JackAttack

@JackAttack@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Regardless of current politics, this is great advice anyways for a lot of people. These alternatives are very user friendly now a days, including many Linux distros. They will do almost if not all what a user needs. Few exceptions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently bought a Garmin to get rid of a $30 Whoop subscription and to get better battery than a smart watch with a Fitbit subscription. Garmin seems to give me everything I needed that the whoop does for only the cost of the watch.

  It does mention all health data will be free still so for the time being I’m not opposed to them locking AI behind a paywall. I understand AI cost resources and is expemsive. I however, will not be using that shit. I think the default health insights are plenty for what i do. Granted I’m not a full on athlete like some Garmin users.

  As long as they don’t lock what’s available now beyond a paywall I’m okay with this. But overall, I’m sick and tired of subscriptions in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure if you use that feature but does it work like an indexer and allow direct downloads of “Linux isos”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think when I tried them out a while back they also had a usenet search? Can anyone clarify on this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Came to the comments to find this question lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can anyone with knowledge on business explain why these companies keep going public other than the simple fact of money?

  I feel like everytime a company does they go full throttle into making shareholders money and lose sight of their original company. Honestly I assumed discord was already public based on some of their monetary features that are overpriced lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sounds crazy but... maybe you shouldn't delete Facebook just yet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, I say yes. And hear me out first please.

  The Fediverse in my eyes should be free. Free to have instances for everyone, including those we disagree with. Because in my opinion, the right to say and think what we want is very important (absolute free speech). And unfortunately, i think that means everyone should be allowed to say what they want. HOWEVER, free speech does not mean free of consequences. The option of federating with those groups or not is up to each community and fortunately I think many would not be okay with including them.

  I’m always open to hearing input as these are personal thoughts so by all means add to or let me know the errors in my thinking. Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for adding! Could you clarify a bit on the points so I can better understand where I was wrong at?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah maybe Tor Browser was the better example. Just trying to get the point out lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I personally have never used them. I use Proton myself (despite some news) and haven’t had any issues. I’ve heard Tuta is also great but I think one of the cons of privacy mail is that they’re not going to be nearly as polished as the big players like Gmail or outlook.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Great read from Tuta on thia topic. It’s been an issue for a while but Google going full force publicly on it causes this issue to grow greater.

  I left a comment replying to someone further down about how this can be at least a little combatted and how it is with browsers. (At least to my minimal knowledge of it)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So from what I understand, theres 2 common ways that browsers combat this. Someone add to or correct me if I’m wrong.

  1. Browsers such as Mull combat this by looking the same as every other browser. If you all look the same, it’s hard to tell you apart.

  2. Browsers such as Brave randomize metadata that fingerprinting collects so that it’s more difficult to piece it all together and build a trend/profile on someone.

  These aren’t the only options, these are just ones I’ve read about recently. Online behavior, browswr window size, and I’m sure so much more also goes into it. But every little bit helps and is better than nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open source maintainers are feeling the squeeze⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I whole heartily agree to a good ole “fuck you”; But I also think that money shouldn’t be a requirement but highly encouraged. I’m a hypocrite for this because I don’t monetarily support every open source I use. However, for the critical open source I use like 3rd party Android OS, clients for apps like Lemmy, etc. I’m more than happy to donate what I can. Hell, I’d donate to all if I had to resources to. I don’t have a good solution but I do think donating (when it can be afforded) should be highly encouraged and something not a lot of people think about/know about/or consider since they may be using it because it’s free to begin with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree. I hate the decisions they make and personally, along with you, I think it’s idiotic.

  But while I hate on them, they will get away with it. Theyre not stupid. The decisions don’t align with its users but it will still work.

  Look at netflix raising prices for arguably content. Working for them.

  Reddit; Charging for the API essentially killing almost all 3rd party apps. Not sure the effect but reddit doesn’t seem to really be hurting. Users want to move but reddit is just too good. I even still use it because the user content on there is amazing. I try to ask all my questions/have discussions on lemmy, but I’m one person. Reddit has infinity more always contributing. I think the management sucks, but the platform just isn’t fully rivaled yet so they can keep milking their audience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky now has 30 million users.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for you detailed and cited response. Very clear!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky now has 30 million users.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not familiar with Blue sky, do they advertise as federated or how exactly do they claim to differ from a regular platform like original Twitter?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Non-US alternatives to digital services⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Adding to this, pipepipe (for YouTube) on f droid is amazing. Not sure where it’s based but they do great work.