trangus_1985

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by trangus_1985 5y ago
I would love to see what the environmental impact of recycling a computer (and acquiring a new one with lower power consumption) versus buying a new one. I suppose that makes more sense for business than home, though.
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
i simply look stupid on purpose. i have a mohawk and now multiple tattoos. it kinda "breaks" that habit
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
It's not a user facing feature, and x86 macs are the past already - I doubt they'll bother porting it.
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
>Steam will hardly change the 1% status of GNU/Linux desktop. I agree. But it will change the status in the listings. Steam deck and steamos appliances should be broken out into their own category, and I could easily see them overta
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
> one cannot expect that others in Anywheristan start having problems with 'bunny' out of somebody's folly well that's the funny thing about language - it's very democratized in some ways. After a while, if even
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
>The term 'master' is innocent. And it has close to fullest right to be part of the language. Meanwhile, here in the good ol' USA, we might have mucked up that elegant latin lesson a little bit [0] 0 - http://na
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
> but for this job there were lining up 300 more people let them take it then. I try to minimize the blood on my hands. >Just ask your parents or your non-tech friends My parents were unhappy with it - they're non technical and n
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
browser fingerprinting hasn't been deployed in the wild, and I use the firefox built in anti-fingerprinting as well as extensive privacy protecting extensions. Of course, that's not perfect. On the other hand, it took 30% of peopl
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
I use a Firefox extension (self deleting cookies). Clicking "accept" and then having the browser delete all of those trackers when I leave the site? Pretty good.
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
If you want a material example, the raspberry pi's SOC is designed to be mounted in read only mode with industrial on-board flash. It is meant to be used with the broadcom toolkit that includes multiple boot partitions for safe and val
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
The key difference, of course, is that when the neural network classifies certain types of content, it doesn't forward it to a centralized server "for review"
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
And, they referred to us as the "screeching minority".
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
I don't really mind if they make a profit off of the free things I use. What I mind is when my personal life, the stuff that _actually_ matters, is being monitored or has a backdoor that allows ANY third party easy access to monitor it
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
I don't think they do. I also don't think they can easily decrypt icloud as you're making it out to be. However... yeah. This is a massive breach of trust. Having any spyware agent on my device is disgusting. I can't ima
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
It's not unreasonable to expect the speech recognition models to be run locally. As to the wake word point, I agree. I don't think alexa/siri/etc are currently bad or disrespecting privacy. I actually have a smart home w
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
Sorry, wasn't ripping on Lineage. It's more the entire ecosystem. I mentioned in prior comments, but I think that in a few years we'll have a practical, open source, third party in the mobile phone os wars - one that has reas
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
I'm just trying to buy time until open source and secure alternatives have addressed these problems. Apple doing this has moved my timeframes up by a few years (unexpectedly).
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
> if your worry is governments reading your mail complicated. As long as they require a reasonable warrant (ha!), I'm fine. Email is an inherently insecure protocol and ecosystem, anyways. I haven't used email for communication
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
That's not the issue. The issue is that they have shipped spyware to my device. That's a massive breach of trust. I suspect that this time next year, I'll still be on ios, despite my posturing. I'm certainly going to add
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
cloud versus local device is a massive distinction imo. or maybe im a dinosaur ;)
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
My friends are significantly more technical (and paranoid) than the average user. We've already discussed it. But... yeah. Yeah. Which is why I got as many people on Signal as I could. Baby steps. The goal here, right now, is reasonabl
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
> in their fight for privacy as a right I kept the lineage phone in my back pocket, confident that it would be a good 4-5 years before they shipped something that violated their claims. I figured, the alternatives would be stable and wid
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
I don't think it's implausible that I carry around a phone that has mail, contacts, calendars, photos, and private chat on it. And then, have a second, older phone that has like Instagram and mobile games. It's tragic.
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
I use maps on my phone on a regular basis - I would vastly prefer to have something less featured and stable versus hacking the crap out of my phone. But that's good to know.
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
Yeah, but it's also useful for getting my friends on board. I think it's likely that I eventually start hosting matrix or some alternative, but my goal is to be practical here, yet still have a privacy protecting posture.
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
Freenas, self-signed tightly-scoped CA installed on all of my devices. 1TBx4 in a small case shoved under the stairs. tbh, i would vastly prefer to use a cloud based service with local encryption - I'm not super paranoid, just overly p
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
That's not really the issue. The issue is that for google maps to work properly, it requires that the Play services are installed. Play services are a massive semi-monolithic blob that requires tight integration with Google's back
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
Oh hey wait you're the freenode guy. While we're on the topic of hostile actions by a platform provider...
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
I knew that eventually it'd probably matter what devices I used, I just didn't expect it to be so soon. But yeah, I could reasonably use an iphone without impact for the foreseeable future with some small changes.
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by trangus_1985 5y ago
Yeah, sorry, I mixed them up in my head. I'm currently running Lineage on a PH-1, not Postmarket. I would not consider what I have set up to be "production ready", but I'm going to spend some time this weekend looking in

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