Why the hell did I find a used condom in my car?”) However, recording a conversation without the awareness of the people involved can often be illegal.
Galperin also said that the TikTok videos reflect an extremely common attitude. “You would be amazed how many people think stalking, or recordings, or stalkerware is perfectly justified, as long as they think their partner is up to something like cheating,” she told 404 Media.
A 2021 Kaspersky survey found that 30 percent of 21,000+ respondents found “no problem in secretly monitoring their partner” under certain circumstances. The survey report also found that 29 percent of respondents who had been digitally stalked had their location tracked.
These devices are advertised and sold as undetectable. However, all the examples I found had high numbers of one-star reviews, many of which complained that the trackers did not work as advertised, and defeated “the point” by alerting people to their presence via Apple’s FindMy system. The Apple support site for FindMy-enabled devices says that “They should not be used to track people, and should not be used to track property that does not belong to you.”

Reviews for one of the trackers on TikTok Shop
In 2021, 404 Media’s Sam Cole reported on Apple AirTags being used to stalk women; in many cases, by attaching them to or hiding them in their cars. For that story, she reviewed 150 police reports of people who had said they were being tracked by current or former partners. After that story, Apple added safety features like phone notifications when an Airtag is nearby, but an ongoing class action lawsuit argues that the devices are still insufficiently “stalker proof.”
Several of the videos were tagged #coldplay
Earlier this month, WIRED reported that TikTok shop was selling stickers that could block the recording light on Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses. Again, many of the reviews found that the product didn’t work as advertised, but the platform did allow the stickers to remain available for sale.

Police Records Show Women Are Being Stalked With Apple AirTags Across the Country
Motherboard obtained reports of stalking, harassment, and abuse using AirTags, targeting victims of intimate partner violence.
^{Samantha Cole (VICE)}

#technology

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Blaze (he/him) via Fedigrow

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Weekly thread - how is everyone doing with their communities?

#fedigrow

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ via Geopolitics : News and discussion

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Ian Proud: Britain's Destructive Bipolar Diplomacy

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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.

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Google has agreed to pay $36 million fine for signing anticompetitive deals with Australia’s two largest telcos that banned the installation of competing search engines

https://apnews.com/article/australia-google-android-anticompetitive-android-8b65a65c0eb68ad83fb9d03d61a07d4a

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UK police watch passively as far right protesters hold up non terrorist "kill them all" slogan in front of asylum seekers

In Falkirk today

#uk_politics

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floofloof via Technology

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Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data

https://www.neowin.net/news/report-microsofts-latest-windows-11-24h2-update-breaks-ssdshdds-may-corrupt-your-data/

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User79185

in reply to floofloof • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

WHY ARE YOU NOT UPDATING TO WIN ELEVEN? Hard to recommend this OS without QA.

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sheogorath

in reply to User79185 • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Agile has been a mistake for the software industry. It did nothing except to give executive more avenue to force changes to the software that are being developed and in the end it'll take a longer time to have production ready software when compared to traditional waterfall approach.

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sykaster

in reply to sheogorath • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

It depends on the use case. For incremental changes and validation of hypotheses in an uncertain or new product Agile is great. It allows for fast valuation and fast pivoting. I would not recommend Agile for systems that are mostly known and need a big upgrade, that's not what its for.

Agile became a buzzword and shouldn't have been implemented as widespread as it has. It does have its use cases though.

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Rooty

in reply to floofloof • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Butbutbutbut Linux is not ready for desktop! I asked a stupid question in an Arch forum and they told me to RTFM! It does not support kernel level anti-cheat! Terminals are scary!

Etc, etc.

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pyre

in reply to Rooty • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

good I'm convinced. just one thing... which graphic design programs does it run natively?

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fxdave

in reply to pyre • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

figma

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pyre

in reply to fxdave • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

ok so it's useless

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fxdave

in reply to pyre • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

May I ask what's your job? I'm a web developer completely fine on Linux. I used windows for a long time, I tried mac for some month. Linux is the best.

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pyre

in reply to fxdave • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

developer is completely different from designer. I'm a graphic designer, and I also do animations and videos. I use adobe illustrator, photoshop, indesign, premier; affinity designer, photo, blender. I use figma too which is good for prototyping for web or apps, but not graphic design in general. and certainly not photo editing. inb4 gimp--completely unusable for pro work.

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fxdave

in reply to pyre • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

For 3D animations, Modo has linux-x86_64 binary. Blender is native also.

I've never been into 2D animations.

For compositing, The Foundry Nuke is native also. (If you've got the money, or you're willing to buy it from seejeepeers)

For video editing, most youtubers use DaVinci Resolve.

Inkscape is slow as it's using SVG for its backend and not as polished as an illustrator but it is feature-rich. Adwaita icons are designed in inkscape. It's not a big sacrifice.

I learned photoshop when It was the CS4 version. I know it's got a lot of AI features since then. Luckily, I left it before I could get used to them, so now I can use gimp. And btw, check gimp's new release candidate. It's a huge step forward. Everyone could give them their adobe cc subscription fees and we could see how they compete after that.

Why do you use affinity if you have adobe?

