[-] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 73 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

fuck paying Nintendo for life. I hope he can move to a country where Nintendo won't be able to enforce anything and start a new life. He committed a victimless crime which shouldn't even be a crime IMO and even worse, he was imprisoned for it. And now he has to live as a slave for Nintendo the rest of his life?

I don't really know which countries would legally shield him from Nintendo's bullshit tho.

[-] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 76 points 5 months ago

This is like the third different new battery technology I've seen today.

I'll believe it when it's available for purchase.

[-] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 174 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'd argue the system is working quite well, every individual and/or community has the liberty to choose what to do about Meta.

That's what federation is all about, no central power taking decisions in behalf of everyone else.

[-] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 104 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

the discussion is happening here: https://github.com/7c/fakefilter/issues/73

Someone working at Proton has commented on the issue, the list maintainer wanted to take the discussion with proton private so we have only a few posts from them.

If you want my personal take:

It's very clear how the list maintainer opposes anonymity in the internet in any form, which I see as an attack on freedom, journalism and activism.

I'm not a fan of Protonmail of any sort and in fact I consider that their privacy is lacking... but I really hope they can talk some sense into this guy. This block list seems to be used by a lot of webs that will start blocking virtually every private email provider.

(Edit: I assumed the person that posted the email list was a maintainer, but they don't seem to have a "contributor" or "owner" badge, so idk. Maybe they are just very angry at privacy and anonymity on the internet)

[-] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 64 points 7 months ago

this is just low quality content trying to grab a few clicks. it should be removed.

[-] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 97 points 8 months ago

the thumbnail is just cringe. more of a script kiddie vibe than a real programmer.

[-] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 93 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

this makes use of an old windows specific vulnerability. Linux is only mentioned on the title, not again in the whole article. clickbait.

edit: downvote me if you want, but the original article didn't say a thing about Linux.

[-] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 110 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

As long as this allows running local, free software models I don't see the drawback of including this.

My main issue with ChatGPT and similar products is that they use my data to train their models. Running a model locally (like Llama) solves this problem, but running LLMs require extremely powerful GPUs, specially the bigger ones like Llama 70b.

So dedicated hardware for this is a nice thing for those that want it.

[-] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 149 points 8 months ago

basically Newpipe but only source available, not really free software or open source, so they are restricting your freedoms.

Just keep using Newpipe instead.

[-] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 74 points 9 months ago

the answer is yes, unless you're on GrapheneOS. Google Services is a privileged app and therefore it can bypass permissions as it sees fit.

GrapheneOS (optionally) installs it as a unprivileged app, which you can restrict permissions to. Still, I wouldn't recommend installing it since they have extensive telemetry.

[-] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 144 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

As a long term Firefox user, I've been disappointed with Mozilla's decisions in the recent years, but this is awesome. This is the kind of features Firefox should be receiving instead of useless UI changes.

[-] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 69 points 9 months ago

Let's be honest, Gmail, being a Google service, was condemned to have an awful UI which can't work without loading megabytes of JS into your browser.

The good news are that they still support mail clients, which everyone should be using except for those occasions you're working from a device you do not own.

The bad news are that Gmail still analyzes your emails in the server side, and uses them to serve you tracking ads and train AI models. So maybe switching providers altogether is a better option for those who have a choice.

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submitted 9 months ago by sir_reginald@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

The table is quite big (190+ lines of hand-written HTML) and it doesn't fit on mobile phone screens unless you zoom out. It should be fine on desktop. It also specifies the criteria followed and has analysis of some of the IMs in the table (not close to all of them, I hope to add more analysis in the future).

Counter-arguments are always welcome. Sources and additional information too. Note that the typical privacy recommendation (Signal) is not recommended here. It does not meet our criteria, being centralized and requiring a phone number. I don't want to hate on Signal since it's doing a decent job spreading the importance of E2EE, however we can not recommend it for the given reasons.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by sir_reginald@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

I'm helping a friend of mine writing a long essay exposing the abusive, monopolistic and anti-consumer practices of Microsoft. First, we've created some sort of table of contents with the different topics we want to cover and now we're gathering sources for each of these topics.

Microsoft is a huge corporation with a big influence on media and although if you dig enough you can find useful sources, they've also made an extremely good job at hiding bad press from search engines.

We've scrolled through Hacker News, other links aggregators and sites like TechRights and we've found a good amount of articles against Microsoft. But we're sure there has to be more. So that's kinda why we're asking.

Bullet points for the sections we've thought of (suggestions are welcome too):

* The Microsoft Monopoly
		* Microsoft and the web
				* Internet Explorer
				* Microsoft Edge
		* Microsoft Windows Monopoly
		* Microsoft and the Governments
				* Education
				* Healthcare
		* Microsoft Gaming Empire
* Windows Backdoors (not sure where this section belongs)
		* Work with the NSA
* Microsoft loves Open Source (microsoft infiltration in foss)
		* Microsoft and the OSI
		* Github
				* Github Copilot
		* VSCode
		* War on GPL
		* Microsoft loves Linux and BSD?
		* Embrace, extend, extinguish
* Our lord, Bill Gates
		* The media empire
				* Twitter censorship
		* Bill Gates the philanthropist
				* Big Pharma
		* Bill and Jeffrey Epstein

Edit: typos and removed the pun "Kill Bill Gates" because it seemed inappropriate.

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submitted 9 months ago by sir_reginald@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

For transparency sake, I'm the new maintainer of this website. Just wanted to share it here. I was thinking of creating a community for it, but I don't know if it is worth it.

I hope someone find it useful. If you want to contribute, collaborate or just share your opinion, you're more than welcome! The repository for the website is here https://codeberg.org/ThePrivacyRaccoon/website

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