[-] [email protected] 19 points 12 hours ago

The Tea app is agnostic. While its purpose and main use case was made for the safety of women in the dating scene, it was inevitably used to spread exaggerated or misleading information about otherwise innocent men. Imagine being a privacy-conscious individual, and breaking up with a toxic woman. She could go on to spread lies about you and even upload pictures of you to the reverse image search/ai. So even if you were doing everything right from a privacy standpoint, you’d still end up in someone’s private database, subjected to ai training, shared with the government, or who knows what. While I do see the purpose of apps like these, they can effectively take away someone’s privacy/dignity without them even knowing about it. Now imagine being a 4channer, someone probably even more privacy-conscious than lemmings, and possibly experiencing mental disorders like paranoid schizophrenia or autism; of course they’re drawn to hacking an app that would destroy their privacy. They are not sane individuals, so this event really was inevitable.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

You can’t block all of Windows spyware. The best case of action would be to install an alternative operating system like Linux or a BSD-derivative. It’s counter-intuitive to “fuck Microsoft” when you are still using their OS.

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Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds have apparently never met in person before, despite their pseudo-rivalry.

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“Elite universities are rife with communism, socialism, transgenderism…”?

“[professors] teach students who and what to hate”?

“[leftists] want a new America opposed to the Founders’ ideas”?

Maybe a little exaggerated?

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I am being forced into installing Life360 on my phone, which as you all probably know, is a massive privacy violation. Just by looking through the AppStore data page, lots of sensitive information gets shared with third parties. There’s got to be a way to disable it, and only enable it when necessary right? Or am I out of options here? Even though it’s only slightly less of a privacy risk, I’d prefer using Apple’s find my service, which has most of the features that Life360 has, while also being built in to every iOS device. How do I reason with this person?

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DE: KDE Plasma

GTK + QT: Graphite by Vinceliuice

Icons: Tela Circle

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This has happened 3 times in the past 2 days, any advice? It goes away after reboots but always comes back.

Update: So it could be GPU death, how exciting, especially for a 1.5 year old laptop. As of now it hasn’t terribly affected my workflow, but if this persists even after future kernel/driver updates, it may be rip. I am still hopeful that it could be software related, but time will tell!

This one is a little more interesting

Update 2: I was using Windows for testing purposes, and it happened again! This was immediately after picking the laptop up, so it is definitely hardware related. This time it made a horrible noise as well, answering some of the questions. So somehow by picking the device up, maybe the internals are slightly bent, causing the issues?

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Louisiana, my home state, is banning the promotion of certain vaccines by public health workers. This seems to be in preparation for the upcoming Trump administration.

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Feel free to come up with your own!

[-] [email protected] 64 points 9 months ago

While this is true, Discord has a massive user base, so it’s somewhat a privacy win for the common person

[-] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago

Open source will always be the best option, especially with a government supporting it! Imagine what government funding could do to accelerate improvements to Linux

[-] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Doesn’t x also equal -3?

[-] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago

Interesting for sure, but it looks like an ad-ridden clone of GBA4iOS, so I may just stick with sideloaded Ignited for now. In my opinion though, this is a big step, as others are probably soon to follow with possibly better ones.

[-] [email protected] 183 points 1 year ago

My favorite part of Firefox is Ublock Origin.

[-] [email protected] 125 points 2 years ago

Open source cars…

[-] [email protected] 82 points 2 years ago

The BIOS is an operating system, albeit a super low level one. What is wrong here? It would only be software gore if it said that it was part of the windows operating system, since the BIOS is a system operating system.

[-] [email protected] 117 points 2 years ago

Does anyone else think it is ironic to buy a phone from one of the most unprivate companies in order to have a private experience?

[-] [email protected] 163 points 2 years ago

Imagine a completely different OS running software made for your OS better than your actual OS could. This is Microsoft Windows

[-] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago

I feel right at home in the fediverse, it gives me a much more secure feeling than Reddit. Thank you devs for your hard work at creating a suitable alternative.

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