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pyre

in reply to fxdave • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

i like it much better than adobe. up until a recent update in illustrator it even performed better but now AI seems to have surpassed it. but i find affinity designer's tools much more useful, although there's been a bug that pisses me of with the contour tool for quite a while now. but i tolerate it because overall it still allows me to design icons much faster.

in case you're interested in specifics:

the pixel persona in AD allows me to work on raster images without leaving the program most of the time (not all affinity photo features can be used but still having a limited raster editor mode feels much better and smoother than switching between programs). AI simply doesn't have this in any capacity.
AD's corner tool instead of AI's corner rounding with the direct selection tool is much more capable and useful because it's nondestructive. you can change the original shape with the rounding still applied, which is something you cannot do on AI.
AD's contour tool, despite the bug that doesn't properly round corners when you expand, is still much more fluid to use than AI's extremely clunky, 1998-ass-feeling offset path. apart from not requiring entering fucking numbers into a fucking dialog box and instead allowing you to offset the path with simple scrubbing... it's also nondestructive so it can stay on an object even as you edit its original shape. so i still prefer to do workarounds for the bug rather than dealing with that terrible experience in AI.
gradients are so much better in AD than AI i don't even know where to begin. it's just easier to use and more importantly you can use transparency gradients separately from color gradients (but also can have opacity info on a regular color gradient as well). so you can have an object that goes from 100% blue on the left to 0% green on the right but also add transparency gradient that goes 80% from top right to 20% on the bottom left and see the combination as a result in one object.
AD has "erase" as a blending mode which is small but can be very useful if you're designing something to be exported to png. Has a couple more modes that AI doesn't have but this one's the most straightforward and useful imo.
It's nothing huge but I like the vector crop tool in AD, you can just crop anything without thinking about it.
consistency between programs when using affinity is a great experience you don't get to have when working across Adobe tools which even for the most closely related ones feel like they aren't being developed within the same company but different ... I wanna say planets? yeah it's like they're being developed in different planets instead.
one time payment for major versions only. i bought affinity 1.0, got all the updates for free up until 2.0, which i was able to buy on discount for upgrading. now i get all the updates on 2.x for free.

there are things that AI does better and i use it when i plan to use those, and sometimes use one and copy paste to the other to use the best of each. best highlights are repeat function (Ctrl+d). now there's also radial repeat which can be great. blend can be very useful... most of the time though i go with AD.

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Dumhuvud

in reply to Rooty • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

It does not support kernel level anti-cheat!

Huh, thought you were mentioning only the cons.

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FreedomAdvocate

in reply to Dumhuvud • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Good luck playing any of the biggest, most played games in the world without it.

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Yttra

in reply to FreedomAdvocate • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Then I guess they don't exist.

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FreedomAdvocate

in reply to Yttra • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Unlucky for you then. I’m gonna be having an absolute blast on Battlefield 6 in a few months 😀

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vala

in reply to FreedomAdvocate • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I very seriously doubt that but cope away haha

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FreedomAdvocate

in reply to vala • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

You doubt I'll be having a blast playing Battlefield 6? Why?

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vala

in reply to FreedomAdvocate • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Why?

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FreedomAdvocate

in reply to vala • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

A few things here.....

I've already played the game for 20+ hours. I loved almost every second of it, and some of the things I didn't have already been addressed. They're taking player feedback seriously.
Battlefield 6 is made by a whole new studio, not "EA DICE", helmed by one of the best in the history of the industry for these games - Vince Zampella.
Not everything by EA is bad, and anyone saying anything like that is immediately showing they shouldn't be listened to.
Again - I've already played the game via the beta. I know I'm going to have an absolute blast. I didn't like the last few BF games, so I didn't buy them. This one is a return to form from what everyone has seen and played.
You tell me to "cope away" while basing your entire opinion on a wikipedia article that's pretty much got nothing to do with the actual game that's being discussed lol. Who is "coping"?

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vala

in reply to FreedomAdvocate • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

RIP

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FreedomAdvocate

in reply to vala • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Have fun not playing the biggest game of the year I guess, along with all the other most played games of the year.

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vala

in reply to FreedomAdvocate • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

If I wanted to spend my time/money/energy on corporate slop I would be on Reddit.

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FreedomAdvocate

in reply to vala • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

lol "Battlefield 6 is corporate slop" is certainly a hot take (a great tag to give you too haha). I'm sure you only enjoy the finest of artistic games that are all anti-establishment and must be played on DIY hardware using solar power.

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vala

in reply to FreedomAdvocate • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Welcome to Lemmy haha.

Sounds like you should just go back to Reddit and take you "downvotes to disagree" with you.

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FreedomAdvocate

in reply to vala • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I didn't downvote you because I disagreed with you, I downvoted you because your comments add nothing to the conversation and are essentially pointless spam.

I think maybe you're the one who needs to go back to Reddit though, not me. That's 2 comments in a row you've brought it up without so much as a mention of it from me lol

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vala

in reply to FreedomAdvocate • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Ok buddy, downvote whatever you want and get as tilted as you want but it's not going to change the fact that most Lemmy users don't give a shit about playing corporate slop games from EA.

It seems like it upsets you that we're all happy with the games we can run on Linux. Which is a weird thing to be upset about unless you deep down just resent the fact that we are cooler than you (I use arch btw).

You have very strong Reddit energy which is catching me off guard. Very strange to see someone defending microsoft/ea on the fediverse. Stranger yet to see someone basically rage commenting about it haha.

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FreedomAdvocate

in reply to vala • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Get "tilted"? What on earth? Is that reddit slang?

it’s not going to change the fact that most Lemmy users don’t give a shit about playing corporate slop games from EA.

Only because they can't because they all use Linux. And again with the "corporate slop" rubbish? Really? lol. What about Battlefield 6 is "corporate slop"? I can't wait to hear this.

You have very strong Reddit energy which is catching me off guard. Very strange to see someone defending microsoft/ea on the fediverse. Stranger yet to see someone basically rage commenting about it haha.

You have to be a parody account, right? Right? Like there's no way a person actually says these things and thinks this way, even on here.......right? You just can't get reddit off your mind lol.

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Dumhuvud

in reply to FreedomAdvocate • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Don't give a shit about live service multiplayer PvP-games infested with FOMO battle passes, I'm afraid.

I'm quite content with co-op and singleplayer games, thanks for worrying though.

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chonglibloodsport

in reply to Rooty • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

You jest but would you really install Arch on your grandmother’s PC?

