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Veneroso

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Veneroso ,

The Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund expects returns.

Mr. Bonesaw waits......

Veneroso ,

I deleted my account and my stress level is way down.

Twitter was never good, but it's a cesspool of scum and villainy.

Veneroso ,

Unpopular opinion, but I also use YouTube almost exclusively.

It has my podcasts, my political livestreamers, late night shows, and multiple channels that I follow.

I also enjoy YouTube music as well.

I bought a full year, which lowers the price a little.

Veneroso ,

I have been using swisscows for about a month.
It's no Google... But it seems to be better than what Google is now......

Veneroso ,

True Patriots run Gentoo. CHOMP

Veneroso ,

The quickest way to get the right answer in any community, in my experience, is to provide the wrong answer. People will come out of the woodwork to correct you.

Veneroso ,

There are administration tools available for system deployment but they're generally closed source and limited to the software selection available.

Unsure about command line, but PC Decrapifier is useful for removing preloaded software.

Ninite is useful to install software in batch.

Ninite can also install Malwarebytes, which is quite useful.

Between Windows Defender and Malwarebytes I generally don't recommend anything else. And then Malwarebytes, which is extremely effective for free, is the only security suite worth paying for if you want to "set it and forget it".

On the Microsoft side of things, a great deal of software can be deployed via command line.

It's possible to build an offline installer for Office and Office 365 for example via the office deployment tool.

Additionally, it looks like if you pay for Ninite Pro, it supports command line.

https://ninite.com/help/features/switches.html

Hmm TIL.

Veneroso ,

There was a program called Secunia that did exactly this. It was amazing. Sadly they were acquired and ended the free offering.

Veneroso ,

Edge has entered the chat. Have you tried Bing my son?

Veneroso ,

Soul Reaver or Naruto?

Instructions unclear; unhinging jaw to consume ramen.

Veneroso ,

Jokes on you, here's my memory architecture:

https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/black-holes-store-information-0023534/

Veneroso ,

I sent you a little love via a reply. And an updoot.

Veneroso ,

How is your polonium tea comrade?

Veneroso ,

They should redirect US users to a walled garden that says "Trump is against the ban. Vote Trump 2024" and see how quickly they reverse this. Oh political interference? Trump is all about that too.

Oh man, imagine what hellscape awaits us under a second Trump administration. Glory to Arstotzka!

Veneroso ,

I generally seem to have had a good experience with Linux Mint. I use the cinnamon version.

Even dist upgrades don't seem to be too much trouble.

I used to main Gentoo but that was a lot of work.
I still miss it though, but that was almost 20 years ago, when I was unemployed, and had more free time than money.

I run Windows 10 on my personal laptop and I look at these changes for the sake of change and I am seriously considering wiping it and not just use Linux in a VM.

Veneroso ,

I want to fight it.

Veneroso ,

Need to find out how to fight it, and kill it.

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    Veneroso ,

    How much ram does it have? 8gb? Genuinely curious. I have a work laptop with 8gb and one with 32....

    Veneroso ,

    My 32gb machine is still running windows 10 and I have been dreading having to switch. I figured that the 8gb was the reason why the other was sluggish now I'm not so sure. I haven't upgraded my personal devices yet either. I hate that they keep trying to reinvent the wheel with the "metro" backend that they built with windows 8. I saw that even the devices and printers control panel was fully moved into the settings app.... Thanks for the reply, I will probably try to hold out a little longer .....

    Veneroso , (edited )

    Firefox Mobile, Ublock Origin and Disabled JavaScript yield:

    Bell Cameron and Andrew Couts

    Security

    Apr 1, 2024 5:22 PM

    The Incognito Mode Myth Has Fully Unraveled
    To settle a years-long lawsuit, Google has agreed to delete “billions of data records” collected from users of “Incognito mode,” illuminating the pitfalls of relying on Chrome to protect your privacy.
    'Google Chrome Incognito Mode' is displayed on computer screen
    Illustration: Yasin Baturhan Ergin/Getty Images

    If you still hold any notion that Google Chrome’s “Incognito mode” is a good way to protect your privacy online, now’s a good time to stop.

    Google has agreed to delete “billions of data records” the company collected while users browsed the web using Incognito mode, according to documents filed in federal court in San Francisco on Monday. The agreement, part of a settlement in a class action lawsuit filed in 2020, caps off years of disclosures about Google’s practices that shed light on how much data the tech giant siphons from its users—even when they’re in private-browsing mode.

    Under the terms of the settlement, Google must further update the Incognito mode “splash page” that appears anytime you open an Incognito mode Chrome window after previously updating it in January. The Incognito splash page will explicitly state that Google collects data from third-party websites “regardless of which browsing or browser mode you use,” and stipulate that “third-party sites and apps that integrate our services may still share information with Google,” among other changes. Details about Google’s private-browsing data collection must also appear in the company’s privacy policy.

    Additionally, some of the data that Google previously collected on Incognito users will be deleted. This includes “private-browsing data” that is “older than nine months” from the date that Google signed the term sheet of the settlement last December, as well as private-browsing data collected throughout December 2023. All told, this amounts to “billions of data records,” according to court documents. Certain documents in the case referring to Google's data collection methods remain sealed, however, making it difficult to assess how thorough the deletion process will be.

