Ulrich

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Interesting, I've never seen or heard of that before...

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 66 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Public streaming webcams have been a thing for three decades.

Most of those public streaming cams are streaming to a private server, and not 40k cameras contributing to the same global database. They're also not being tracked with AI and storing license plate numbers, facial recognition, etc. to be categorized and later searched by law enforcement for, whatever reason they want.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 9 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I have a e14 Thinkpad...with 8gb soldered ram

so I put a 16gb stick in

What?

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes but you can't always disconnect. For instance, my healthcare provider requires in order to access your account you:

  1. Get an ID card with Google or Apple Wallet, which I don't have.
  2. Verify over text message, except they refuse my phone # bc it's VoIP.

I will quite literally die without this so I had to get a new phone and a Google account.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you don't know what samurai wallet is then that title would be less informative.

No.

Replacing samurai with crypto can only mislead the reader into thinking that the issue was the crypto and not the privacy part.

No.

It also doesn't tell you anything about why he's being imprisoned

Neither does the current title. But at least then we know it's something to do with a crypto wallet instead of a "privacy tool".

it's implied why (because he built a privacy tool)

A "privacy tool" could be an infinite number of things. A "crypto wallet" is super specific.

At this point I think it's pretty clear you're just being disingenuous so I'll bid you good day.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

What details are being withheld? His name, the tool's name, the crime, the sentence? What title would be more informative?

...yeah? That's absolutely much more informative

Samurai wallet dev sentenced to 5 years

Is that better? Only if you already know what samurai wallet is.

Correct again. I mean it's infinitely better than the current one where it doesn't matter if you do know what Samourai is. Also replace Samourai with "crypto" and baby you got a stew goin'.

You can't condense an hour long video into a single sentence beyond the basic premise

You don't have to. You just try to make it as information dense as possible. That's the entire point of a title. It's not supposed to be just a bunch of random filler words. You've just provided several great examples yourself.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

Sure, and we've always compromised on the 2 as a society. But we continually trend more and more towards prevention rather than privacy and sovereignty.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago (5 children)

They're deliberately withholding basic details of the story so that you have to click the video to get them. That's clickbait.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

Ok but that is a separate discussion.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Honestly everywhere sounds like an awful place at this point. Freedom is a thing of the past. A thing from a time whence literally everything we did wasn't tracked, and in order to exist in society, you're expected to submit to the tracking.

 

windows is ass. i use only linux now.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Ulrich@feddit.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

E: apparently it needs to be said that I am not suggesting you switch to Linux on your phone today; just that development needs to accelerate. Please don't be one of the 34 people that replied to tell me Linux is not ready.

Android has always been a fairly open platform, especially if you were deliberate about getting it that way, but we've seen in recent months an extremely rapid devolution of the Android ecosystem:

  1. The closing of development of an increasing number of components in AOSP.
  2. Samsung, Xiaomi and OnePlus have removed the option of bootloader unlocking on all of their devices. I suspect Google is not far behind.
  3. Google implementing Play Integrity API and encouraging developers to implement it, which prevents apps from the Google Play Store from being downloaded without a system-wide OS-level account login. Notably the EU's own identity verification wallet requires this, in stark contrast to their own laws and policies, despite the protest of hundreds on Github.
  4. And finally, the mandatory implementation of developer verification across Android systems. Yes, if you're running a 3rd-party OS like GOS you won't be directly affected by this, but it will impact 99.9% of devices, and I foresee many open source developers just opting out of developing apps for Android entirely as a result. We've already seen SyncThing simply discontinue development for this reason, citing issues with Google Play Store. They've also repeatedly denied updates for NextCloud with no explanation, only restoring it after mass outcry. And we've already seen Google targeting any software intended to circumvent ads, labeling them in the system as "dangerous" and "untrusted". This will most certainly carry into their new "verification" system.

Google once competed with Apple for customers. But in a world where Google walks away from the biggest antitrust trial since 1998 with yet another slap on the wrist, competition is dead, and Google is taking notes from Apple about what they can legally get away with.

Android as we know it is dead. And/or will be dead very soon. We need an open replacement.

E2: thank you to everyone stopping by from Hacker News, Reddit, etc. to check out the threadiverse. I hope you'll stick around for a while. Check out https://phtn.app/ and the Voyager and Blorp apps for a nicer UI. Fuck Spez!

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Ulrich@feddit.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

E: I AM NOT USING FEDORA. Please stop linking to guides for Fedora. They will not work. uBlue/Bazzite does not use dnf.


I got a free iMac. Installed Linux on an external drive. Bazzite, specifically. WiFi does not work. My research leads me to a problem with proprietary Broadcom drivers but no solutions. If you know how to get this working, your advice would be appreciated.

Also if there's another distro that works "out of the box" on Macs with GNOME I'd be open to installing that as well.

E: "System information" says it is a

Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (7.77.111.1 AirPortDriverBrcmNIC-1772.1)

 

Compatible with PeerTube. Unfortunately there is no login support but you can search, watch and subscribe to videos in the same feed with youtube and whatever else.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Ulrich@feddit.org to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
 

Strava is an absolute nightmare to use. My feed is absolutely chock full of ads and dog-walkers. Don't get me wrong, I'm very happy they're taking a 0.2 mile walk around their block and logging their progress, but I don't need to see it. Nike, TrainerRoad, Zwift, Peloton all have giant ads every time their users upload an activity. And I don't understand it because it's not an ad-supported network. Like I would happily pay to have all this shit hidden. It would be extremely simple for Strava to fix this, which would just be to provide me with a simple filter for what type of activities I'd like to see. The fact that they haven't done so, a long time ago, leads me to believe that they simply don't want to, for whatever reason. Plus they've already begun to enshittify by breaking integrations with third parties.

Are there any good options for this?

E: to be clear, I'm asking about the social aspect of Strava.

 

Playtron has made some waves in Linux gaming. They have lots of big names in Linux working on the project. Recently they were featured by Framework today in their presentation. However, I think it's abundantly clear that anyone who cares about FOSS should stay far away from this.

I was intrigued by this as well some months ago. I even ignored when they blatantly lied about Valve/Steam locking down their OS to only play Steam games. So I gave it a try and installed it. On setup they wanted me to agree to a EULA. That was red flag #2. Never seen that before. Then they wanted me to agree to their privacy policy. It is a very typical corporate user-hostile privacy policy. Some highlights

  • Like many website operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Website. This includes Log Data, such as your computer’s IP address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics, and whether you reached our page via a social media or email campaign. This information may be collected via several technologies, including cookies, web beacons, clear GIFs, canvas fingerprinting and other means, such as Google Remarketing and Facebook Pixel.
  • If you access our Sites through third parties (e.g., Facebook or Google), or if you share content from our Sites to a third-party social media service, the third-party service will send us certain information about you if the third-party service and your account settings allow such sharing.
  • "Professional, employment, or education information, such as your industry and job level, for news personalization, or copies of your resume or CV and any other information required to verify your qualifications, for recruitment purposes"
  • "Commercial information, such as a record of purchased products or subscriptionsInferences about your consumer preferences or characteristics."

How we use personal information:

  • To market our products and/or services to you
  • With respect to website cookies, to share with third-party marketing partners to provide tailored advertising on our Website and other websites that you may visit

We share your information with our third-party service providers and any subcontractors as required to offer you our products and services. The service providers we use help us to:

They even admit to not respecting "Do Not Track" signals.

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