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CancerMancer

in reply to chonglibloodsport • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

When my wife's grandparents had to get a new computer they got upset about the new windows interface and the fact their old games didn't work, so I set them up with Linux and a DE that resembled XP (it's what they were familiar with), and I was able to get most of their games going.

They used it without issue until they died.

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sugar_in_your_tea

in reply to CancerMancer • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

So you're saying Linux killed your wife's grandparents.

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CancerMancer

in reply to sugar_in_your_tea • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Now that would be a funny headline.

No sadly COVID lockdown isolation did them in. I've never seen minds and bodies decay so fast. I have another friend who developed full-blown psychosis from it too, and at this point it looks like he's never coming back. The lockdowns were harder on some people than we were/are ready to talk about I think.

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sugar_in_your_tea

in reply to CancerMancer • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Yeah, it's honestly crazy to me because I think lockdowns were a net benefit to me. I was able to spend more time with my SO and kids, I had time for exercise and hobbies since I didn't need to sit in traffic, and I didn't need to spend as much social energy making small talk (I'm introverted). I honestly thrived during COVID. Getting COVID sucked for the week or so I had symptoms, but that was honestly a small price to pay for solitude.

But then I see headlines of people literally going crazy, see a dramatic increase in road rage in my area (which didn't have lockdowns, only social distancing for businesses), and see my own extended family struggling.

I feel so bad for people like your grandparents that suffered. I just personally wish the COVID lifestyle was more accessible.

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CancerMancer

in reply to sugar_in_your_tea • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I just personally wish the COVID lifestyle was more accessible.

Same, it suited me quite well and I feel bad saying I missed it because so many others, including some of my own family and friends, suffered. Now that I'm back in the office 5 days a week, I lose >2 hours a day with my kids. I had my own parents say "i don't get why you're complaining, we got by before COVID" while refusing to acknowledge it's different because one of them stayed home with us, while my wife and I must both work to survive.

I grew up in a religious conservative family. These and other experiences drove me to the left in a big way. I see now that thinking we can solve systemic issues with individualism is bullshit. I want a world where my wife or I could stay home (or some communal solution) to raise our family right rather than having a bunch of latchkey kids and being stuck doing chores from the moment we get home until the moment we lie down. Some people say "well that's how I was raised" but it isn't right.

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gian

in reply to chonglibloodsport • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Why not ? I suppose that as long as a browser (and whatever else she need) is working, my grandmother would not need much more. And I could also install a windows11 theme on KDE, if I really want to. A icon is a icon

And in the end I think that my grandmother would be able to mantain neither a window machine, so I don't see the problem.

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chonglibloodsport

in reply to gian • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I think most of the replies to my remark thought I was questioning Linux for grandma overall. I wasn’t. Just Arch. I don’t think grandma needs rolling releases.

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gian

in reply to chonglibloodsport • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

In my opinion also Arch is usable on grandma desktop.
True, it is a rolling release but I would suppose that on such machine there would not be that many packages installed and if the network is configured correclty (so nothing can connect from the outside) it would be not be a big problem, after all what grandma use is not updated on a daily basis.

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chonglibloodsport

in reply to gian • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

But that means she’s not getting security updates and since she’s grandma she really needs them. On the other hand, if you’re automatically upgrading her Arch install then there will be breakage she is hopeless to fix.

So what advantage does Arch offer grandma over a traditional release LTS distribution which will be nice and stable, not breaking or changing unexpectedly on her but still remaining current with security patches?

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gian

in reply to chonglibloodsport • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

But that means she’s not getting security updates and since she’s grandma she really needs them. On the other hand, if you’re automatically upgrading her Arch install then there will be breakage she is hopeless to fix.

True, but that would be the end result in any case where an update do something wrong or require some sort of manual intervention, it is not strictly tied to Arch. But you have a point here.

So what advantage does Arch offer grandma over a traditional release LTS distribution which will be nice and stable, not breaking or changing unexpectedly on her but still remaining current with security patches?

Only to have some newer software, but you can also update Arch every once in a while, the fact that it is a rolling release does not mean you need to update every day. The everything will depend on which distro normally uses the person who install the grandma machine

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chonglibloodsport

in reply to gian • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I used Arch for about 7 years. I still have it installed on an old PC but I haven’t used it recently. Every time I told pacman to update everything it felt like an adventure. Never knew if I was going to reboot to a working desktop or to a console printing cryptic error messages that take a while to Google on my phone before I get things back up and running. I wouldn’t wish that experience on my worst enemy’s grandma!

It all comes down to the maintainers of Arch putting all of the responsibility for breakage (especially due to old configuration files) 100% on the user. That’s not a system any normal person should use, that’s a system for Linux hobbyists. A LTS distribution where “don’t break the user’s install no matter what” is the rule is absolutely the only system I’d ever trust for grandma.

It’s fine if you want to assume all responsibility for updating grandma’s system and fixing breakage every time. I don’t have any interest in doing that. If I’m at grandma’s house I want to spend time talking to her, not fixing her computer.

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gian

in reply to chonglibloodsport • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I used Arch for about 7 years. I still have it installed on an old PC but I haven’t used it recently. Every time I told pacman to update everything it felt like an adventure. Never knew if I was going to reboot to a working desktop or to a console printing cryptic error messages that take a while to Google on my phone before I get things back up and running. I wouldn’t wish that experience on my worst enemy’s grandma!

The only times I got this kind of problems where when I didn't read some announcement or for some reason some packages (the kernel) were way too old, normally never had it on a normal update. But as I said, you have a point, even if in the end I would point out that a grandma would never be able to solve any problem caused by an update, irregardless of the distro or the OS.

