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No, it’s fine. The text is black. Can it display just the black?

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Hahahaha! Wait till hp makes these, and charges you a subscription to display anything.

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Kind of like adding a little chip to the charger cable of a cellphone that identifies the charger as a brand cable and without that chip, the phone won’t charge or use the perfectly good cable for data transfer. If that sounds familiar, it’s because that’s what Apple did/does.

E: fixed autocorrect

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That’s a neat idea, and definitely a product group that I’ve been actively looking for. But I do find it ironic that your business model is of an online vendor that sells offline versions of online appliances haha

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**continue his current hissy fit, but with a renewed purpose

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Thrift stores are where the remaining dumb tech is currently housed… until they, too, are emptied.

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They’re really taking the dropping of the old slogan of “Don’t be Evil” to heart, aren’t they.

The new slogan, “Do the Right Thing”, isn’t really specific on who the right thing should be done to. I guess they meant themselves…

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Yikes. Put a brand new LED bulb in my basement on Sunday. It was dead on Wednesday. Incandescent seems to be the only bulbs that last down there. I better stock up before the stores run dry…

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From the article:

“We work hard to build great products, and what consumers do with those tools is up to them — not Apple, and not broadband providers,” Cynthia Hogan, VP of public policy at Apple

Prove it, then. Unlock the bootloader. Allow us to install our own apps. Let us install our own OS on the hardware. I get they don’t want to open source their iOS, that’s fine. They say “what consumers do with those tools is up to them”, but then they lock those tools down TIGHT. Actions speak much louder than words. They say those tools are ours? They need to show us that this is true.

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You’re right. But it’s so much worse than that.

Imagine, for a minute, that this passes. If a website exists that a specific entity disagrees with (say… a whistleblower forum, or accounts of how Google is abusing its powers, or accounts of a Government is abusing it’s citizens), all that would need to happen, is for the “integrity authority” to deny access to that site, and it will be censored. Whereas now, a website has to be taken offline (in most cases) to be effectively censored, if this passes, the “integrity authority” would just need to say nay.

Imagine never hearing of the Snowden files, or George Floyd, or the Russian-Ukraine war. Not because they didn’t exist or didn’t happen, but because you ‘weren’t allowed’ to see them by an entity who benefits from you not seeing them or knowing about them.

If this passes, we would be -officially- entering a dystopia.

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At first, maybe. But not ultimately. If you compare it to TLS, for example, if the site use TLS 1.0, your browser will simply not load the site. This web integrity thing is similar.

Another, maybe more relevant, example, is Flash. Once Google decided Flash will no longer be supported on their browser, Flash died. I actually don’t disagree with the killing of Flash, but the idea is similar.

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I still use Macromedia Flash 5 from time to time, to create quick animations to be used in videos. I haven’t found anything as easy to use. Maybe you know something? I’ve tried a few things, can’t remember the names, but paid stuff, free stuff, and FOSS stuff. MacF5 is easier and quicker.

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That’s true. But the “integrity authority” has the power to censor. Maybe that’s not how it will be used now, but the infrastructure will be there and ready to use.

When I see these things come about, I’m always reminded of that quote, “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should”

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!lemmy.fmhy.net

Hopefully this will work?

Edit: didn’t work :/

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If we can’t, I’ll be sporting another un

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Anything for Roku?

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Which app on the Roku do you use to stream the JF content?

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Oh shit. The last time I checked this didn’t exist. I should have rechecked before asking this (what I know now to be a stupid) question. Thanks!

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Speak for yourself.

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So, basically the same Fedora system, but with different DEs, right? If so, this may be exactly what I’ve been looking for.

What does immutable mean with an OS? I’m not understanding how an OS can be unchangeable. Or is it talking only about the subsystem, because of Flatpak, where the userspace is mutable (with installations and files, etc), but the subsystem is protected from all unofficial change?

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That’s awesome! (And mostly what I understood) Your Docker comparison was very helpful.

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But domesticating them was not a job for the cowboy with the faint of heart.

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…the birds that make the tweets? So… the userbase?

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I generally use Mint.

Haiku OS looks pretty cool, too, if your usecase is more DIY.

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There’s a saying that you can run BSD on a some chewed gum and tinfoil hahaha of course, it’s not true, but it hammers home the idea that these systems can run on bare minimums. I generally use Cinnamon, but its more resource-intensive.

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Same here. If I don’t like it, I simply won’t upvote. If it’s overtly and obviously offensive, I will downvote (happened maybe 4-7 times on Lemmy thus far).

