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  • Google’s Requirement For All Android Developers To Register And Be Verified Threatens To Close Down Open Source App Store F-Droid

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  • Some of my favorite apps are on F-Droid and nowhere else.

    These apps are for the privacy-minded people, by privacy-minded people who will absolutely refuse to be tied by name (or digital signature with an identity verification process) to their apps.

    And then there's the problem of making legally gray apps (emulators), now someone needs to be tied to that app, which makes then easier to find, or if an app starts to irritate a government or corporation, then they can find who published it pretty easily (likely without proper the proper legal oversight/subpoena) even outside of the Play Store.

    What the fuck Google.

  • Why is DRM music a thing?

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  • It's mostly to avoid a lossless capture, recording it will lead to quality loss.

    Most people don't care, so they'll download whatever they can.

  • Upgrading video quality for non-English content?

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  • Your best bet for quality dubbed content is to find the raw blu-ray torrent (check for the included audio tracks), and retranscode to x264, x265 or AV1 with Handbrake and the audio tracks you want to keep. No need to tinker with a/v sync from there.

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    Entry-Level NAS recommendations?

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  • You either have

    • Easy to use
    • Will eventually lose support
    • May remain unpatched

    or

    • Require more maintenance
    • You can run the OS of your choice
    • It's your responsibility to ensure it remains patched

    I decided I wanted something long-term, and bought a NAS appliance I can boot my own OS onto it, so I went with the Ugreen DXP2800.

    I'm running Ubuntu LTS, with Cockpit as the webUI to manage parts of it, and my web services are all running through podman containers (aka quadlets).

    There's a bit of a learning curve, which is the price I was willing to accept.

  • Ideas

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  • You may want to have a dead man's switch so that the server shuts down without your intervention, or there's the possibility that a forensic team could retrieve the encryption key in RAM through some physical attacks.

  • Ideas

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  • I host a couple of encrypted snapshots in the cloud (stuff that I can't afford to lose), but it's still vastly cheaper to host a massive amount of data locally.

    The stuff I have locally mostly stuff I can recover elsewhere (yarr), so redundancy without backup is good enough cost-wise.

  • Pentagon Bans Tech Vendors From Using China-Based Personnel After ProPublica Investigation

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  • Cloud computing I agree, at least until we figure out homomorphic encryption.

    For cloud storage it's not as bad, as long as you control the keys and the provider doesn't see them then you can be fairly confident the data is safe.

  • FF won't let me install BPC extension

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  • But even then, they're only liable if they distribute it themselves. Why go the extra mile of blocking the addon being sideloaded, as it's solely done by the user?

  • FF won't let me install BPC extension

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  • I would have to do a one-for-one comparison, I haven't checked that.

  • FF won't let me install BPC extension

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  • You can also use this filter list in uBlock Origin as an alternative

     
        
https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters/blob/raw?file=bpc-paywall-filter.txt

  • There is no good reason why there is still homelessness and poverty

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  • Even worse is that they try to gaslight society into thinking the poors are leeches and parasites on society, while it's been them all along.

  • Why is it so hard to get friends to leave Discord, WhatsApp, Instagram, and others? Anyone else feel this?

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  • Network effect and the path of least resistance.

    People usually resist change until there's a net and obvious gain, or when thing don't work as expected anymore.

    And you need to consider that what's important in a messaging platform for someone, might be vastly different for another.

  • ICE acquires Israeli spyware capable of hacking phones and encrypted apps

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  • And more importantly, good OPSEC.

  • Your username is now public and hereditary like a surname. How much do your kids hate you?

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  • Mediocre audio sound quality compared to better codecs out there, but works on almost anything and the patents are expired.

  • What should we call "proof of age" or "age verification"?

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  • Age-gate

  • Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus

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  • Maybe Nebula as a mirror? It's subscription-based, but I rather put my money there and watch the content ad-free than giving Google my money or ad views.

    Legal Eagle, Practical Engineering and some others are putting their video a bit early there compared to their YouTube channels as an incentive to subscribe, and you can often get the yearly subscription 50% off.

  • Is the number of Lemmy users increasing?

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  • Feature-wise there are some differences, but they both are part of the same fediverse so you'll have access to the same content.

    Personally I am used to the Lemmy UI, and I feel like it's not as easy to see if a mod report was being taken care of on PieFed vs Lemmy

  • 'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court

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  • Under that rationale, you could be violating copyright law by changing the color balance on your monitor's settings. 🥴

  • What common thing should not only be banned, but criminalized with mandatory minimum sentences?

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  • Leaving a shopping cart in a parking space instead of bringing it back to the cart shelter.