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  • in what way do you prefer using Lemmy over Reddit?

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  • My instance doesn't sell what I write to train AI.

    Of course, the AI sumbitches probably scrape Lemmy for content too like they scrape everything for content. But at least Lemmy doesn't give them my content on a platter, nicely packaged up and ready to exploit and monetize. They have to do the scraping.

  • Can Github Copilot on VSCode see what I'm viewing on my browser?

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  • It's Microsoft. Assume surveillance.

  • nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore

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  • that and fucking ads galore

    And trackers.

    And Javascript that give you the time in the page, as if you didn't have a clock on your desktop.And Javascript that give you a fake chat window to talk to a shitty AI nobody wants in the bottom-right corner.And Javascript to annoy you with GDPR shit everybody absent-mindedly clicks away anyway.And Javascript to inform you that the site uses cookies, as if it mattered since it won't work without cookies.And Javascript that nags you for a subscription or stops you scrolling to force you to create an account....

    And of course, all that is done by loading megabytes and megabytes of shit recursively from a kajillion nested addresses because web "developers" couldn't code tight code if their lives depended on it. All they do is import pre-chewed shit that acts as trojans for big data players to plant more trackers and more ads in your browser, just to serve up barf people by and large don't give a shit about.

  • Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops

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  • No: the waiting time is more like 9 months and fully-loaded, you're looking at north of €1,800 :)

    The point of MNT machines isn't value for money, but openness and sovereignty over what you own. They're not for everybody, but my kids are out of the house, the house is paid for and so I have the means to put my money where my convictions are.

    But no matter: the point was that Linux ARM laptops really are nothing new.

  • Proton freezes Swiss investment over surveillance fears

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  • I'm fascism-intolerant. Different disease, but one I'm proud to suffer from.

  • Proton freezes Swiss investment over surveillance fears

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  • Well, Proton can move wherever they want and be as good as they what, I'll never be a customer again because of what their fuckhead CEO Andy Yen said.

    I don't care that he's backpedaled, I don't care that Andy Yen isn't Proton-the-company, and I'm even willing to accept it was a very unfortunate duh moment on his part. Here the thing: I don't have many ways as a nobody to get back at Trump, but one way is to not give any of my money to anybody who enabled him, even by mistake.

    So Proton is on my shitlist forever thanks to Yen.

  • Proton freezes Swiss investment over surveillance fears

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  • A good 10 years. I've had zero issues, with my account or my family members'.

  • Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops

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  • nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore

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  • Funny, from my standpoint, more functional JavaScript almost always feels like service degradation - as in, the more I block, the better and the faster the website runs.

  • Proton freezes Swiss investment over surveillance fears

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  • That's why my email provider is in Norway and not Switzerland. Norway has much stronger privacy laws.

  • Necromancers imply the existence of Necrowomancers.

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  • I hate to be that guy, but I will point out that "man" in English can mean both a male human and humankind in general.

    As in "Man is a wolf to man": women too can be wolves and victims alike.

    Or "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind": womankind is definitely included here.

    Call it sexist. I even agree that it is. But the fact remains that, for historical and outdated patriarcal reasons, "man" in the English language, like in many others, does bear that meaning.

    As for "man" being in "necromancer", I reckon it's like "fun" being in "fungi": you're not interpreting it right 🙂

  • If you'll be given the chance to test your country's next Presidential candidates, what would it be and why?

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  • Oh yeah well spotted 🙂 I'll fix that for sure

  • If you'll be given the chance to test your country's next Presidential candidates, what would it be and why?

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    • Are you a felon?
    • Are you a sex offender?
    • Have you been close friend with a notorious pedophile?
    • Have you organized an insurrection to steal the elections?
    • Are you a fascist?
    • Does anybody say of you that you're a fascist?

    If the canditate failed any of the above, I'd pass.

    But of course, it's not like it was possible to know any of these things before 2024 (random date chosen for no particular reason...)

  • DOGE staffer with access to Americans' personal data leaked private xAI API key | TechCrunch

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  • Ouch. But who hasn’t?

    I haven't. Committing keys in git repos is beyond sloppy. Whoever does it needs to be fired immediately.

  • Internet regulation is entering its hall pass era

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  • The best thing that could happen to the UK is that most internet sites just didn't bother and stopped serving the UK. Kind of like how some US sites decline to serve up pages to European visitors because they couldn't be bothered to be GDPR-compliant.

    Unlike Europe though, the UK isn't big enough to matter all that much. So if a large enough number of sites stopped catering to UK visitors, the authorities would quickly backpedal.

  • DOGE staffer with access to Americans' personal data leaked private xAI API key | TechCrunch

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  • The problem is, they're a bunch of talentless clowns with nefarious intents and access to your sensitive data.

  • Are password managers secure to use?

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  • I don't use them. I make the effort to remember my passwords - or rather, my recipes to recreate any complex passwords.

    The only safe storage form for your passwords is your noggin'. The next best thing is probably a password manager - although that depends on how trustworthy whoever coded it is - but it certainly isn't as secure as using your brain if your brain works properly.

    Also, something else that goes a long way to making any password secure is 2FA. If you can, use it!

  • What's the largest object one can buy for the least amount of money?

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  • The National Parks.

    I guarantee you, for the amount you pay in your taxes for the upkeep of YOUR National Parks, you get orders of magnitude more beautiful land to enjoy than the acreage you could possibly purchase directly.

    Before Trump fucked it all up that is, of course...

  • Ride-hailing giants’ electric promises are stalling worldwide

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  • That's not true: electric buses are a great success in Europe. They qualify as ride-hailing and as electric vehicles 🙂

    What's not doing well is the antisocial ride-hailing electric transportation model that requires one huge vehicle per person so that person doesn't have to sit next to someone else.

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    ExtremeDullard @lemmy.sdf.org

    Techlore - Unsubscribe

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
    ExtremeDullard @lemmy.sdf.org

    GPL violation follow-up - some bad news and some good news

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    ExtremeDullard @lemmy.sdf.org

    Has Techlore sold out?

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
    ExtremeDullard @lemmy.sdf.org

    What to do when a giant company refuses to honor a GPL claim?

  • Finland @sopuli.xyz
    ExtremeDullard @lemmy.sdf.org

    I spotted this at Prisma: the perfect metaphor for Finland

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
    ExtremeDullard @lemmy.sdf.org

    Euro bottles are so much better now

    toobnix.org /w/9WPrA1smN8gMcriUCyhM2m
  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
    ExtremeDullard @lemmy.sdf.org

    Astounding absurdity

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    ExtremeDullard @lemmy.sdf.org

    Is it just me or Rob Braxman has lost it lately?

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
    ExtremeDullard @lemmy.sdf.org

    Any MNT Reform laptop owner out there for a few questions?

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
    ExtremeDullard @lemmy.sdf.org

    Tethered plastic caps

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    ExtremeDullard @lemmy.sdf.org

    I'm convinced Google uses its reCAPTCHA to promote Chrome