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by digiown 8mo ago
If they admit this, they wouldn't be able to advertise to children anymore without breaking many rules.
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by digiown 8mo ago
You're assuming discord or twitch actually care. I doubt they actually do. It's there to preempt the regulatory hammer, and the presence of clunky workarounds like this doesn't affect it if it doesn't reach the mainstrea
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by digiown 8mo ago
I'm not sure that's true. What kind of rich brat will go through the trouble of all that for a couple hundred euros a month? Random isn't a bad way of doing it in any case though.
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by digiown 8mo ago
A call requires a human, which is inherently not scalable. And even humans have trouble distinguishing AI content these days.
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by digiown 8mo ago
I'm not necessarily opposed to KYC or even government being able to audit transactions in general. But there is too few legal protections both from the bank and the from the government itself for this to be acceptable in a free society
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by digiown 8mo ago
We can only hope they continue to be found so there would at least be a small cost for this kind of indignity.
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by digiown 8mo ago
The GUI. Random permission errors, python tracebacks, saving the settings don't always work, and the mysterious charade with "storage pools" that causes new permission problems. I just started using Incus now. It seems way mo
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by digiown 8mo ago
> Insulin monitoring apps A monitoring app doesn't even interact with systems you don't own. Just put a liability disclaimer for running modified versions. > warranted Decided by whom? And why is Google trusted, not me? At
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by digiown 8mo ago
It is colluding with a third party to increase their power. What devices pass Play Integrity? Yeah, the same ones with all the telemetry and spying that you can't remove. I thought the government is supposed to protect consumer rights,
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by digiown 8mo ago
> MFA to be a measure against you Not really, unless the MFA involves the same type of attestation involved in the process. TOTP is fine, and you can put it in your password manager to avoid phones, and can be done without consenting to
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by digiown 8mo ago
Ah money laundering, the government's 2nd favorite excuse to bypass due process, remove freedom, and impose arbitrary punishments, after "emergency" and before "think of the children". The government can prosecute m
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by digiown 8mo ago
I dunno, home assistant docker works perfectly well IMO.
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by digiown 8mo ago
Imagine that's the worst that happens to "your" library. Good times. We really need to bring the idea of ownership back. https://www.howtogeek.com/playstation-is-deleting-tv-shows-f... https://www.
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by digiown 8mo ago
It's substantially neutered from the original proposal, with most of the scary parts taken out. I'd count that as a win as far as how antidemocratic the EU commission is. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025&#x2
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by digiown 8mo ago
> total big tech capture of computing platforms Correct. And the end of ownership, privacy, and truth too. If something can betray you on someone else's orders, it's not yours in the first place. You'll own nothing and if
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by digiown 8mo ago
Virt manager is the least intuitive (discounting actively antiuser crap) program I've ever dealt with. I still don't quite get it and I've used Linux exclusively for more than 5 years.
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by digiown 8mo ago
Needing to run games on the same machine as your server is IMO not the most common use case. It tends to be expensive if power bills are a concern and using a VM as your main machine is tricky IMO. Most games using anticheat won't run
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by digiown 8mo ago
Not quite. Discord is a lot more invasive with their info collection than, let's say Github or Matrix servers. Second, the info posted to Github is accessible without account, which is not true of Discord.
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by digiown 8mo ago
It is. I'm not a fan of Drew Devault, but I can agree with this article of his: https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/28/Dont-use-Discord-for-FOSS... The most salient part: > Using Discord partitions your c
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by digiown 8mo ago
It's less severe for sure, but I'd rather live without undue interference based on someone else's whims, unless I broke a law.
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by digiown 8mo ago
I don't really understand the point in these cases specifically. If not Google, the government can always ask a bunch of other companies like utilities or stores about your details. It's a fool's errand to protect your paymen
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by digiown 8mo ago
Proxmox is probably overkill for beginners. You'll know it when you want it. I recommend docker-compose based tools, especially dockge [1]. It drastically cuts down on the surface of weird things you have to deal with. Just put up a re
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by digiown 8mo ago
Your bank (like most European ones) requires you to pass attestation to use their services. If you don't accept Google/Apple's terms, you can't access it without extreme difficulty.
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by digiown 8mo ago
It's all the same. How is suing Google any different, if you instead get debanked by Google for violating their "terms"? The only solution is untraceable, permissionless money, like Monero. Why do you think governments try so
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by digiown 8mo ago
I don't disagree but that wasn't the point here. The point is they are handing even more control to a different US entity. Putting my tinfoil hat on, I assume the authoritarians are intending to simply buy the data from the Amer
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by digiown 8mo ago
> important security measure It's a security measure against the owner of the device , in other words, an attack. Would you be okay with me using a remote control to forcibly slow down your car so I can merge? Using attestation thi
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by digiown 8mo ago
This is really a human right issue. No one should be required to carry an attacker-controlled tracking device, especially not for interacting with the government. It's funny that the EU uses all this mobile attestation BS more than the
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by digiown 8mo ago
Paradoxically it creates a permanent advantage for local models and overseas companies that don't care. I wonder how this will play out.
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by digiown 8mo ago
You effectively don't have copyright if you can't afford the lawyers needed to enforce it. This is how it's always been, but people made some effort at hiding it in the past.
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by digiown 8mo ago
Perfect enforcement is not required for authoritarians. All they need is to have a threat of punishment, and a questionable process of uploading your ID is more than sufficient for that purpose. Most people will comply in advance.

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