BennyTheExplorer
@BennyTheExplorer@lemmy.world
- Comment on Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting 1 day ago:
Ladybird is pretty much dead to me, firstly because the dev has some really bad right wing vibes (he said gender inclusive language is too political for his docs and retweeted a Nazi on Twitter). And secondly because the started using AI to move the code to Rust to make it more secure, which is insane if you know anything about AI or security.
My current hope is in servo, because they have much more capable maintainers and the project seems to make some good progress. Also they have daily builds on their website for every operating system, so you can already try it out easily (but don’t expect everything to work right now, they still need some time).
- Comment on [beta] degoog - search engine aggregator 4 days ago:
I think they have their own action system (codeberg.org/actions/meta), but I’ve never tried it. Maybe you can look into that?
My point about Microsoft was mainly because AI is harmful and often used in a hostile way against open source. Also the fact that Microsoft tries to own the whole free software ecosystem.
- Comment on [beta] degoog - search engine aggregator 4 days ago:
That looks amazing!
I don’t want to bother you about that or anything, but Microsoft (who owns GitHub) is a company that’s actively hostile towards open source devs and is actively using GitHub to scrape insane amounts of training data for their own AI models without regard for consent.
Have you considered moving to an alternative platform? Codeberg for example is quite good, all their code is open source and self histable and the interface is quite easy to understand for someone, who is used to GitHub. It’s also managed by a nonprofit. It’s also pretty easy to transfer you repo from GitHub to there.
- Comment on AI promised to free up workers’ time. UC Berkeley researchers found the opposite. 1 week ago:
What did he say, do you still have your job?
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 1 week ago:
Yeah, don’t get me wrong, this is an insane law. It makes no sense and it is utterly ridiculous and dystopian.
I am just saying, that it is still manageable to continue, we shouldn’t give up. We should continue to fight against this law, but we can also realistically keep distributing our software regardless of this law.
I think, the age thing only has to be implemented by the operating system, not by every piece if software. We as app developers can then choose to use an API to age restrict our apps, if we want to.
We just have to make sure our app isn’t recognized as an operating system.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 1 week ago:
But they could still just request the age bracket that is stored on the system at the time of download, no?
It’s not at all impossible, it just has to be implemented.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 1 week ago:
No, you’re just wrong. The law just says, there needs to be a local API, that apps can use to ask, what of 4 age brackets the user is in. That’s basically it. There is nothing about some online server that needs to hold that data.
- Comment on Simple inexpensive cloud backup? 1 week ago:
Hetzner Storage Box Costa 3,81€ per month for 1TB and you can acess it via SSH vor WebDav.
- Comment on You ever been to Disney World? 2 weeks ago:
Damm, that’s dark. I laughed out loud at this.
- Comment on UK fines Reddit $19 million for using children’s data unlawfully 2 weeks ago:
Or just prosecute them criminally, like they do with the pesants
- Comment on Dublin City Council suspends use of X as State agencies leave amid Grok controversy 2 weeks ago:
It would be great to see them supporting democratic alternatives aswell and start posting on Mastodon, but they probably don’t even know that it exists, which is a bit sad.
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 3 weeks ago:
Yup. And also we should advocate for our rights more locally. Organize with other people, raise awareness and do direct action.
I think the most effective form of resistance is relationships and new local organisations and new structures that resist the forces of the state and of capitalism.
If you are looking for some ideas, maybey you can look here or do your own research.
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I don’t think it’s reasonable to give up in the face of it.
You should make it as hard as possible for them to track you, use private OpenSource software, advocate for it and don’t be afraid if direct action, like destroying these cameras. The more people that do it, the harder it will be for them to do something about it.
- Comment on I wrote a blog post on selfhostesd software to be more organzed 3 weeks ago:
Oh no, haven’t thought of that, thanks!
- Comment on I wrote a blog post on selfhostesd software to be more organzed 3 weeks ago:
Thanks man ;)
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- Comment on Password managers are less secure than promised 3 weeks ago:
I understand, but wouldn’t the same problem occur, if the server for the website you download your software from or the server for your package manager would be compromised? Even if you would buy your software physically on a CD, there would be a chance someone has messed with the content on a CD.
So I don’t really see this as a flaw unique to browsers. Am I wrong?
- Comment on Password managers are less secure than promised 3 weeks ago:
This comment shows that you know less about computers, than you may think. You can definetly make end to end encryption work using a Website. JavaScript runs client side. So as long as you trust the encryption algorithm (which in elements case you definetly can, because it is OSS), the encryption is safe and your unencrypted data never leaves the device.
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 4 weeks ago:
They aren’t walking back anything. They just repeated their claim, that “most people won’t even have to give their IDs, because our AI will read all your messages and decide if you’re 18”
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 1 month ago:
Liberapay, Kofi
- Comment on RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives 1 month ago:
Are you joking, or are you actually serious?
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- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 2 months ago:
Codeberg is also really nice if you are doing open source
- Comment on Rainbow Six Siege ravaged by massive server breach that gave its players billions of paid currency for free 2 months ago:
You can definitely go outside, just try it
- Comment on Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline 3 months ago:
I think your comparison to slavery is a bit overblown and minimizes the tragedy of actual slavery. But I agree with the sentiment.
- Comment on What do you think is the best (and cheapest) way to host a new nextcloud instance and website for my local scouts organisation? 5 months ago:
Yeah, it can definetely be a great solution, but the idea for this was specifically to be more independent from big tech. We already habdle stuff like registering for camps over Office 365, but I wanted to introduce Nextcloud to replace that, because I don’t think it’s a good idea to let Microsoft handle personal data of like a hundred people, that probably don’t even know, that they are giving away their data to Microsoft there. But again, I don’t wanna judge anyone for using things like that, Nextcloud can be a pain to maintain, especially for non technical people.
- Comment on What do you think is the best (and cheapest) way to host a new nextcloud instance and website for my local scouts organisation? 5 months ago:
Yeah, I guess the plan would be (if we decide to use an old labtop) to have a similar backup system to my home server, so one daily incremental backup with something like borgbackup to a newly bought external hard drive and automated updates using watchtower (I heard major nextcloud upgrades can be tricky though, so I an not shure if it would be a good idea to automate those). I guess it would still suck if the laptop unexpectedly failed and we would have to scramble to find new hardware though, how long would you expect an old laptop to last as a server?
- Comment on What do you think is the best (and cheapest) way to host a new nextcloud instance and website for my local scouts organisation? 5 months ago:
Yeah, I totally get what you mean, I am kind of expecting that aswell, but at least I know, that other scouts groups in the area already have a nextcloud and it is actively beeing used, so I have some hopes in that regard. But yeah, getting them to use something like Matrix is probably pretty unrealistic.
- What do you think is the best (and cheapest) way to host a new nextcloud instance and website for my local scouts organisation?lemmy.world ↗Submitted 5 months ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 72 comments
