I knew peertube but never used it before. I was very surprised to be able to watch 1080@60fps at x2 speed totally smoothly, while with youtube I have to reduce to 720@30fps and even then it still hogs the cpu.
Just because it's theirs? I figured it would be because of an alleged gender issue, for the same reason some are trying to do away with whitelists/blacklists and the like.
I suspect that might be the case with the two sections for corp specific trackers, they seem to focus on some feature of brave. I wonder if firefox and tor mitigate it differently.
A set of merge requests were opened that would effectively drop X.Org (X11) session support for the GNOME desktop and once that code is removed making it a Wayland-only desktop environment....
Companies like valve, but not valve, they deserve criticism but not this one. They have worked and invested a lot in open source projects for compatibility with windows apps and graphics performance in general.
Since videogames are very popular nowadays, their work and active support is really valuable to attract and retain users.
Are you both bots? How can anyone read that crap and say it's a great breakdown?
It's a single widely known issue, and it can literally be summed up in one short sentence: by default it doesn't use end-to-end encrypted chats, which are also far inferior in functionality.
I've never seen a pro-telegram propagandist, but you anti-telegram propagandists are swarming and very tiresome.
I don't like to participate in pointless discussions, but I'll at least clarify it to avoid more silly replies.
-I call the other user a propagandist just for using the other user's language, obviously the correct thing would be hater.
-The article is crap and I criticize the nonsense of praising it. This is not a defense of telegram, nor being against criticizing it.
-I called them bots in a mocking way for their conclusion to the article.
Canonical is enacting manual reviews for all newly registered uploads to its Snap Store following what it describes as a ‘potential security incident’....
Flatpak has extra complexity but its approach is to distrust apps, hence it is more secure than a traditional package. The problem here is that snap's approach is to trust canonical.
I know I should be happy and grateful for this, but unfortunately I'm going to be the grumpy one on duty to say a resounding and exasperating: It's about time.
I've been waiting for this for over a decade full of ups and downs with few and bad options, for a while they even deliberately broke all the web translation addons without offering any alternatives.
In fact, it is only recently that there are two very good addons: TWP and linguist (which also has local translation). I hope mozilla will do more than just integrate the addon they released a year ago, because that one is inferior in everything and very pitiful.
At that time there were some addons that worked to translate web (not just selected text), and at least one of them was even recommended by mozilla.
The problem is that to translate from google they used a remote code execution method, I'm not sure but I seem to remember that mozilla changed their policy to not allow that and didn't warn the devs (if mozilla simply didn't notice for years it would be even more worrying).
In any case someone reported them all and they were immediately banned, some of the devs tried to reason with mozilla and look for workarounds but to no avail.
Until alternatives appeared (after a couple of years?) it was necessary to install blacklisted or unsigned addons, which is a bit tedious.
Between uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, ClearURLs, Decentraleyes, and Privacy Possum, I’m having a hard time deciding which ones I actually need and which ones I don’t. Do they actually do different things, or are they largely the same?
Note that this is targeted to arkenfox users, who by default use privacy.resistfingerprinting (unlike most users); without it, canvasblocker is also recommended.
I suppose that I can be leaving some other (like disabling webgl), but in principle yes. The bad thing is that this setting can be annoying, it does things like change the time zone, force the light theme, always start in window, among many others.
The arguments about data loss today are simply ridiculous and fallacious. They made sense in the beginning (or for raid5/6 until recently), but those who lost data were solely at fault for ignoring the warnings; yet instead of taking responsibility for their actions, they joined the horde of haters.
There was a post asking people their opinions about Edge and many people seemed to liked the idea of Edge and seemed to be ok having it on Linux (Blasphemy)...
For images there are foss options that you can run locally, like stable diffusion which is so good that it rivals its proprietary counterparts.