It all comes down to the maintainers of Arch putting all of the responsibility for breakage (especially due to old configuration files) 100% on the user. That’s not a system any normal person should use, that’s a system for Linux hobbyists.

Only partially. Normally Arch put the new configuration file as a [something].pacnew and it is the user that should then do something, but as long as the software that use the new file could undertand that it is using an older file and it is able to handle the eventually missing new keys or removed ones there will be no problem. On my desktop I have a bunch of [some_program].conf.pacnew and everything works. Is it optimal ? Maybe not but it is not broke.

It’s fine if you want to assume all responsibility for updating grandma’s system and fixing breakage every time. I don’t have any interest in doing that.

Honestly, a grandma would just need Firefox with a couple of extension (uBlock Origin and really few others) and a network with all inbound ports blocked (so no one can connect from outside) and few outbound ports open (very few, just the common ones to use a browser). Maybe she need Openoffice, probably a DE (but a window manager could be enough) but she don't need a lot of software we all install on out machine. It is true that Arch could be a problem when updating but I think we are talking of a very small set of packages that need to be constantly updated and in my years of Arch usage, basic packages rarely break something while updating.

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zer0bitz

in reply to floofloof • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Yesterday I got into the process of installing Windows 10 onto my laptop because I am selling it tomorrow. I asked the buyer if he wanted it with an OS or not, and he replied that he wanted Windows 10 Pro. I downloaded the ISO and installed it to one of my M.2 SATA SSD drives with a USB adapter.

Before installing Windows over my Linux installation, I did a SecureErase to wipe out my drive with the Linux installation because that is the SSD I am selling with the computer.

After installing Windows 10 from the M.2 SATA SSD with a USB adapter to the SecureErased drive, I instantly got multiple error messages about SMART checks saying that the SSD was broken/corrupted. I had never seen this POST error message when booting that computer with a Linux installation.

Well, I obviously had to change the drive to another one where I got the Windows installation to work normally without the BIOS POST error message.

I really cannot be sure what caused that. Can SecureErase do that so SMART checks report the drive as corrupted? Or was it the Windows installation?

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Appoxo

in reply to zer0bitz • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Windows bad because I made a user error >🙁

Hm...Weird way to shift blame.

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WhyJiffie

in reply to Appoxo • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

where is the user error? is this user error with us in the room?

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Appoxo

in reply to WhyJiffie • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Fully overwriting an SSD is so archaic.

Example from hdparm:

--trim-sector-range
For Solid State Drives (SSDs). EXCEPTIONALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT USE THIS OPTION!! Tells the drive firmware to discard unneeded data sectors, destroying any data that may have been present within them. This makes those sectors available for immediate use by the firmware's garbage collection mechanism, to improve scheduling for wear-leveling of the flash media. This option expects one or more sector range pairs immediately after the option: an LBA starting address, a colon, and a sector count (max 65535), with no intervening spaces. EXCEPTIONALLY DANGER‐ OUS. DO NOT USE THIS OPTION!!

I think the all caps warnings say it all.
This is only for the trim sectors of the disk but I can't imagine it being much different overwriting a whole disk.
Not to mention, as OP said, an old and very used disk.
Quick formatting should be enough to prevent any normal user from extracting meaningful data from the flash storage as only the controller knows how to piece together the flash cells to a file.
If the controller forgets it, the files are toast anyway.
At best write some random data to a quarter of the disk or something lile that.

File recovery may only be possible if you give it to a drive recovery facility. But remember: Those ain't exactly cheap.
A client paid some 4 figure price because an HDD died. Just for a small amount of files.

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WhyJiffie

in reply to Appoxo • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

@zer0bitz@lemmy.world did a SecureErase, which is an entirely different function. It was exactly made to be used in this scenario: user is selling their laptop.

other than that, hdparm --trim-sector-range is most probably only marked dangerous because with a slight miscalculation you can wipe some of your data and you won't even know how much damage you did. I'm pretty sure the fstrim command relies on this, which is executed every few weeks on my system, by default. check systemctl status fstrim.timer, maybe on yours too.

Quick formatting should be enough to prevent any normal user from extracting meaningful data from the flash storage as only the controller knows how to piece together the flash cells to a file.

what do you mean by quick formatting? how do you do that on linux? I have only heard this term with te windows disk management tool.

on windows quick formatting only deletes the partition entry from the partition table. that's why it's quick. all the former data is there and can be easily recovered, given you know the former partition boundaries, which can also be recovered by tools. the ssd controller won't know a thing, it won't forget where it should look for each LBA address.

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dreadbeef

in reply to floofloof • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I use arch btw

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in reply to dreadbeef • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

The crowd exhales we know

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Billegh

in reply to dreadbeef • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Thanks for letting me know! You're not going to believe this, but I, too, use Arch.

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UncleGrandPa

in reply to floofloof • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

So it's working as planned?

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sp3ctr4l

in reply to floofloof • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Yet again, I trot out this phrase, as a response to yet another massive Windows fuckup/scandal:

... People are still using Windows?

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Bennyboybumberchums

in reply to sp3ctr4l • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I use "incontrol" to stop feature updates. And I used win11debloat. Havent had a problem since. In dogshit bloat, no dog shit copilot, no forced updates, no privacy destroying telemetry. Just me and MY windows machine like the old days.

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FreedomAdvocate

in reply to Bennyboybumberchums • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

And I’m sure you’ll blame Microsoft/windows when things don’t work as expected and you get strange errors because you disabled core features using dodgy software that you don’t understand but think you don’t need them.

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Bennyboybumberchums

in reply to FreedomAdvocate • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

lol Another Reddit user, with nothing to offer but projection. Being in the game 20+ years, matey. If theres problems, I have skills to solve them. Just because you dont know your arse from your elbow, doesnt mean everyone else is the same. Go cry about MS's spyware some place else.

