amanneedsamaid @ amanneedsamaid @sopuli.xyz

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Despite all those positives, the foundation of the platform is built in an abusive, addictive way. We shouldn't ban any social media applications, we should regulate them to end their abbhorent practices / business models. I totally agree that we should ban targetted advertising, although there is a good middleground solution as well: banning targetted advertising which relies on cloud-based AI. If recommendation algorithms could run locally on your phone, with a way to validate everything is processed locally, you could keep the modern formula for social media while simultaneously maintaining privacy. I would imagine the suggestions would become more primitive to account for the extra processing power, but at least people can continue to doomscroll if they'd like. My idea applies better to post recommendations than advertising, but if ad recommendations could be kept anonymous (the entire system would need to be open source), you could have a privacy-respecting service AND tailored feeds / advertising.

Regulate Social Media (including domestic corporations) > Ban Social Media > The Current Situation, imo.

No? I understand why they would be upset, but I don't see that being a big enough issue to change this policy (as it doesnt really tangibly affect any aspects of a shooting).

RSS feeds help me a lot, replaced instagram for news and the last thing I was using my google account for, YouTube subscriptions.

That definitely wasnt the case when I was last installing Mint, as I don't dual boot and always select the option to overrite the entire disk during installation. The way I remember it, it says "[checkbox] Encrypt your home partition" with no other options. Not sure if there is an equivalent to Fedora's settings or an advanced mode (like blivet-gui) to setup full disk encryption manually.

If I want to microblog, I will use Mastodon.

That last line is extremely oversimplified. If you find a VPN provider you trust more than your ISP, there are several benefits to routing that information through a VPN. Just because they could see the exact same thing does not mean they are redundant.

Were doomed if PragerU gets screentime in classrooms.

They are not logging American users; they disabled Bittorrent traffic for any user connected to a US server.

If someone wants to break into your car, they'll see something inside and then attempt to break in. That, or if they know anything, theyll just smash your window, check your trunk through the seat, and leave.

Leaving your window cracked probably doesnt increase your likelihood of getting your car broken into, especially if you dont leave anything valuable in the car.

Either way, leaving things like backpacks, large cases, really anything at all valuable looking anywhere in your car is the greatest way to get your car broken into.

Fuck that, I dont care where "I" can go, I'll die and my clone will be there instead! Even if that was provably false, I wouldn't take the risk.

Closed source, which automatically makes a web browser dogshit and completely useless.

Last I checked, Mint only allows you to encrypt your home partition. I know that Fedora supports full disk encryption via a toggle at installation.

I believe a diver who was a member of the Vietnamese Marines died.

Yeah, he was never Tony Stark. He's been consistently spouting shit his entire career, and a lot of people failed to see it.

Having a dedicated IP is not necessarily as important as having support for port forwarding. For example, Torguard has support for port forwarding, and their implementation happens to bind the port to a dedicated IP. In that case, port forwarding is the feature that matters for torrenting, as it will make you more easily connectable to peers you're sendind / receiving data to / from.

You are correct about a lack of standardized VOIP encryption, I hadnt thought of that as I never make calls using XMPP.

I was talking about individuals self hosting XMPP, not organizations. And I would imagine its much more popular for organizations to host XMPP servers, as government agencies and business already have been since the early 2000s.

As for the metadata leaking, while metadata is obviously available to the admins of the servers you and you recipient are using, these chat histories are not synced in their entirely, and not to other instances. Is this not the same in Matrix, except that the metadata is more freely shared between servers?

Either way, SimpleX chat addresses most of Matrix and XMPP's shortcomings, I hope it can one day replace them.

I use KISS, which I do not think has this feature. Bummer!

How can I use these icons?

I recommend Torguard. Works great for me.

I had this exact issue yesterday! Either link to Imgur or Pixelfed via the url field, or downscale the image. I recommend ImagePipe or Image Toolbox.