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BlackPit 61 points 3 years ago

Taking the win. Celebrating the fact there was a big enough backlash to get Google to pull their head in.

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BlackPit 43 points 3 years ago

has suggested that the solution to the crisis may be a Finnish model, which is a 'housing first' approach that aims to give everyone a home.

Fixing homelessness by giving people a home! I'm not sure that's going to work.....facepalm

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BlackPit 36 points 3 years ago

Posteo is great for business. It's a professional and competent company that respects your privacy to a good degree, and has a clue about security. In a sense it's MORE professional than trying to DIY, unless you really know what you're doing. I would feel encouraged to see a business use Posteo when I receive the email. It tells me that your business probably cares a little about security and/or privacy and possibly the environment too. Total kudos for using Posteo from me.

What I think is completely unprofessional is to use your ISP's address for business email. The number one unprofessional business move, in my opinion, is to have your business website on Facebook/Meta, Twitter or any other enshitified corporate social media site. You won't get my business. I'll go anywhere else no matter how inconvenient.

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BlackPit 33 points 3 years ago

If they weren't doing anything wrong they shouldn't care who watches where they go, right?

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BlackPit 23 points 3 years ago

January 1 - This is just the emotionally charged distraction. Keep watchful for the event that needs to go under the radar. A change in laws or policy, a new war, or anything that is meant to erode people's privacy, security or freedom. The US has a history of implementing undesirable changes during holiday periods when there's little opposition. Possibly something like this;

https://act.eff.org/...

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is set to expire on December 31, 2023

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BlackPit 22 points 3 years ago

I totally agree with the title's sentiment. I don't mind some free open source rough edges. Lemmy functions great. There's also a good deal of what looks like genuine interaction. However, I would like to point out that I think there's a LOT of corporate shills pushing agendas. Some notable ones might be pharmaceutical propaganda and corporate banking with cashless solutions.

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BlackPit 22 points 3 years ago

Hahahahahhah lmao, this is funny, weird, stupid, useless and disturbing all at once.

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BlackPit 20 points 3 years ago

Google are totally into blocking ads. That was the whole catch line for selling WEI. "We'll block all the random ads for you and keep you safe". What they didn't say was that they would replace the blocked ads with Google bought ads.

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BlackPit 19 points 3 years ago

Google's modus operandi - business as usual. Deploying their dirty tricks on their mass of servers to edge out and destroy competition. When caught out they apologize all surprised Pikachu style, then do it again differently. This is likely in response to news about Firefox mobile finally allowing extensions to work. People are probably trying it out, but their Youtube experience will be crap, so they'll go back to chrome.

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BlackPit 18 points 3 years ago

Here's a tip to make using Firefox profiles easy.

  1. go to about:profiles and create a profile. Let's call this one "better" because it has the Betterfox css added. (an example)
  2. On Linux typing firefox in a terminal will launch the default profile. Typing firefox -p better will launch the "better" profile. If you're on OS X or Windows just find out what the equivalent command would be to execute the launch.
  3. Go to wherever you need to in your operating system to create custom keyboard shortcuts. For me that's Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Custom Shortcuts. Create a new shortcut with the following information.

Name: Firefox profile better

Command: firefox -p better

Keys: enter the keys you want to use

How to choose keys;

My desktop environment uses super(windows) + b to launch the default browser, which happens to be Firefox. So for me it makes sense to use something like super + shift + b for consistency, and easy to remember. If you have a profile with Arkenfox css it could be super + shift + a. Regardless, try for a mnemenic and consistent solution.

Now whenever you want to launch a new instance of a Firefox profile just tap the keys you assigned.

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BlackPit 16 points 3 years ago

Leave...Taylor...ALONE! :p

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BlackPit 16 points 3 years ago

At last, some authority talking sense!

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BlackPit 15 points 3 years ago

See, you educated yourself! I only wanted to point you to official documentation with the hope you get in the habit of starting there (with any tech). Ask a hundred people and probably get a hundred differing answers. Look at Stack Overflow and sites like that where there's always multiple answers. Thankfully there's usually one with a green tick that is likely the best answer. Anyway, you now have it in a nutshell - No data to recover = The point of using Tails (without persistence). There's no such thing as permanent total online anonymity.

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BlackPit 12 points 3 years ago path: 0 5199613 5202934 5203112, hotness: undefined, score: 12, children: 0
BlackPit 10 points 3 years ago

It can't be illegal because you agree to allow them when you purchase the new vehicle. It's all there in the T&C and PP, which no one ever reads. Don't like it? Don't buy new cars. I won't.

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BlackPit 9 points 3 years ago

Block those communities and subjects you don't want in your feed.

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BlackPit 8 points 3 years ago

This seems like a win for "civil society". Putting a dent in NSO's secrecy so software makers can patch against it would be a win as long as Whatsapp (Meta) publish their findings publicly and not keep it for themselves to be the next biggest threat to "civil society". As if they haven't done enough civil damage and spying themselves already.

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BlackPit 8 points 3 years ago

COSMIC DE now runs on Asahi Linux, while cosmic-settings and cosmic-icons have been added to NixOS!

This news is awesome! With Slint, Iced and all the many projects working on Rust apps for COSMIC, and now having other distributions on board gives a lot of confidence in the quality of this desktop.

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BlackPit 7 points 3 years ago

Not looking for anything except an attempt to clarify the industry standard practice that System76 are not doing anything different to ALL other computer suppliers (OEM). They're all using ODM for manufacture. If the quality isn't great that's another topic, but trashing them in threads for the reason stated is ignorant and uninformed.

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BlackPit 7 points 3 years ago

Gary is my spirit animal.

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thanks for using Leebra!

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