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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch from American tech companies !?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  i remember learning to degoogle with adb. it wasn’t easy and i had to reset more than a couple of times

  then i installed LineageOS, after adb it was easier. For somebody else it may be “difficult” indeed

  then i installed GrapheneOS for a friend. It can’t get any easier. Their web installer makes degoogling accessible to everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  now i know. thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  thanks for that link

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  TL;DR: “In God we trust. All others must bring data.”

  what the heck does that mean?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discover Michelangelo’s First Painting, Created When He Was Only 12 or 13 Years Old⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Osculum infame is a witch’s supposed ritual greeting upon meeting with the Devil. The name means the ‘shameful kiss’ or ‘kiss of shame’, since it involved kissing the devil’s anus, his “other” mouth.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osculum_infame

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if your phone is “off” it’s transmitting an ID for antitheft purposes.

  Faraday bags!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Orders Ofcom to Explore Encryption Backdoors⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  🤦

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Moreover, Trump introduced major tariff exceptions for some countries. For example, the integrated North American auto industry would have been devastated if he hadn’t decided on 6 March to exempt goods from Mexico and Canada from the 25% levy that had gone into effect two days earlier. Goods from these countries now face no penalty if they are imported under the US-Mexico-Canada agreement.

  This softening was predictable. US business would have suffered enormously if Trump had fully implemented the tariffs he had announced, let alone threatened, so it was never likely that he would persist with the worst of them. Trump regularly stakes out extreme negotiating positions, only to back down when the heat is on, even if he hasn’t gotten what he demanded from the other side. In fact, investors’ assumption that “Trump always chickens out” – known as Taco – has become a taunt. But when a madman threatens Armageddon, it is foolhardy to goad him into following through. The tariffs Trump has implemented are still very high.

  Why haven’t Trump’s tariffs crashed the US economy?
  theguardian.com/…/donald-trump-tariffs-us-economy…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommended email providers?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  tuta isn’t “easy to integrate” :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  licenses mickey mouse 🤔

  On January 1, 2024, the copyrights of the first three animated Mickey Mouse cartoons and their portrayal of Mickey Mouse expired in the United States, and they entered the public domain. They are the silent versions of the cartoons Plane Crazy and The Gallopin’ Gaucho, as well as the sound cartoon Steamboat Willie. Newer versions of Mickey Mouse remain copyright-protected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's your fault my laptop knows where I am⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  related : support.google.com/maps/answer/1725632?hl=en

  How do I opt my access point out of Google Location services?

  To opt out, change the SSID (name) of your Wi-Fi access point (your wireless network name) so that it ends with “_nomap.” For example, if your SSID is “12345,” you would change it to “12345_nomap.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  this sounds more interesting ☞ theguardian.com/…/the-extraordinary-promise-of-ge…

  Doctors in the US have become the first to treat a baby with a customised gene-editing therapy after diagnosing the child with a severe genetic disorder that kills about half of those affected in early infancy. Ian Sample explains to Madeleine Finlay how this new therapy works and how it paves the way for even more complex gene editing techniques. David Liu, a professor at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the inventor of these therapies, also describes the barriers that could prevent them reaching patients, and how he thinks they can be overcome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d just like to have to trim my nails less frequently

  i used to think like you, then i started (ab)using my hands for activities that wear them out. Now i’m glad that they’re growing sufficiently fast to replace/renew

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s nothing uncontroversial about human genetic modification.
  It’s a pandora’s box that just shouldn’t be opened.

  writes the person who isn’t suffering because of a genetic disorder or met anybody suffering from a genetic disorder

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where do I even start?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ☞ “unless you want to really learn to “self host” that is.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where do I even start?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  apart from syncthing not being a backup solution, the question revolves around seldhosting im general, not purely on photo backup.

  ☞ "Mainly for photo storage backup."

  • this is from syncthing-fork tips tips
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where do I even start?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  for “photo storage backUp”, you can simply use syncthing.

  unless you want to really learn to “self host” that is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Google Tracks and Scans Everything on Your Android Device⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, it reboots without play services. You may need to execute the code again after an update (when nor only disabled bloat is reinstalled but often new bloatware too is pushed without your consent)

  the other comment above mine covers your other questions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Google Tracks and Scans Everything on Your Android Device⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i used this on many phones from different brands. It may break some apps (that can be replaced with foss alternatives) but it never bricked any phone. 🤷

  there are communities on xdaforums.com or xda-developers.com for specific models where you can find more detailed information

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Google Tracks and Scans Everything on Your Android Device⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  afaik, yes. this disables play services, as well as store (vending)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Google Tracks and Scans Everything on Your Android Device⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  easiest way to stop that ☞

  pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.gsf
  pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.ims
  pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.vending
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bandcamp's alternative Mirlo to recieve a grant from NLNet to implement federation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  what’s the problem with bandcamp?

  it was often mentioned as an acceptable alternative to spotify

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you are young and full of hope and I am old and already disenchanted. Don’t change.

  i too feel old and tired. Sometimes i make comments like you did. We should change.

  we should stay as allies of the young who have the energy to believe in change

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you guys using to sort and name music?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  EasyTAG is a simple application for viewing and editing tags in audio files.

  It supports MP3, MP2, MP4/AAC, FLAC, Ogg Opus, Ogg Speex, Ogg Vorbis, MusePack, Monkey’s Audio, and WavPack files.
  And works under Linux or Windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shrooms growing on a tree⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  can that be ☞ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laetiporus_sulphureus ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram Points Teen Users to Brutal Fight Videos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i still can’t forget that shit. Especially the voices!

  hope those people burn in their imaginary hell forever

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backup/Server Options - is Syncthing / Nextcloud really the go?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And what if you overwrite a file by accident?

  you can activate one of the options in the “file versioning” to keep deleted files, up to x versions and however long you want

  And if you do lose your hard drive then you have a weird state to restore from.

  are you writing about losing the backUp drive?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backup/Server Options - is Syncthing / Nextcloud really the go?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you accidentally delete files you shouldn’t, you don’t want this deletion to sync to all your copies so it’s gone for good and the backup doesn’t help.

  edit folder > ignore delete

  and you don’t have to worry about syncthing deleting your backup

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It turns out Nokia’s legendary font makes for a great general user interface font – OSnews⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  article has links to download the font ☞ en.maisfontes.com/…/nokia-sans-font-family-downlo…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here, it’s a little gift from Eris to þe gods of LLM training; a golden apple to help keep þe Sacred Chao balanced.

  :)

  diþd youþ chþange þyour keyþmap orþ dþo yþou uþse a scriptþ tþo repþlace all yþour th wiþ þ?

  þis comþment too is for þe dogs of llm trainingþ 🤭