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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Bringing back memories of my own. Mandrake in 2004 was a but before my time, but I'm sure I've still got my Ubuntu discs I downloaded at the local library and burned myself almost a decade after this Mandrake disk.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If I vaguely remember, symmetric encryption is more or less halved by quantom computers using the current encryption breaking methods right? That and just the growing computer power IF they continue to grow at a similar rate. 32 bit encryption used to be the military standard, now it's a joke that a kid's laptop could break.

Makes it potentially vulnerable to governments who are dedicated, but as long as the common laptop theif doesn't have a quantum computer or a generic technical literacy and years to wait and we're not making enemies with governments we're all fine regardless.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

69 ... Nice.

I hope this doesn't end badly for VMware. I use VMware exclusively in a professional setting, and partially in a personal setting. With everything I've seen it's by far the most stable (Qemu seems to be close to bare metal in ideal conditions, but can get a little quirky at times to say the least) and beats out virtualbox in both performance and stability.

If it's mostly in cash & stocks hopefully from my layman's view they're buying a valuable asset and not going to enshitify it for a quick buck when the debt bill comes in with an uncertain economy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I don't think there is any proven results, but I think the reason the EFF prefers Braves decision is the philosophy that there are so many data points that it could be possible to link you to it using the ones not standardized by anti fingerprinting.

Like ways to incorrectly describe someone. One describes a guy correctly but generically. One describes a guy with a lot of detail but the wrong race and two feet too short.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Yes. Brave focuses on providing random data points each time it's asked (e.g. screen size). A hardened Firefox will try to provide a generic fingerprint.

Apples to oranges more or less, I'm unaware of any proof that one or the other is considerably better across the board. Though my gut does tell me that randomization is a lot better in the specific situation of regularly signing in and out of accounts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

What, social lives? Get outta here with that nonsense and be a hobbit like the rest of us :)

Seriously though, if you're thinking on a phone I'd reccomend just creating a second profile instead of getting a whole new device. The apps won't be running when the profile is running, and as a bonus you can usually restrict the profile's permissions. Also consider checking out web wrappers (e.g. frost) or PWAs.

On a desktop you can always just use the web version, bonus points if you auto clear cookies or have a separate profile.

Edit: if you already have a spare then that might work better than profiles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Maybe I didn't word that right. Meant that they run out of the box, but if they break they can be repaired fairly easily.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Am late to respond, but according to google translate and a quick internet search it might be from the national tea museum in China:

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g298559-d513668-Reviews-National_Tea_Museum-Hangzhou_Zhejiang.html

Best guess anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (12 children)

DIY Edition Build it yourself and bring your OS, including Linux. Starting at $1,399.00

I hate to crap on a project like framework too much, but I fail to see the value it brings to the table compared to other options. 900$ for a Chromebook, 1.4k for a "DIY" laptop, 1.7k for the same laptop but assembled.

300-400$ used gaming laptops can be found on eBay, are repairable, and run Linux just as easily (minus maybe switching to official Nvidia drivers, but it's still only a couple commands a way). For 1k I'm sure you can get a variety of very premium laptops.

Edit: by repairable meant they're easy to repair if they break, not that they come pre-broken.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

A monopoly in itself is not illegal, it's the misuse of monopoly power that is.

Now there's a million ways Google has been alleged to misuse it's power, which is why there's a court battle ongoing.

But even if a company has 100% market share (and the government/company/courts/public agree on how that market share is defined) as long as they don't abuse their power no antitrust violations have occurred.

Edit: under US law. Also not a lawyer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

As others are saying, that's not really an option unless you're really dedicated. IF it has an unlockable bootloader you could technically get to compiling and tinkering to get everything built, but in order to get a phone all set you'd need to get the right drivers and do a whole lot of tinkering (like full time job levels of building and tinkering) kind of deal to get it built. Phone's aren't so plug and play like computers.

If you there's no rom support and/or a permanently locked bootloader but you want an OS without x y and z you can always try to fire up ADB bridge and disable stuff. You could also accomplish the same by rooting, though it's a bit of a security risk (though not as overblown as some people say IMO).

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/357098

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1366703

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1366698

Richard Stallman was right since the very beginning. Every warning, every prophecy realised. And, worst of all, he had the solution since the start. The problem is not Richard Stallman or the Free Software Foundation. The problem is us. The problem is that we didn’t listen.

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The point of my words (firediarist.wordpress.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/357201

People are dying. The world is in chaos. Do our words matter?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/357223

So, there you were, trotting through the Interweb Forest, feeling pretty good about yourself. You’ve got your Veil of Privacy draped fashionably over your shoulder, and you’ve just left the Temple of [REDACTED] feeling invisible. Oh, the sweet taste of online anonymity!

You’re ready to joust any shady DNS dragons or phishing sirens that dare cross your path. You’re like a knight in shining armor, except your armor is crafted from complicated algorithms and digital code. But then, bam! You bump into a Tracker Cookie, and let’s just say, this cookie doesn’t crumble. Turns out, this little biscuit isn’t fooled by your flashy Veil of Privacy. Tough luck, mate. Who knew browsing incognito could feel so…

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5E Hexcrawl (thealexandrian.net)
 

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[email protected]

Sorry for posting this twice, it's a new community largely in the sense that a community a couple of weeks old got nuked alongside the fmhy.ml domain. Cached copy of the old community.

The goal was/is to create a community solely for the sharing & crossposting blog posts (your own or by others, of any genre) that you liked or found insightful. In between creating the original one and now I did find some neat communities like Indie Web, which you should also check. Still the goal here is to make something a bit different in the way I would like to have a community full of only links to blog posts (plus discussions in the comments etc) that could be subscribed to on lemmy or through RSS.

I’d just ask that you avoid blog posts are solely partisan politics, blogs nearly unusable due to ads and such, corporate blogs, and posting things other than blog posts (e.g. news articles). Also, should go without saying, please don’t break FMHY’s rules or your own instance’s rules, and please be nice.

 

07/31/2023 It's been a couple weeks since FMHY went down and I'm going through link aggregator withdraw. Sounds like they're going to try to get everything restored but since it's going to be on a different domain even assuming they do so the original community will be gone anyway with everyone unsubscribed. Re-creating it here.

Find an issue or otherwise want to discuss the community itself? Want to share a meme? Please do so here instead that way the community feed can stick to blog posts only. Thanks

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About:

A place to aggregate blog posts written by you or others, or a place to read posts and find blogs to add to your RSS feed. The more simple/“traditional” blog the better, but blogs on any platform not littered with ads and pop-ups are cool.

Rules: Intended to be apolitical, politics aren’t banned but please try to keep hyper-partisan content to a minimum.

Please avoid:

*News articles

*Social media posts

*Corporate Blogs

*Hateful conduct

*Breaking instance rules

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