Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results
Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results
In a March 2025 analysis, Google users who encountered an AI summary were less likely to click on links to other websites than users who did not see one.Beshay (Pew Research Center)
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Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC
Windows Recall remains controversial a year after its announcement. Now, the Brave browser has taken new measures to "protect" users from the feature.David Uzondu (Neowin)
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Russia moves in on Pokrovsk in what would be huge win in Ukraine war
Russia Moves in on Pokrovsk in What Would Be Huge Win in Ukraine War
Russian troops have made advances towards the town in the Donetsk region which is a critical logistics hub.Brendan Cole (Newsweek)
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Instagram Suspends Zohran Mamdani’s account, Leaked Memo Cites ‘National Interest’ as Meta Tilts Right
On Monday, July 21st, Instagram temporarily suspended the account of Zohran Mamdani, a New York State Assembly member and NYC mayoral candidate. The suspension, which lasted approximately 3 hours before his account was reinstated, was explained by Instagram senior directors in an internal leaked memo that his content was deemed “too socialist,” and goes against current national US interest.
Mamdani is known for his progressive and socialist-leaning views, sparking debate over the social media platforms’ content moderation policies and political bias. In 2025, Meta Platforms (parent company of Instagram and Facebook) has increasingly aligned itself with President Donald Trump and right-wing causes. In January of this year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg donated millions to Trump’s inauguration fund and contributed to political action committees supporting restrictions on abortion rights.
Zuckerberg has also met with Trump multiple times at the Mar-a-Lago resort, fueling speculation and internal concerns about the company’s evolving far-right political affiliations. These latest actions raise questions about how these relationships might influence content moderation decisions on its platforms.
Instagram Suspends Zohran Mamdani’s account, Leaked Memo Cites ‘National Interest’ as Meta Tilts Right
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How a storm of false and misleading claims about extreme weather events spread unchecked on social media putting lives at risk
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CCDH’s new research shows that X, Meta, and YouTube let false claims about extreme weather events spread unchecked, putting lives at risk.Center for Countering Digital Hate
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New electric bike license scheme to be tested on school-aged riders
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MAGA acolyte Marjorie Taylor Greene votes alongside Tlaib and Omar to cut US funding for Israel
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By MEE staff
Published date: 18 July 2025 20:59 BST
Hardline America Firster and staunch Trump supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene voted alongside progressive Democrat Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar to strip Israel of $500m in US funding, hours after it bombed the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza.The House of Representatives, however, rejected in a 422-6 vote on Thursday, to cut funding for the Israeli Cooperative Program - an agreement through which the US provides Israel with $500m to boost its missile programmes.
It is a separate allocation from the $3.3bn the US sends Israel as "security assistance" every year.
MAGA acolyte Marjorie Taylor Greene votes alongside Tlaib and Omar to cut US funding for Israel
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33488629By MEE staff
Published date: 18 July 2025 20:59 BST
Hardline America Firster and staunch Trump supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene voted alongside progressive Democrat Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar to strip Israel of $500m in US funding, hours after it bombed the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza.The House of Representatives, however, rejected in a 422-6 vote on Thursday, to cut funding for the Israeli Cooperative Program - an agreement through which the US provides Israel with $500m to boost its missile programmes.
It is a separate allocation from the $3.3bn the US sends Israel as "security assistance" every year.
Maga acolyte Marjorie Taylor Greene votes alongside Tlaib and Omar to cut US funding for Israel
Hardline America Firster and staunch Trump supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene voted alongside progressive Democrat Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar to strip Israel of $500m in US funding, hours after it bombed the Holy Family Catholic Church …MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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AOC’s office vandalized after recent House vote involving US aid to Israel
A Bronx office of the US House member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was vandalized early on Monday, according to New York City police, who say they are investigating.
The vandalism occurred after Ocasio-Cortez on Friday voted against a defense spending bill amendment authored by the Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia that would have eliminated funding for the system protecting Israel from missiles.
Her vote on Greene’s amendment prompted the Democratic Socialists of America to issue a statement accusing Ocasio-Cortez of backing Israel’s “eliminationist campaign against the Palestinian people”.
AOC’s office vandalized after recent House vote involving US aid to Israel
NYC office found covered in red paint after AOC voted ‘no’ on defense bill that included over $600m in aid for IsraelRamon Antonio Vargas (The Guardian)
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AOC’s office vandalized after recent House vote involving US aid to Israel
A Bronx office of the US House member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was vandalized early on Monday, according to New York City police, who say they are investigating.
The vandalism occurred after Ocasio-Cortez on Friday voted against a defense spending bill amendment authored by the Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia that would have eliminated funding for the system protecting Israel from missiles.
Her vote on Greene’s amendment prompted the Democratic Socialists of America to issue a statement accusing Ocasio-Cortez of backing Israel’s “eliminationist campaign against the Palestinian people”.
AOC’s office vandalized after recent House vote involving US aid to Israel
NYC office found covered in red paint after AOC voted ‘no’ on defense bill that included over $600m in aid for IsraelRamon Antonio Vargas (The Guardian)
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I posted the evidence that your answer is objectively untrue. Even the Democratic Socialists of America said as much if you need more evidence.
While the Congresswoman voted against the defense appropriations bill itself, voting against funding for the imperialist military-industrial complex and the Israeli genocide,...
If we can't establish a baseline of truth, than this conversation is meaningless. Good day.
As for anyone else scrolling by, AOC DID NOT VOTE TO SEND WEAPONS TO ISREAL. PERIOD. The facts are out there. Anything else is merely a bullshit attempt to wedge apart the left, and it seems to be working quite well by the looks of it. Don't fall this bullshit.
Her vote on Greene’s amendment prompted the Democratic Socialists of America to issue a statement accusing Ocasio-Cortez of backing Israel’s “eliminationist campaign against the Palestinian people”.
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Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel: Ukraine Recruits Murderers & Drug Convicts to Fill Army Ranks
Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel: Ukraine Recruits Murderers & Drug Convicts to Fill Army Ranks
With Ukraine’s manpower nearly exhausted, authorities claim that nearly 9,500 convicts—including 100 women—have been drafted into the armed forces.Sputnik International
The U.S. at it's best used to enlist convicts.
-take that whatever way you want.
Propaganda is everywhere and each country can probably have a pretty graphic like this.
Good thing you're immune though
What do you think of the policies held by the massive nations? Do you think they are imperialist too? Why or why not?
All of these were questions opened by my comment. Your's are all thought terminated clown shit.
The three biggest countries in the world are all imperialist trash.
Pure vibes based politics.
None of these places care about people. China is doing the best at feigning it in this particular moment with the green energy push.
Erg, someone get the Parenti quote
So, in essense, it's a vibe in your views, right? Since all nations with sizable power use it to develop at minimum soft-power and in other cases hard-power, by nature a large country is definitionally imperialist? I can't say I agree with that.
For starters, it isn't something actionable to combat, unless you're in favor of balkanizing every major country, and this would work against the continuing process of globalization and decreasing friction in production and circulation. If anything, centralization is a natural force, and thus it makes most sense to take an internationalist, socialist stance.
Secondly, it isn't really measurable in your definition. It's a process defined by its lack of definition, just large countries having influence, and in turn erases whether this process be for good, like assistance with national liberation or multilateral development, or for bad, such as predatory systems of extraction.
The reason Marxists hold to our outline of imperialism is because we can measure it, track it, combat it, and move beyond it:
- The presence of monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life.
- The merging of bank capital with industrial capital into finance capital controlled by a financial oligarchy.
- The export of capital as distinguished from the simple export of commodities.
