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irreversibly wipe the device

And for anyone to actually go through the trouble of cloning a flash chip, you'd have to be an extremely high profile target.

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something something destruction of evidence

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The biggest issue IMO is the random phone-walling. Eventually, all the things you try to do to increase privacy will just cause Discord to force your account into phone verification. This happened to me many times. It's now to the point where I cannot even sign up for discord whatsoever because it immediately transitions from the logged in screen to "something suspicious going on" and forces you to give out a personal mobile number, which I refuse.

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That could potentially open them up to legal problems. Whether it's technically legal or not, nobody wants the possibility of their livelihood being taken away by court costs just because some idiot who is wrong wants to fight them and lose anyway, because they can afford it and you can't (and often times they know it).

I once paid for access to a stock options trading group, but they only used discord. Their website had no other contact info at all. My discord account got randomly banned (it happened right after I joined an innocent server, but maybe because a bunch of people were joining at once, that triggered it? idk), so I could no longer use the service I was paying for. The service auto-renewed on my credit card and I had no way to contact the people to cancel my account (couldn't even make a new discord account). I had to dispute the charge with my CC company and it took months of back and forth with them because they simply could not understand that I could no longer access the only method of support that they offered.

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VPNs do not protect your privacy. Please don't spread FUD

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thanks for the recommendation, but unfortunately due to my privacy settings, most cloudflare sites do not work, I just get endless "are you human" prompts that never go away.

Plus any site that uses crimeflare isn't private anyway because they can MITM all your traffic including credit card info etc.

The Best Email Aliasing Providers in 2024 (blog.thenewoil.org)

Email aliasing is one of the most underrated privacy techniques that has yet to go mainstream. For the privacy-conscious user, it offers a degree of separation between all your accounts, making it harder for data brokers to correlate your various accounts across different services by not using the same email address to sign up....

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That small group of people gives you plausible deniability, there's no way to prove who it was. And the more you open it up for others to use, the more likely it wasn't you.

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Can someone ELI5? I still don't get it after reading the post description and the link.

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Maybe, but then people disagreeing with those defaults leads to the massive amount of fragmentation and "too many choices" we are now dealing with in the FOSS world.

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the way I like to respond to that:

"ok, pull down your pants and hand me your unlocked phone"

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yewtu.be

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)

You know how Google's new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won't slide off (pssst...please don't do this.)...

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because it's not a majority issue.

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almost every time I Syu something breaks.

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I would consider any amount of time passed causing breakage to be a design problem.

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people can't google anymore. it's actually sad

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What have you tried searching the web for? I get many relevant results.

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the logo is literally a noose

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the majority of people don't actually want choices though.

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that's fine but the number of people on the globe who refuse to buy from them is literally a rounding error

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because it's illegal

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unfortunately the games I like to play require bare-metal windows and a beefy gpu.

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they want you to buy a new pc So they get their license fee

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upgrades don't give them license fees, they want you to buy a new pc.

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lmao

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yes I'm very sure

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many teknoparrot games for example. some do work on wine/lutris/etc. but many do not.

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I use django for this exact thing, it's my day job

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except windows binaries are actually forward compatible.

even with the most popular distros, for example if you tried to take a typical gui program from say, ubuntu 22, and run it on ubuntu 24, it won't work. even worse for other distros.

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https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/

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Nope, but for as many programs that you claim still work, I can show you even more that don't. I wouldn't consider that disingenuous.

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Well first we need to establish what you would accept as proof... what counts as not being forward compatible to you exactly? For example system libraries such as libpng or ffmpeg change versions and/or APIs between major distro releases, this inherently makes the old binaries no longer compatible by default. Is that such scenario acceptable to you as proof? Because I can list countless examples of those even just with one library being the issue, and there's so many more.

I'm not trying to trash Linux or act like I don't know what I'm talking about, I just disagree that most older programs work without any issues, especially GUI programs that rely on ever-changing system library versions, for the reasons I stated.

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I don't agree with the prerequisite of "doesn't have a maintained version" because I don't feel like that makes a difference with the premise of specifically running older software, whether it has a new version available or not.

But anyways... I will try to adhere to that anyways, and use Ubuntu as an example as that's what I use.

7yuv: This and every Qt4 app for example no longer runs because Ubuntu 20.04 and above (and probably many other distros) does not provide it anymore. 7yuv is still available for download, but has not been updated, and does not run on my current 22.04 box.

Dia: Same story here. No longer developed. The remaining binary deb package was built for Ubuntu 12.04 and no longer runs due to a dependency on libpng12 (the current version is 16). Yes I could possibly recompile from source if the API hasn't changed, but the discussion was specifically about running older binaries.

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I don't think it can even be called cheating because the discussion was about forward compatibility. Using a container to house old libraries is something completely different in my opinion and I think it defeats the whole point of the word "compatibility" in my argument. Many users would not know how to do this nor want to. Where do you draw the line? CPU emulation?

We can disagree on this and that's fine. I just still don't consider it "highly disingenuous", but maybe a difference of opinion.

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locally until the next automatic update.

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they fixed that 30 years ago, it's called browser history /s

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lol, lmao even

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proprietary Chinese processor (Unisoc) AND operating system (Mocor), nothx

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TCL

not even once

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define popular. iphone wiped out almost the entire phone market in Japan.

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Law is all about interpretation and what a reasonable person would think.

I don't think convincing a judge that "it was obvious there was a sign and they would have read it" would be very hard.

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it literally doesn't matter because most people don't 3D print

Is Privacy Worth It? (blog.thenewoil.org)

When I announced I would be closing my communities earlier this year, a curious thing happened: a surprising number of regulars replied with some variation of “I think this is my exit.” While some were specifically talking about Matrix, claiming that mine was the only room they were really active in and therefore they saw no...

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aka destruction of evidence

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harmful network effect

that's a funny way to say marketing.

I think most FOSS zealots simply despise capitalism in general, they want everyone else to be poor like them. Kinda like socialism.

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Not only that but I think there's not enough middle road. The very tech-savvy people either seem to not care about privacy at all, or they think glowies are out to get them. Of course, it's not paranoia if they're really out to get you. But most people are not as interesting as they think they are, and their threat models do not match their reality.

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Indeed, his views are not quite as extreme as RMS for example, Linus specifically did not want to require GPLv3 which is probably sacrilege to Stallman.

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Make all software FOSS

That would require extreme socialism

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free market and that's a bad analogy

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wake me up when someone figures that out. so far I haven't seen any large scale implementation that could last and/or keep everyone happy.

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