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- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 1 day ago:
Pardon me, but that is exactly what MS is doing.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 4 days ago:
Yup, RIP
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 5 days ago:
Yup, people prefer to enrage themselfes, the facts don’t matter anymore.
- Comment on Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability 1 week ago:
The funny part is: the fix does not change the unsafe block at all. The issue is elsewhere in safe rust code.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 1 week ago:
Clever, so you have to agree to the terms either way.
- Comment on Password managers... 1 week ago:
That’s why tools like keepass allow you to require more than just a password to decrypt.
- Comment on A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It 2 weeks ago:
It goes to show: developers should make sure they don’t make their livelihood dependent on access to Google services.
- Comment on Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots) 4 weeks ago:
What an odd comparison. What differentiates Mozilla from others is their close relationship with their community. Just read their manifest and you will see Immediately why they are getting flag for humiliating their own supporters.
- Comment on How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare 4 weeks ago:
If you think only llms can do these kind of beginner mistakes you are mistaken. That’s the whole point of the argument.
- Comment on Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean 5 weeks ago:
Oh the great technology god will help us. We will have so much reduction, you cannot imagine! We have no idea how but surely throwing money at it will get things done. Trust us!
- Comment on PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners 5 weeks ago:
Yup thanks for the heads-up!
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 1 month ago:
You missed some disadvantages. For example the UX and complexity are terrible.
- Comment on In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information 2 months ago:
Theoldreader.com on the desktop and gReader Pro on Android. That app is ancient but still works and no modern app comes close to its UI.
- Comment on How to Train Your Own ChatGPT: A Step-by-Step Resource Guide to Custom GPTs 4 months ago:
Misleading title. This “article” has nothing to do with training.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 4 months ago:
The company is doomed with this kind of leadership
- Comment on Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up 6 months ago:
Yup, I think this is the root cause for Mozilla’s inevitable failure: the wrong management for the job.
- Comment on Open Source CAD In The Browser 6 months ago:
Agreed. It is very powerful but the interface has a long way ahead to be user friendly. Still, it is worth the effort if you really care about sticking to linux.
- Comment on Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism 6 months ago:
As a person who experienced the customer support regrading preorders I can confirm this firm is extremly sketchy.
- Comment on noyb sends Meta 'cease and desist' letter over AI training. European Class Action as potential next step 6 months ago:
If you like what NOYB is doing: they are accepting donations.
- Comment on How to setup gPodder on Podman/docker for AntennaPod? 8 months ago:
Correct, I use Kast on thr desktop, works nicely
- Comment on How to setup gPodder on Podman/docker for AntennaPod? 8 months ago:
If you’ve got a nextcloud somewhere, you already have everything you need running. Install required extension and login in antenna pod. Works nicely, can recommend it.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Good point. The author argues that:
they buy the device on your behalf so your real name never gets attached to it.
However it is relatively easy to attribute a sim card to person simply based on its usage. You also leave the same movement patterns on the mobile network. I don’t see a benefit here compared to just using a sim card from a service provider that does not sell their customer data.
- Comment on Toward a Passwordless Future 9 months ago:
Bummer… no mention of the drawbacks whatsoever.
- Comment on Brazilian court gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS. 9 months ago:
Hopefully the court was clever enought to specify that the side loading must not be more difficult than installing via the store. Apple will for sure make it as complicated and user hostile as possible so they fulfill the ruling without having any practical impact.
- Comment on Thunderbird does not fall under the new terms frommmozilla 9 months ago:
Finally some good news
- Comment on New downloads of DeepSeek suspended in South Korea, data protection agency says 10 months ago:
Learned something new. Thank you!
- Comment on Why doesn't Signal forbid third party clients or at least offer a client certification program to ensure security? 1 year ago:
Signal forks can have unexpected behaviours like retaining deleted messages and also they don’t get updated at the same rate that Signal get updated.
There are ways to save messages before they are deleted even if the stock app is used. Do not ever rely on this feature to work in a “save” way.
Every couple of years I hear a story about hackers disturbing signal with backdoors, which would be impossible or very hard to be done If they blocked third party clients. (Ex: 1)
That is a problem the users who prefer 3rd party clients have to deal with. Obviously if you care enough to not use the official build, you of cause have to take care of using a trustworthy source. That is not “your problem” though.
The amount of people who use third party Signal clients are very few anyway.
That sounds a lot like “I don’t use it, so none else needs it either” argument. In my opinion, none of your arguments above are a good reason to combat 3rd party clients.