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FreedomAdvocate

in reply to Bennyboybumberchums • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

🤣 literally everything you said is wrong but good try I guess. Only 20+ years? Amateur.

You’re the one crying about their “spyware”, not me. How do you not see that?

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Bennyboybumberchums

in reply to FreedomAdvocate • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Im not crying about it, as I dont have any of it. Youre the one crying, and shilling, and painting anyone who doesnt bend the knee to them is going to cry without all those amazing core features... Absolute reddit moment.

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FreedomAdvocate

in reply to Bennyboybumberchums • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Cool imagination you got there kid.

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FreedomAdvocate

in reply to sp3ctr4l • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Yet again - headline and article are massive overexaggerations, talking about an issue that a few people have had in very specific situations and saying it breaks everyones SSDs/HDDs and might corrupt their data to get people like you to get outraged and spread FUD.

Remember - if even 0.01% of people on Windows 11 get an error with an update, that is like 100k people. A 0.01% error rate is nothing. It's not even worth mentioning. It's not even worth investigating. Sure it sucks for those 100k people, and they'll be complaining to everyone that will listen - but it's not a big issue. That's this. That's this exact thing.

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HugeNerd

in reply to FreedomAdvocate • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Wow, with a mentality like that, you're a perfect fit for medical school.

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FreedomAdvocate

in reply to HugeNerd • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

And you’re a perfect fit for an arts degree with how dumb that equivalency is.

We’re talking about software updates here, not saving lives.

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HugeNerd

in reply to FreedomAdvocate • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

And you're about as dense as neutronium if you don't get it.

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FreedomAdvocate

in reply to HugeNerd • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Doctors try to save everyone, even the 0.01%. Hell, the 0.01% are actually a huge focus.

In software a 0.01% affecting bug in a single one-off update, that needs very specific exact steps to happen, that is already released is at the bottom of the backlog, never to get fixed.

It’s you that clearly doesn’t get “it”. What is your software development background?

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HugeNerd

in reply to FreedomAdvocate • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Doctors try to save everyone, even the 0.01%. Hell, the 0.01% are actually a huge focu**s.

BULLSHIT

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FreedomAdvocate

in reply to HugeNerd • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I am all ears as to your logic here lol. Can’t wait to hear this wonderful tale. Please, do tell.

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3dcadmin

in reply to sp3ctr4l • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

many have to - work from home, have to share data and programs with other workers. There are of course ways around it but I know literally thousands of people who are supplied with a company laptop with windows on it and they have to use it...

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sp3ctr4l

in reply to 3dcadmin • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Huh, sounds to me like bad security and data integrity policies/practices from whatever company, probably not very well run places to work for.

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3dcadmin

in reply to sp3ctr4l • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

You realise that most companies still run on Windows don't you? I'm in the UK and there is around zero companies that use anything else... here they got rid of Macs because of the hassle of supporting them and windows. Plenty of companies won't let you use a Mac to work with either

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sp3ctr4l

in reply to 3dcadmin • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Yep I do realize that.

And I still have the same opinion.

You're in the UK, so you're not bound by GDPR... but a whole lot of places and orgs that are bound by GDPR realize that MSFT products indeed are a joke from a data security standpoint, and are actively transitioning to linux or at the very least FOSS software.

I am in the US.

I literally used to work for MSFT, a few of their different locations around Seattle.

They are a fucking insane mess, internally, organizationally.

I worked with people, old timers who'd just casually tell me:

'Oh yeah back before Desert Storm, I was out in Saudi Arabia flashing the BIOS of computer hardware that was bound to be installed in Saddam's C&C and Air Defense Radar networks, some months later when time came for the air sorties, somebody else just flipped a switch and down goes all their radars!'

Aka a supply chain attack.

Aka, unless your definition of 'data security' is 'the NSA has all my data', then MSFT products are rather dubious at providing data security.

Like uh, did your org completely remove Copilot?

... Are you sure about that?

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3dcadmin

in reply to sp3ctr4l • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

For starters in the UK we ARE bound by GDPR...\
But it doesn't matter - you are assuming that companies care in the UK, they don't. You get Windows or Windows. As said a lot of software only runs on Windows, and this will continue until microsoft stop windows, corps don't care. Here in the UK Macs are rare, really really rare, in business. Heck in general use they are rare compared to Windows. Linux is nowhere, under 0.1%. You are literally forced to use Windows if you work for a company. My wife works for a charity and she has to use the company laptop, through the company VPN or else she gets warning and can be sacked... it really is that simple. The company controls what software is installed, even what updates are installed. Here in the UK the NHS buys around 5 million windows machines a year.... just imagine that

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sp3ctr4l

in reply to 3dcadmin • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Well technically its not the same GDPR, but w/e.

Point is:

Much of what MSFT does isn't GDPR compliant, or violates other data security and privacy laws in the EU or elsewhere, or just generally throws privacy and security by the wayside, as a matter of course.

crowell.com/en/insights/client…

ppc.land/irish-court-approves-…

gadgetreview.com/microsofts-re…

courthousenews.com/microsoft-m…

This is just a teeny weeny sampling.

If you think MSFT gives a shit about actual data security and privacy, you're not following the just stream of lawsuits they just keep getting into, revolving around these issues.

Yeah if that means 99% of orgs have bad policy, by relying on a company with a terrible record on all this, the, uh then uh yeah, 99% of orgs are choosing to have the ability to blame someone else for their own bad decisions, over making better decisions.

Irish court approves first class action against Microsoft RTB data breach

ICCL secures permission for Ireland's first class action targeting Microsoft's real-time bidding data violations under GDPR.

