Linus_Torvalds

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Linus_Torvalds,

Indeed. Oftentimes they kinda resolve their cognitive dissonance by saying ‘Ah, you got a fiance, you have to say that wink’. As if there is no other logical explanation.

Linus_Torvalds,

Same. The cost point ($10) is a bit … weird, but it is actually appropriate.

Linus_Torvalds,

Are you actually using <500 searches per month?

Mine are:

  • Dec 2023 ~350 so far
  • Nov 2023 ~850
  • Oct 2023 ~1100
  • Sep 2023 ~1400

(DE) "Ampel will Schuldenbremse wieder einhalten" - m.M.n. eine unfassbar schlechte Entscheidung (www.zdf.de) German

An alle die gedacht haben, dass wir jetzt auf dem Weg sind unseren politischen Diskurs auf einen zukunftsorientierten Weg zu setzen: Sike… Schuldenbremse wird nicht ausgesetzt, einzige Steuererhöhung die kommt ist das anheben der CO2 bepreisung ohne das Klimageld einzuführen und der Rest der Lücke wird über dumme...

Linus_Torvalds,

(Ist das nicht ein Argument pro Schwarze Null?)

Linus_Torvalds,

Trotzdem lieber was schreiben, als schweigen.

Linus_Torvalds,

Well, I do realize it every day 😶

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.

Linus_Torvalds,

Would that make it basically anonymous?

Well, no. I think there is so much information in there, that the IP address is your least concern.

Linus_Torvalds,

I guess it is somewhat like paying in cash for your groceries: While anonymous, only you buy at this time of the day your favourite 3 food products, a cup of gluten-free instant ramen and a period product.

I would be concerned about this scenario:

  • Company X has your TV data (but doesn’t know your name, etc)
  • Company Y, Z, … know your name and have data on you.
  • They buy/share/whatever data and intersect it. Now they can probably connect the data they have on you.
Linus_Torvalds,

Danke für’s kritische Beleuchten!

Linus_Torvalds,

Wait, does FF on Android only support Manifest v3 extensions?

Linus_Torvalds,

“only has permissions for necessary domains”

any page

ò_ô

Linus_Torvalds,

Got forked by one of the Contributors:

github.com/FossifyX

Linus_Torvalds, (edited )

What about OpenBoard? It is maintained and a great keyboard

NVM, it is not maintained, but there is a very active fork: github.com/Helium314/openboard

Linus_Torvalds,

Not sure. Couldn’t the bots just decrypt it the same way?

Ahhh, didn’t read to the end. Hm. Still not convinced. I don’t want captchas etc to use the internet

Linus_Torvalds,

Target locked

Linus_Torvalds,

Valid question. Im short: They will stop working.

You are getting downvoted for the question because most people here think that you shouldn’t use them. And they might be right.

Linus_Torvalds,

?

Linus_Torvalds,

Lmao

Linus_Torvalds,

In der Urteilsbegründung wurde (zum Teil) in etwa so argumentiert:

Im Gesetz steht praktisch genau das. Nur, wenn eine Verurteilung wegen der neuen Beweise sehr wahrscheinlich ist, dann geht die Wiederaufnahme. Nun wurde aber schon einmal mit “erdrückenden Beweisen” gegen ihn der Prozess gemacht. Der endete im Freispruch. Es ist also nicht möglich zu sagen, welche Beweise “über jeden berechtigten Zweifel” zur Verurteilung führen. Das Konzept, die Schwere der Beweise einzustufen ist also mit Mängeln behaftet.

Linus_Torvalds,

Ich bin sehr happy mit der Diskussion hier und möchte auch meinen Senf hinzugeben:

Ich finde das sehr gut, mit Blick auf die Rechtssicherheit und den Rechtsfrieden. Spannend ist, dass 103 GG nur von einem Verbot von doppelter Verurteilung spricht, aber das VerfG wohl Quellen/Dokumente aus dem Enstehungsprozess des GG gefunden hat, die belegen, dass auch ein Verbot von doppelter Strafverfolgung gemeint war.

Firefox curated list of NSFW sites (MD5 hashed) from FF source code. Community effort? (searchfox.org)

Those are the MD5 hashes of a lot of adult sites. They list them, so they can filter them from “often visited”. In bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1159884 they reason, that this is so that virus scanners don’t detect FF as malicious (due to containing references to those sites). Let’s get the list!...

Linus_Torvalds,

Thanks for your reply! Is the web annoyances list better than the built-in one in uBO. Should I disable the standard one?

Linus_Torvalds, (edited )

I read about one. Let me see if I can still find it…

Edit: I can’t.

Linus_Torvalds,

While I’m at it, what is the community opinion on NoScript? The first few weeks were a bit of a pain, but now it is actually quite convenient.

Linus_Torvalds,

Hat gerade das Sierpinski-Dreieck jemanden eines IQs, der in der oeis.org/A047999 ist bezichtigt?

Linus_Torvalds,

Sometimes I envy the people living in “bird regions” (The Americas, Africa, SE-Asia, Oceania). A rare sad EU moment.

Linus_Torvalds, (edited )
  1. Accordion
  2. Antenna
  3. Banana
  4. Character
  5. Deceived
  6. Elephant
  7. Greening
  8. Harbinger
  9. Insignia
  10. Knowledge

GPT-4, prompt: “List 10 words that start and end with the same letter but are not palindromes.”

Even without the palindrome condition, it got some of these and a few palindromes.

Linus_Torvalds,

According to your logic, 30% of words would satisfy this property.

Linus_Torvalds,

I am on 0.48 and it’s not there. And the 0.49 beta isn’t showing this in the release notes at all.