- The formation of international monopolist capitalist associations (cartels).
- The territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers.
If we compare, say, the US with the PRC, then the nature of just how different these economies are with how they interact with the world is immediately apparent. The PRC absolutely does not fit this definition, while the US fits it to a T. This is helpful, because it explains why the global south is ditching the US and siding with China.
Further still, the implication that valuing "ideals" is what is counterposed to "idolizing nations" is a false dichotomy. What matters is materialist analysis. Why do systems exist? Where did they come from, where are they going? Morals are nice and all, but they don't explain the world, or help us change it.
Does that make sense?
Imperialism - ProleWiki
Imperialism is the highest stage of the capitalist mode of production, in which monopolies and cartels become the prevalent economic force of society. Lenin synthesized...ProleWiki
Thanks, I appreciate it!
One thing I want to stress, is that this does not exonerate imperialism. It's easy to label a country imperialist if it has significant influence, but identifying if that influence is positive or negative is important, and doing so is best looked at from the underlying materialist perspective, ie analyzing the mode of production. That's why Marxists identify imperialism the way we do, and further, why Marxists can say we are definitively anti-imperialist. We have a strong understanding and clear identification of what we oppose, why, and how.
Returning to the PRC, they are focused on multilateralism. As a socialist country, they lack the dictatorial control of a financial oligarchy, and they focus on export of commodities. The more customers for their commodities, and the easier access to raw materials, the better. It's in their interest to not be predatory for the global south.
Returning to the Russian Federation, it's a capitalist country, absolutely, but unlike the US, it straight up doesn't have the financial capital to imperialize. They are too poor as a country, they mostly export oil. They have strong-ish industrial production, but are kept out of the circle of imperialists through western millitary lines. Russia has the materialist desire to imperialize, but lacks the ability to do so.
The US, on the other hand, has both the means to do so, and the financial interest in doing so. The US isn't very industrialized, it in fact relies on imperialism to keep its economy running. Whereas with the PRC they lacked the reasons to imperialize, and with Russia they lacked the means, the US is lacking in neither.
That's generally the Marxist understanding of imperialism. The RF isn't selfless, neither is the PRC, but because their underlying material basis is distinct and qualitatively different from that of the US (and other imperialist countries), they are more materially interested in engaging with the global economy in different means.
Yes, generally. Socialist countries like the PRC, where the large firms and key industries are publicly owned, rely more heavily on economic planning. However, even capitalist economies, where the large firms and key industries are privately owned, frequently the state is heavily involved in planning. This is especially true in post-WWII US, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, or even Bismark's Germany. This is sometimes called "state capitalism."
The USSR was more publicly owned and planned than the large majority of economies in history, though, so it's a useful case study.
US cannot withdraw from UNESCO without exiting from UN — Russian expert
US cannot withdraw from UNESCO without exiting from UN — Russian expert
According to Alexey Borisov, this move by the United States will mean "the reduction of cultural exchanges, opportunities to preserve historical heritage sites and cultural values, first of all in the US territory"TASS
Rejection of Russian energy resources poisoned German economy — expert
Rejection of Russian energy resources poisoned German economy — expert
The German economy is in recession, which was not observed since 1948, Honorary Professor of Economics at the University of Bayreuth Thorsten Polleit notedTASS
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We should start sharing Trumps farts from Truth Social, to raise a bit the level, though
xAI workers balked over training request to help “give Grok a face,” docs show
xAI workers balked over training request to help “give Grok a face,” docs show
Slack messages: Some xAI employees refused to join invasive Grok training.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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Five civilians killed in Ukrainian attacks on buses – officials (PHOTOS)
Five civilians killed in Ukrainian attacks on buses – officials (PHOTOS)
Kiev’s drone and artillery strikes targeting vehicles also injured several people in Russia’s Kherson Region, according to local authoritiesRT
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1762 Attacks on Health Care Over Three Years as Russia Escalates its War on Ukraine’s Doctors and Hospitals: PHR - PHR
A staggering 1762 attacks on health care facilities, workers, and infrastructure have been perpetrated since Russia’s full-scale invasion three years ago, according to new data published today by a group of human rights and humanitarian organizations…Kevin Short (Physicians for Human Rights)
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1762 Attacks on Health Care Over Three Years as Russia Escalates its War on Ukraine’s Doctors and Hospitals: PHR - PHR
A staggering 1762 attacks on health care facilities, workers, and infrastructure have been perpetrated since Russia’s full-scale invasion three years ago, according to new data published today by a group of human rights and humanitarian organizations…Kevin Short (Physicians for Human Rights)
Instagram Suspends Zohran Mamdani’s account, Leaked Memo Cites ‘National Interest’ as Meta Tilts Right
Instagram Suspends Zohran Mamdani’s account, Leaked Memo Cites ‘National Interest’ as Meta Tilts Right
On Monday, July 21st, Instagram temporarily suspended the account of Zohran Mamdani, a New York State Assembly member and NYC mayoral candidate. The suspension, which lasted approximately 3 hours b…NYC Journals
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'License to Kill': New Report Finds Higher Homicide Rates in 'Stand Your Ground' States
A new report by Everytown for Gun Safety finds that states with "Stand Your Ground" laws have higher homicide rates. "These laws change the nature of self-defense, turning everyday disputes into deadly confrontations," the report says.
'License to Kill': New Report Finds Higher Homicide Rates in 'Stand Your Ground' States
"These laws change the nature of self-defense, turning everyday disputes into deadly confrontations," the report, compiled by Everytown for Gun Safety, says.stephen-prager (Common Dreams)
NVIDIA Makes More Hopper & Blackwell Header Files Open-Source
Last week NVIDIA open-sourced 12k lines of C header files for Blackwell GPUs to help in the open-source driver efforts, namely for Nouveau / NVK and the in-development NOVA Rust driver. On Friday they made public some additional header files for helping in the Blackwell and Hopper open-source driver enablement.
Amid Calls for Epstein Files, Trump Admin Releases 230,000 MLK Documents
One critic called the move "a desperate attempt to distract from the Trump administration's decision to block the release of the Epstein files."
Amid Calls for Epstein Files, Trump Admin Releases 230,000 MLK Documents
One critic called the move "a desperate attempt to distract from the Trump administration's decision to block the release of the Epstein files."brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
US | FCC to eliminate gigabit speed goal and scrap analysis of broadband prices
Analysis of broadband affordability deemed “extraneous” by FCC chair.
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Smoking avatars and online games: how big tobacco targets young people in the metaverse
Cigarettes and vapes are being smuggled into virtual spaces beyond the reach of regulation, creating a new battleground for health campaigners
The Great Canadian Rights Grab
To keep the US happy, Mark Carney’s Liberal government is pushing Bill C-2 — expanding surveillance, limiting refugee protections, and eroding privacy in the name of national security. It’s Canada’s own PATRIOT Act, minus the excuse of an actual attack.
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Private Equity Is Coming for Your Teeth
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FEMA Search and Rescue Chief Resigns Over Frustration at Slow Texas Flood Response: Report
FEMA Search and Rescue head resigns over slow response to Texas floods amid bureaucratic hurdles. Trump admin criticizes departure.
FEMA Search and Rescue Chief Resigns Over Frustration at Slow Texas Flood Response: Report
"At every turn they've made it more difficult for the agency and the people left here to do our job," a longtime FEMA employee told CNN.brad-reed (Common Dreams)
Tesla skepticism continues to grow, robotaxi demo fails to impress Austin
Worse, fewer and fewer consider the brand safe.
