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Both.

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gorhill already strongly suggests to use Firefox, but to drop Google Chrome altogether would leave millions of people stranded.

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You should be surprised, that is unfair competition.

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On Firefox Android Beta / Nightly / forks, you can enable WebRender from about:config .

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Independent Web browsers in active development which use their own engine and (aim to) support modern Web standards:

That's it.

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I recommend to read this response of a developer for Emacs to a user asking why stick to Microsoft's Github: https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2024-04-30-re-emacs-github-freedom-microsoft/

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And Antitrust in different countries forced them to comply with the law.

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The author's goal, laterally, is to spread Free Software to as many users as possible.

We'll never convince anyone that out fight for Freedom is good, by circlejerking.

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You just need to put a link on your resume, that way they will know about it.

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Some of its features are still considered experimental and disabled on Android to provide compatibility with most devices.

Two informative Reddit posts that are mostly up-to-date:

@BaardFigur

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If you own a router from ASUS and find OpenWRT too difficult:

install Asuswrt-Merlin

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On ASUS routers, the best choices are OpenWRT or Asuswrt-Merlin.

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The list of supported WiFi 6-capable routers has a good number of entries.

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It builds on devices' source code published by ASUS. The is no data sharing with ASUS.

Merlin's privacy disclosure:

The only outbound connection made with me by this firmware is when the firmware checks for availability of a new version.

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That thread is about the official firmware as distributed by ASUS.

The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)

Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....

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It is a little scary. Machine learning / LLMs consumes insane amounts of power, and it's under everyone's eyes.

I was shocked a few months ago to learn that the Internet, including infrastructure and end-user devices, already consumed 30% of world energy production in 2018. We are not only digging our grave, but doing it ever faster.

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I already look into it, I choose to be vegetarian.

Nuclear power plants are a patch to the bigger issue, the idea of infinite progress. We need to reduce consumption.

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Charlie Brown would say "AAUGH!"

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…Happy cake day?

I wasn't aware it was on Lemmy too.

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SEPA is not to take for granted.

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I don't doubt it. With SEPA you can transfer hassle-free to 36 countries and with low / no fees.

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Did you read what they wrote?

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Make it happen!

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Eclipse is Free Software and as such it is valuable even if better commercial options exist.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#EPL2

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I personally don't use a full IDE, but KDE's Kate.

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When did rav1e become Assembly?

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We're talking about companies where a product leak makes international news. There is zero chance Slack employees have access to communications.

Sure, even though Slack itself admits so in their privacy policy.

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until indie gaming takes over

People want to play what's popular, to feel part of a group.

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Have you tried Signal recently? On Android it's very well polished.

In fact I believe it's a shame that not more people use such a beautiful app, regardless of privacy and security implications.

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HERE WeGo has traffic data but of course, as in Google Maps, it sources from other users of the same app.

If not many people use HERE, then the data is also not reliable.

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the data is out there

Where? GMaps sources this data from each of its users.

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Security is not synonim with privacy.

A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions (www.theregister.com)

Schleswig-Holstein, Germany's most northern state, is starting its switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and is planning to move from Windows to Linux on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions....

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There is a FSFE campaign that claims all publicly-funded institutions should only use Free Software.

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But the script only deleted files in /home

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The limit is not by single payment but by purchase/receipt.

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Likely. The cause against Yuzu came now in light of the imminent annoincement of Switch 2.

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In my Electonics store chain in Italy it was "if you have our card, for every 5€ spent you get 1 point. For 100 points you get 5€ discount".

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Yes.

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RCS is monopolised by Google. Theoretically open ("maybe, in the future, once it's secure…"), but practically not.

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Publicly traded companies need to constantly grow.

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I think Microsoft ships slightly different versions in different markets.

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Indeed. I wish your comment was the most visible here.

Signal and Threema can be all about privacy, but they are still companies which can make money only by keeping their service as centralized as possible.

Decentralised messaging like Matrix, XMPP, Jami, have no issue with interoperability.

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You are right.

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I run Firefox everywhere. If you care about freedom you, dear reader, should too.

On desktop I have these addons installed:

  • Allow Right-Click
  • Alternate player for Twitch.tv
  • Auto-Sort Bookmarks
  • Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans
  • Bypass Paywalls Clean (D)
  • Chameleon
  • Don't track me Google
  • Download All Images
  • Export Cookies
  • F.B Purity
  • Fakespot
  • FastForward
  • FediRedirect
  • Firefox Color
  • Firefox Relay
  • Form History Control (II)
  • Image Search Options
  • IPvFoo
  • Keep or Delete Bookmarks
  • LibRedirect
  • Linguist - web pages translator
  • LocalCDN
  • MAL-Sync
  • Mastodon - Simplified Federation!
  • Minimal Theme for Twitter
  • open in mpv
  • Plasma Integration
  • Reddit Enhancement Suite
  • Redirect AMP to HTML
  • Return Youtube Dislike
  • Search by Image
  • See On BoardGameGeek
  • Sidebery
  • Silk - Privacy Pass Client
  • Simple Translate
  • Tor Snowflake
  • Terms of Service; Didn't Read
  • Tournesol Extension
  • TwitchNoSub
  • Twitter View Original Images
  • uBlock Origin
  • Violentmonkey
  • Wallabagger
  • Web Archives
  • webcompat.com reporter
  • Wide Github

Violentmonkey scripts:

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Because the United States are the only country in the world.

In Italy it is illegal to share recordings in public without the recorded people's consent.

"Cops" are public servants, as such it is always allowed to record and share.

Chat Control May Finally Be Dead: European Court Rules That Weakening Encryption Is Illegal (tuta.com)

The EU Court ruled that “Backdoors may also be exploited by criminal networks and would seriously compromise the security of all users’ electronic communications. The Court takes note of the dangers of restricting encryption described by many experts in the field.” Any requirement to build in backdoors to encryption...

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The European Court of Human Rights is independent from the European Union, and viceversa. They are not related.

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I use Jami daily. The pro is that it is completely decentralised: it doesn't need a server to run, all communications are over DHT. The cons is that not all messages are delivered instantly, and both sender and recipient need to be online at the same time.

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I am not expecting security from it, just complete decentralisation.

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