kbal

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

After posting I instantly thought about whether I should've added to that last sentence "... in any society with a modicum of respect for liberty."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Sounds like a good way to hone your horoscope-writing skill.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Come on debian, maybe we can make it back into the top 5 when trixie gets an official release.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Paid and freeware but either way non-free, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No surprise that it's often blocked in China. The most damning thing I see there is that they use twitter and facebook, which does seem to be true.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (3 children)

As far as I can tell from what's reported there it's empty rhetoric based on nothing concrete. It's presumably more effective in Italian.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I mean it's better than nothing I guess but that is not what I'd call "freely available." In addition to requiring that you use their shitty online viewer, it appears to require users to sign in to an account even to do that. It's directly admitted on the website that they make it unusable in this way specifically because they rely on the revenue from selling real access to people who need it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Sorry, but we can only get so much security by giving up your privacy, now we need the kind of security that can only be bought by giving up your security as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Wow, someone even more devoted to blocking ads than I am. Personally I will just never go back to youtube rather than go through that much debugging.

The one time my combination of ublock origin, jshelter, noscript set to allow only the scripts that are actually needed, and custom ~~firefox~~ librewolf settings was insufficient to watch youtube I didn't go back for a few days. When I did it was mysteriously back to working.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Microwaving is cooking. Vibe coding is to microwaving what staring at the food and pretending you have heat-ray vision is to microwaving.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah it was a big milestone. Many related developments soon followed. It's an interesting coincidence that linux was first released the same year. Strong end-to-end encryption has in common with free software that it's taken an awfully long time for ordinary people to begin understanding that it's important and worth the effort to use. Like free software, once it gets going it can't be stopped.

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