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  • Leaving GitHub. Seeking ethical music server alternatives.

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  • I don't see a reason to avoid using software hosted on GH. I moved off GH when MS bought it, and all that entailed was no longer hosting my own software on GH, and using alternative FOSS git forges. That still has a similar effect, and when a critical mass of devs move off GH, the rest will follow suit. The main draw of GH is that everything's on there; when that's no longer true, it will no longer be the main git forge. Especially once Forgejo adds ActivityPub integration; I imagine that'll speed the process along a lot.

    A lone user boycotting all software hosted on GH is realistically not going to make any devs move their projects off GH. You may say that it doesn't have to be a lone user, but I think you'll be hard pressed to get a whole movement of people refusing to use any software hosted on GH.

    I also think the boundaries of your boycott are just too ambiguous. What if you download the software from somewhere other than GH, and it just has a GH repo? Is that ok with you? Is it that you just don't want to touch MS's servers? What about software where the GH repo is just a read-only mirror, and the main collaboration/development happens elsewhere, like a GitLab or Forgejo instance? I would rather struggle to see an argument for refusing to use software in either of those cases.

  • Coincidentally, FFM peg is also something you can find on the hub

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  • Pornhub? I don't think .ml censors "porn" (I can see your comment just fine), just some slurs/offensive words afaik.

    Edit: And I can see my own comment just fine.

  • Coincidentally, FFM peg is also something you can find on the hub

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  • Thank god someone scratched out a letter in that mysterious word. Otherwise I may have seen something obscene. Now I have no idea what is meant to be written on that block 🤔

  • How we Rooted Copilot

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  • I know that? I'm just saying that MS categorised it as such. It would be strange to include the part about MS's responses if MS also found that the vulnerability was not what the researchers claimed it was.

  • How we Rooted Copilot

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  • MS said they fixed it and categorised it as a "moderate severity vulnerability" so presumably they did in fact gain root access to the container

  • "Tea" app - user database leaked today (incl. drivers license & IDs). Daily reminder not to give your ID to online services [THEY DO NOT PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION]

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  • Aside from the fact that it was stored in a public database, there's no need to store photos of the IDs at all. The account can just be marked as verified and move on.

    Also I doubt that measure would keep a man out if he really wanted to join...

  • What are your VPN recommendations for accessing self-hosted applications from the outside?

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  • In that case, wireguard. I only occasionally need to access a service that's not exposed to the internet, so I use ssh -L, but that would be quite inconvenient for your own use case.

    I know tailscale exists but I've never used it, only tried wireguard on its own. Maybe there's some huge benefit to using it but wireguard worked fine for me.

  • UK wants to weasel out of demand for Apple encryption back door

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  • Are you the UK? No, you're someone who lives there. The UK is a state.

  • V2 of my Anonymous, Private, Encrypted text/URL tool, with crazy strong encryption.

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  • I was also confused at first, but OP is using "plausible deniability" to mean "depending on what decryption key you attempt to use, you get different 'decrypted' data", so you can have an alibi I suppose. Not "plausible deniability" in the sense of "plausibly this isn't encrypted at all".

  • Removed

    The bizarre, dismal page you see if you open YouTube without an account.

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  • Isn't this better than trying to make it so that you never click off YouTube, the way it works if you are logged in? I would much rather have no recommendations than have an algorithm give me recommendations with the express purpose of maximising ad revenue extraction from me

  • UK police working with controversial tech giant Palantir on real-time surveillance network

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  • People already do this on "low-tech" levels ie community monitoring and alerts, but yes it's not been done on particularly high-tech levels in a similar manner to the surveillance state

  • coding

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  • It'd be unambiguous in the context of a hospital.

  • If you’re in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now - Ars Technica

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  • I think the use case would be for laptops, for people who want to comfortably use their laptops outside or just want their laptop screens to be easier on the eyes. Only slightly different to a tablet insofar as it has a physical keyboard, so i imagine the tablets could be adapted.

  • Modern Font Requirements

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  • In this case it's because part of the joke is the quote tweet. You could also link to the tweet instead of a screenshot but then we need to connect to Musk's servers at some point (even if through a proxy like nitter)

  • Lenovo Cuts the Windows Tax and offers Cheaper Laptops with Linux Pre-installed

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  • I would personally get a second hand cheap laptop off ebay or a local 2nd hand electronics store, and then just install the distro of your choice on it. Can't really think of an instance where a computer would come with an OS and I'd just use it as-is rather than installing my own, but I guess if you want a fairly generic eg Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Mint, etc setup then it could work. But definitely don't limit yourself to preinstalled laptops, since installing an OS only takes an afternoon if you pick an OS with a more fine-grained install like Arch or Gentoo, and about the same time as installing user software for distros that have more streamlined installs.

  • Dream job!

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  • Unfortunately for you I can recognise the URL of the official video upon hover. Try a reupload next time maybe :)

  • The general feeling of documentating things

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  • Although it's pretty easy to stumble upon some guide that you don't understand that gets you to enable dev mode. Not saying it happens a lot, but there's not a very high bar for the test for enabling dev mode.

  • Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music

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  • Okay...? Your point?

  • Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music

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  • How is it not transformative and intentional to reinterpret neurological signals as music?