fine imprison

FTFY

I mean, I still buy (used) Pixels even after knowing Google is evil, because they’re still the least-bad option because of things like Graphene OS.

Also, re: “unlikely to pivot to Linux phones:” that’s not because of any sort of “large investment in Android;” it’s because Linux phones either suck or are expensive (or maybe both). I say that as a desktop Linux user exclusively for almost a decade and owner of a Pinephone. I want to be using a Linux phone, but they just aren’t there yet.

I’m on, I think, my 3rd Pixel. All of them were chosen because of the possibility of putting a third-party firmware on them, but my current one is the first I’ve actually done it to.

There are no electric cars that don’t track you except for the really old NiMH Rangers and Rav4s and whatnot that they leased to fleets in California back in the day. Even the very first mass-market Nissan Leaf had unacceptable telemetry from day 1.

You’re fucked. Best you can do is ride a bike when possible, and keep driving old cars from the mid-2000s or earlier when necessary.

Everything in owner because I don’t understand the implications well enough to do otherwise (so thanks for the thread).

Instead of having your online accounts registered directly to your @tuta.io address (or your gmail address, or any webmail address), buy a domain name and have the accounts registered to that and then set the DNS to forward all mail from that domain to your webmail account of choice. That way, if the webmail service fucks up, the worst-case scenario is that you change the forwarding again and you’ve only lost the contents of the previous emails sent, not access to receive future ones.

(Caveat: when you send an email it’ll by default be coming from your webmail provider address, not your custom domain address, and I’m not sure how to fix that – I’ve only recently started switching to the scheme myself – but if your main issue is receiving 2FA emails and such that’s not a big deal.)

“Would you like them in a store?
Would you let us build some more?”

“I would not like them in a store.
I will not let you build some more.
I don’t want you to track my van.
I do not like them, Sam-Alt-man!”

Especially when the article is paywalled (or at least login-walled).

Yet more for the mountainous pile of proof proprietary software cannot be trusted and is therefore fundamentally not fit for purpose.

Same here; IIRC it was about the time M$ started backporting “telemetry” to Windows 7 that I switched and never looked back.

Haven’t felt the need for a Windows VM, either.

WTF is a “privacy-focused code editor?” They’re just glorified text editors! They run locally! They don’t connect to the Internet at all! How would they be anything other than “privacy-focused” by default? Why is this even a question?!

I fucking hate this timeline.

Anyway, to answer your question: emacs, obviously. Or vim if you’re evil, I suppose. Or just whatever the Hell you want, because if your editor even has “terms of service” or a “privacy policy” of any kind something has already gone horribly wrong.

Brave is a protection racket wrapped in a cryptocurrency scam, created by a bigoted fuckwit. It is fractally shit.

Other lemmings don’t seem to love it when I jokingly ask “who’s Marsha Law?”

Its why I get in my car, and visit people I care for, and not send them a message or use facebook to see what they are having for dinner.

So is your car 15+ years old, such that it doesn’t phone home on you?

And do you know the locations of and avoid all ALPRs (automated license plate readers)?

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.