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UN Chief Says Nations Clinging to Fossil Fuels Are 'Sabotaging' Their Own Economies
"The clean energy future is no longer a promise. It's a fact," said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. "No government, no industry, no special interest can stop it."
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UN Chief Says Nations Clinging to Fossil Fuels Are 'Sabotaging' Their Own Economies
"The clean energy future is no longer a promise. It's a fact," said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. "No government, no industry, no special interest can stop it."jake-johnson (Common Dreams)
Famine Expert: Israel's Starvation of Gaza Most 'Minutely Designed and Controlled' Since WWII
"This is preventable starvation," said Alex de Waal. "It is entirely man-made."
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Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default
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Mamdani skewers racist critics with delightful video
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in reply to potustheplant • • •Brave was found to inject crypto referral links into your ~~clicks~~ url auto complete.
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Brave private browser accused of deceiving users over affiliate links
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in reply to AbidanYre • • •Uh... no? It just puts sponsored backgrounds when you open new tabs or windows notifications if you opt-in
It never replaced ads in websites afaik
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in reply to Electricd • • •ads.brave.com/
They're not actively replacing elements on a web page, but they're still getting paid to show you ads and you can opt in for some crypto nonsense.
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in reply to AbidanYre • • •Sure, so? It's still opt-in, and by default it sends the generated crypto money to creators and websites you visit
If you don't like it, don't enable it? They're pretty transparent about how it works overall
They have pretty much abandoned this feature anyways
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in reply to Electricd • • •It's opt-in for now, how many times do we have to play this game?
I'll keep using Firefox with uBo to actually block ads instead of a browser that's running its own ad delivery system.
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in reply to AbidanYre • • •Brave has a built in ad blocker
at this point you're just hating on brave for nothing
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in reply to Ada • • •Sure, that sucks, but the product is good
You can't always agree with everyone
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in reply to Ada • • •It's also just another flavor of chromium so it still helps Google maintain their monopoly.
Anyone trying to de-google needs to be using Firefox.
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in reply to Ada • • •Peter Thiel was also a major, early investor in the project.
That's another 'this one thing should let you know this is radioactive.'
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in reply to darkkite • • •It exists and therefore it's bad enough.
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It's fine as a browser and it does a good job at syncing across devices. Still my chrome based browser of choice.
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in reply to dream_weasel • • •Afaik chromium is capable pf being a browser. Does that also have syncing or is it not capable of that?
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in reply to Appoxo • • •This is debatable. i find some that people hate on AI and crypto regardless of it's implementation
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in reply to darkkite • • •Exactly this. They're acting braindead and disliking things for no valid reason
Just massively spreading misinformation
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in reply to nao • • •Doing anything requires the memorization of thousands of commands that must be formatted perfectly and are specific to your distribution, into a black box that rarely provides any feedback at all, and when it does it's extremely generic.
I'm sure my inbox will be blown up by delusional people claiming you don't need it but it's just not true.
The simple act of installing software is crazy complicated and different on every distro.
My current distro has 2 separate system update apps and I don't really know how to use either of them, nor do I understand why I need to use them at all. Why does the system need me to click buttons to make it go? Just do it in the background. Then as soon as it's done I get another popup 3 minutes later saying another package needs to be updated.
Hardware compatibility is a huge problem, fingerprint readers, WiFi, facial recognition, Bluetooth, etc. etc. Very few companies make computers with Linux compatibility being considered at all. Everything will have drivers day 1 on Windows and then they'll trickle down to Linux a year or two later.
Nvidia GPUs are by far and away the most popular and they're still very painful to use. And even though that's entirely Nvidia's fault, the problem remains.
I dislike Linux the least but there's no way I could recommend it to anyone who isn't a giant nerd who likes fixing computers.
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in reply to nao • • •Sadly, quite a few things. Here's a few:
- Application support; some popular software is built with Windows in mind.
- One-click installers; Software usually comes with user-friendly installation wizards. No command lines or dependency juggling. Also better compatibility woth past versions
- Driver availability; Linux is getting better, but Windows is superior
- Better peripheral support like for printers, webcams, game controllers.
- Gaming performance; although Linux is gaining ground, Windows is just better in this regard
- Media codecs and formats; again, Linux is getting better, but this isn't always an out-of-the-box experience
- Business integration; Windows plays nicely with enterprise tools like Active Directory, Microsoft 365, and legacy business apps.
Don't get me wrong. I use Linux as my daily driver. That also means I get frustrated on occasion when again I must consult man pages instead of just running a troubleshooter or fiddling with Nvidia drivers instead of just running the game.
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I'd argue with the installer point - if it's in the repo, and it almost always is for anything a newbie would be using, it's actually easier. Search, click, done. BUT...
Drivers though, specifically companies not supporting Linux drivers, is shit. I'm helping a friend transition to Linux and am dual-booting myself so I can help with the actual os available for troubleshooting. And fuck me, sound drivers fucking suck ass on Linux. It's because Creative is a bitch and won't make Linux drivers, but also apparently literally nobody is both running a creative card and anything above 2.0 speaker setup. I have two creative cards, a decade apart, neither works with my 5.1 speaker setup. FL and FR work, the rest are some sort of fucked and come from an incorrect speaker(s). One of these cards is like 15 years old now, and nobody has noticed or rectified it. And if I reboot straight from windows to Linux, the sound is mangled. I need to shut the system down and boot it cold. Then FL and FR work. Hours of troubleshooting last week got me absolutely no progress.
Then I need software for my Logitech g903 (there is 3rd party software available) that does profiles and switches on the fly based on the application in the foreground (crickets).
Then there is an issue where if my monitor goes to sleep, when I wake it up I get patches of graphical artifacts. On the 2D desktop. Every few seconds, for about a quarter of a second. Random location each time. Random size. I'm on a Radeon 7900 XTX, which isn't terribly new now. But the friend I'm helping, no issues at all with drivers or hardware. An older 6700 XT. But come the fuck on.
Both of us are on bazzite (I suggested it so they wouldn't nuke the system as they learn) so it's just Fedora silverblue with a few tweaks, not some out-there distro.
And, shit. If you need cellular connectivity on Linux, as far as I can tell you're fucked if you don't go the Ubuntu route. Debian doesn't work, Fedora doesn't work, Mint doesn't work, I went down a rabbit-hole and tried a dozen distros. I ended up with kubuntu, since I wanted kde, but I tried anything just to see what would work. This is on a modern ThinkPad, still under (extended) warranty. I thought ThinkPads and Linux were supposed to be like this holy-grail of free-as-in-freedom computing? Ugh.
So yeah if you have a basic system, aged a bit, nothing special, it works well. Take one step outside of that perfect-scenario bubble, and paaaaaain.
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in reply to Einar • • •To be fair, a lot of those are due to a Windows legacy of dominating the market, which isn't going to change until there are more people elsewhere. It's a bit of a catch-22, and yet even being a small percent use in desktop Linux has started to get distros that feel and run similar to Windows enough so people who don't dabble in Windows specific software don't miss it. It's also a bit much to weigh Windows as better in many of those above features when it still have its own issues often, even though it is the dominate and supported OS.
I laughed at your last part. I have never not had to do the same for Windows as I have for Linux when a problem pops up. Google the problem. Those troubleshooters are such a waste of time, and honestly the only time I've had an automated fix that worked to resolve a situation was in Linux via purging the old driver and reloading it. The Windows troubleshooter is like the first tier on a tech support line, where you tell them, yeah, I already did all that.
