https://lemmy.world/post/30075546/17215433

I’ve got my kids using Linux on Raspberry Pis, and I honestly want them to break it so that then they have to figure out how to fix it.

!agedlikemilk

The Free Software projects in question: Tor, Let’s Encrypt, and F-Droid

FYI, the ACLU mobile justice app shut down at the end of February.

https://www.aclu.org/mobilejustice

To ensure compliance with a growing number of consumer privacy laws and the ACLU’s own privacy policies and to minimize risk with surveillance technologies currently used by law enforcement, the national office has made the decision not to renew our contract with Quadrant 2, the vendor behind Mobile Justice, and shut down the app on February 28, 2025.

I like the title.

I’ve refrained from using any of these genetic testing companies for obvious (to this community, at least) reasons, but I would like to know that information. Considering advances in technology, is DIYing it a reasonable thing yet?

No, we all got the pi = march 14 part, but WTF does that have to do with anything?

Kind of want servo to become stable and someone to make a browser based on that.

Maybe that’s why Mozilla quit contributing to it.

Or maybe just your app isn’t ready, and you should switch apps (it renders correctly as an image hidden behind a toggle on Voyager).

They claim they fall under the Presidential Records Act, but they’re lying.

The fascists are already dismantling the CFPB. I’m sure the FTC will be on the chopping block soon, too.

So who’s going to stop them when they flagrantly ignore the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act and refuse to honor your warranty for having your car serviced somewhere other than a dealer?

…Oh no. I just checked, and some of the TVs that did have Amazon listings as recently as a month or so ago (which I think was around the last time I mentioned this sort of thing) are no longer available, e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Sceptre-U550CV-U-Ultra-2160p-60Hz/dp/B01CDC49E0

There are still a couple of “Komodo by Sceptre” TVs left, e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Komodo-Sceptre-KU515R-Ultra-3840x2160/dp/B07W68VFGL , but that’s it. I hope they aren’t in the process of exiting the market entirely, but I’m worried! 😟

Ah, that’s unfortunate, and another good reason to consider resorting to a commercial display.

'Course, it’s also possible that a commercial display is so much more expensive/a hassle that it might be worth figuring out how to buy a Sceptre TV in a country where it is sold and then importing it yourself.

Again, the brand I mentioned in the previous comment is a consumer-oriented one, that you can simply buy off Amazon etc., that still sells dumb TVs. I’d only suggest resorting to commercial displays if you’re boycotting that brand for some reason.

You have to reject smart TVs at the time of purchase, or manufacturers think this shit is okay and will keep escalating until even an Nvidia Shield won’t save you.

And then buy a non-smart TV instead. At least one company, Sceptre, still makes them. (I don’t want to make it seem like I’m shilling for a particular brand, but I genuinely don’t know of any other options, aside from commercial signage displays.)

They still scared a bunch of people

Can confirm. I should have been involved with Stop Cop City protests – I cared about the site before the police bullshit was even proposed – but I have a family to worry about and the fascist AG has successfully chilled my freedom of speech.

that also includes Tim Berners-Lee

You mean that traitorous piece of shit who sold us out to DRM on the Web?

Become self-employed, I guess?

It was also the classic “collecting the information to begin with,” and it’s criminal how that is allowed, too.

There’s a YouTuber called NetworkChuck who has a few videos on hooking Home Assistant up to Ollama. Here’s the first one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvbVePuP7NY

(I find his style to be slightly bombastic and annoying, but the info seems good.)

I’m sure that’s available somewhere too; it’s not as if Valve is massively violating the GPL or something. (If they were, it would’ve been big news by now.)

Edit: I don’t get it; what’d I say that’s so upsetting/controversial/wrong?

I guess I need to verify instead of just having faith. It took a minute to find, but the FOSS parts of SteamOS (version 3, for the Steam Deck) are indeed available here: https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/public

One is asking about skin color, the other is asking about cultural heritage. For example, a person from South America with only European ancestry would be [white, Hispanic], and a Japanese-Brazilian would be [Asian, Hispanic].

The real issue is that they’re irrelevant questions that survey-givers have no legitimate reason to want to know.

I have no problem with things like Mozilla Common Voice. I have a big problem with integrating machine-learning stuff into Firefox by default.

I remember back when Phoenix Firebird Firefox first came out, the whole fucking point of it was to be a fast, bare-bones browser, and that people could pick and choose what extra features they wanted by installing extensions. IMO that’s the way it still ought to be.

Man, I miss Humble Bundle from before it sold out to IGN.

We also don’t have control over automatic number plate recognition, surveillance cameras, etc.

I, for one, have consistently avoided publishing photos of myself on the Internet my entire life (and I’ve been online since the '90s, so I was really ahead of the curve on that), and even shy away from being in other people’s photos as much as possible (sometimes you can’t avoid it without consequences, such as if it’s a driver’s license photo, or imposed by your employer, or the news covering an event you’re participating in, or that sort of thing). Even then, I still have very little confidence that I’ve managed to stay out of these sorts of facial recognition databases.

The internet is ^{supposed to be} peer-to-peer

FTFY. Megalomaniacal corporations, especially advertisers and the copyright cartel, are Hell-bent on “fixing” that so they can better control and exploit everyone, though.

Showing off your tattoos is kinda doxxing yourself. A weird choice for a !privacy post…

Another thing, just like the LG TV screensaver ads from the other thread, that would be a felony if a natural person did it.

Why are we tolerating this criminal behavior by corporations?

Google is so far off the deep end of “cloud” shit and surveillance capitalism that the people running the Play Store can no longer even conceive of software that’s incapable of spying because it doesn’t connect to the Internet to begin with.

It’s a sliding scale; it isn’t just ‘full privacy’ or ‘no privacy’.

Not only is it a sliding scale, it’s a multidimensional one because it also depends on what your threat model is. “Privacy” from an abusive partner snooping on your phone to discover your escape plan, “privacy” from Target trying to market diapers to you when nobody even knows you’re pregnant yet, “privacy” from Cambridge Analytica trying to psychoanalyze you so they can better target you with right-wing propaganda, and “privacy” from an authoritarian government because you’re a journalist trying to protect whistleblowers are all different goals that may require different strategies to achieve.

Efficient activism will make you a target for law enforcement.

…And privacy – better known as OPSEC, in this context – is a big part of how you defend yourself.

In other words, privacy is important because all those “more important problems” are dependent on it!

Oh look, the next iteration of discrimination tactics.

(de-jure segregation →racist deed restrictions → redlining →real estate agent steering →this)

…fuck those useless parents as well. They should not have had kids.

But that’s how the problem started in the first place!

My solution is to continue to only own old (mid-2000s or older) cars in perpetuity.

(And also use a bicycle instead for most trips.)

It used to be at least three felonies a day when violation of a website’s TOS was a violation of the CFAA (which can land you 25 years).

Did that stop being the case?

conspicuously on the same day as the Wikipedia Blackout protesting against SOPA / PIPA (PS: They’re still wanting to lock down the internet, which is why they want to kill Section 230).

Yeah, they’ve also tried to ram through ACTA, CISPA and the TPP since then.

*Sceptre, not spectre.

(I misspell it almost every time, too.)

When my parents got a new TV, I made sure they bought a Sceptre. So far it’s working fine.

So TL;DR, the XKCD method, but with six words instead of four and using a larger wordlist?

Only things that are effective are better than doing nothing. Doing ineffective things only gives a false sense of accomplishment and thus reduces the incentive to try harder to be effective, which means they’re actually worse than doing nothing.

Online petitions, “free speech zones,” and other easily-ignorable things are like honeypots for activism, designed to neuter it.