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  • What little things do you do each day that are your small ways of sticking it to the man?

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  • I buy single purpose devices that are fully offline, durable, user serviceable, and useful... and then I go for a long time without buying anything but food. It's almost like setting a new personal record: how many days in a row I can go without buying a single thing?

  • Valve's version of Android on Linux (based on Waydroid) is now called Lepton

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  • Not simple libs, an entire trust chain from boot to running app that is supposed to improve security and integrity. It also happens to have the side effect of making the entire chain dependent on Google, which I'm sure Google is totally not happy about you know.

  • don't do ai and code kids

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  • The user explained what exactly went wrong later on. The AI gave a list of instructions as steps, and one of the steps was deleting a specific Node.js folder on that D:\ drive. The user didn't want to follow the steps and just said "do everything for me" which the AI prompted for confirmation and received. The AI then indeed ran commands freely, with the same privilege as the user, however this being an AI the commands were broken and simply deleted the root of the drive rather than just one folder.

    So yes, technically the AI didn't simply delete the drive - it asked for confirmation first. But also yes, the AI did make a dumb mistake.

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  • Like there is a lot of stupidity on reddit but usually someone comes in with actual knowledge

    Be careful with that, actually. Reddit mastered repeating an explanation or analogy they read on another thread or saw on YouTube, but being quite eloquent at explaining it. Problem is, if they misunderstood it to begin with, they'll just as confidently repeat a broken version.

    I didn't notice it at first... then I started seeing explanations for things on my field and cringed at how wrong they were, and then I started noticing the pattern and the very repeated analogies on other areas too.

  • I'm all in on linux. [Damien Wilde]

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  • There are many instances that accept all content (for better or for worse).

    The biggest issue is simply not enough people watching. But content restrictions are a thousand times more aggressive on YouTube vs PeerTube

  • We're launching a new Google app for Windows experiment in Labs

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  • Remember when Facebook wanted more information from teenagers using iPhones, but couldn't collect that data because they don't control iOS?

    They released a service that required a VPN profile to be installed, and were caught mining the data this way.

    Which brings us to Google: how do you collect information about files and photos on Windows when you're not Microsoft? Easy! How about this convenient new tool to search for all your files? Just please agree to the ToS.

  • Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency

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  • Users paying for the Unlimited or even the lifetime subscriptions, that were sold under the promise of all access to their services, now need an extra subscription to use their new LLM chat box, Lumo. Which is just a very bad wrapper around Mistral, messing up simple tasks like properly rendering Markdown for mathematical formulas.

    Linux users, despite being a very important part of their user base, have zero official tools for Proton Drive syncing. No problem, because Proton Drive supports Rclone, right? Well, support was removed for no good reason and with no official explanation, leaving Linux users limited to the very problematic and slow web UI.

    Proton Mail users frequently have their accounts locked for no reason whatsoever, other than vague statements about the ToS.

    More examples needed?

  • After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts

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  • Canadian nurse was fired for anti trans post in her off time.

    Teacher -> personal opinion on politics = no intersection between job and statement. Nurse -> personal opinion on somebody else's health and body autonomy = huge intersection between statement and job.

    Pretending to not see the difference only makes you look worse, and an eight year old child would be able to break the argument using nothing but a sharpie and a piece of paper.

  • Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency

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  • Fair enough, I can't prove that it would be different so my argument isn't a hard argument at all.

    But personally, I do strongly suspect Proton's reaction would be very different, or at least very variable. If you look at their subreddit, half of the time people report they do an amazing job and help them... and half of the time they do incredibly user hostile things. A coin toss, basically.

  • Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency

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  • Everything related to privacy and security requires as a fundamental premise that you select your threat model. Who are you? What data do you want to protect? From whom, and how bad would it be to fail?

    Most people skip this step, and then keep acting either surprised or over/under reacting to any given news. There are people out there that can't use email - regardless of who hosts what. There are people out there that would be fine with Gmail.

  • Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency

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  • They were temporarily suspended, and reinstated after investigation.

    Would this sequence of events have happenned if it was an average joe nobody cared about, rather than a public outcry?

  • Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency

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  • There are ways you can both make your emails adhere to certain standards that make them look better and "warm" your account so Gmail and Outlook decide to trust it.

    I won't directly mention how in this thread because SEO agencies LOVE abusing this to self host massive link building spam networks to save a buck on buying Gsuite accounts, but it's indeed possible.

  • Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency

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  • I was happy with Proton. Until I was not. Tuta might be fine today... what happens in two years?

    For email, honestly, it's a major fucking pain in the ass, but simply buy your own domain and learn how to host it in an agnostic way you can migrate if needed. But just to emphasize: yes, self hosting email sucks tremendously, I know.

  • Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions

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  • Advertising has no place period.

    One of the single greatest tragedies of modern life is that we accepted ads invading our personal and public spaces. Going outside for a walk and having to see a large outdoor, literally an advert on the sky, should be a crime against humanity.

  • Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions

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  • Of course they are. Coincidentally, newer devices being bought in 2025 are increasingly shipping with fully locked UEFI that prevents you from installing anything but Windows.

  • Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11

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  • They're not limiting it because they're worried about performance or drivers.

    They're limiting it because they want to force people into SecureBoot, TPM, and CPUs with several remote control management firmware, because this way they're one stop closer to a fully closed down chain from boot to OS which allows for aggressive DRM and no escape from their ecosystem. Just like at how iOS works and the path Android has been going for the last five years.

    The fact the PC ecosystem is open is a left over from the origins in the era before capitalism realized that trapping people into their digital landscapes was profitable, and they have been trying everything to make this go away. Microsoft's wet dream is your PC becoming the same as your smart TV: a data harvesting, ad filled generic piece of hardware that can only display what they want you to see.

  • Bcachefs Outlines Plans For Shipping As A DKMS Out-Of-Tree Kernel Module

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  • Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’

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  • Kinesin Protein

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  • Then a friendly little chaperone protein would come and beat the living shit out of it until it folded itself again and stopped meditating, back to work :)

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    kadu @lemmy.world

    How do you discover new music in 2025?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    kadu @lemmy.world

    What are some blogs you still read?