Ulrich
in reply to Einar • • •I mostly agree with you but this contradicts everything I've seen. Presumably you have evidence of this?
rakeshmondal
in reply to Einar • • •Doesn't Linux have pretty much every driver built into the kernel with the only notable exception being the NVIDIA closed source drivers. Even those drivers are a single command away from installation, it even configures itself correctly out of the box for Wayland support.
Novaling
in reply to Einar • • •Got burned by this recently, was trying to use MPV for playing a YT vid, and it had no video but had audio. Turns out Fedora comes with an open-source or smth version of H264 encoders, so I had to uninstall those packages for the official Cisco ones. But I was on atomic and it wasn't fun so I ran to forums for help.
Not sure if it's the driver or the kernel (maybe dual-booting? But it worked on both partitions originally...) but my Bluetooth is nuked on my Linux partition. I tried to do rfkill, btusb, systemctl, etc. and the only solution I got was to rollback to an older release of Fedora atomic because it's most likely a kernel issue. That just sucks man, having to be stuck on an older version to get my earbuds to work lol. I didn't like atomic and now I'm on reg KDE Fedora, so I'm truly fucked as that's not a rollback distro.
I still love using Fedora (every time I boot into Windows I cry) and it just makes me love my laptop like it's brand-new. Tinkering is fun to me, I'll literally sit at my desk and starve myself while trying to get something to work. But some days, I want my stuff to work with minimal tinkering, and not have to worry if it'll break when I really need it down the line.
Passerby6497
in reply to nao • • •Graphics drivers. I can't say I ever had a graphics driver update in Windows that rendered my system borderline unusable, but I 100% blame Nvidia for me running windows until recently. I tried a dozen times over a decade and ended up back on windows when the Nvidia update trashed my system and I got sick of dealing with it.
On team green and running Bazzite with no issues
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in reply to Beacon • • •What? When was the last time you tried Linux?
With flatpak, it’s usually a one-click process to install anything nowadays.
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in reply to Ulrich • • •I said “usually”, and I’m talking about mainstream distros.
Also the original comment says “the whole OS is not ready for the general public”, which is also vague. I don’t expect the “general public” to install Gentoo and suffer from this issue.
Ulrich
in reply to voodooattack • • •They don't all have that either
voodooattack
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in reply to voodooattack • • •TheNamlessGuy
in reply to voodooattack • • •Except:
1) Most of them are bundled terribly, forcing you to use flatseal or similar to make it work - way to much to do and understand for the average user
2) Roughly half of all the programs I install are flatpaks, and the other half are appimages. They both largely work the same, but the fact that there's a difference will be crippling to the average user. Especially if you ask them to choose between one or the other
3) Believe it or not, a lot of people are not comfortable with the app store mentality flatpak seems built around. Googling "chrome download" is far more ingrained in the average person. Aside from browsers and projects of similar scope, this is difficult to achieve on linux
Can 800 year old grandma Doris use the feature? Can the average person who writes comments on YouTube videos? Minion meme posting facebook aunts? If not, it's not ready for mainstream.
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in reply to TheNamlessGuy • • •While I agree with most of what you said, typical users won’t run into these issues unless they’re doing something more technical (e.g installing blender or something), in which case they can ask for help.
I don’t think these people can install Windows or are pros at using it either, and in which case it’s the responsibility of whoever installed the OS to guide them through it a little like I did with my parents (they’re in their 80s and they’ve been using Linux for the past five years just fine), and I imagine those kind of people to only care about browsing the web and maybe viewing a PDF every once in a while.
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in reply to hisao • • •I'm the opposite of both of you. The build quality is good and the OS is good. I love having a familiat UNIX system while also having a polished desktop environment that supports 4k scaling very well (though the polish has been lacking a lot lately)
The issue for me is the insane price of their computers and the fact that you can't (officially) install MacOS on your own hardware. I have a Linux desktop and a MBP but I'd run MacOS on both if it was officially supported
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in reply to muusemuuse • • •muusemuuse
in reply to Ulrich • • •I will give you the RAM and SSD capacities are atrociously priced. USBC is perfectly acceptable for the people apple is targeting. Nobody is trying to use a MacBook as a server. Ignore the “pro” name in any consumer electronic device. It has nothing to do with anything other than marketing, and that’s not exclusive to apple. Apple did give up on the 8GB bullshit already though.
You need to take a closer look at how the M-series chips work and why they work they way they do. There are design considerations in how PC does things and Apple does things and they are not 1 to 1. What makes sense the PC world doesn’t always make sense int he Mac world.
Apple does a lot of anti-consumer bullshit which we should absolutely club them over the head for, but many of the things they pulled off with the M-series Macs were NOT possible with traditional PC methodologies. One thing’s for sure though, the hardware performs and it does so with very little energy. It’s so great a difference the entire industry is changing course to try to outdo Apple. They eventually will too, but they haven’t yet. They are just cheaper.
Ulrich
in reply to muusemuuse • • •It's literally called a "pro", who do you think they're targeting?
I do, thanks to Apple. It doesn't make it any less shameful or ridiculous.
You're going to have to elaborate because I already have and I don't understand what bearing that has on this discussion.
You shouldn't "club them over the head", you should just stop buying their trash. That's literally the only thing that will work.
muusemuuse
in reply to Ulrich • • •Daves garage actually had a good video on the shared memory architecture recently that gives some insights on why apple designed this way they did. Don’t dismiss “different” as “trash.” You sound like an idiot when you do and it makes it difficult for adults to take you seriously. PC and Mac are designed with different goals in mind, so they tend to make different choices in their engineering, and you aren’t going to like every decision either side makes.
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in reply to muusemuuse • • •Shared memory is different to unified memory, AMD's got an implementation of the later with their "Ryzen AI MAX+" (ugh) systems, does quite well in benchmarks.
It also doesn't hurt that Apple puts the RAM on the SoC and gives it a truckload of bandwidth. DDR5 is about 70GB/s, meanwhile the M4 Max is around 540GB/s.
muusemuuse
in reply to The_Decryptor • • •I didn't know AMD had managed to switch over to unified memory too. Managing that while remaining x86 compatible is quite an achievement!
I think the next big thing will be when storage becomes as fast as ram and they unify that too, getting rid of separate RAM. Working with data directly in place could have massive efficiency boosts. But the industry has been trying to get it that fast for many years and still not succeeded. And once they do, separate SSDs wouldn't be possible, at least not as a primary storage, so it wont be an advance that makes sense for every use case.
The_Decryptor
in reply to muusemuuse • • •Yeah "universal memory" is the holy grail, seemingly as hard to find as it as well.
The articles on Wikipedia about the related tech is great, it'll mention something like "Developers expect commercialisation to happen relatively soon" and then link to an article from 2004, or research papers from the 1980s.
Ulrich
in reply to muusemuuse • • •Cornelius_Wangenheim
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in reply to Cornelius_Wangenheim • • •Novaling
in reply to Ulrich • • •I think that was @Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world's main point. Apple is great if you're a normie, but if you even think about tinkering with things, have an unusual issue on your system, or creatures forbid... want to play games, you're fucked.
My mom is an Apple diehard who has used Android and Windows in the past (2000s), but got burned by Window's shitty security and really only switched to iPhone due to iMessage being more reliable than SMS at the time. She knows a little bit of tech stuff (I guess I get it from her), but overall, she's a "normie" compared to me, so Apple (90% of the time) does what she needs.
If this was me about 3 weeks ago, I wouldn't have debated this as hard. But recently my grandma had to call my mom and I to help her get her iPhone pictures to work on her Windows laptop, and she almost thought she downloaded a virus when trying to get an HEIC app. Apple's asinine proprietary file format is a plague on society, and I hated when I had to send pictures from my iPhone to my Google drive for school in HS. That's not simple, and now we have to help grandparents understand that they need to screenshot their camera pictures or else literally no website will take their damn photos.
