Just a guy trying to promote discourse, photography, freedom, good food, and reason.
Personal privacy is a passion of mine.
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If you buy one used that is how you can get around giving Google money.
From a security standpoint it might give you a temporary benefit since all of Google’s tracking IDs will be associated with the original owner. On a new phone I figure it’s associated with you immediately.
I will act through engagement.
When you use escalatory language you just just make the Nazis justify their actions by the response they receive.
In another tense moment in American history, the Civil rights movement of the 1960s, MLK was successful due to not being militant. Peaceful action and the strong overreaction of those against civil rights elicited sympathy in those not involved.
The fuck the high road mentality is what likely motivated the shooter and got us into this mess.
There is no reason to escalate what is already a tense political situation.
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Politics@beehaw.org•Live Election Updates: Trump Rushed Off Stage at Rally After What Sounded Like Shots
15·2 years agoIt is possible the shooter was outside the perimeter. Based on the videos I have seen on CBS, and here: https://www.survivethenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/1720916992_Potential-Trump-Shooter-Reportedly-Found-Dead-on-Shed-Roof-VIDEO-1024x576.jpg
The shooter appeared to be on a roof far away from the stands.
Edit: Confirmed that the shooter was outside the perimeter setup by secret service https://www.cbsnews.com/news/possible-shots-fired-at-trump-rally-in-butler-pennsylvania/
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Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext
1·2 years agoBut can you trust that a user will pick a difficult to break password? They likely will pick something simple to remember but that is not a good password.
The we are just back to essentially having a plaintext password because if the attacker has a good dictionary, it will be easy to crack.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Why are US states, school districts banning smartphones in schools?
10·2 years agoWell I don’t think that is the case. Parents and teachers are observing students not paying attention.
I would think if an educator can teach a full lesson, while also ensuring that students retain the information, when the student is watching YouTube, endlessly scrolling reddit or lemmy, or on Instagram this wouldn’t be an issue.
The problem is that students aren’t retaining the knowledge being provided to them.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Privacy on Cars. How to stop data collection and transmission?
2·2 years agoFor my truck, I ended up looking in the owners manual and found a fuse that is for the modem. I removed it and the vehicle functions without issue.
I know it works because when I brought it to the dealership to get serviced they said they couldn’t connect to it via their online service app. They also asked if I had tried to connect to it via the company app on my phone. I just told them I never needed to.
Just to be sure I verified they didn’t reinstall the fuse and they had not.
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Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext
4·2 years agoFixed it! Thank you.
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Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext
1·2 years agoThanks for the heads up on the broken link! I fixed it.
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Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Ladybird web browser now funded by GitHub co-founder, promises ‘no code’ from rivalsEnglish
3·2 years agoThat’s your opinion on what is and isn’t a great analogy.
Hopefully the maintainers of the project will be more considerate in the future.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Australia to build Top Secret cloud in AWS for defence usersEnglish
1·2 years agoYes that metadata can exist but can’t that be obscured if AWS isn’t connected to directly?
I think some of the technical details of how the ASD intends to ensure data protection/confidentiality/integrity are omitted for national security reasons.
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Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Ladybird web browser now funded by GitHub co-founder, promises ‘no code’ from rivalsEnglish
14·2 years agoThe Autobahn is a very well engineered German highway system. It is well known but was also was constructed during Nazi Germany.
While it was built by evil people, it still is a fantastic highway system that is used today.
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Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Ladybird web browser now funded by GitHub co-founder, promises ‘no code’ from rivalsEnglish
13·2 years agoGreat analogy and perspective.
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Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Ladybird web browser now funded by GitHub co-founder, promises ‘no code’ from rivalsEnglish
28·2 years agoThe piece was definitely slanted.
Was what the devs did great? No. Does the whole project need to be outcast/abandoned due to what language they use? No. There needs to be nuance with these issues. Open source does not owe individuals anything and that is why it is provided without warranty. On the flip side, individuals can choose not to use it.
We should be promoting open source software and not have infighting when open source software doesn’t have much mass market appeal to begin with.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Australia to build Top Secret cloud in AWS for defence usersEnglish
2·2 years agoWell I would think that if the customer, in this case the Australian Signals Directorate, encrypted all data prior to going to AWS, it would be protected from any data mining that Amazon does.
I am sure that the ASD isn’t just posting the information unencrypted on AWS or solely trusting Amazon’s encryption where Amazon also has a copy of the key.
I would caution you about socialism being a way to get to communism.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the founders of communist ideology, believed democratic socialism was a sham and true communism could only be achieved through a violent overthrow of the bourgeois.
The complex restructuring you mentioned is why they thought a transition from socialism to communism would not work.
Source: https://www.stephenhicks.org/2013/02/18/marxs-philosophy-and-the-necessity-of-violent-politics/
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Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz•Voting on a ceasefire in the Israel-Palestine conflict
8·2 years agoThis is for a vote conducted back in October. I wonder what a more recent one looks like and if there has been any change.
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Space@beehaw.org•Pluto may have an ice-spewing 'supervolcano' the size of Yellowstone, New Horizons data revealsEnglish
1·2 years agoIt blows my mind that New Horizons flew by years ago and sent so much data that scientists are still discovering new information regarding Pluto.
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Economics@lemmy.ml•Global billionaire tax could yield $250 billion annually, study saysEnglish
52·2 years ago250 billion for what? Governments are horribly inefficient and many of their employees operate with the thought “not my money not my problem I can just spend it however I want”
Billionaires getting taxed more only treats a symptom and not the root cause. Their corporations should be broken up, competition should be stimulated, shareholders should demand limits on exec bonuses and the executive pay should be limited to a reasonable ratio of exec to lowest paid employee pay.
That would make things better and money in the government should be spent more appropriately.



















I heard somewhere that Microsoft was blocking access to the kernel for third party developers like CrowdStrike and EA because of what CrowdStrike did. Have they reversed course?