^{Luis Rijo (PPC Land)}

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3dcadmin

in reply to sp3ctr4l • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

The point is arguing about something when you plainly don't understand how the UK still has GDPR doesn't really validate your opinions in any way shape or form...\
The security doesn't matter, nothing other than Windows is used. To move to something else would cost so much that businesses simply cannot sustain that. We now have workers who have had 30 years of only working with Windows.... and new workers only get Windows. Doesn't matter what you or anybody else thinks, or says, it matters little. It is pretty much set in stone that you need Windows and Office in the UK, plus other software to make things like PDF's and documents. You can point anyone towards anything and it just doesn't matter... and here in the UK they don't care about lawsuits, we don't sue first and ask questions later - our legal system is just not setup that way. It is so difficult for other countries to understand, but that kind of approach just doesn't happen, and our legal system takes little notice of legal issues in countries like the US.

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Cool, I don't care that its the industry standard, the industry standard is shit.

Adapt, Improvise, Overcome!

If a bunch of Boomers only know how to use Windows, and MS Office, its time for them to retire.

Its not that hard to switch daily drive office work to a stable linux distro, and libreoffice.

Yeah, it would be more difficult to switch over say, a full CRM solutiom, but uh, given how I've done exactly that at orgs I've worked at, uh, no, no, not impossible, quite doable actually.

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You are still going? You really aren't a nice person are you forcing your "opinion" on people... it is not financially viable in the UK to retire early any more

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I switched to Mac after my old Asus laptop went out. I figure why bother with a PC laptop, it’s not gonna game and let’s see what the fuss is about. Love my MacBook Air. So then our desktop dies and I give my wife 3 options. A Mac, a cheaper PC, and a more expensive PC. She’s Android, figured she’d want to stick with Windows, but she picked the Mac! So happy. I mostly game on Switch and Xbox these days so that’s fine.

I keep feeling like I left Windows at the right time.

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in reply to cerebralhawks • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I feel you may be boarding a different sinking ship: youtu.be/JUG1PlqAUJk

I have been using Linux Mint for over half a year now, and besides gaming, I had no issues with a great experience. Had very bad experience with other Linux distros.

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How does Apple's profitability being a little less than it used to be (they're still insanely profitable) imply that it's a "sinking ship"?

I'm a Linux user as well, but use macOS at work and it's fine.

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Did you watch the video or are you guessing based on the thumbnail? Because the video isn't about Apples profitability.

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I watched the first minute or so, which was about their stock price relative to Microsoft. Profitability is a huge part of a company's stock price.

I didn't watch the rest because I'm not going to watch a 30 min video without a good reason to.

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TL;DR: Under Jobs, Apple focused on engineering products and the profitability and stock price followed. Under Cook, Apple focuses on stock price (dividends, stock buybacks) and is massively cutting R&D/Engineering costs to the point they did not release anything really new for years and their projects keep failing while also increasing prices. E.g. Siri that is unable to catch up to modern chatbots.

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Sure, that's an argument for why the stock price is suffering, not for why macOS is in danger. Apple is still massively profitable, the stock price just reflects the market's perception that profits won't increase as fast as their competitors.

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in reply to sugar_in_your_tea • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Again, why are you so over focused on stock price? As a consumer, how is the first thing you take away from lack of innovation and engineering failures that Apples stock price may suffer and not that the machine you are buying may be sub-par and overpriced?

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I'm agreeing w/ you that stock price is irrelevant here, and that's what the video opens with. The market is unhappy w/ Apple because they're delivering essentially what people claim to want: a solid product with steady improvements w/o anything crazy. Microsoft, on the other hand, is delivering what the market wants, which is shoving AI into everything.

I guess I don't understand why the video is relevant to the average user, who doesn't really care about innovation and instead wants a consistent experience.

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I highly doubt there is a user that truly does not care for innovation. If there is a better product for the same price, who wouldn't buy it.

More importantly, the impact is not just innovative features but security, price of ownership and reliability. Apple managed to "innovate" themselves into a position where they are obstructing data rescue on Macs and iPhones. That's the kind of thing you may not be thinking about when buying but may greatly regret not having when you need it.

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China, No 2 in global computing power, accelerates build-out as AI race heats up

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Ukrainian drones hit key rail hub in Russia’s Voronezh Oblast — Ukraine’s long-range Flamingo cruise missile enters serial production — US officials provide contradictory statements on security guarantees fueling uncertainty — International borders cannot

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A resident, rescued from a bombed residential building, catches her breath and breaks into tears after being trapped inside during the Russian attack on Aug. 17, 2025 in Bilozerske, Ukraine. (Pierre Crom/Getty Images)

Russian strike on Kharkiv kills 3, including toddler, injures 17 as Zelensky arrives to Washington to meet with Trump. Russia launched a wave of missile and drone attacks against Ukrainian cities late on Aug. 17, mere hours before President Volodymyr Zelensky is scheduled to meet for peace talks with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House.

‘Negotiation can begin where the front line currently stands’ — Zelensky says ahead of meeting with Trump. “We need real negotiations, and that means they can begin where the front line currently stands. The line of contact is the best line for negotiations,” Zelensky wrote on social media following a meeting with members of the so-called “coalition of the willing.”

Trump says no NATO path or Crimea return for Ukraine as Zelensky comes to Washington for peace talks. Zelensky cautioned that any new deal must prevent Russian President Vladimir Putin from using concessions as a “springboard” for another attack, citing Russia’s seizure of Crimea in 2014.

Top European leaders to join Zelensky for Trump talks. According to the German government, the discussions will cover the state of peace efforts, security guarantees, territorial questions, continued support for Ukraine, and maintaining sanctions pressure.

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Ukraine claims battlefield success in Donetsk Oblast. The General Staff said Russian forces suffered significant losses in the area, including 910 killed, 335 wounded, and 37 captured.

