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esaru , 3 months ago to Free and Open Source Software in Floorp, a Firefox Fork with an awful name, has moved some components inside a private submodule.

Icecat, a Firefox fork without Firefox's privacy issues (telemetry).

esaru , 3 months ago to Socialism in The Plan to Ban TikTok is Outright Xenophobia

Many actions against another country are not based on the race of people living in it, but for political, economic, or military reasons.

esaru , 3 months ago to Free and Open Source Software in Is osmand normally terrible?

That's not normal. On my phone the location is exact to a meter and it takes 2 seconds.

esaru , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to Technology in The Anti-Ownership Ebook Economy

Buy the paper version, cut off the papers with a paper knife, and scan to PDF, with text layer. Takes half an hour for 300 pages, a book I'd read several hours. I paid for ownership, I'll own it. Legal in many countries, research the legal situation of your country of residence.

esaru , 4 months ago to Technology in How Google is killing independent sites like ours

I remember there was a time Google tried to be the best search engine out there, by ranking first what has most value for the user. Now it is ranking first what brings them more money, hence undermining Google's credibility, and making itself less ueful for the user. The enshittification of Google for everyone to see.

esaru OP , 5 months ago to Technology in Google's Chrome Browser Analyzing Your Browsing History with so-called "Privacy Sandbox" Feature

I'd expect that the advertisement is relevant to the content of the page. But I don't know, as I haven't seen a single bit of advertisement for the last 15 years.

esaru , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to Technology in Thoughts on BOOX Tab Ultra C?

The color screen of e-readers is too dark for me and substantially lacks contrast. It's very noticable. The layer for pen recognition already makes the screen darker, but the color display is adding a lot more to the darkness and lack of contrast. I would only go with an e-reader with black/white screen and even without pen recognition.

Furthermore, e-readers are much more fragile than mobile phones. The design of their screen leads to a high probability of getting broken which is a common thing, search "ereader screen broken" online. My Boox e-reader fell 50 centimeters and the screen was broken, which renders the whole devide unresponsive.

The pen recognition is not as precise as on tablets. You can draw with it, but it's a bit annoying and not for detailed work.

So my suggestion is to go with a device that costs less than 200 USD and do anything else than reading on a phone or tablet.

esaru OP , 5 months ago to Technology in VW vehicles to converse with drivers via ChatGPT by mid-year

Maybe deleted from the productive database (if at all, as Reddit for example just flagged "deleted" comments apparently in the past).

But Backups, does data really get removed from backups? I don't think so.

esaru , 5 months ago to Technology in Massive data dump containing millions of passwords sparks security alert: Is your data safe?

KeepassDX for mobile is on F-Droid and can use the same file as accessed from KeepassXC from Laptop, synced by Syncthing.

esaru , 5 months ago to Technology in Massive data dump containing millions of passwords sparks security alert: Is your data safe?

And pass phrases are faster to type and with less typos even though they need more characters than passwords to be the same secure.

esaru OP , 5 months ago to Technology in VW vehicles to converse with drivers via ChatGPT by mid-year

Ask anyone who works in IT and they'll confirm nothing gets ever deleted from all records and backups.