Almost as good as star citizen

I must say, this is really creepy.

In your shoes, I’d put some effort into explaining what (legitimate) use case you have, least people won’t be much inclined to help.

Basically, the only way is to disconnect the TV and use it as a dumb screen. Lineageos supports a few set top boxes (see here).

I heard (take it as hearsay) that some smart TV periodically capture screenshots of what’s on screen and upload it, so it actually disconnecting the tv from the network could (again, hearsay) make a real difference.

It’s no secret that we trade our information for access to the Internet.

I pay a monthly subscription for access to the Internet (actually two: one for the landline and one for my phone).

So what do you prefer a subscription based Internet with privacy protection or a free internet with companies allowed to take and sell your data

Either one would be better than what we have now, which is not free and not private.

Well, at least the one he used for thruth is safe (mastodon IIRC?)

The title is missing a second part: “after China, the US, Russia, the UK, etc.”.

I get that privacy is potentially in danger if chatcontrol passes (ie. it’s not right now) and that to raise awareness is worthwhile, but misrepresenting one of the best places privacy-wise as “one of the greatest threats” is just dishonest.

Visitors to the US have been asked if they were members of the communist party since forever though?

IDK if those who replied “yes” would be sent back, but I do remember reading about Chinese communist party members being denied entry to the US.

I don’t see much difference between this and that as far as the 1st amendment is concerned… aren’t you idealizing the 1st amendment (and/or how seriously the US takes it)?

PS: let me make clear that I’m not trying to defend the indefensible behaviour of the Trump administration in any way

You must have an outdated version. The current version is “We announce that there must be no criticism of the President, and that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong. Anything else is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

I know :) that’s why I was asking if anybody else did it instead of campaigning for more people to do it

(tangentially related)

Do you guys intentionally half-ass your capchtas or am I the only one?

eg. when Google asks me to recognize traffic lights, I intentionally make some errors to decrease the quality of data they harvest

Generally speaking, if someone asks/talks about some local topic without bothering to specify where they live, you can just assume they live in the US :)

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Does it run lineage? Any other FOSS, third party OS? No? Hard pass.

He never said he wants free speech for everyone :) TBH the shame should be on those who believed that Musk could somehow be the first right-wing extremist in history that wished the people at large had more rights and more freedoms.

Circle jerking, I guess? Same reason I use lemmy :)

Google has many faults, but the one responsible for this one is someone else :)

The FOSS google maps alternatives I hear recommended most often are OsmAnd+ and, especially, Organic Maps.

Personally I don’t use maps very often (I know my way around my area pretty well, so I usually just lookup the location of wherever I want to go before leaving home), but I’d say Organic Maps is simpler and more user friendly than OsmAnd+.

Both can work offline if you download the maps for your area.

The maps are pretty good (at least in my area), but compared to Google Maps you’ll have to rely more on street addresses as there aren’t as many points of interest.

We do deserve end-to-end encrypted communication but then nobody except nerds could be bothered about managing private keys, so in the end providers would manage our keys and still be able to read our messages.

If the problem is that goggle/etc can read your email, not using them for your email is the solution.

Then, yes, there’s also an issue where ecommerce sites submerge us in useless email (is “your package has been shipped” an event so important that I must be immediately notified? Because I only care about when the package will be delivered) and could use a “notificaiton settings” page.

Of the sites I use, the worst offender is aliexpress, which sends (IIRC) “order confirmed”, “package shipped”, “packages reached customs”, “package cleared customs” and “package has been delivered” for every friggin’ item you ordered.

Apologies if this is explained in the article (sorry, as a Linux user I don’t care enough about this story to actually read the article), but… how is a filter that avoid taking screenshots of sensitive info supposed to work? I mean, what kind of divination algorithm can detect something is sensitive without looking at it first?

I know nothing about Wikipedia drama, but the term “logical fallacy” usually indicates a reasoning pattern and does not apply to specific arguments, regardless of how fallacious they may happen be. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies