I think that take is short sighted. Because the next obvious step to “no right to online anonymity” is “online anonymity is illegal”, and it’s pretty obvious we’re headed that way. In that case, courts can make it pretty fucking hard to protect your right to privacy.

• I’m a privacy-minded programmer
• I’m (…) aware of how these AIs function
• I am not overly concerned about them

Objectively, these three statements form a paradox. At least one statement has to be false.

I would still recommend turning wifi off when leaving home for privacy reasons (which can easily be automated). The process to identify if a network is trusted or not requires a handshake. So leaving wifi on makes you trackable by the wifi network operators and the apps on your phone with access to your wifi, wether you connect a network or not.

r/atheism is leaking… This conflict has as much to do with religion as the apartheid in south africa had. This is just pure unadulterated racism, period. The best way to heal that imo, is literally fuck each other until there are only brown people left in the world.

Read the article. France is the one trying to find a solution. Germany is to blame.

I tried switching from Fennec to Mull a couple years ago, but every third site broke with it. So I reinstalled Fennec.

Germany is so incredibly scared to be associated with antisemitism since WW2, they’re willing to obfuscate and support the genocide of an entire nation. This is beyond despicable.

I think tmdb should have you covered

That’s not quite what I meant.

The argument I most often see and is that TikTok should stay because Facebook and Google are just as bad. That’s stupid because foreign espionage is obviously worse than domestic espionage to any government.

If your argument is that the TikTok ban is good and Facebook and Google should be next because of the similar practises then I’m 100% with you.

I don’t understand why people get so upset about this. Yes, Google, Facebook, etc. hoard your data too. But there’s a big difference wether that data is hoarded domestically or by a foreign nation that is pretty blatant about their industry espionage and political propaganda. Yes, the US do it too. But you really can’t blame a country for protecting it’s interests, be they ethical or not.

He’s making a joke in referrence to the first response under the top comment. Not everything needs an /s

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I’ve recently investigated my best friend Larry. He never pirated any video games ever. Pinky promise.

Of course. The question is, is it something you need to grow your GDP.

The article makes some good points. Most people downvoting it probably just see a title that attacks their favourite game distribution platform, if there even is such a thing.

Personally, I treat Steam like a rental service, because that’s what it is. Meaning I exclusively “buy” games on Steam at deep 80-90% discounts. So, when the enshittification inevitably hits the fan, I can jump ship without feeling like I’m loosing too much.

I recalled that too. It was like 15 years ago think. The whole thing was a disaster. Adoption was as much an issue as compatibility. Linux and LibreOffice has come along a long way since then. But so did MS. Not even google manages to compete with the level of integration and interoperability MS has. Also, being a state organized enterprise, you just know the transition phase is gonna be chaos incarnate. I just hope the top management is ready for the fight. I truly believe it’s worth it.

I like the app too, but “for years” might be a tad exaggerated. It came out 1.5 years ago.

I’m sorry you’re experiencing this bug. I’m not however. I even checked my pi-hole: the only access to connectivitycheck.gstatic.com comes from my wife’s phone, which isn’t hardened.

I vaguely remember doing some fiddling to the captive portal setting years ago. I probably found a way to disable the check altogether.

I’m sorry you’re experiencing this bug. I’m not however. I even checked my pi-hole: the only access to connectivitycheck.gstatic.com comes from my wife’s phone, which isn’t hardened.

I vaguely remember doing some fiddling to the captive portal setting years ago. I probably found a way to disable the check altogether.

I went trough 5 days of Rethink logs to confirm. Not a single call to a Google domain was allowed. DAVx5 works great.

Another user posted that Davx5 from Fdroid has no dependency on Google. Maybe you’re using the Playstore version? I don’t even have GApps to install the playstore.