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akwd169 ,

4 guys at once, two on each side, tip to tip

Middle, out

akwd169 ,

Send an email encrypted with PGP to your intended recipient (using their public key of course)

Anonymous email is possible and most places accepting anonymous tips/whistleblowing have an email address for that specifically

Alternatively I'm sure these same places can make an anonymous IM account like simpleX chat for example

There's plenty of ways really...

akwd169 ,

What about the climate impact? You didn't even address that. That's the worst part of the AI boom, were already way in the red for climate change, and this is going to accelerate the problem rather than slowing or stopping (let alone reversing it)

akwd169 ,

I don't fully agree with you. It's certainly no major coverup but it's a heap of evidence that goes against this shiny veneer google maintains with the public

Google pretends they are champions of user privacy and protection to maintain trust and enable data collection on an unprecedented scale

When this article shows they are actually leaking private info left right and center, have the most nonchalant attitude towards respecting and maintaining our privacy and evidently 'keeping private info safe' (or should I say 'not being evil') is at the bottom of their priority list

akwd169 ,

On your phone? Or desktop?

akwd169 ,

Then check out the reply by Zak in this thread

There are many many ways your being tracked by the apps and service you use

Unfortunately, a vpn is just the tip of the iceberg. It's a great first step but if you wanted to prevent your exact situation, I think only a phone running graphene OS would protect you in this instance since it isolates play services, among other privacy protecting features

akwd169 ,

Lol this is my gaming laptop if I don't disable Intel Turbo boost

Meanwhile the fans are at like 15%

If I put the fans on full blast manually it sounds like a jet engine taking off

And the temps are still at 90+ and causing throttling lol

Thankfully there's throttlestop

akwd169 ,

I was referring to my laptop so it's a bit different from a desktop

However with a desktop usually you have to use the software for your parts to control the fans

For example my GPU is gigabyte so I have to use their app for GPU fan control

My motherboard is MSI so I have to use their software for cpu fan and any case fans I attach to the motherboard

I haven't looked into it that much so I can't say for sure but I don't know of a way to controll all these fans from one place (unless they're allt he same brand)

akwd169 ,

Lmao it's the first sentence of the video

Sorry I don't have time to watch the whole thing and didn't check it out beforehand

That's cool I hope it works

akwd169 ,

I had a similar time with piped not working reliably, I prefer invidious, specifically iv.ggtyler.dev has pretty much always worked for me

Anyways, It's really easy to just swap for another instance or whatever

OP link is

https://piped.video/watch?v=YnSv8ylLfPw

Just take everything after the domain and TLD

(everything after "piped.video")

And slap it on the end of another instances domain and TLD

(For example iv.ggtyler.dev)

End result:

iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=YnSv8ylLfPw

It even works with YouTube:

youtube.com/watch?v=YnSv8ylLfPw

akwd169 ,

Check out my other comment on this thread for a quick breakdown of YouTube/piped/invidious/etc links

akwd169 ,

You can also just put the link into 12ft.io

akwd169 ,

Worked for me, I always use it on wired.com due to their paywall

akwd169 ,

I've hoovered up a bit of schneef in my day

akwd169 ,

Have you hoovered library schneef?

I created a board game alternative for evil people (lemmy.today)

Guys, I have something to brag about. After almost a year of hard learning, I finally created my first mobile game! Storiado is a board game alternative that will make you wonder what's wrong with your friends. Play by answering simple questions, mix all the answers, and generate the most twisted story you've ever read. And then...

akwd169 ,

Wow I was so excited to try this out until I saw the absurd level of permissions you require

I immediately lost interest

I find it very disconcerting that you have no response to other comments asking what your board game app could possibly need to use my fingerprints and other biometrics for

akwd169 ,

I would love to hear about an alternative for Canada as well. By my own research, there are none, but I would like to be wrong

akwd169 ,

de-google, de-m$, de-crapple

Can you link to those lists please?

akwd169 ,

Oh my god, the signature with the cock and balls in it 🤣

Anti-web discrimination by banks and online services - is this even legal?

Banks, email providers, booking sites, e-commerce, basically anything where money is involved, it's always the same experience. If you use the Android or iOS app, you stayed signed in indefinitely. If you use a web browser, you get signed out and asked to re-authenticate constantly - and often you have to do it painfully using a...

akwd169 ,

My experience with my two banks has been, with their respective apps, I can sign in with just a password but I get logged out of the app after 10 minutes of inactivity. I never stay signed in. This is two different apps for 2 different banks.

On the web, they almost always request their crappy 2FA which is via text or email, and I do not stay signed in ever either, as well as being logged out after 10 minutes of activity.

What irks me is their 2FA, they have no other options besides email or text, the least secure options of all 2FA methods...

But being signed out everytime, I'm not sure I see it as that much of a hassle, and I kind of appreciate that if someone can unlock my computer or phone, they cannot open my bank account just because I was logged in 30 minutes ago...

akwd169 ,

It's not a joke when people say most people only read the headline then go straight to the comments to broadcast their opinions on the matter

The public isn't interested at all

akwd169 ,

Thank you, someone who actually read the study not just the title!

Median data transfer to third parties is 9 per website. Those third parties? Mostly advertisers and marketers, most commonly google.

The disclosed purpose of collecting that data and transmitting to other companies? They literally tell you it's for marketing and advertising in their privacy policy.

akwd169 ,

Does homeassistant even charge a subscription?

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