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  • Feds Warn SMS Authentication Is Unsafe After ‘Worst Hack in Our Nation’s History’

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  • I wish Signal stopped using it. I know you can set a Signal PIN but a lot of the non-techy friends I speak to on Signal probably wouldn't think to, or look through the settings (not that you need to be "techy" to set it, but you know the kind of learned helplessness most people have about tech). At least a prompt for all users to set an account PIN so their account can't just be stolen by anyone with their SIM card.

  • Judge Rejects Sale of Infowars to The Onion

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  • No fun allowed

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    How mouse-less can you make Linux?

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  • Yes, exactly, installing additional add-ons for Mullvad browser (except noscript) defeats the purpose. I also find it annoying whenever I have to use Tor Browser or Mullvad Browser because I have to use the mouse.

    I use Librewolf for my "normal"/fingerprintable/non-anonymous browsing, but I still try to reduce fingerprintability (don't have too many add-ons installed, RFP is on ofc, I have letterboxing etc).

    To be fair, if you want to reduce fingerprintability but still browse the web with just your keyboard, the TUI web browsers could work. Obviously they're pretty uncommon, but I imagine you'd look like any other user of lynx/w3m/etc. So you'd be quite unique but I'm not sure if you'd be distinguishable from other users of the same browser.

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    How mouse-less can you make Linux?

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  • It's really easy to go mouseless on Linux/Unix. Just use as many TUI programs as possible since none of them will be mouse-oriented.

    Also check out this list: https://github.com/erikw/vim-keybindings-everywhere-the-ultimate-list

    A lot of people (myself included) like vim keybindings and want them in other programs, and of course using vim keybindings is inherently mouseless.

    Off the top of my head, some software I use:

    • river as my wayland compositor
    • lf for a file browser
    • imv for an image viewer
    • Librewolf with Vimium-C to browse the web
    • mpd + ncmpcpp for listening to music (you can also use cmus if you don't want to use mpd)

    I don't use them, but you can also use something like Mutt, Neomutt, or Aerc for an email client, and use CLI bittorrent clients and password managers.

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  • growflating

    Still inflation... (Also not sure what "growflating" would even mean)

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  • How long before some big tech corpo appropriates it and advertises one of their products as "not enshittified" or whatever

  • Forget "gif" vs "jif" debate. How does one pronounce "Forgejo"?

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  • Forge her? I barely know her!

  • Forget "gif" vs "jif" debate. How does one pronounce "Forgejo"?

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  • I know it's officially for-hey-oe, but I always say forge + joe cause I find it easier. I used to say "forjo" (like "forge" ending in an "o", or "for joe" sped up) as well.

  • What's the best Matrix client?

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  • I use Fractal. It's a GNOME app so GTK and native, No idea if it's cross-platform. I went with it cause I was also looking for something that wasn't Electron and also wasn't TUI (since I want to be able to view images normally) and it seemed like the most suitable, fully-featured option.

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  • If only the user has the key then there's no real concern with the data being handed over

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  • Sure, but tracking period data can be very helpful for people. For a threat model of abortion criminalisation (or maybe trans healthcare criminalisation with treatments stopping periods, or really any kind of restrictions on medical autonomy), encryption at rest of locally stored period data is perfectly sufficient. They are not going to send military intelligence agencies after a random person having an abortion. It is actually a relatively low threat model, like equivalent to buying drugs online or something like that.

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  • I wonder how many average users would be bothered to export their period database and transfer to a new phone every time they get a new phone. I do that when I get a new phone (not often, I use my phones till they break/are literally unusable and unfixable), but I've had real trouble getting other people to do these kinds of things.

  • Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now

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  • Even if they owned the whole LF, the Linux Foundation does not develop systemd lol

  • Censorship is getting out of hand

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  • How is that inconsiderate? That's just informal

    (Using "bi" to mean "bisexual", I mean, not "business intelligence" lol)

  • Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds

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  • Fuuuuck there goes my plan to get this monkey to write Hamlet within the lifetime of the universe...

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  • When the workplace is assisting the genocide of the people the vigil is for.

  • What are your AI use cases?

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  • Well "AI" is a broad category. Usually used to refer to GenAI, so:

    • Creating quick stand-in art for a game before I've got proper sprites for it (not because "muh art theft", just because the AI art I've generated does not look very good to me)
    • Summarising articles, like you said so I can decide if I want to read them in full
    • Formatting text I've copied from pdfs
    • More complex searches that require comprehension of grammar and natural language syntax. Any answer I get to these I then fact check using search terms a classical search engine can understand.

    I read a paper a while back that found that people who used AI assistants for coding, who only used the assistants to generate small functions where the prompt already included the function declaration and the programmer already knew how the function should be written but just wanted to save time, in these cases the use of an AI assistant did not negatively impact the "correctness" of the produced code. So I guess I might one day use an AI coding assistant like that, but thus far I've never felt the need to use AI-generated code.

  • Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics

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  • The Wayback Machine is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks

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  • Anna's Archive has some torrents they ask people to seed. I'm seeding a smaller one right now. You can look into that if you want to help out—nobody's expected to mirror the entire archive!