But for text it's a horror, there are some you can try (see gpt4all), but in general chatgpt has no real competition; the foss options are currently very bad, and even the proprietary options from big corporations like bard or llama are pitiful.
but I can’t help but see the fact that there is no alternative to Bing GPT
Regarding this, there are other services that also use GPT for search, here a couple:
I’m looking to find out which torrent search engines you consider the best, especially those with advanced search features. By advanced search, I mean something like this....
I am soon moving out for university and am going to meet a bunch of new folks. But I was wondering how do you go about approaching this with privacy in mind?...
Bonus for the privacy-conscious; It has better privacy and cryptography.
This is highly questionable, but it should be mentioned that it is radically worse if you don't use "secret chats" (less convenient), the normal ones don't even have end-to-end encryption.
PS: It's quite bizarre to answer directly to someone to discredit, but without giving the opportunity to refute...
A fresh report into Unity's hugely-controversial decision to start charging developers when their games are downloaded has thrown fresh light on the situation....
Assumably this will require an internet connection and identifying their victims, but blocking the internet connection and starving their greed is very easy, so I bet we'll see new DRM for unity soon.
Potentialy dumb question here, is there any benefit to using btrfs on a non system disk? I’m fairly ignorant on file systems, asfaik btrfs largest benefit is snapshotting, not sure of anyothers.
For a data disk? Absolutely, even if you're not going to configure anything, you can copy inside the partition instantly and detect the bitrot.
If you're willing to step it up a notch, there's also cool stuff like transparent compression, deduplication and incremental send/receive of entire subvolumes.
Quote from the article: “The inclusion of intrusive DRM softwares [sic] like Denuvo is a choice that yields an unfair punishment on the consumer,” Running With Scissors says. “Respect the consumer, make a game they want to play, and you will never feel the need to fight piracy. The gaming industry deserves a better future,...
Is it really possible to own them properly? If in almost all cases we lack the source code and there are even proprietary requirements for both software and hardware, what chance do they have of working halfway well in a few decades?
Sometimes there is a trick that allows to play offline (I guess to bypass tags and restrictions), things like adding a line of text to a file, always a hassle and poorly documented.
Btw, I feel like telling that I deleted my rockstar account quite a while ago, they asked and re-asked nonsense, waiting from weeks to over a month between email and email, and the worst thing is that sometimes they were in chinese. It took me more than half a year to delete that crap.
I guess so, as it's fine to leave a game in the gog/steam library for a long time, but several games taking up tens or hundreds of GB on disk is a hassle.
On the other hand, I also notice that I have much less commitment, I discard them easily and often without giving them a real chance.
Physical SIMs you can get on the street in many places, vending machines, eBay, wherever.
Unfortunately there are many countries where the law requires activation with identity documents.
Surely somewhere one can find them already activated, but I wonder what legal or other kind of problems it may cause.
There's a lot of trash on the moon right now—including nearly 100 bags of human waste—and with countries around the globe traveling to the moon, there's going to be a lot more, both on the lunar surface and in Earth's orbit.
Map Legend
Red - Corporate Relationship & Ownership
Orange - Paid Relationship or Paid Affiliates (Dashes)
Blue - Cooperation or Partnership (These companies may share staff, resources, networks, or facilities with one another).
Purple - Corporate Media Relationship & Ownership
Brown - Legal Dispute
Hover over nodes to highlight relationships
Use right-click to focus on select areas
I think the only relevant criticism I see is adding affiliate codes to urls (until they were caught).
The author also forgot the polemic of adding twitter and facebook trackers to the whitelist, and impersonating people in their ads. There are some interesting criticisms against brave, I don't understand why their detractors are obsessed with the CEO and crypto.
Arkenfox is now a bit more user friendly. It also has a wiki with overrides for the more annoying stuff. Setting it up is a bit tedious, but I guess most advanced users will be interested in using overrides anyway.
It would probably be easier to just use librewolf, which is almost the same but disabling some annoying things and adding gui switches for some of them.
This site looks kinda weird. For one, it looks much more polished than any similar site I’ve seen so far. They have really good SEO as well, always popping up pretty high on Google. They have a massive selection of content....
