Qvest

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Music Piracy Is Back, Baby⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fair, but at least they could say something like “you can download our songs as long as we allow it” and not “you can download your favourite songs and listen to them any time, anywhere” when that is only partially true, since, if someone has a playlist downloaded (still talking about personal experience) and they go offline for a long period of time, they can no longer play the songs and are required to get an internet connection only for spotify to audit and say “yeah you still have a valid subscription, you can still listen offline”. It’s not truly offline if I have to connect to the internet every once in a while.

  Again, it’s completely fair, but they could at least tell more than half-truths

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Music Piracy Is Back, Baby⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not fun is pressing play one day and finding a big chunk of your carefully constructed playlist is “no longer in your library.”

  this is exceptionally true from my experience with Spotify. I had downloaded a playlist that had a specific song. One day I went to play my locally downloaded playlist only to glance over it and see that the song was unavailable. I had the song downloaded. In my device and it still removed the song. No warnings, no nothing. Ever since, I downloaded everything locally and completely ditched Spotify. Fuck this scummy behaviour

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opinions on AdNauseam?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a cool concept in the sense that it obfuscates the user by filling the advertising algorithm with garbage so that profiling supposedly becomes more difficult. I don’t use it as I don’t need this feature and just want to block ads (uBlock Origin is the best content-blocker right now), but if you want the features, you can use it.

  A plus is that it is also based on uBlock Origin

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese hackers have unleashed a never-before-seen Linux backdoor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. Opening PDFs might be safer on Linux, but general internet security and practice goes a long way, too. Using a content-blocker like uBlock Origin on Firefox can greatly reduce attack surface on both Linux and Windows as well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese hackers have unleashed a never-before-seen Linux backdoor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  researchers from security firm Trend Micro found an encrypted binary file on a server known to be used by a group they had been tracking since 2021

  Sounds like it targets servers specifically, so desktop users should be safe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese hackers have unleashed a never-before-seen Linux backdoor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No.

  By installing software only from trusted sources (default repositories from your distribution are the safest software you will ever install on linux)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity Silently Deletes GitHub Repo that Tracks Terms of Service Changes and Updated Its License - GamerBraves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Say no to centralized platforms altogether. I don’t want to be that person, but things like these are exactly why open-source is (and should be) superior. It’s unfortunate that OSS has had so little traction in the end-user side of things

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Search engines compared⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I found someone on 4chan that wouldn’t stop announcing this engine on /g/, most likely the owner as well. And seeing that the name is 4get, it probably started there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not ChatGPT’s API. It runs locally, no internet required. For those interested read more here: https://gpt4all.io/index.html

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As ironic as this sounds, Google can’t let Firefox die because then it would become a monopoly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft to stop forcing Windows 11 users into Edge in EU countries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Valve is and was aware of this problem even back then. I don’t have a reliable source on this but from what I remember it all started when Microsoft begun pushing the Microsoft Store.

  Gabe Newell even said Linux is the future of gaming

  And for this I have a source: https://www.pcgamer.com/gabe-newell-linux-and-open-source-are-the-future-of-gaming/

• Contra Chrome – a webcomic – How Google's browser became a threat to privacy and democracycontrachrome.com ↗
  Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨2⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft to stop forcing Windows 11 users into Edge in EU countries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Take your ignorance elsewhere

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mullvad Browser (no TOR, no VPN)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It is basically tor browser without the tor network, but with all the privacy features that one would find in tor browser

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Non-enterprise user? Microsoft may store your Bing chats⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s legit just ChatGPT because it’s just ChatGPT. Microsoft is investing heavily in OpenAI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Wants To Destroy The Internet...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing I don’t understand about all of this WEI: can’t we just use a user agent switcher / spoofer to ‘look’ like chrome or any other browser and OS to counter this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thoughts on MEGA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I use a website called tosdr.org

  They have things to say about MEGA. I never used it so I can’t say for myself but have a look and get your own conclusions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best "workspace" style browser? [e.g. Sidekick, Ferdium, Station, RamBox]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve visited the websites of all of the browsers you listed. All of them have the same-ish UI. I don’t really know what a ‘workspace browser’ is so I don’t have nearly as concrete of an opinion as someone that uses one of these daily. But, from the UI alone, they feel like the Opera web browser (they are definitely not the same, and probably serve different purposes but this is the impression I get). Does one of these browsers have more features? Which one do you feel comfortable using?

  Also, unrelated, but can you or someone else explain to me what is a ‘workspace browser’? What purpose does one of these serve?