Ukrainian drones hit key rail hub in Russia’s Voronezh Oblast, HUR says. The strike disrupted train traffic through the Lisky station, halting the supply of ammunition and troops to aid Russian forces fighting on Ukrainian territory, according to the source.

Kyiv sanctions Russian, Chinese, Belarusian firms supplying drone technology. According to the presidential decree, restrictions were introduced against 39 Russian nationals and 55 companies from Russia, China, and Belarus.

Ukraine’s long-range Flamingo cruise missile enters serial production, media reports. The domestically developed cruise missile has a reported range of 3,000 km (1,864 miles). The military has not yet publicly commented on the official technical specifications.

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Human cost of Russia’s war

Russian attacks kill 5, injure 11 across Ukraine over past day. The Air Force said Russia launched one Iskander-M ballistic missile and 60 Shahed-type attack drones and drone decoys overnight on Aug. 17.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,069,950 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022. The number includes 900 casualties Russian forces suffered just over the past day.

International response

US officials provide contradictory statements on security guarantees, fueling uncertainty. In comments to various media networks on Aug. 17, Russia envoy Steve Witkoff and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio addressed the outcomes stemming from the Trump-Putin meeting, providing differing accounts of the progress made towards providing Kyiv with security guarantees.

Russia seeks ‘Ukraine’s surrender, not peace,’ Macron says ahead of talks with Trump. “I don’t believe (Russian President Vladimir) Putin wants peace, Macron told reporters after co-chairing a meeting of the coalition of the willing. “I believe he wants Ukraine’s surrender.”

‘International borders cannot be changed by force‘ — von der Leyen says in Brussels. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen also backed “Article 5-like security guarantees” for Ukraine, saying the country must become “a steel porcupine, indigestible for potential invaders.”

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'International borders cannot be changed by force,' — von der Leyen says in Brussels ahead of Trump meeting

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen also backed "Article 5-like security guarantees" for Ukraine, saying the country must become "a steel porcupine, indigestible for potential invaders."

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DJI Unveils Osmo 360: A Panoramic Leap Forward in Sports Camera Innovation

In a bold move that signals its growing ambitions in immersive imaging, DJI has officially launched the Osmo 360—a panoramic sports camera ...

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Dritta da ieri sera, ecco qui un’altra assurdità. Stavo sul divano, a giocare col tablet, e lo tenevo praticamente appoggiato dritto sulle gambe che tenevo in piedi sul divano stesso (la classica posizione da ragazza gatto casual gamer, insomma), senza cover… e a dire il vero si teneva, per bene, comodamente, fermo, senza scivolare, eppure […]

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tablet sudato sulle gambe poggiato

Dritta da ieri sera, ecco qui un’altra assurdità. Stavo sul divano, a giocare col tablet, e lo tenevo praticamente appoggiato dritto sulle gambe che tenevo in piedi sul divano stesso (la classica posizione da ragazza gatto casual gamer, insomma), senza cover… e a dire il vero si teneva, per bene, comodamente, fermo, senza scivolare, eppure comunque ad un’altezza conveniente (di non molto sotto gli occhi, cosa che evita di dover stare bent con la testa) e senza reggere personalmente l’affare… 🐱
Tutto bene, nonostante fosse caldino dato l’uso (non bollente, parliamo pur sempre di giochi da ragazza gatto, quindi non roba pesante)… finché non l’ho girato… e mi sono accorta che il motivo per cui stava bello a posto, nonostante l’angolo solo di pochi gradi ottuso, era perché si erano fatte due belle pozze di sudore spalmato in corrispondenza delle gambe. E in effetti, la tavoletta di metallo non mi rimane in piedi in quel modo da subito, se ci provo ora… dovrei usarla una decina di minuti almeno appoggiata sulle gambe normalmente, e solo un po’ dopo uscirebbe il sudore che fa questo schifo ma questa grande utilità. 😾

Comunque bleah, che schifo tipo… persino la fotocamera del telefono si rifiuta di mettere a fuoco molto bene dal disgusto (e ho provato più volte). Ovviamente non si pulisce nemmeno ottimamente questa sostanza merdifera di liquidi salati dal retro, bisognerebbe usare l’alcol per forza. E che peccato davvero, perché pareva io avessi trovato il modo perfetto per tenere il tablet… ma a questo punto non è il caso. E purtroppo, la cover non aiuta: anche quella scivola sulla pelle normalmente (ma anche col sudore mi sa, l’attrito è basso), e il classico prisma di appoggio che si forma girando le striscioline non è buono per essere piazzato su una superficie per niente ben piana, come le ginocchia. Insomma, è così fottutamente dura voler fare gaming quando si è gatti!!! 😿
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Hundreds of Former Israeli Spies Are Working in Big Tech, Database Shows

A $25 billion deal is the latest acquisition to strengthen the link between the U.S. tech sector and Israeli intelligence.

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This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again

"It was extremely difficult," IgniteTech CEO Eric Vaughan tells Fortune. "But changing minds was harder than adding skills."

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Strawberry Music Player fork from Codeberg have been taken down

following this URL feddit.nl/post/32689004. it looks like the software taken down the source and the codeberg is gone

[Package Issue]: WetOtter44.StrawberryMusicPlayer.MSVC / WetOtter44.StrawberryMusicPlayer.MinGW

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I played around with u/mttw_ edited build.yml and, added an additional update.yml

With these two workflows you should be able to clone SMP and build your own Windows and Mac versions by just running the build.yml action. Takes about 30 minutes to build.

**build.yml ** was changed so that it is run manually. I also adjusted how the attach job worked (as it was just being skipped). Now when build is finished it should attach them all as a new release in your repo. **You will need to edit this file with notepad and add your account name and repo name. **

**update.yml ** is just so that you can have your repo automatically update to the original SMP repo. It is set to check once a day. This is so when you run build.yml it is build the latest version.