Linus_Torvalds, (edited )

Thaaaaaanks! 🫶

Linus_Torvalds,

Mike Kuketz called Brave ambivalent and saif that their outward presentation does not match the Browsers behaviour

BTW, another argument is: Don’t use Chromium-based browsers, browser engine diversity is important for an open web.

Linus_Torvalds, (edited )

From the linked source (2023), which I assume you can understand as a German speaker:

  1. Fazit

Insgesamt hinterlässt Brave einen durchwachsenen Eindruck. Die Voreinstellungen des Browsers sind nicht ideal. […]

Unklar bleibt, ob man zur A/B-Testgruppe gehört und welche Daten dabei an die Domain »variations.brave.com« fließen. Ebenfalls fragwürdig ist die Abfrage von Affiliate-Domains über die Domain »laptop-updates.brave.com«.

Passt man die Voreinstellungen an und installiert keine weiteren Add-ons, hat man einen Chromium-Ableger, der offenbar keine Verbindungen zu Google initiiert, aber dennoch unnötige Verbindungen beim Start aufbaut. So ganz passt die Außendarstellung bzw. das Versprechen zum Schutz der Privatsphäre nicht zum tatsächlichen Verhalten in der Praxis.

Can you link to where he says he uses Brave? Maybe I’m wrong here, but this seems sceptical.

More quotes:

In der Empfehlungsecke findet ihr einige Suchmaschinen, die ich für empfehlenswert halte. Brave Search gehört nicht dazu.

Ich erhalte oftmals die Frage, weshalb ich den Brave-Browser nicht empfehle und wieso ich nicht am Brave-Rewards-Programm teilnehme. Zunächst einmal basiert der Browser auf Chrome – das genügt für mich schon, um einen möglichst weiten Bogen darum zu machen. […] Als datenschutzsensibler Nutzer verzichte ich darauf gerne. Auch das »Werbekonzept« finde ich wenig überzeugend.

(I really don’t want to be toxic, but at least the Mike Kuketz talk is you spreading misinformation)

Linus_Torvalds,

Weeeeeird, I asked him on Mastodon, let’s see what he says.

Linus_Torvalds,

To be fair, at this point it is LaTeX or raw txt.

Linus_Torvalds,

Kriegt die AfD dann nicht noch mehr Sitze?

Linus_Torvalds,

Gut so! Alle Demokraten sollten hier sehr genau hinschauen und die riesigen Hürden, die ein Parteiverbotsverfahren (zurecht) aufstellt, selber überprüfen. Denn unsere Demokratie ist sowohl streitbar, als auch wehrhaft.

Ich persönlich denke nicht, dass ein Verbot was bringt. Das wird nur Wasser auf deren Mühlen sein und das Vertrauen in die Demokratie bei den Ohnehin schon demokratie-aversen/skeptischen nur ganz zerstören.

Linus_Torvalds,

Waehrend das wahr ist, ist es nicht gerade die feine englische Art…

Linus_Torvalds,

Und AT?

Linus_Torvalds,

So cool, do you by chance have more of those ‘in stages of flight’ pictures?

Linus_Torvalds,

Thank you so much😍

Linus_Torvalds,

idk, this seems like a 99 IQ strat

Linus_Torvalds,

Disclaimer: Kagi user here.

Searches are not pay-per-use anymore. But you still have to be logged in to search. The premise is, that they don’t store your searches. It is not their business model. You are the paying customer, not the ad firms. This is, ultimately, not verifiable. It comes down to some sort of trust. And I do trust in them. The developers are actually great guys, there is a discord where they answer immediately, and a discourse forum where you can submit bugs/features, etc.

They take a strong stance on freedom. They refused to implement a suicide prevention message, as they felt, that it wasbnot the job of the search engine to patronize the user.

There is such a thing as a ‘session link’. You can get it from you account. With this, I don’t think cookies are necesary. But the link expires so you have to do it probably every few days anew.

The thing is: I want to aupport them. They have cool features (up/downranking websites, GPT-4 access over their proxy, etc.) Is it better than self-hosting: no. But I don’t wanna self-host. And search is something that costs. So any service that does not live off donations or some sort of payment, is suspicious.

I hope I explained some of my reasons. Please debunk me and make me cancel my subscription there if I am in the wrong. Im not a shill and actually interested in your concerns :)

Linus_Torvalds, (edited )

GPT-4 is for Ultimate users ($25/month). The “weaker” models like GPT-3.5 will be rolled out for Pro users($10/month) in the next few weeks.

PS: FastGPT+ Summarizer exist as well, but this was not what I was talking about. Those are both somewhat limited AI tools, the GPT thing is the full blown access

Linus_Torvalds,

You can pay via Crypto/bank transfer and probably with cash soon.

The Discord thing is a valid point.

I don’t agree on the trust part with you. EVERY SOFTWARE we use boils down to trust. Because let’s be honest, we all don’t read the source code. (most of the time)

And finally there are downsides to such messages: Where do they stop? If someone searches for how to suicide, they should be getting relevant information for their query. Overall, I thought that if you find all the aforementioned things bad, you might like this one. From a liberal perspective, this is great.

voxel, (edited ) to privacyguides
@voxel@infosec.exchange avatar

Warning to all Brave Browser Users

Blocking variations.brave.com which is used for A/B testing could potentially break Brave's functionalities. For me did Brave's "forgetful browsing" feature broke which seems to be disabled by default if you block this domain.

#brave #bravebrowser #privacy @privacy @privacyguides

Linus_Torvalds,

Btw, here is a detailed, technical review. It is in German, but with transtae and all the code, it should be understandable.

TLDR: It’s good.

Linus_Torvalds,

Cringe.

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