The little things add-up for me, and so yeah, it's nice having something that "just works", but only if you literally accept everything and never complain about any of their choices.
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in reply to tane69 • • •70% but yeh.
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in reply to joe_archer • • •Interestingly, the percent of Windows goes down if you look at just the United States, where it's only 63% of OSes. And it also goes down similarly when you set it to the UK, or North America, or almost any other region. But it goes up to around 73% when you limit it to Europe or Asia. Weird, why is it higher in those areas?
(Click "edit chart" to pick a different region)
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in reply to alk • • •Phantom Dust is distributed solely via the Microsoft Store, which requires a Windows environment to function. Compatibility layers such as Wine and Proton do not support the Microsoft Store, as it depends on Windows-specific services and APIs that are not replicated in these layers.
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in reply to darkkite • • •Grappling7155
in reply to estutweh • • •Zorque
in reply to Grappling7155 • • •Any workplace with halfway decent IT will disable it by default.
Which may be about 50% of workplaces, but still.
Grappling7155
in reply to Zorque • • •BrianTheeBiscuiteer
in reply to moe90 • • •Running Linux would block this feature too.
Just reason sayin.
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in reply to BrianTheeBiscuiteer • • •Actually, Linux doesn't block windows, it just isn't windows.
Just reason saying.
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in reply to thann • • •Heck, wipe the entire disk!
(based on a real life experience)
(windows just kept standing no matter what partition i deleted so i wiped the disk clean)
Novaling
in reply to thann • • •I recently decided to switch from using Atomic Fedora to reg KDE Fedora (cause tinkering and bypassing atomic features got on my nerves), and I almost went through with wiping everything and only having Linux installed. And then I realized I probably wouldn't be able to do some tests for college cause they use anti-cheating software (lockdown browser) which they probably wouldn't like if I ran it in a VM or wine...
But man, once I'm out of college, I'm probably wiping Windows for good! Also gonna factory reset that partition so it at least takes way less space on my drive.
(Side note: the other hesitation is that I'm 90% kernel updates nuked Bluetooth for me around March (It worked when I rolled back to January/February releases) and I do have zoom classes sometimes. Like, do I just have to buy a Bluetooth dongle to deal with this?)
LadyAutumn
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in reply to LadyAutumn • • •LadyAutumn
in reply to eclipse • • •Oh, wow we have had different experiences haha. It was a very steep learning curve at first as I have no background in programming. But it acted like a motivator to learn more.
I love having my operating system be exactly what I want it to be. Doing exactly what I want it to do. And I love that Hyprland depends on Wayland. Id never go back to X compositor again. Its forced me to learn a lot about the future of Unix-like computing.
Like it sounds kinda sad to say this haha but I love when my OS breaks. 99% of the time I already have a very good idea why and will have it fixed in just a fee minutes, that 1% of the time ive learned a lot about figuring out what the issue was and fixing it. My OS almost never breaks now as ive worked out so many of the bugs over time. But initially I won't lie there was a definite learning curve.
I think part of it is that computing on my personal PC is very hobbyist for me. Like I dont work on it and I dont play competitive online games. That means that I'm free to use it how I want and make it work how I like it to. So Hyprland suits my needs well. I can customize it to my liking, make it pretty, make it functional, and grow my confidence in Linux. I used to hate command line. Now if there is a terminal/CLI application I will take it first every time because my Terminal is so customized to my liking. Save on disk space, compute power, and dealing with clunky menus and inconsistent design.
This is what I mean about Hyprland making me love computing again. It just made me see my computer in a totally different light and has reinvigorated my long dormant passion for it.
ohshit604
in reply to BrianTheeBiscuiteer • • •Keep In mind that you can still be captured by this feature indirectly, ~~Discord for example certainly doesn’t intend to do anything to hide your messages, they recently went public so in their eyes more tracking the better.~~
I’m thankful to have made a feature request to Element/Matrix asking for them to prevent this exact thing.
Combat Windows “Recall” Feature With DRM
BugZappa (GitHub)unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov
in reply to ohshit604 • • •Discord... Still isn't public?
They're certainly talking about it but they haven't announced a date yet.
Having said that, element and matrix are both more privacy respecting so I do agree with the recommendation in general.
ohshit604
in reply to unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov • • •Apologies, I striked the lines out of my previous comment. It simply was an example of how you still can be captured.
Pamasich
in reply to BrianTheeBiscuiteer • • •Tbf, anything that isn't AI Windows blocks the feature. Including regular Windows.
People just need to not fall for the scam edition and they don't have to deal with this shit.
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in reply to Zorque • • •Codilingus
in reply to Almacca • • •I'm in the same boat waiting for Linux to be a bit more "feature complete," for me to daily.
In the mean time, check out W11 Enterprise IoT LTSC. It's the secret menu item equivalent W11 they don't wanna sell to consumers. It feels like a fresh W7 install with no AI, no bloat, no bullshit, and can even disable all telemetry. Only comes with Edge and Defender.
massgrave.dev has the iso's and permanent activators.
Edit: Adding that you can install the App Store and Xbox App to make use of Game Pass.
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in reply to Almacca • • •I’m in a similar boat, windows for work, linux for personal.
But since I’m freelance, it’s annoying juggling 2 computers. Just waiting for a single app to either work in wine or get a Linux port.
Almacca
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in reply to Almacca • • •When they rolled out the update that removed the toggle for it, I remember seeing steps for how to disable it via regedit or tools which would do that for you, all with the warnings of future updates may re-enable it.
I haven’t moved from W10 yet so I’m kinda ootl on it, but that’s what I remember
Ulrich
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in reply to moe90 • • •You might say that they are being so very... Brave.
🎤 tap tap ... is this thing on?
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in reply to bdonvr • • •“It’s a small club and you ~~ain’t~~ in it”
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in reply to x00z • • •This is my setup, and I never actually use ungoogled chromium.
If I have some kind of issue that I need to work around immediately rather then figure out, I usually just open Firefox and try that.
HorseFD
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in reply to CosmoNova • • •The thing is, Firefox follows web standards. Chrome doesn’t always and websites put in custom code that works only with Chrome.
I’d rather use the browser that follows standards.
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in reply to John Richard • • •What does that have to do with the browser? Last I checked, browsers aren't transphobic.
You do you, but I personally refuse to make product choices based on the person who makes it. Brave is the least bad chromium browser, so I use it as a backup to my main Gecko-based browser. I'm not a fan of Mozilla either, but that's irrelevant since I pick my software based on what it does, not based on the management of the company that builds it.
NewNewAugustEast
in reply to sugar_in_your_tea • • •I would not choose to use a product made by people I disagree with but leaving that aside:
Is it the least bad? Why not degoogled chrome? Or chromium? Even vivaldi seems like a better choice.
sugar_in_your_tea
in reply to NewNewAugustEast • • •Ad blocking mostly. That's literally all I need in a chromium browser, because I only use it on a handful of sites that don't work properly in Firefox.
Chromium is also okay, but no ad blocker. I have that installed as well in the really unlikely case that the ad blocker gets in the way.
99% of my browsing is on a Firefox browser, and 99% of the rest is on Brave. I use it so infrequently the "time saved" metric is a merely seconds.
