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by zizek23 8y ago
Newpipe and Redreader for reddit are my 2 favourite apps on Fdroid. Amaze file manager is also pretty sleek for an Fdroid app. Dns66 is great for adblocking when you are not rooted. Termux is a must have for those who need a terminal. Osm+
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by zizek23 8y ago
This is disingenuous. It's been actively marketed to law enforcement. A product is not created out of the blue with no target market. That's simply not how things work. And that's whats happening to with a lot of surveillance
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by zizek23 8y ago
The tech community have become bad actors, and a lot of apologism and hand-waving happens here. At the moment they are just trading on the reputation of early pioneers who at least professed some ethics and commitment to public good to pret
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by zizek23 8y ago
The certificate system is broken. Technical people should not be promoting centralization, raising barriers to publishing and empowering middle men. That is not a technical solution, but behavior that favours business and vested interests.
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by zizek23 8y ago
Unity was the first Linux desktop that was polished and had the just works feel about it. I remember struggling with Linux GUIs since the earliest days of Redhat and we are talking 15 years ago. Unity is comparable to my retina macbook and
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by zizek23 8y ago
Taxpayers are on the line for trillions of dollars with socialized risk and yet there are people on this thread regurgitating the same old anti-government anti-regulatory line without any irony. How can you roll back regulations without res
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by zizek23 8y ago
Silicon Valley and its offshoots are going to become surveillance central. The HQ of a surveillance economy courted by despots at home and abroad. The people working here are going to be the most hated people in the world. A new narrative a
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by zizek23 8y ago
Perhaps open source licenses should prohibit their use for adware, spyware and surveillance. Apart from a plethora of open source projects to build its websites Google is using Android to hoover user data and open source should not be used
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by zizek23 8y ago
There has not been a bigger sellout in history than the tech community. What makes it insufferable is the posturing and hypocrisy. Companies like Google and facebook continue to be glorified inspite of their creepy obsession with stalking e
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by zizek23 8y ago
The pentagon recently revealed it can't account for 21 trillion dollars. [1] The 18 US security agencies and military cost vast sums to run. The bank bailouts are trillions more, nickle and diming public services is an ideological posi
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by zizek23 8y ago
This anti government narrative is very simplistic. Any large organization is going to have some amount of inefficiency be it government or private. How does anyone know how inefficient or efficient any large organization is since they are a
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by zizek23 8y ago
There is a bug in human beings, and this is universal. Our expectations from the rest of society and others on ethical and moral issues are gigantic but we just can't give. We 'empathize', we relate, we cry about suffering in
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by zizek23 8y ago
AMD has already significantly disrupted and diluted Intel's hold on the market. They have literally forced the market from anemic 2 core chips on laptops held in place without movement for 5 years by Intel. And on the desktop to 4 core
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by zizek23 8y ago
This is a significant misrepresentation of the issue. The judge gave multiple reasons of which fairness was only one. The other was it encourages strategizing in future lotteries as students will select spots that are 'good trading ma
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by zizek23 8y ago
This is just jingoistic scaremongering. These things are not done in the open. Not just China anyone could be doing anything. Everyone familiar with history knows the consequences of surveillance, most people don't like surveillance bu
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by zizek23 8y ago
Don't be evil is a pompous statement that suggests more power than they have. Any civilized society with functioning rule of law makes this kind of corporate statement meaningless and delusional. Unless you are a corporatocracy and the
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by zizek23 8y ago
You don't wake up suddenly in a totalitarian state. Total surveillance is one step away and once the infrastructure is in place it will be used. Commitment to basic values of privacy and human rights has been reduced to posturing again
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by zizek23 8y ago
Wireguard is easier to configure and use and in my informal tests performed at close to line speed, around 870 Mbs on a gigabit network. This is extremely fast for an encrypted network given most other solutions tend to take a severe toll o
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by zizek23 8y ago
Every single business has associations, lobbies and industry groups. The power of collective bargaining it seems is understood with clarity everywhere in business. Except when it comes to labour suddenly the waters become muddied. Propagand
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by zizek23 9y ago
In a previous naive world intoxicated by dreams of global citizenry and humanism it would be easy to get sanctimonious and posture about evil. But cultural divides are real and are not going away. And these kind of events and stories simply
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by zizek23 9y ago
Docker based on LXC and added a few things. The fact that they were well funded made outreach easier compared to the open source LXC project and Docker became many peoples first introduction to containers. Once they got traction they quickl
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by zizek23 9y ago
Let's call it as it is, an entire continent was usurped, a gigantic fertile landmass rich in resources was stolen along with unlimited slave labour and IP from Europe. The consequence is predictable. Using jingoism to spin this into so
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by zizek23 9y ago
This country worships success. That's the reason Trump won. Zuckerberg is not only ridiculously successful but touches everyone's life everyday and people may feel an intimacy that doesn't exist. Without being judgmental just
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by zizek23 9y ago
And apologists assuring people there is nothing to get worried about, dismissing concern as conspiracy theory and demanding 'concrete' evidence of wrong doing. Given recent history skepticism must move to these individuals and the
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by zizek23 9y ago
Won't they simply purchase what does have more influence in our lives then?
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by zizek23 9y ago
Not saying your point is invalid but in the same context Google has access to all your stuff, including correlations to your mobile and location information and is not afraid to share it, as do others ie ISPs, possibly Microsoft. So for bro
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by zizek23 9y ago
The thing with Duckduckgo is the choice has to be ideological or you will do a search again on Google again just to ensure you are not missing out. This is Google marketing and brand perception at work because Google results of late, 3 year
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by zizek23 9y ago
Bitcoin can't die as it never succeeded. All the disingenuous claims made by early adopters have fallen through. Decentralization, control, anonymity, easy transactions, transactions costs, currency? How can something that has no use h
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by zizek23 9y ago
It's the Internet that enables communication. Families and friends would be able to communicate once the Internet became possible whether Facebook exists or not. People would be able to use and get value from the Internet whether Googl
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by zizek23 9y ago
That deal may be over but Mozilla still gets money from Google for search. Why is user advocacy so low key and half hearted, this being just one of them. What do they have to lose? They have consistently thrown in the towel while diluting t

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