    Google spokesperson Jose Castaneda says in a statement that the company “is happy to delete old technical data that was never associated with an individual and was never used for any form of personalization.” Castaneda also noted that the company will now pay “zero” dollars as part of the settlement after earlier facing a $5 billion penalty.

    Other steps Google must take will include continuing to “block third-party cookies within Incognito mode for five years,” partially redacting IP addresses to prevent re-identification of anonymized user data, and removing certain header information that can currently be used to identify users with Incognito mode active.

    The data-deletion portion of the settlement agreement follows preemptive changes to Google’s Incognito mode data collection and the ways it describes what Incognito mode does. For nearly four years, Google has been phasing out third-party cookies, which the company says it plans to completely block by the end of 2024. Google also updated Chrome’s Incognito mode “splash page” in January with weaker language to signify that using Incognito is not “private,” but merely “more private” than not using it.

    The settlement's relief is strictly “injunctive,” meaning its central purpose is to put an end to Google activities that the plaintiffs claim are unlawful. The settlement does not rule out any future claims—The Wall Street Journal reports that the plaintiffs’ attorneys had filed at least 50 such lawsuits in California on Monday—though the plaintiffs note that monetary relief in privacy cases is far more difficult to obtain. The important thing, the plaintiffs’ lawyers argue, is effecting changes at Google now that will provide the greatest, immediate benefit to the largest number of users.

    Critics of Incognito, a staple of the Chrome browser since 2008, say that, at best, the protections it offers fall flat in the face of the sophisticated commercial surveillance bearing down on most users today; at worst, they say, the feature fills people with a false sense of security, helping companies like Google passively monitor millions of users who've been duped into thinking they're browsing alone.

    Veneroso ,

    I haven't used Gentoo in years, maybe I should try to main it again.

    It was a pain sometimes but man did I learn a lot from using it.

    Veneroso ,

    I used to main Gentoo.

    Breaking the install was more of a guarantee.

    I once removed most of X by trying to remove Gnome dependencies and it lead to an interesting couple of hours but I did have a working system when I was done.

    There were countless dependency bugs and broken systems but at least I learned how to use the Gentoo Forum and also a lot of how Linux works.

    I kind of want to give it another go.

    Veneroso ,

    So where's the Gentoo user? Behind the camera probably. Compiling the scene.

    Veneroso ,

    Have you tried links2?
    It works in the terminal and pretty well.

    You can add graphics support after recompiling it.

    (Yes, I am self aware of this being a meme reply)

    Veneroso ,

    Gentoo is still compiling urinals.
    Why aren't you wearing a catheter?

    Veneroso ,

    Licenced insurance agent.
    Not for long!

    Veneroso , (edited )

    Awww poor Musk. Maybe stop helping Russia by giving them access while denying Ukraine. Also fuck you for ruining Twitter .

    Edit - apparently coverage on the Crimean coast was never activated. Still dickish for helping Russia. They're sanctioned up the wazoo and this might come back to bite him. Starlink is a recipient of US Federal Assistance and that can easily be leveraged.

    Veneroso ,

    Thank you. I actually wasn't aware.

    Veneroso ,

    And you're on Lemmy?

    Veneroso ,

    Then why complain about what another person decides to waste time on the Internet while you're wasting time on the Internet? I'm replying to you while taking a shit so that's multitasking.

    Veneroso ,

    In general, these things are zipping around the earth at 17,000 mph. There's 5,504 of them. Space is already dangerous with all of the space garbage in orbit. If these were to collide it could easily make getting things into orbit due to the debris and the chain reaction if the debris caused more debris from impact even more dangerous. Space garbage really is something we don't have a solution for.

    Veneroso ,

    I found myself in a huge echo chamber over Brexit. World news on Reddit had me believing that it would never happen.

    And yeah, I follow someone for Ukraine news on YouTube. He's pushed some theories that proved to be untrue so I guess that I have to do my own fact checking. Overall he seems to be good, but he seldomly talks about times that he was wrong.

    Veneroso ,

    I find the lack of Gentoo representation disturbing. Download a stage 0 tarball, three pots of coffee, and clear your schedule for the weekend. It's compilin' time!

    Veneroso ,

    Ahhh the tarball of the mind! I do this with all of my untouched projects.

    Veneroso ,

    User Menchmark?

    Veneroso ,

    It's getting ridiculous. I am starting to consider dropping Prime. I don't need free shipping that bad and I don't even watch anything on it anymore. And when I do want to watch something I have to watch ads!? Yeah....

    Yarrr me hearties! It be time to raise the Jolly Rodger!

    Veneroso ,

    Time for OpenVPN and bridge your home networks together!

    Veneroso ,

    I think that you can still watch them.

    If you link your account to Vudu, Google, and Movies Anywhere they should appear on the other platforms I believe?

    Ultrasound can push vaccines into the body without needles (www.newscientist.com)

    Vaccines can be delivered through the skin using ultrasound. This method doesn’t damage the skin and eliminates the need for painful needles. To create a needle-free vaccine, Darcy Dunn-Lawless at the University of Oxford and his colleagues mixed vaccine molecules with tiny, cup-shaped proteins. They then applied liquid...

    Veneroso ,

    So.... 5G?

    Veneroso ,

    Nano, based.

    If I use VI or VIM I'm going to have to kill the task because I just tried to exit and uggggghhhh why!?

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