A.I. experts downplay ‘nightmare scenario of evil robot overlords’. Over 1,300 sign letter claiming it’s a ‘force for good, not a threat to humanity’ (fortune.com)

In an open letter published on Tuesday, more than 1,370 signatories—including business founders, CEOs and academics from various institutions including the University of Oxford—said they wanted to “counter ‘A.I. doom.’”...

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To be fair, SkyNet was created for good, as well.

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It’s complete BS that they can group different bills together. Each should be voted on its own merit, and not as a part of a grouping. Such abuse.

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I just don’t understand how this is legal. But, to be fair, a lot of should-be-illegal things are legal in this country. I don’t know why I’m surprised. We’re free, as long as we fall into a specific category of people.

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I love that quote. Yup, as long as it plays into their desires for us, then we can do whatever we want. Freedoms without freedom.

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Agreed. The issue seems to be, that those younger people you’re talking about, are being politically (sometimes physically) massacred before they have a chance to make an impact.

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Yuhp! Go to work, get married, have some kids, pay your taxes, pay your bills, watch your TV, follow fashion, obey the law, and repeat after me…

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Yesss!! I knew I didn’t make it up, but couldn’t remember where I got it. Thank you!

I guess I could have searched. Meh

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It was my computer wallpaper for long enough that I memorized the quote hahaha

I have an EFF “come back with a warrant” wallpaper on my phone’s lock screen.

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I’ll believe it when I see it. It’s been “soon to come” for about 2 years now.

Edit: that said, the Signal team had done an excellent job with the app and overall UX. So much so, that my technologically inept friends are no longer asking me"how do I" and are, instead, showing me “look at this”.

You can't uninstall this software without being forced to participate in their survey (lemmy.world)

I initially only installed “Comodo Firewall” but for some reason they also installed a “Comodo Dragon Browser”, which I did not consent to. I always choose the “advanced” installation to uncheck bloatware, but in this case there was none and when you try to uninstall the browser, they force you to participate in...

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Base64 of a graphic image.

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Maybe… I don’t know, just throwing ideas out there… you shouldn’t have Musked all over Twitter nor fired its core developers? Again, just thinking out loud…

One of Reddit’s biggest communities is suggesting users move to Discord (www.theverge.com)

One of Reddit’s biggest communities is suggesting users move to Discord r/malefashionadvice, the biggest Reddit community still inaccessible in protest of Reddit’s new API pricing, is encouraging its users to congregate on Discord and view guides on Substack.

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I was on discord for 3 days. It was awful. A dumpster fire is, by my definition, still hot trash.

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That’s fair. I used the mobile app, so this may differ for any other user access points. It kept trying to read data that I have already denied, like location and access to sms as two examples. It also kept crashing at odd places. I’m sure there was a pattern, but I didn’t stay long enough to extrapolate it. Now, I know that the network is useful. However, at least at the time, the app was garbage and I had had enough of the leaks (as per my firewall) it was causing on top of the already privacy invasive defaults. I don’t shame anyone for using it, nor do I think it’s “the devil” or whatever. However, I do think the UI for the mobile user at the time was absolutely unacceptable as the official app, and the fact that the mobile web page almost forced you onto the broken app was also unacceptable. As I only ever used it for one community, I didn’t spend much time to find an alternative (if one even exists), and maybe that part’s on me.

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I’ve had this conversation many times, and they always say something like “I have nothing to hide, so I don’t care”, to which I respond with “I have to hide, either, but nothing I want to share. Since you have nothing to hide and you don’t care, what’s your bank account number, tax ID number, credentials, etc. etc. I won’t use it for anything bad, promise.”

They still don’t get it…

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I did that once to a friend of mine, but because he knows me and known I’m trustworthy, he did it hahaha I had to resort to verbalizing the invasive actions I would take when I got the phone so that my point would sink in

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“private chat history” on Facebook…

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Video killed the radio star!

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Honestly, I see that as a win.

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Well, that sucks.

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Thanks! I used to have a .ml domain, but got rid of it. I couldn’t depend on it after they sent me an email saying that I had “unauthorized content”. It was a redirect to my fb at the time, which was defined by them as an authorized usecase.

University of Waterloo has developed a drone-powered device that can use Wi-Fi networks to 'see' Wi-Fi devices through walls: No software patch possible (techxplore.com)

The device, nicknamed Wi-Peep, can fly near a building and then use the inhabitants’ Wi-Fi network to identify and locate all Wi-Fi-enabled devices inside in a matter of seconds....

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Wow, that’s disturbing. Cool, but scary. A real Minority Report type tracking system. Thanks for sharing!

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This is infuriating

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