Engywook
in reply to sugar_in_your_tea • • •sugar_in_your_tea
in reply to Engywook • • •I don't like Mozilla either, but here are my priorities in a web browser:
Firefox ticks all of them, and my issues with Mozilla as an org don't really come into play. I use a fork on my phone, but I use Firefox on my laptop and desktop because I trust the binaries coming from my Linux distribution maintainers (part of 4).
Electricd
in reply to sugar_in_your_tea • • •Brave also ticks all of them?
at this point, Firefox's development is not very much more open than Chromium's
sugar_in_your_tea
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in reply to sugar_in_your_tea • • •Frellwit
in reply to sugar_in_your_tea • • •It's pretty sleazy. Ungoogled Chromium or Vivaldi are probably less sleazy, if at all.
RiQuY
in reply to Frellwit • • •CosmoNova
in reply to Frellwit • • •sugar_in_your_tea
in reply to Frellwit • • •The only two there that bother me are the affiliate code thing (reminds me of the Honey drama) and installing extra software without consent. The first was a bad call and probably related with how their ad replacement stuff works (if anything, they should merely axe affiliate links; Firefox has that as an option), and this"solution" to the latter is pretty odd to me:
Why would a browser need admin rights in the first place? I haven't used Windows in well over a decade, so I don't think that particular one would be an issue for me.
The rest can be grouped as:
My options for chromium browsers are:
Since ad blocking and FOSS are my prerequisites, Brave basically wins by default.
Petter1
in reply to sugar_in_your_tea • • •Just block with unlock 🙉 why choose browser based on a ad block feature that is worse (injecting own ads/adware and therefore trying to dictate who is allowed to grab your attention) than the ad blocking extension?
I recommend Firefox, due to best compatibility with uBlock (fuck manifest v3) and additionally have a DNS filter in your network, like pihole or adguard.
On the go, use wireguard VPN to always be digitally home, and get your ads blocked (as well as tracking organisations) like that.
sugar_in_your_tea
in reply to Petter1 • • •So do I, that's my main. Brave is my backup for the handful of sites that don't like Firefox.
szymon
in reply to John Richard • • •He could be next husband of Ivanka Trump - I don't care
If he provide good service for me - browser which fits my needs. I would even send him money every day
Kris
in reply to szymon • • •mitrosus
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in reply to Kris • • •Kris
in reply to mitrosus • • •In my country, one of the most successful supermarkets is run by a fascist and he uses part of his fortune to finance our local fascist party, which is gaining strength every year by the way. Do we support fascism by buying in that supermarket? What if we suddenly started to boycott the supermarket to hell?
My point is that they earn profits by using their services and in today's society money is power. And from where the CEO got his power? From the millions of people with the mindset of "if it benefits me I don't care".
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in reply to kepix • • •Librewolf is too restrictive and not suitable for everyday browsing. I hate it.
never tested cromite
kepix
in reply to Electricd • • •Electricd
in reply to kepix • • •Yeah but for example fingerprinting is either fully on or fully off
Switching defaults hurt fingerprinting more than it helps so at that point might as well stay with the default firefox
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in reply to peetabix • • •Alaknár
in reply to That Weird Vegan • • •It's actually super simple: even though the community is called "Technology", there's A LOT of tech-illiterate fear mongering going on here. People behave like Microsoft is trying to spy on them, seemingly oblivious to the fact that Recall is:
There's nothing malicious about it. Functionality is questionable, but acting like it's malware is just showing ignorance.
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in reply to Ensign_Crab • • •So, you're saying that browsing history, in literally any browser on the market, is a bug not a feature?
Oh, wait, I actually missed that! How is something that you need to purposefully turn on "surreptitious"? Like... Holy fuck, people, this is supposed to be the community of tech-literate people, so maybe stop fear-mongering in read about Recall a bit? It's opt-in, it's limited to a (as of now) extremely small number of NPU-carrying devices, it's offline.
If you don't like it, just don't fucking turn it on.
Ensign_Crab
in reply to Alaknár • • •Alaknár
in reply to Ensign_Crab • • •Recall sits in a secure vault behind BitLocker encryption secured with Windows Hello.
BitLocker+Windows Hello gets broken through, the world has a much larger problem than some screenshots, because that's the foundation of, like, 80% of enterprise security.
If you're afraid that an attacker sits on your PC and just waits for you to unlock the vault, then you already have the PC breached to the point where they don't have to do that, they already have access to everything else.
If you're afraid of the feature in anyway, don't use it.
Ensign_Crab
in reply to Alaknár • • •Alaknár
in reply to Ensign_Crab • • •Ensign_Crab
in reply to Alaknár • • •Alaknár
in reply to Ensign_Crab • • •Ensign_Crab
in reply to Alaknár • • •Times may have. Microsoft has not.
Appoxo
in reply to moe90 • • •blobchoice
in reply to moe90 • • •yeahiknow3
in reply to blobchoice • • •Electricd
in reply to yeahiknow3 • • •They shit on it because just like Mozilla, they made some shit decision by making some shady partnerships, and because the CEO is transphobic/homophobic/can't remember
Apart from the usual bullshit and antifeatures it has, it's still a great browser choice, just like Firefox
Alaknár
in reply to Electricd • • •"Just like Mozilla".
Let's compare.
Mozilla: installed a closed-source plugin once, and then apologised for it.
Brave CEO: actively supports homophobic organisations, donates money to them, injects affiliate links to stores, whenever given a microphone will say something bigoted and homophobic.
Yeah, it's totally the same exact issue with both browsers!
Electricd
in reply to Alaknár • • •Brave: injected affiliate links once, then apologised for it too. Developped a search engine to be less dependent on big companies
Mozilla is spending money like crazy, just like Wikipedia, has little to no democratic system which makes people fork the stuff they make, and prefer to use the money from donation to buy trips all over the world to educate about privacy and shit while they proceed to keep adding more telemetry and BS in firefox
They also make it close to impossible to install plugins outside their plugins website, which I've heard has some strict rules and take a lot of time to approve stuff. Closed garden bullshit again
Brave browser CEO apologizes for automatically adding affiliate links to cryptocurrency URLs
Kim Lyons (The Verge)Vanilla_PuddinFudge
in reply to Electricd • • •I just think the idea of your alternative being partially coded by the company you're attempting to avoid is a little stupid. I don't give a shit who he is. I barely give a shit who runs Mozilla.
Brave and every other Chromium fork are at the mercy of Google to exist as an alternative to Google, which to me, defeats the point. Every bit of their effort would be better spent rolling their money over to donate to browser development rather than band-aids.
SpaceScotsman
in reply to moe90 • • •moe90
in reply to SpaceScotsman • • •SpaceScotsman
in reply to moe90 • • •Womble
in reply to SpaceScotsman • • •redjard
in reply to Womble • • •And for training, copyrighted stuff is already everywhere; AI tools seem to be limited on the output side rather than raw training data.
Womble
in reply to redjard • • •Sure it wouldnt be rational to care about DRM being broken a small amount allowing limited amount of copyright material to be copied.
What do you think their response would be?
ScoffingLizard
in reply to SpaceScotsman • • •thevoidzero
in reply to SpaceScotsman • • •Petter1
in reply to SpaceScotsman • • •rozodru
in reply to moe90 • • •vzqq
in reply to rozodru • • •TheGrandNagus
in reply to vzqq • • •An unrepentant homophobe who accused people who dislike him for his homophobic views/actions as being closed-minded and bigoted for disliking him over it.
You can't make this shit up
Electricd
in reply to rozodru • • •It's probably the best chromium browser out there
Firefox has done shit too
sadly we don't have a lot of choice, but they're one of the least worse
Leon
in reply to Electricd • • •Electricd
in reply to Leon • • •It's not that bad. Sure, having more choice is good, but it's not as life threatening as you make it seem
Using android and stock ROMs is a bigger problem
Leon
in reply to Electricd • • •I think it's a compounding issue, primarily of Google products just kind of being the "default."
