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  • What old thing surprisingly still exists?

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  • Nothing new under the sun.

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    New ‘Jesus-centric’ Christian phone network will block pornography and LGBT content

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  • You could take care of like 90% of that just by blocking X.

  • Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

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  • The bigger problem for me personally is that my bank uses the app to verify certain transactions and there doesn't seem to be a way around that. I'm planning on moving to GrapheneOS on my daily phone soon, my solution will be to have my old iPhone run nothing but my banking apps. It sucks but privacy sometimes involves sacrifices.

  • Children are drawing moustaches on their faces to fool online age checks - and it's working; fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, and creative facial hair bypass age checks

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  • Ultimately Discord is a corporate-owned social media platform, and like all corporate-owned social media platforms their best interests rarely intersect with the best interests of their users. Centralised systems like Discord always end up with a power imbalance between the users and the administrators, and if you break their rules they have it within their power to just vapourise your community without a second thought. Your organisation or community only exists for as long as you toe their line.

  • Children are drawing moustaches on their faces to fool online age checks - and it's working; fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, and creative facial hair bypass age checks

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  • I mean if you want to help someone in an abusive relationship, telling them to just leave doesn't really work there either, and for a lot of the same reasons. But you can support them in other ways until they're able to do what's necessary to leave.

  • Children are drawing moustaches on their faces to fool online age checks - and it's working; fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, and creative facial hair bypass age checks

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  • We probably shouldn't be using Discord but you've got to meet people where they're at. Telling someone to just drop a service when all of their connections are there is unhelpful at best.

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  • Not the person you replied to, but I did work in the music industry for a little while. The short version is that streaming services and especially Spotify pay artists like shit. They work on a revenue share model based on the number of streams an artist gets per month so there isn't really a fixed number, but it hashes out to fractions of a cent per stream typically. Even the more "generous" services like Tidal or Apple pay just over a cent per stream on average if you're pulling in serious numbers of streams. I did the math once, and to make the minimum wage from streaming alone in my country, an artist would need to be pulling in over 600k streams per month on Spotify. Most artists will get a fraction of that. This is also assuming that the artist is entirely independent with no labels and distributors to cut in too, so the true number will be much higher for most.

    If you purchase an album from an artist on Bandcamp once, that's almost certainly going to be orders of magnitude the amount they make from streaming that same album over and over again.

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  • Can also recommend the JM21. I just wish the battery life was better.

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  • That works from the ISP end, but this legislation makes websites themselves accountable. Even if it was about ISPs, as you said they can't see what you're doing to stop it and there's too many use cases for VPNs to just block the protocols outright.

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  • So how do they plan on figuring out if any given user behind a VPN is in Utah?

  • Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027

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  • That thing is so ugly that it almost loops back around into looking cool again

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  • The rules of cybersecurity:

    1. Under no circumstances should you own a computer.
    2. If you absolutely must own a computer, under no circumstances should you connect it to the internet.
    3. If you absolutely must connect it to the internet, it’s too late and they already have you

  • Copilot can't exit vim

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  • Hey, same.

  • Trump gets McDonalds DoorDashed to White House and then takes Iran war questions with delivery person

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  • Does anyone actually buy this kind of thing? Like I know his base is irredeemably stupid, but still.

  • Bryon Noem Reportedly Told Dom He Wants to Be a “Trans Bimbo Slut” Named Crystal

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  • Good for her.

  • Linux lays down the law on AI-generated code, says yes to Copilot, no to AI slop, and humans take the fall for mistakes — after months of fierce debate, Torvalds and maintainers come to an agreement

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  • Damn man, go for a walk or something.

  • Linux lays down the law on AI-generated code, says yes to Copilot, no to AI slop, and humans take the fall for mistakes — after months of fierce debate, Torvalds and maintainers come to an agreement

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  • You’re very angry for a person who literally used the term themselves a couple of comments ago. What term would you rather use then? It’s colloquial, everyone knows what I’m talking about. Are you the kind of person who gets angry when someone doesn’t call it “GNU/Linux” too?

  • Linux lays down the law on AI-generated code, says yes to Copilot, no to AI slop, and humans take the fall for mistakes — after months of fierce debate, Torvalds and maintainers come to an agreement

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  • Obviously capitalism makes pretty much everything worse but let’s not pretend AI wouldn’t have issues without capitalism too.

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  • I’m not really sure what people want when they raise this complaint about Proton, it’s going to be true of any company. They can’t refuse a legal order, there’s very few jurisdictions on earth where the authorities will just allow a business to refuse to comply with a legal order and the ones that do are not worth running a business in. As far as I know, they’ve never given up content of emails or traffic logs.

    If your threat model includes the authorities of the US or any country you might happen to be in, then you shouldn’t be trusting any business that might be compelled by them.

  • United Kingdom @feddit.uk
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    How Labour Is Using Biased AI to Determine Benefit Claims | Novara Media

    novaramedia.com /2025/04/15/how-the-labour-party-is-using-biased-ai-to-determine-benefit-claims/
  • Linux @programming.dev
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    Can this become the European Union's own Linux Distribution?

    news.itsfoss.com /eu-os/