Tangent5280

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Is it viable to flash it with a custom OS? Or does the ereader screen fundamentally need a specific OS to work?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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Reminder that anything that currently makes you feel happy and content in saving american democracy is likely a conservative psy-op designed to keep you home on voting day.

Remain scared citizen, remain frantic until after voting day. Feel free to relax afterwards.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

maybe ambiguos titles draw in more people if only to know what it means?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

hey i have a micro

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

In the old days hamachi used to be all the rage to VLAN with your friends with pirated copies of games. Wonder how hamachi is doing nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In colonial india, the british put a bounty on cobras. Indian villagers who would have usually just killed the cobras and went on with their day now tried to catch them alive so they could then farm them for multiple bounties. This ballooned the snake populations to ridiculous levels, and then the british found out about the scheme. They then cancelled the bounty program, and the snake rearers released their animals on places they thought were far from people.

Net result: More snakes than ever before.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

If you aren't going to turn out evil, raise your right hand.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

There's a free tier, which means the dream is same but there are billboards all around the parking lot

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Loyalty cards are more for getting the customer in the door, right? Usage patterns come second if I understand the model correctly.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

The latest version of this I've seen is fucking fast fashion of all things asking for your phone number to send invoices to, as part of their "digital sustainability initiative". If they really gave a shit they'd set fire to everything the company owned.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

I think paying in cash cuts down on trackin massively. Can you still be tracked? Yes. But are most stores going through the effort? I don't think so. Depends on the store too, I guess.

Maybe my tin foil hat is getting rusty, but to me it just feels like they'll just move on to the next dude who payed by card instead.

 
 

Basically title. I waited on installing F droid for a long time because my phone threw many scary warnings when I tried a long time ago. But now I have it, and I got some fossify apps, but since there is no "Editor's Picks" on F- droid I dont really know where to go from here.

What apps do you recommend I install first to remove my dependence on closed ecosystems?

What is my vulnerability surface ie, which sort of apps should I watch out for?

Are there any bad faith companies in the open source sphere?

 

Is using Voyager giving Chrome an opportunity to harvest user data? I'll take whatever you know about the Voyager dependence on chrome.

 

Useful because now you'll be able to tell that something is human-generated instead of AI-generated, and content creators and people with a large public presence will now be able to police their own likeness being used by randos.

Scary both because now whistleblowers or reporters could get their cover blown because the image has metadata linking them to it; or they could strip off this metadata and get the evidence dismissed entirely as fraudulent; and also because of the possibility that any regulatory government body that enforces C2PA will also determine what is real and what is not, meaning anyone on the inside will be able to generate AI content and pass it off as real to the vast majority of the population.

Can't help but think they shortened it to C2PA instead of CCPA because of the similarity in acronyms of the latter and the big bad no-privacy country.

What do you think? Non-issue, Slightly concerning, or apocalyptic?

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