These TVs can capture and identify 7,200 images per hour, or approximately two every second. The data is then used for content recommendations and ad targeting, which is a huge business; advertisers spent an estimated $18.6 billion on smart TV ads in 2022, according to market research firm eMarketer.
First - mail server might literally be on a box in your home under your full control. Second - if it’s not the case, you don’t need to stick to a single provider. I have mailboxes tied to different platforms on different providers, so I cannot lose all at once.
I have come to realise that I can’t just leave Facebook and Instagram without it influencing the stuff that I really care about. Most of my hobbies, interests, friends, clubs etc are on Facebook, and leaving the platform would affect the level of involvement that I can achieve....
In A LOT of places this is not legal. At least where I live, you can get a “gray” sim registered to another person, but idk how much you can rely on one. And you have to search around for them.
Edit: also knew a guy who was using jmp.chat for a number.
From what little discussion I have seen on some DN forums, this “solution” as well as similar ones were clowned upon. Because proprietary, centralized and thus not allowing anyone to check their claims.
There’s Briar, but I am upset they don’t have the bluetooth mesh functionality on desktop at least yet, and I don’t know if you can make it work in a VM.
This year we made good progress. You know, Linux gaming becoming better, Reddit fucking up, Metaverse failing etc. But on the other hand Big Tech has or are planning to make some moves. Such as, Google’s Web Enviroment Integrity API (EDIT: they backed off), UK’s encryption bill, etc....
I didn’t want to deal with certain Canonical shenanigans so my first distro was actually Debian Cinnamon. I was an absolute zero and it was still easy to use.
I am hosting a two-person XMPP server now, and it’s pretty light on resources. Matrix, however, I am not even sure my VPS would even handle: I’ve seen multiple people talk about how their servers would explode when someone tries to join a large room. And also there’s an issue of every participating server storing chat history/media: my disk is small, I need it for the media on my site!
I am also concerned about how overly prevalent the central matrix.org server is.
I didn’t try it, but I read about it and talked to people who did. Two of them ran Synapse and one tried Conduit. The result - Conduit does consume much less but still noticeably more than XMPP (plus the storage concern is still there).
I was homeschooled (and very grateful for it), and mom was NOT my teacher. She would organize a lot of things like extracurriculars (mostly for socialization), but the studying I did by myself. She’d tell me where to read and do exercises in the books, and that’s it. And the testing in the end of the quarter would be done by a teacher in the school I was assigned to.
While it would help with the crazies, it would very much hurt people who genuinely need it. I was one of those: I was, to put it mildly, a “wild child” with horrible social skills, no matter the efforts, so public school was out of the question. It would have been nothing but bullying for me and gray hairs for teachers. And while I didn’t go to school, mom did her best to socialize me.
I ended up going to a very good middle school, an AMAZING high school and now in a good uni. And yes, now putting my best effort into socializing, so might very well end up having friends now!
Recently discovered this. Molly supports link with existing device just like on signal desktop. It even has benefit of getting entire chat history unlike signal desktop. Just restore the signal backup file during setup and then click link with existing device. Then scan with you primary phone. Beauty of open source. Molly:...
Yea, the mobile device requirement is so pointless and annoying! I have to use Signal with only a couple of people and had to use signal-cli, which is pretty annoying because it doesn’t display history. Now I have it on Waydroid, but you should NOT have to do that.
My main concern wit Briar is that it would be of not much use without a smartphone (I meant the internet-less features in particular). I would not trust sensitive things to a smartphone. I wonder if soemthing like that could be doable with an Android VM or Waydroid with a laptop’s bluetooth…
Here you can’t do so legally either, but in some places (one I hear most often is train stations, but seen some in random kiosks) you can get a “gray” simcard registered to another person (I don’t fully understand how, but apparently it’s either sims from other countries or just those purchased in bulk “for a company”). But your ownership of it is dubious, and it wouldn’t really be as reliable as a legal prepaid one.
Gen Z here, I actually had the exact opposite problem. I don’t really use a smartphone now, but when I did use it daily, while I could get into some article rabbitholes, it was never to a painful extent. Probably because the phone is small and not at all comfortable to interact with long-term. But when I am on the laptop - I often lose track of time spent on IRC, youtube and newsfeeds. I now try to strictly limit the time to only what’s needed (unless IRC has a conversation that is really relevant for me), and download most articles onto an E-reader for a less painful experience.
5 to 10 minutes is a bit too short for comfort tbh. If the content is good, the joy is slightly poisoned by the fact that there was so little of it. IMO the comfortable video length is 30 to 50 minutes, which is a far more enjoyable experience (with 1-2 hours if it’s a podcast).
I think the point was that the format itself is odd. I am European and it’s weird to me: logically it should be either from greatest to smallest, or from smallest to greatest, not a weird in-between.
As a woman - I don’t have a problem with pockets, I usually get them enlarged. The problem is with our small hands, which would make using a large phone one-handed impossible. The older smartphone I am still sometimes using as a modem/mp3 player is 7x14 cm, and this is absolutely my maximum. I mostly use a dumbphone, it is smaller than my palm and fits even in a shirt pocket.
I am Gen Z, and besides Lemmy, most of my online life is IRC and XMPP (plus a certain video game, if it counts). Some people there, including me, have personal websites. This internet is not gone, it is just smaller than it used to be)
Passkey is some sort of specific unique key to a device allowing to use a pin on a device instead of the password. But which won’t work on another device....
