masterofn001
@masterofn001@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism 11 hours 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 11 hours 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 12 hours 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 12 hours 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 13 hours 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 2 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 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. 2 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 2 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. 2 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’ 2 weeks ago:
Because they are.
- Comment on Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ backed Canadian energy company lays off employees: Read what the CEO said 3 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes | CNN Business 5 weeks ago:
But, do they speak English?
- Comment on Altman-Backed Startup Rolls Out Eyeball-Scanning Tech Across US 5 weeks ago:
Tools Against Humanity™
- Comment on Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
The zine needs a renaissance.
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 1 month ago:
I remember when offline backups that were unaffected by EMP were everywhere.
They called them books.
- Comment on Florida draft law mandating encryption backdoors for social media accounts billed 'dangerous and dumb' | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
See latest Florida school shooting for proof.
- Comment on Did Trump’s Scientific Advisor Admit That The US Possesses Space And Time Manipulation Tech? Internet Is Wilding 1 month ago:
scientificamerican.com/…/is-time-travel-possible/
spaceplace.nasa.gov/time-travel/en/
Anyway.
Possible.
Lol. Etc.
- Comment on Did Trump’s Scientific Advisor Admit That The US Possesses Space And Time Manipulation Tech? Internet Is Wilding 1 month ago:
There is theoretically nothing that says time travel is not possible.
Difficult with out current knowledge, yes.
Impossible. No.
- Comment on Did Trump’s Scientific Advisor Admit That The US Possesses Space And Time Manipulation Tech? Internet Is Wilding 1 month ago:
Let’s say elon, thiel, etc, with their tech, ai etc, did eventually create an AGI that did figure out time travel.
They could then send that tech, and all the information acquired, back to themselves 8 years ago.
The future used to be beautiful.
Then. Suddenly, it wasn’t.
A huge shift occurred.
And here we are.
- Comment on New Jersey Sues Messaging App “Discord” for Unlawful Practices That Expose Kids to Child Predators and Violent, Sexual Content 1 month ago:
Not very long ago, just before your time
Right before the towers fell, circa '99
This was catalogs, travel blogs, a chatroom or two
We set our sights and spent our nights waiting for you
You, insatiable you
Mommy let you use her iPad, you were barely twoAnd it did all the things we designed it to do
Now, look at you, ha, look at you
You, you! Unstoppable, watchable
Your time is now, your inside’s out, honey, how you grew
And if we stick together, who knows what we’ll do?
It was always the plan to put the world in your handWelcome to the internet,
Bo Burnham - Comment on Open-Source is Just That 1 month ago:
Go to gnu.org
- Comment on Open-Source is Just That 1 month ago:
I once had an argument in another community on here about something very similar. And they told me I was wrong. The mods deleted my posts.
I posted the links and the definition/requirements for FOSS as compared to just open source.
They kept telling me i was talking about open source and not libre.
The links and definitions and requirements I posted:
From Richard Stallman, from the site whose creators developed the rules and requirements for FOSS, GNU.org, and from the itsFOSS site which, indeed, references and links to the first 2.
The definitions also explicitly state the difference and uniqueness of each and compares them to the nonstandard open source (source available) labels.
I unjoined that community and found a less ignorant one.
- Comment on Apple and Musk Clash Over Satellite Expansion Plans. 2 months ago:
Allowing musk access in any way to anything you own or operate is allowing musk to own you.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 2 months ago:
If anyone is trying to gain favor from trump that’s enough to tell me about their character.
Also, yes sbf is a huge piece of shit.
- Comment on PeerTube, the Fediverse’s decentralized video plattform, from the perspective of Elena Rossini, italian filmmaker, photographer and activist 2 months ago:
Meanwhile, YouTube be like : heil hitler, and that’s cool, I guees.
