Sylos

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by Sylos 9y ago
Google has an obsession with automating everything and employing at best no humans at all. Same thing with Chrome extensions. Mozilla has solved this same problem in near perfection by just having a few actual human beings look over the cod
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by Sylos 9y ago
I gave my mum F-Droid, which is a small FOSS app store, and removed the Google Play Store.
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by Sylos 9y ago
1) What does it matter? If it's better by being small, it's still better. 2) The F-Droid maintainers manually build the apps on F-Droid from the respective code repositories. They will notice when something like that is off. This
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by Sylos 9y ago
In a way, you can: https://f-droid.org/app/com.javiersantos.whatsappbetaupdater The method the other commenter suggested also works. But yes, these are anecdotal for WhatsApp, which I presume was just an example on you
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by Sylos 9y ago
They don't do a thorough code review, but they are human beings and they manually build the software from its code repository, so they will notice these kind of discrepancies.
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by Sylos 9y ago
Desktop Linux just as well has software repositories, which are similar to app stores, but human beings look over each application that's included. And you find essentially all popular software in this trusted repository. So, this stra
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by Sylos 9y ago
> Note that firefox doesn't have this problem [...] maybe has something to do with the fact that they show usage numbers on the results page. Mozilla does a manual code review of newly submitted or updated extensions. So, an actual
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by Sylos 9y ago
Right, but then why would you click on that headline?
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by Sylos 9y ago
> Lots of them run fine without Play Services (including Google Maps). And there's also OsmAnd, which I think deserves a try. I haven't used Google Maps in a few years, but I initially switched, because OsmAnd was much more rel
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by Sylos 9y ago
The Google Play Services collect a ton of data. And for that to happen, your phone has to send this data to Google, which drains battery.
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by Sylos 9y ago
I don't know. Not a scooby. What I know is that Google will store that data point indefinitely and will correlate it with a near-infinite number of other data points to generate conclusions about me. Whether those conclusions are right
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by Sylos 9y ago
> The point is that you've still done many more distribution upgrades than Windows upgrades in the same timeframe and don't question it. Which is not the point I was making there. The point was that Windows Upgrades are subject
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by Sylos 9y ago
Personally, I keep the ESR-package installed, which means the .desktop-file and icon and such continue to be in their correct places, and then I just override the firefox-command via the PATH. So, in steps: 1. Download the tar.bz2 off of Mo
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by Sylos 9y ago
It's not a personal choice, it's a moral choice. You are contributing to making the web a shittier place for me, for everyone by using Chrome. Whether you give a fuck about me being angry at you for that is of course a different s
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by Sylos 9y ago
DNT is meant as an explicit opt-out. A unified way for users to expressly say that they do not want to be tracked, if possible. Users actually going into the settings and flipping that switch makes it clear that it's their request and
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by Sylos 9y ago
It still likely violates EU privacy laws: https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/news/dutch-dpa-micr... If they introduce highly illegal telemetry and dial it back to slightly less illegal, then it's still
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by Sylos 9y ago
Upgrades of Linux distributions typically are actually upgrades and if they're not, you'll find a not-shit upgrade path somehow, be it by switching to a different distro or to a different flavor of the same distro. With Windows, i
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by Sylos 9y ago
Well, he did swap out the client-side and it worked, so that's rather indicative of it not being a server-side problem. Not entirely given, it could be that Chrome happens to implement erronous or non-standards-compliant behaviour whic
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by Sylos 9y ago
> Any estimates on what the economic cost of entry is for developing a competetive browser? I doubt you're gonna get numbers, but I can give you two rough reference points: 1) All popular modern browsers use browser engines that sta
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by Sylos 9y ago
Fully aware that I sounded like a dick there. I even apologized for it. As for sorting out my threat vectors, I think you should sort out your threat vectors, if you don't consider the biggest data broker on the planet to be part of th
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by Sylos 9y ago
Yeah, there's so many free video editor programs available that can do this just as well. They might not be cut to do exactly that, so there's a bit of a learning curve in comparison to this service, but still, especially for some
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by Sylos 9y ago
Which itself is hosted on Google Docs. Does not compute, does it? I mean, sorry if I sound rude and thanks for trying to help, but yeah, I'm not clicking on that link.
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by Sylos 9y ago
When evaluating a VPN service for trustworthiness, I always look at what their webpage loads in terms of tracking scripts. Basically, if you offer me the service to protect my IP address and don't even have the decency to let me inform
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by Sylos 9y ago
And why do you think that? I could understand why you'd want to be thinking that, if you own lots of Google stocks, but either way this does not provide any resolution to anything. Whether you call it a search engine or a curated conte
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by Sylos 9y ago
How is it a change for good? Just seems like Google Search is becoming even clumsier for bilingual people. Sometimes I want results in my mother-tongue, sometimes I want results in English. And I expect my search engine to have a way to qui
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by Sylos 9y ago
The two are quite a bit different. Slide feels more modern, presents images and videos more prominently and overall, it feels like you're consuming more content. It's also a bit buggier and I found using it to be more strenuous, j
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by Sylos 9y ago
I don't see what purpose this differentiation serves. It's a problem for people that like the text editor enough in other aspects to still use it and it's a problem in that many people will not use it, due to the resource usa
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by Sylos 9y ago
Because not all issues are worth forking. You introduce another delay for security updates to get through (and this text editor has a browser under the hood, so very much needs security updates) and you get a not necessarily trustworthy and
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by Sylos 9y ago
Well, it's not the main problem. Just a new problem, therefore gathers new attention. The main problem people have with it is the resource usage, as it's built with Electron. There's an abundance of text editors available and
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by Sylos 9y ago
You can't actually buy new copies of Windows 7 anymore, I don't think, so that doesn't exactly say much. And well, in this case, corporations aren't just slow to switch, they're also still investigating, if they can

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