Why are reproducible builds only on one platform (Android)? Desktop version could have a built-in backdoor and data would be transferred not from the phone, but from the PC)
I’d rather use XMPP. Synapse is bloated AF (to the point I am probably unable to run it at all on my remaining 0.5 gig RAM). There are alternative ones, but I find Prosody much less hassle. It eats 25 MB with two users and is easier to manage.
Youtube let the other shoe drop in their end-stage enshittification this week. Last month, they required you to turn on Youtube History to view the feed of youtube videos recommendations. That seems reasonable, so I did it. But I delete my history every 1 week instead of every 3 months. So they don’t get much from my choices....
And a large chunk of this 95% would see that their hardware is not supported, sigh and stay on 10, gradually conditioning themselves to ignore the upgrade notifications.
i use windows because its the only os i know how to use. i want to get into things like torrenting because free stuff is cool but im afraid to. ive heard of tails os, a os that boots from a flash drive, is that worth checking out or should i stick with windows?...
I am in a different part of the world, and what you are saying is also true here for the older generation, while the younger one has no escape from Telegram.
Your Smart TV Knows What You’re Watching (themarkup.org)
These TVs can capture and identify 7,200 images per hour, or approximately two every second. The data is then used for content recommendations and ad targeting, which is a huge business; advertisers spent an estimated $18.6 billion on smart TV ads in 2022, according to market research firm eMarketer.
Team Fortress 2 Update Released (steamcommunity.com)
What is a privacy friendly application that you'd love to have, but no one has developed yet?
Why you should never use Facebook or Google to log in to third party websites - what to do instead (tilvids.com)
Facebook on separate device
I have come to realise that I can’t just leave Facebook and Instagram without it influencing the stuff that I really care about. Most of my hobbies, interests, friends, clubs etc are on Facebook, and leaving the platform would affect the level of involvement that I can achieve....
Anonymous phone number
Can you recommend me some anonymous phone number services to use when creating account that requiring phone number verification?
AstianGO - Search with Total Privacy (astiango.co)
Anybody know about this search engine ?...
Privacy Win: EU Parliament Decides That Your Private Messages Must Not Be Scanned! (tuta.com)
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Signal tests usernames that keep your phone number private (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
https://community.signalusers.org/t/public-username-testing-staging-environment/56866
Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't working (www.businessinsider.com)
Discord file links will expire after a day to fight malware (www.theverge.com)
“Attackers, Trellix wrote, use the platform’s webhooks to pull data from victims’ computers and drop it into Discord channels run by the attackers.”
Who's winning here, exactly?
This year we made good progress. You know, Linux gaming becoming better, Reddit fucking up, Metaverse failing etc. But on the other hand Big Tech has or are planning to make some moves. Such as, Google’s Web Enviroment Integrity API (EDIT: they backed off), UK’s encryption bill, etc....
It's gone (discuss.tchncs.de)
Matrix vs. XMPP, Security, Privacy, Apps, Efficiency ? (www.youtube.com)
I recently saw Alex’s video about XMPP and I got curious....
Mint is shutting down, and it’s pushing users toward Credit Karma (www.theverge.com)
I've Been To Over 20 Homeschool Conferences. The Things I've Witnessed At Them Shocked Me. (www.huffpost.com)
PSA: For those who want signal on secondary phone, use molly.
Recently discovered this. Molly supports link with existing device just like on signal desktop. It even has benefit of getting entire chat history unlike signal desktop. Just restore the signal backup file during setup and then click link with existing device. Then scan with you primary phone. Beauty of open source. Molly:...
Textise - removes everything from a webpage except its text (and links)
Do y’all know about textise? I don’t see mention of it come up in a quick search. www.textise.net...
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SimpleX Chat: Private and Secure messaging (monero.town)
cross-posted from: monero.town/post/934733...
Without a Trace: How to Take Your Phone Off the Grid (themarkup.org)
The UK’s controversial Online Safety Bill finally becomes law (www.theverge.com)
Decentralized Matrix messaging network says it now has 115M users (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Brave browser quietly slips a VPN service onto your Windows PC (www.androidcentral.com)
Five apps😅 not so many for me (lemmings.world)
Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific data (www.theverge.com)
So long, small phones (www.theverge.com)
The Autistic Soul of the Internet Has Been at Death’s Door for Years. Its End May Finally Be Here. (slate.com)
Google will now make passkeys the default for personal accounts (arstechnica.com)
Passkey is some sort of specific unique key to a device allowing to use a pin on a device instead of the password. But which won’t work on another device....
Why doesn't Signal Desktop support reproducible builds? (upload.wikimedia.org)
Why are reproducible builds only on one platform (Android)? Desktop version could have a built-in backdoor and data would be transferred not from the phone, but from the PC)
Privacy-focused channels on YouTube. Which ones do you watch on a regular basis? (upload.wikimedia.org)
My list:...
Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish (infosec.pub)
Youtube let the other shoe drop in their end-stage enshittification this week. Last month, they required you to turn on Youtube History to view the feed of youtube videos recommendations. That seems reasonable, so I did it. But I delete my history every 1 week instead of every 3 months. So they don’t get much from my choices....
Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11 (www.theregister.com)
World EV Sales Now Equal 18% Of World Auto Sales (cleantechnica.com)
Is it possible to make windows 10 more Private?
i use windows because its the only os i know how to use. i want to get into things like torrenting because free stuff is cool but im afraid to. ive heard of tails os, a os that boots from a flash drive, is that worth checking out or should i stick with windows?...
Universal Chat Application, Beeper, Will Be Available To Everyone (For Free) In A Matter Of Weeks. (blog.beeper.com)
I was on the beta testing team and have been using Beeper for a little over two years now....