masterofn001
@masterofn001@lemmy.ca
- Comment on PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google 15 hours ago:
I got a pixel 9 for $240 CAD via carrier promotion in Canada.
I held out getting a new phone as long as I could and they offered a new pixel 9 for $5 per month for 24 months
Not to trade in after 24.
It’s mine. For 5$ a month.
When I received it I didn’t turn it on for a week.
Read as much as I could to decide that Google would only ever see the single boot to enable developer mode and enable OEM unlock to flash graphenos.
It seemed intimidating, but the process to install is very smooth.
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 3 days ago:
Please post the entirety of your online history.
Surely there’s no reason to hide.
Whether what you’ve done is entirely legal (or not) authoritariaism doesn’t care.
What is done in a free society is punished by small men with anger control issues.
What you may find reasonable to say in a free society, could, under a government opposed to free expression, land you in el Segundo - without your wallet.
The gestapo hide their faces because they know what they do is wrong, and to hide from justice.
People who protest or simply appreciate privacy do so because they understand the potential for retribution and being disappeared.
- Comment on Firefox 140 Brings Tab Unload, Custom Search & New ESR 4 days ago:
I’ve had the unload flag enabled in about: config for months.
Haven’t used the update yet but there are several related flags to change the appearance of unloaded tabs in there as well.
Tab groups are another thing I hope they push out to standard options. Again, there are some neat flags associated with this in about: config.
I use the release version, not nightly or developer. But you can usually find some future features in there. Some good, some not. YMMV.
As always - Use caution.
- Comment on Canadian telecom hacked by suspected China state group 4 days ago:
While this news is both expected and unsettling, I’m pretty keen on how our gov has this info available to the public.
And the site itself - such a vast resource for security info, tools, etc.
Not all of our gov nor all departments are something to behold, but our cyber teams are top notch.
- Comment on GendBuntu: How France’s Military-Police switched 100,000+ PCs to Linux 1 week ago:
It could have been gend’ARM64 or gend’Arch,BTW.
But they chose that.
Oh well, it’s the year of the Linux desktop, I’ll forgive them.
For now.
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 1 week ago:
You know the people who created youtube are all part of the same OG corp/group that gave eise to the monsters who have created the hell we currently live in.
The PayPal mafia.
Thiel, musk, howry, Chen(yt), wong(reddit),Hoffman(LinkedIn)
- Comment on 'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Doge+Palantir - You are Already On "The List" | InRangeTV 2 weeks ago:
Even if they’re wrong.
It’s too late.
You’re already on the list.
…
The only option is to destroy the list and those who will use it
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Booming Military Spending on AI is a Windfall for Tech—and a Blow to Democracy 2 weeks ago:
So,what you’re saying is we invent time travel.
Cool!
- Comment on Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism 2 weeks ago:
It’s funny because one browser I use is downloaded from the browsers website which I then use to install the update to said browser.
Google needs a Luigi.
- Comment on Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism 2 weeks ago:
There is exactly one app I use that is available only on play store - my bank.
I don’t really need the app.
They have a website.
I have a few phones, just got one that now has grapheneOS.
I’ve been using it for a few weeks to see how it works before I switch over anything to use it as my main. it has a lot of very interesting privacy/security features to test out.
Either way, I don’t get anything from the play store anymore.
It’s F(L)OSS or a website.
As god intended.
- Comment on Welcome to the web we lost 2 weeks ago:
My first real ‘community’ online was mp3.com. When I joined I was like the 132nd person on that site. It was such an incredible thing back then. People could post their own music, get feedback, promote, find a label, and get paid for streams/downloads.
I actually earned money from my music while chatting with future mega stars like Darude and Dido.
I got some real world tracks out there, had my stuff played from Australia to Canada, and there was a time I could walk into a club and hear my music being played.
Surreal thinking about it now.
I’ve never had that kind of connection or sense of belonging online since.
- Comment on Welcome to the web we lost 2 weeks ago:
My blazing fast 26k baud modem had my friends and I connecting …(mom, I’m on the computer!)…connecting… (BeepBongBoobBeeereREEEEEEEEEEEE Pingping ding eoooohhhhh bding) connecting to the greatest BBS with color ascii to play the newest text based space trade war adventure games !!!
As a 10 year old, though, it was never about meeting people. It was just cool and fun.
- Comment on Selling Surveillance as Convenience 2 weeks ago:
Bluetooth everything that requires location permissions.
Why u need my precise location to turn on a lightbulb?
- Comment on The FDA Is Approving Drugs Without Evidence They Work 3 weeks ago:
Elon took all the horse tranqs (ketamine).
The horse paste majic covid cure (trust me bro, my brainworm never lies), was Ivermectin.
- Comment on Meta plans to use AI to automate up to 90% of its privacy and integrity risk assessments, including in sensitive areas like violent content 3 weeks ago:
I mean, you could hire people who would otherwise enjoy the things they moderate. Keep em from doing shit themselves.
But, if all the sadists, psychos, and pedos were moderating, it would be reddit, I guess.
- Comment on Big Tech Wants to Become Its Own Bank 4 weeks ago:
That was in part caused by peter thiel who called for a run on those banks.
Peter thiel is also the guy that wants these banks. That wants “freedom cities”. That want to make sure you have zero freedom and privacy. That bank rolled JD Vance, and trump. And has explicitly stated his desires to destroy western society and financial order.
So…
Yeah, I remember.
- Comment on Elon Musk's X temporarily down for tens of thousands of users 4 weeks ago:
The cross/crucifix is quickly becoming a hate symbol. (If it wasn’t already)
- Comment on Can Tesla's Self-Driving Software Handle Bus-Only Lanes? Not Reliably, No. 4 weeks ago:
Ok. But they’re talking about Tesla fsd ai. It would have killed you.
- Comment on Why console makers can legally brick your game console 5 weeks ago:
Using unapproved polish is against the tos and we have issued a DMCA (the C is for chair) notice of violation.
Your chair has been locked.
If you wish to unlock your chair, go fuck yourself. Pay us for another one.
Sincerely,
Go fuck yourself.
- Comment on Senator Reveals Which Phone Companies Protect Privacy by Telling Customers About Government Surveillance; Carriers Did Not Follow Through on Requirement to Notify Senate of Surveillance Demands. 5 weeks ago:
A surveillance canary
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 5 weeks ago:
Because they are.
- Comment on Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ backed Canadian energy company lays off employees: Read what the CEO said 1 month ago:
it is also an attractive opportunity for those with the financial means to transform the world.
The current lineup of “people” on this planet with the financial means need to be stopped from transforming the world.
They’ve done enough to destroy it already.
- Comment on I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. I just didn’t expect them to be such losers 1 month ago:
- Comment on The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes | CNN Business 1 month ago:
But, do they speak English?
- Comment on Altman-Backed Startup Rolls Out Eyeball-Scanning Tech Across US 1 month ago:
Tools Against Humanity™
- Comment on Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones 1 month ago:
I use shizuku for hidden api/shell access…the devs of that have an app called appops which, you guessed it, allow you to change any appops permission for any app. Allows denying/ignoring clipboard access, device identifiers, location, microphone, etc.
::: spolier Appops screenshots
Image :::
- Comment on Build your own antisocial writing rig with DOS and a USB key 1 month ago:
The zine needs a renaissance.
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 2 months ago:
I remember when offline backups that were unaffected by EMP were everywhere.
They called them books.