Don't really want to link to my specific repo so I have put the yml files on fileroy

build.yml - fileroy.com/dkD3YlxlmLQK/file

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Sky hoppers: la configurazione aerostatica della sedia da giardino volante - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri

L’immagine canonica della cesta in vimini che si avvicina alle propaggini del cielo, la calda fiamma usata per espandere speciali gas o direttamente l’aria nella bulbosa massa di stoffa soprastante, risiede da quel fatidico 1783 nella mente e nell’im…

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Hats that go hard

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Why It's OK to Block Ads (2015)

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Over the past couple of months, the practice of ad blocking has received heightened ethical scrutiny. (1,2,3,4) If you’re unfamiliar with the term, “ad blocking” refers to software—usually web browser plug-ins, but increasingly mobile apps—that stop …

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IMHO: Advertisment is another word for recommendation. While advertisment is seen as bad a recomendation isn't.

So what advertisment never made happen is making themself usefull to the consumer. Most consumer want maybe a !!! usefull recommendation !!! but not someone trying to force you to buy a certain product.

So what was the time before ads ... it never existet ... even before tv radio had advertisment. Even back in this day people hated the advertisment and did music recordings cutting the advertisment and talking out.

Some old people might remember press record ... press stop ... rewind a little bit ... and all of this.

The alternative was to pay alot of money for music ...

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Word of mouth existed long before advertising, and as for algorithmic discoverability retailers do a fine job of that already.

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THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments | Gamers Nexus

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THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments

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Aaand they got their video taken down, link to post on YT

Here's a mirror on internet archive.

Post de Gamers Nexus

Surely no one could have ever foreseen that the copyright strike and DMCA system would be abused to take down our video. No one could have ever expected this...

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Thanks! +1

I've added the link to the post🙌

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Why do some instances not load communities properly?

I just started my own Lemmy instance, and it looks to be mostly working.

The problem that I have is that the communities I went through the process of subscribing to only display up to 50 threads and no comments.

This looks like something I've seen on other servers, so I'm wondering what could be causing it and how to fix it.

ChatGPT says something about webfinger and nodeinfo, but I honestly have no idea what any of that is and there's no mention of it in join-lemmy.org/docs/administra…

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The outbox on a Lemmy community only has the last 50 posts and there is no pagination to get another 50. Also Lemmy posts have no replies collection so it's impossible to get the replies without using their API.

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Re: Why do some instances not load communities properly?

Well, the good news is at least with conversational backfill, you'll be able to pull the entire reply tree 😁

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Louis Rossman strikes again.

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fuzzywombat

in reply to Fortatech • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

This sort of thing is reason why I stopped paying attention to Louis Rossman. I guess when someone lives inside a social media bubble for so long their reality gets warped enough to think changing a profile picture is the way to make a difference in the world.

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Solimana
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A student from Gaza sharing my story 🌿

Hello everyone,
My name is Soliman, a young student from Gaza. Life here is very difficult, but I try to stay hopeful and support my family through these hard times.

We once had a small farm with olive and citrus trees that was our only source of living, but it was destroyed. Since then, we have been struggling to survive.

I’m here to connect with kind people, share my story, and hopefully find support or even just a listening ear.

Thank you for welcoming me into this community ❤️

#piracy

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sabreW4K3

in reply to Solimana • 3 settimane fa • •

Free Palestine. But what has this gotta do with Piracy? 🥺

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Solimana

in reply to sabreW4K3 • 3 settimane fa • •

I’m not sure where the best place is to share my story. Could you please guide me to a humanitarian community? I’m in urgent need of help and support, and any donations or advice would mean so much. Thank you from the heart.

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𝔽𝕩𝕠𝕞𝕥

in reply to Solimana • 3 settimane fa • •

Could you please guide me to a humanitarian community?

!mutual_aid@hexbear.net has a lot of palestinians. You need to use something other than sh.itjust.works though, maybe you should create an account on there.

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sabreW4K3

in reply to Solimana • 3 settimane fa • •

Try cross-posting to these communities:

!mutual_aid@hexbear.net
!mutual_aid@a.gup.pe
!palestine@lemmy.ml
!palestine@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Yourname942 via Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

3 settimane fa • •

Yourname942
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Does a torrented non-zipped folder mean anything bad?

Is it really sketchy if you torrent a file that by default it is an unpacked folder? (rather than just being a zipped folder)? I'm not sure if I should be concerned if it is able to run anything or gather data since it was unzipped by default. It contained a monkrus.info file that seemed to gather all the data for some reason.. (I think)

Thank you.

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MangoPenguin

in reply to Yourname942 • 3 settimane fa • •

I'm not really sure what you mean by gathering data, an info or nfo file is just a text file with some instructions.

To me a zip file is a lot more suspicious than a normal directory of files.

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Yourname942

in reply to MangoPenguin • 3 settimane fa • •

specifically the m0nkrus.nfo file:

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MangoPenguin

in reply to Yourname942 • 3 settimane fa • •

NFO files are just text and don't execute, so generally should be safe.

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Chewy

in reply to MangoPenguin • 3 settimane fa • •

Unless they didn't enable file extensions to actually show, so an ".nfo" could actually be a ".nfo.exe".

It does not seem to be the case here, but I really would be careful with double clicking untrusted files. Opening them through a media player directly is a much safer option.

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Evono

in reply to Yourname942 • 3 settimane fa • •

If you open nfo files by double click Windows open a system info tool.

But if you open nfo files with a text editor with "open with " it shows it's text.

So it didn't gather anything.

And I would argue unzipped files are less dangerous because you kinda can assume what you download already.

It's also a good idea to have a av.

Avast is very friendly regarding piracy as in they seem to only flag actual malware and not necessarily keygens cracks and stuff ( heuristics can still make mistakes just report them as false positive )

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