Google pays to be the primary search engine in Firefox, on iOS, and sets themselves as the default on their operating systems. They, wherever possible also set their browser as default. Yes, Chromium is open source, but they have the ultimate final say, and no one seems to have the interest in forking it. This puts Google in a similar position that Microsoft was in in the 90s and early 00s, where they can essentially hijack the web and force their ideas through whether others want to or not.
We saw this with Google forcing Manifest v3, all Chromium-based browsers essentially just had to follow suit. That was just Manifest v3 however, who's to say what else they'll do?
Then there's my tinfoil hat worry that Google essentially being the window to the web for so many people, on an OS, browser, and discoverability level is just overall a cause for worry. That's not even considering their communications and media platforms.
Electricd
in reply to Leon • • •I'm pretty sure if Firefox/Mozilla decides to change their policy on something, most forks of firefox will have no choice but follow the same path
afaik all firefox forks are really small, just like chromium forks
Mozilla might not have as much conflicting interests though, I admit it
Leon
in reply to Electricd • • •Petter1
in reply to Electricd • • •Perfect is the enemy of good.
Gecko is still way more sympathetic than chromium, to me. Even if it is not perfect either.
kadu
in reply to Electricd • • •Firefox has injected my URLs with affiliate codes?
Electricd
in reply to kadu • • •rozodru
in reply to Electricd • • •Aceticon
in reply to moe90 • • •As does Linux.
Krudler
in reply to Aceticon • • •pirat
in reply to Krudler • • •Krudler
in reply to pirat • • •Alaknár
in reply to Aceticon • • •Aceticon
in reply to Alaknár • • •Alaknár
in reply to Aceticon • • •Vanilla_PuddinFudge
in reply to Alaknár • • •ipkpjersi
in reply to Alaknár • • •Alaknár
in reply to ipkpjersi • • •ipkpjersi
in reply to Alaknár • • •But, you can't disable Recall, that's the point...
You can just not use Windows and use Linux instead.
Alaknár
in reply to ipkpjersi • • •Well... Technically you're correct - because the feature is not out yet.
No idea WTF you people are reading here, but for a "Technology" community, the comments here are just plain ridiculous...
ByteOnBikes
in reply to Alaknár • • •mitrosus
Unknown parent • • •arararagi
in reply to moe90 • • •Petter1
in reply to arararagi • • •Geodad
in reply to moe90 • • •Alaknár
in reply to Geodad • • •Syltti
in reply to Alaknár • • •ByteOnBikes
in reply to Alaknár • • •Chulk
Unknown parent • • •3dcadmin
in reply to moe90 • • •But I digress, Win 11 here and Brave. My choices, for lots of reasons. Lots of linux boxes as well though. Each to their own and all that
sfjvvssss
in reply to moe90 • • •FarraigePlaisteaċ
in reply to sfjvvssss • • •Petter1
in reply to FarraigePlaisteaċ • • •onnekas
in reply to sfjvvssss • • •If the post is worth to discuss then why should I not upvote the post and then say that I disagree in the comments.
If we all down vote those posts nobody will see it (apart of those who sort by controversial) and there will be no discussion.
explodicle
in reply to onnekas • • •If the software in question is bad, then I'd like to reduce visibility of the post while explaining why in the comments.
Brave is connected to the BAT pay-to-surf scam. Its CEO donates to homophobic causes.
Trihilis
in reply to sfjvvssss • • •The post itself is reasonable quality and informative so I find it upvote worthy. If a post is low quality or a shit post then I downvote.
To me the karma system is about quality. Not an "I agree/disagree" button.
For comments I only down vote obvious trolls, bigots/racism etc.
onnekas
in reply to Trihilis • • •macaw_dean_settle
in reply to Trihilis • • •JohnEdwa
in reply to Trihilis • • •That's how it was meant to be. The original Rediquette from over 15 years ago has:
"Vote. If you think something contributes to conversation, upvote it. If you think it does not contribute to the subreddit it is posted in or is off-topic in a particular community, downvote it.
[Please don't] Downvote an otherwise acceptable post because you don't personally like it. Think before you downvote and take a moment to ensure you're downvoting someone because they are not contributing to the community dialogue or discussion. If you simply take a moment to stop, think and examine your reasons for downvoting, rather than doing so out of an emotional reaction, you will ensure that your downvotes are given for good reasons."
But 99% of people definitely use them as an Agree/Disagree button.
nutsack
in reply to sfjvvssss • • •people just scroll around up voting headlines that they think sound good or support their identity
I try to counter this by randomly downvoting everything
Atomic
in reply to sfjvvssss • • •Most people never bother to read anything beyond the title of the post. Let alone click the link to the article.
Now, i don't know how everyone sees up/down votes. But I always thought that content and comments that is relevant and promotes discussion is good. And comments that aren't are bad.
Rather than a measure of others opinions.
Demdaru
in reply to sfjvvssss • • •MaXsteri
in reply to sfjvvssss • • •I upvote the post because I support the feature, and would like to see more browsers implement more privacy focused features.
I upvote the anti-Brave comments, because fuck Brave.
Tattorack
in reply to moe90 • • •Alaknár
in reply to Tattorack • • •WolfLink
in reply to Alaknár • • •Honestly it largely is.
Personally I like sharing crash reports, but even then, the user should be able to turn that off if you like.
Telemetry should be 100% opt-in.
Alaknár
in reply to WolfLink • • •I mean, by definition, it isn't.
It's anonymous and not malicious in nature. It's a diagnostic and engagement measuring tool.
WolfLink
in reply to Alaknár • • •I think it is useful to send crash reports, but the user should have power over it (see: when macOS generates a crash report, it asks the user if they would like to send it)
That is your data they are taking to make money off of without your consent, and I consider that malicious. There are ways to do that with consent. See: Steam’s annual hardware survey
Alaknár
in reply to WolfLink • • •I mean... They're a for-profit company, so literally anything they do is to make money.
But it's not "my data", it's anonymous. The "engagement" info is in relation to features. That's why some features are removed - because nobody uses them. Or rather: not enough people use them to warrant maintenance.
Tattorack
in reply to Alaknár • • •Alaknár
in reply to Tattorack • • •Because I have a functioning brain.
Malware is designed to hurt you by extracting your personal information or resources.
Telemetry is designed to give developers feedback about product/functionality usage and is anonymous.
I'm not, and it's not. Unlike you, I actually checked what data telemetry gathers and I'm perfectly fine with it. It's inconsequential and anonymous.
pogmommy
in reply to Alaknár • • •Haha, sure thing William
Alaknár
in reply to pogmommy • • •Are you a tech-illiterate person?
If not, explain how is it malicious.
kepix
in reply to Alaknár • • •Alaknár
in reply to kepix • • •ThirdConsul
in reply to Alaknár • • •Well, semantically yes, not all telemetry is spyware. However regarding Windows telemetry it's indistinguishable from spyware - you have no idea nor control over the data gathered, measured and processed.
The crux is that Windows telemetry is opt out, opting out can't be done during installation, and historically opting out wasn't sticky. Additionally some Windows telemetry is still being sent despite opting out.
That makes Windows telemetry fulfill all spyware criteria.
Alaknár
in reply to ThirdConsul • • •Ah, so you're another one of those fear-mongers?
Here's the Required Diagnostic Events Fields (required telemetry) documentation.
