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by escape-big-tech 3y ago
With Farbfeld, it's possible to further reduce the size of image data to be 24 bytes, or 16 if you're ok with your image not being displayable Magic Number: 66 61 72 62 66 65 6c 64 (identifies the file as a Farbfeld image)
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What Happens Inside a 100-Hop IPv6 Wireless Mesh Network? (2017)(thingsquare.com)
3 points by escape-big-tech 3y ago|0 comments
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by escape-big-tech 3y ago
Kelley and Cro argue that bounties foster competition at the expense of cooperation. But isn’t it through competition that we Escape Big Tech’s clutches? Without competition, we’d all be slaves to the monopoly of Big Tech, a corporate monol
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by escape-big-tech 3y ago
I think I need to rethink the way I wrote this article, because the wrong message is being understood. Clearly I have done a bad job at writing it. I should rewrite this article entirely. Thank you for the feedback
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If you’re a criminal I will not use any application you write(escapebigtech.info)
21 points by escape-big-tech 3y ago|22 comments
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by escape-big-tech 3y ago
the point of immich and photoprism is that you host them on your computer, on your own network and it never goes through those centralized entities in the first place.
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by escape-big-tech 3y ago
I've actually been looking for a good self hosted solution for pictures, that allows me to automatically upload pictures from my phones (I use both ios and android). I've been using nextcloud photos but honestly the experience of
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by escape-big-tech 3y ago
it says a lot about the state of society when I actually cannot tell if you're being sarcastic or not. I think it's sarcasm, I'm almost convinced it is, but at the same time it's an argument that I'd expect Big Tech
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by escape-big-tech 3y ago
gitea is also a great self hosted alternative!
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by escape-big-tech 3y ago
often people point out how unreliable self-hosted services are, well, hosted services are just as unreliable if not more. this, ladies and gentlemen, is why you should always self host critical infrastructure
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by escape-big-tech 3y ago
Neeva did only one thing right: they cared about privacy, but otherwise they really did not do a good job. Their search results were worse than google, their load times were even slower than google, they tried making too much money too quic
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by escape-big-tech 3y ago
This is also my experience. I was ok in rust after using it for 2 weeks, I still had the weird issues here and there, sometimes but after just using it for as little as one month I started feeling confident enough in it where I could develo
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by escape-big-tech 3y ago
absolutely disgusting, you're telling me that you don't want to be stalked 24/7? that you don't want the whole world to know everything you're doing? how dare you imply that you're a human being and that privac
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WWDC 2023 – My first reactions with the perspective of a penguin(escapebigtech.info)
1 points by escape-big-tech 3y ago|0 comments
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by escape-big-tech 3y ago
couldn't have said it better myself!
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by escape-big-tech 3y ago
> GDPR was a good start. Honestly, I agree with you, but GDPR is barely a start, it does little to actually protect people's privacy. It needs to expand a lot to be an actual weapon against surveillance
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by escape-big-tech 3y ago
While historical precedent is informative, it should not constrain our conceptualization of fundamental rights. The context and needs of society evolve over time, and so should our understanding of what constitutes a fundamental right. Priv
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by escape-big-tech 3y ago
> The mind-reading stuff is still a fantasy and will be so also in the future. Haha, of course they don't literally read our minds, but with enough data, it's possible to gather a lot about the way a person thinks
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Privacy: One of the Most Fundamental Human Rights, yet Constantly Under Threat(escapebigtech.info)
190 points by escape-big-tech 3y ago|121 comments
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by escape-big-tech 3y ago
I find that the software industry is one of those industries where all role names are made up and change meaning all the time. As you said, just a few years ago (ok maybe a decade) a "Software Engineer" was a person who built Soft
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by escape-big-tech 3y ago
Agreed. If the risks were real they would just outright stop working on their AI products. This is nothing more than a PR statement