IGG is very toxic website that has a history of adding various types of malware (both web and games), including cryptominers.
It's higher on that list, even though for some reason it only highlights the (barely coherent) silliness that it has DRM.
I'm not know the nosteam website, it's odd that they mention it on the list but it's not listed.
What use to be the PPA that allowed Ubuntu users to use native .deb packages for Firefox has recently changed to the same meta package that forces installation of Snap and the Firefox snap package....
I get 100% using only ublock in firefox, without configuring either. Note that stacking filters not only reduces performance, but also increases your fingerprint.
Oh, I used canvasblocker for a lot of years, it's great. But I disabled it because from arkenfox it is not recommended together with privacy.resistfingerprinting.
I guess reasonably well? It's hard to assess, but anyway I also use user.js from arkenfox which includes many other changes; they also have this service to detect fingerprints that I suspect you are interested in, it has the particularity to detect tampering.
Maybe this will make people think twice about getting pregnant.
Are you implying that women have to be held responsible for their actions? What a bold and sexist argument! It's easy to evidence it by reversing the genders, can you imagine men being forced to support their children and being held responsible for choosing to have sex? Oh wait, that's right, but it's not like they are forced (prioritizing the mother's whim to raise) even if they are not able to do it or has been raped by the mother... oh wait, that happens too.
Speaking a bit more seriously I would like to add (since I am sure that many people have not read the news), that the young woman caused the abortion at 23 weeks when there is already a (slim) reasonable viability, and that she had a choice to do it legally until 20 weeks. Also and going back to sexism, that fathers have so few rights that (without a marriage) they can't even keep their children if the mother chooses to give them up for adoption.
The Auschwitz Memorial on Thursday criticised social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, for failing to remove an antisemitic post on the site.
Wow... I know there always is and always will be a minority of really hateful people, but it's shocking that they have the guts to be so blatant. I hope it's just a troll (but the most disturbing thing here is twitter). Thanks for the sharing.
What has VALVE (Steam) done for LINUX and KDE? (tube.kockatoo.org)
What is the differences between "man" and "info" command
Hi,...
Misconceptions About Immutable Distributions (tesk.page)
Browsers compared (lemmy.basedcount.com)
Source: digdeeper.club/articles/browsers.xhtml
GNOME Merge Requests Opened That Would Drop X.Org Session Support (www.phoronix.com)
A set of merge requests were opened that would effectively drop X.Org (X11) session support for the GNOME desktop and once that code is removed making it a Wayland-only desktop environment....
Linux market share on Steam over time (Sep 2023 - 1.63%) (lemmy.ml)
Source: www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/
Which one do you trust the most for your privacy? (kerala.party)
Now more than ever, ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment (www.aboutchromebooks.com)
Snap Store Restricts Uploads Following Possible Security Issue (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
Canonical is enacting manual reviews for all newly registered uploads to its Snap Store following what it describes as a ‘potential security incident’....
Richard Stallman has cancer
From his website stallman.org:...
Dotfiles matter! Please stop dumping files in users’ $HOME directories. (dotfiles-matter.click)
Any extension to deal with AI-generated articles?
Is there an extension that warns you when you are wasting time reading ai-generated crap?...
Creator of Cracked Paid Starfield DLSS 3 Frame Generation Mod Will Place "Hidden Mines" in Future Mods (wccftech.com)
The creator of the paid Starfield DLSS 3 Frame Generation mod, PureDark, has said that he will be placing "hidden mines" in his future mods....
Firefox 118 Available With Performance Improvements, Automated Translations (www.phoronix.com)
How many add-ons do I really need to block trackers?
Between uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, ClearURLs, Decentraleyes, and Privacy Possum, I’m having a hard time deciding which ones I actually need and which ones I don’t. Do they actually do different things, or are they largely the same?