Keeping in mind that it's anonymous - which parts of this are you so vehemently against sending to Microsoft?
The shittiest spyware in history, I guess, considering it's all anonymous...
Required diagnostic events and fields for Windows 11, version 24H2 - Windows Privacy
learn.microsoft.comFijxu
in reply to Alaknár • • •Alaknár
in reply to Fijxu • • •ifmu
in reply to Alaknár • • •Microsoft is known for making things “optional” at first then eventually forcing it down everyone’s throats. Removing offline accounts is one of them.
It’s not so much the technology itself is malware, but its behavior replicates that of malware.
Agent641
in reply to ifmu • • •Alaknár
in reply to ifmu • • •Right. So you're all panicking just in case.
That's what's being swept under the rug as "alarmists being loud".
ifmu
in reply to Alaknár • • •Alaknár
in reply to ifmu • • •The lock is there. The whole thing is encrypted.
If they somehow go through encryption, they won't just have the EU on their arses, governments of the entire world will be after them, because they trust that this encryption system makes their data secure.
veni_vedi_veni
in reply to Alaknár • • •Optional like how it reminds me every 3 days that it wants my info for "customization" purposes, and I can only sleep the notification for another 3 days instead of telling it to fuck off?
They have been so predatory, at this point no one should see anything they do as benefiting end users.
Alaknár
in reply to veni_vedi_veni • • •If it does that, outrage will be understandable.
Getting outraged about something they said will be 100% optional and hasn't even released yet is just childish.
Landless2029
in reply to Alaknár • • •Alaknár
in reply to Landless2029 • • •Landless2029
in reply to Alaknár • • •Until a windows update kicks in and somehow turns it on for the world. thanks but no thanks. I'll be disabling this not with a reg key but with local policy or DSC if I have to use a windows machine for personal again.
I switched to Linux 2 months ago.
Alaknár
in reply to Landless2029 • • •I don't know if this is a regional thing, but I've been using Windows since 3.11 and have NEVER had ONE instance of an update randomly turning on something that I've turned off before.
Doomsider
in reply to Alaknár • • •Alaknár
in reply to Doomsider • • •"Look at this fossil thinking it's still 1990", I guess?
Mate, did you miss how 30 years have passed? How the world change? Can you even begin to imagine the fine the EU would slap without a second thought on MS if they tried pulling something like suddenly grabbing these screenshots from users' devices?
Doomsider
in reply to Alaknár • • •I will pass on being your mate. I don't like shills.
I am curious though, what do boots taste like?
Alaknár
in reply to Doomsider • • •Doomsider
in reply to Alaknár • • •Already told you I don't want to be your mate. Maybe learn what consent is.
Also, go play devil's advocate somewhere else. You suck at it.
Tattorack
in reply to Alaknár • • •Alaknár
in reply to Tattorack • • •ILikeBoobies
in reply to Alaknár • • •I believe they are talking about Windows, an OS that is spyware and no one should use
An example of Windows being spyware not standard telemetry is the Recall feature. A feature that doesn’t just tell you how the OS is used but actually takes screenshots every few seconds
Alaknár
in reply to ILikeBoobies • • •Of, ffs, grow up.
You have no clue what you're talking about, do you?
Recall only works on devices with an NPU. Do you know why? Because it runs locally. It's got NOTHING to do with telemetry, because it does NOT send data to Microsoft.
ILikeBoobies
in reply to Alaknár • • •Show code or gtfo
Alaknár
in reply to ILikeBoobies • • •LOL, this is hilarious 😁
Imagine believing they can sneak gigabytes of network traffic without anyone noticing just because you can't read the code! 😁
ILikeBoobies
in reply to Alaknár • • •They can process it locally to your point and send txt files of passwords/sensitive info
However, they don’t have to send anything while such a terrible feature is new. They just have to wait until enough retards accept such a feature
Alaknár
in reply to ILikeBoobies • • •MysteriousSophon21
in reply to moe90 • • •Alaknár
in reply to MysteriousSophon21 • • •Holy shit, what a comment!
It's not, it's about Recall.
It doesn't. Smar App Control does code validation and reputation check. Recall makes screenshots, OCR's them and keeps them in an encrypted vault for the user to interact with.
It's not, you can turn both off at any time.
It's not, it fundamentally is NOT, because it doesn't log any keystrokes. SAC isn't even in the picture here, while Recall literally only makes screenshots, runs OCR and encrypts that.
Fuck me, where do you people get this bullshit from? It used to be "oh no, Microsoft will be making screenshots of your activity and sending them to their servers" not so long ago which, while still bullshit, was at least in the same ballpark as what Recall does.
Now you're throwing SAC into the mix somehow?
silasmariner
in reply to Alaknár • • •Booboofinger
in reply to moe90 • • •PalmTreeIsBestTree
in reply to moe90 • • •flop_leash_973
in reply to moe90 • • •kerrigan778
in reply to moe90 • • •Stop using Brave Browser - by Corbin Davenport
Corbin Davenport (The Spacebar)3dcadmin
in reply to kerrigan778 • • •My clients couldn't care less about what the CEO does, heck they still think facebook is the dogs danglies and youtube is cutting edge plus Netflix is the best streaming service.\
Fighting that is way harder than then trying to explain that some software is worse than others. Heck plenty still use Photoshop because they don't understand that alternatives exist and "everyone at work uses it"
Noxy
in reply to moe90 • • •NoodlePoint
in reply to moe90 • • •3dcadmin
in reply to moe90 • • •ArmchairAce1944
in reply to moe90 • • •Gemini24601
in reply to ArmchairAce1944 • • •ArmchairAce1944
in reply to Gemini24601 • • •wolframhydroxide
in reply to ArmchairAce1944 • • •I recently switched, and would be happy to give whatever rudimentary pointers I can. I've found that Linux mint is the best option for me. You can also easily flash it onto a USB and try it out to confirm compatibility.
The biggest things are these:
1) you have to make sure to backup anything you want, because the installation wipes the hard drive.
2) you must (usually) completely erase the windows partition, since the windows updater will usually bork the Linux install the moment you try to boot windows.
3) you should turn off SecureBoot and bitlocker before you attempt an installation.
4) rather than dual-booting windows with Linux, it is comparatively simple to set up a Virtual Machine running windows inside Linux.
5) if you're getting really serious about privacy, you're going to have a TON of services that you may be unable to access, because they are full of trackers and spyware. Baby steps are recommended before trying to make a clean break from all telemetry, tracking and spyware.if you use an android, try installing TrackerControl from f-droid (or, for one that doesn't break as much stuff, Duckduckgo's app tracking protection) and enable it. You'll begin to see just how many calls to add, data brokers, telemetry, and other shit gets caught, and DDG doesn't even touch all the google spyware.
ArmchairAce1944
in reply to wolframhydroxide • • •I gave been wanting to go on linux mint for almost a year. Its time I fucking did it.
Edit: I have been doing a lot for privacy, but it just isn't enough. For example I wanted to use venice.ai... but I didn't just use a tutamail email, I even used a prepaid credit card. I live in canada where you don't need to attach your name to a prepaid card, meaning it is as anonymous as possible if you want to buy something with a card (and yes, I paid for it in cash and it was activated by the store).
wolframhydroxide
in reply to ArmchairAce1944 • • •ArmchairAce1944
in reply to wolframhydroxide • • •wolframhydroxide
in reply to ArmchairAce1944 • • •TonyTonyChopper
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Unknown parent • • •Plato, The Republic bk. 1, 347c
BackgrndNoize
in reply to moe90 • • •Sivecano
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