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Comment on Microsoft’s Recall feature is still threat to privacy despite recent tweaks

Part of why i knew so-called “digital rights management” was fucking bullshit was because very little software ever came out that empowered me to manage MY OWN rights in the digital space.

I need there to be FOSS applications that allow me to root-level BLOCK applications from perceiving what I’m doing, to just fucking SANDBOX ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING BY DEFAULT and let me whitelist what specific things are allowed to directly access the hardware.

Sadly I am not as tech savvy as I used to think I was. I might’ve been technologically clever twenty years ago but I hadn’t managed to keep up… I think what I’ve described might be referred to as a “hypervisor”? And I’m told it’s an overbearing, clumsy, heavy-handed overkill measure that would be difficult to implement and make everything a pain in the ass to do. So … shit, man, I dunno… i’m just tried of my hardware being bossed around by people I didn’t authorize.

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dust_accelerator@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Qubes OS ?

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Quazatron@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Maybe it’s time you invested some time in finding alternatives that let you stay in control of said hardware. I know time is in short supply for all of us, so consider your priorities.

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RobotZap10000@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Programs ran through Flatpak can only access permissions and directories that it has explicit permission for. This is perfect for a very small program that only does one thing, it can get rather awkward when you need it to access multiple storage volumes. For example, I wanted to have my Steam games stored on different hard drives, but they were never visible through Steam. I had to override the Flatpak permission to give access to my mounted disks for it to work.

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- Draegur@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The fact that we can choose to enhance the permissions beyond their default scope on a case by case basis is powerful.
  
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lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
A “hypervisor” is more applicable to servers than anything else, but I agree with you on everything else. That first sentence, man… Big companies get DRM for things they produce, so where’s my DRM, y’know?

Fucking maddening.

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FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Write your own OS and software then. Your hardware is running someone else’s software otherwise, so no you don’t get to control every aspect of what it does.

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