NewsFlash 3.0 Released with Slick New Look (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
bcachefs is now in linux-next! (www.patreon.com)
What is FOSS answer to BingGPT & Google Bard?
There was a post asking people their opinions about Edge and many people seemed to liked the idea of Edge and seemed to be ok having it on Linux (Blasphemy)...
Deciding for ourselves: 98% of people want a browser choice screen, Mozilla study finds (blog.mozilla.org)
cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/476611...
What's your favorite torrent search engine?
I’m looking to find out which torrent search engines you consider the best, especially those with advanced search features. By advanced search, I mean something like this....
How do yall go about meeting new people while still maintaining a decent level of privacy?
I am soon moving out for university and am going to meet a bunch of new folks. But I was wondering how do you go about approaching this with privacy in mind?...
Fedora Linux 40 to Offer the KDE Plasma 6 Desktop on Wayland and Drop X11 Session (9to5linux.com)
Unity will quietly waive controversial fees if developers switch to its ad monetisation service - report (www.eurogamer.net)
A fresh report into Unity's hugely-controversial decision to start charging developers when their games are downloaded has thrown fresh light on the situation....
Purism Announce New 11-Inch Linux Tablet (www.omglinux.com)
File System Benefits
Potentialy dumb question here, is there any benefit to using btrfs on a non system disk? I’m fairly ignorant on file systems, asfaik btrfs largest benefit is snapshotting, not sure of anyothers.
We'll all have AI assistants soon, Google AI cofounder says (www.businessinsider.com)
Mustafa Suleyman said AI will "intimately know your personal information" and be able to serve you 24-7.
Legendary PC developer says Denuvo is “a punishment to the consumer” (www.pcgamesn.com)
Quote from the article: “The inclusion of intrusive DRM softwares [sic] like Denuvo is a choice that yields an unfair punishment on the consumer,” Running With Scissors says. “Respect the consumer, make a game they want to play, and you will never feel the need to fight piracy. The gaming industry deserves a better future,...
Starfield's planets are an illusion: you can't land on them (www.vg247.com)
If you were wondering if you could fly to a planet's surface in Starfield, the answer is technically yes, it'll just ta…
Rockstar selling you cracked copies on Steam (i.redd.it)
Source: reddit.com/…/rockstar_selling_you_cracked_copies_…
Is anyone else like 10 times more likely to play a game they pirated versus one they bought?
I can’t explain it, something about the freedom of acquisition takes the pressure off and lets me just launch it and try it out....
Do eSIMs have any downsides from a privacy standpoint?
Compared to regular SIM cards....
Space junk in Earth orbit and on the moon will increase with future missions—but nobody's in charge of cleaning it up (phys.org)
There's a lot of trash on the moon right now—including nearly 100 bags of human waste—and with countries around the globe traveling to the moon, there's going to be a lot more, both on the lunar surface and in Earth's orbit.
2023 Paid VPN Relationship and Corporate VPN Ownership Map (news.ycombinator.com)
Stop using Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)
What user.js are you using?
I found three, Betterfox, arkenfox, & Narsil....
What's the deal with Steamunlocked.net?
This site looks kinda weird. For one, it looks much more polished than any similar site I’ve seen so far. They have really good SEO as well, always popping up pretty high on Google. They have a massive selection of content....
Ubuntu's Mozillateam PPA now forcing users over to snap install for Firefox.
What use to be the PPA that allowed Ubuntu users to use native .deb packages for Firefox has recently changed to the same meta package that forces installation of Snap and the Firefox snap package....
How many Adblocking/Privacy extensions are too much?
So as the title mentions, I’m wondering how much is too much?...
Linguist, an ultimate translation browser extension (vitonsky.net)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/1927197...
Abortion Snitching Is Already Sending People to Jail (msmagazine.com)
Auschwitz Memorial criticises Musk's X for not removing antisemitic content (www.reuters.com)
The Auschwitz Memorial on Thursday criticised social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, for failing to remove an antisemitic post on the site.