Rikj000

@Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de
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Joined 1 years ago

Full stack developer and privacy advocate. I like to keep the mentality, if you can program one language well, then you can program in any language!

My "nExT gEn" update experience:

  1. Get baited to re-play Fallout 4 through the new TV show + Next Gen update
  2. Be disappointed since the graphics aged like milk + Official HD texture DLC sucks
  3. Be disappointed since the update broke nearly all mod support
  4. Roll back to the release before the Next Gen update + Uninstall the Official HD texture DLC
  5. Install 205 mods, and happily play with nearly everything in 4K

FYI, most mods I installed are from:

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Relic Castle,
is the site name that got DMCAd by Nintendont.

Saves you from opening the article.

True open source projects like LibreWolf, Ungoogled Chromium > Sketchy world of Brave

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Interesting, so in between lawsuits and takedowns they still do game related stuff from time to time huh?

One thing is certain,
due to all those lawsuits and takedowns,
I won't be buying into their next console,
they won't get a single dime from me anymore.

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Figure out which politicians are behind this.
And throw them out,
since they are trying to take away your rights (to privacy).

They are looking to apply mass surveillance upon you guys wrapped into a "For the kids safety" package as usual..

Nintendont,
the lawsuit company that makes games on the side, strikes again...

We're well beyond the point by now of me ever buying anything from them again.
I won't support such behavior of any company.

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2 words for you:
Password Manager

Get around to using one :P

I only remember my password to my PW manager, which additionally is encrypted with a key file to increase security.

The rest of my PWs are 128 character long random generated PWs, with capitals, numbers, special characters etc..

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*Nintendont

The lawsuit company which makes games on the side strikes again.

Android TV is not free though.

You pay with yourself,
your interests / watch habits,
all being collected and sold to the best bidder for "personalized ads"..

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Java > Bedrock

F*ck M$ for even making Bedrock...
It's an inferior version of Minecraft and it fractures the modding community.

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Suyu is the most popular + actively developed afaik.
https://suyu.dev/

They host their code on their own Forgejo instance:
https://git.suyu.dev/explore/repos

Which is more DMCA proof then Github/Gitlab.

I hope ForgeFed will go into production soon,
then we can synchronize the code in between multiple Forgejo instances in a federated fashion.
https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/59

My hate for Google grows by the day.

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May the best product win (being AdBlockers ofc, lol)

Correct me if I'm wrong,
but I have been disliking Ubuntu because they use:

  • Proprietary pieces in their code
  • Telemetry (spyware)
  • Snap packages by default

They might have been doing it for longer then I've been aware of.

But this is a (small) list of things that caught my attention and made me despise them:

  • Garry's Mod takedowns
  • Yuzu + Citra takedowns
  • Relic Castle takedown
  • Palworld Mod takedowns
  • BOTW Mod takedowns
  • PointCrow DMCAs
  • Gary Bowser's life ruined

SimpleLogin,
to generate email aliases for permanent personal accounts and forward the mails to an undisclosed private main mail adres:
https://simplelogin.io/

Temp-Mail,
to generate email adresses for temporary throw-away use cases:
https://temp-mail.org/

Sign-up still requires a phone number.. -.-"

Checkout Matrix/Element or Session,
there you can actually enjoy privacy by signing-up without a phone number/email:

Edit: Due to Session's company residing in Australia,
which appareantly has bad privacy laws,
i don't feel comfortable with recommending it anymore

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  • Communication: Matrix
  • Browsing: I2P
  • Communities: ActivityPub / Mastodon
  • Software Forge: Fogejo + ForgeFed
  • OS: Linux
  • Money: Monero

Since they meet at least one of,
if not all of the following:

  • Decentralized / Federated
  • Sensorship resistant
  • Privacy respecting
  • Open source

Why would one trust a VPN of a spy-ware company?

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2 issues I have with this:

  1. Google is one of the biggest spy-ware companies out there
  2. Due to 1. I would not be suprised if they participate in Harvest now, decrpyt later
    (regarding users who think they will be safe under a VPN)

I'd consider taking another ISP,
you know, just one who is not known for using you as a product and shoving spyware into every nook and cranny they can find..

High resolution neofetch image? ๐Ÿ‘€
If that's not a distro specific thing,
then please teach me how ๐Ÿ˜„

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Only show interest in open source software,
let the anti consumer surveillance tech companies drown.

For SearX,
checkout these random SearX redirectors:

Both increase your privacy + prevent rate limits.

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Now they can also train their gray area trained model (trained upon our Github projects without consolidating with us if it was alright to do so) further!

By spying on every command you type in your CLI, and phoning home to MS about it, to train it further.

I guarantee you,
If you use it, you'll be their free training monkey.

And once they used you for free,
and the product improved enough,
they'll subscription charge you forever to make use of it.

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vomits in mouth a little

So kind of Google, always putting out new fun challenges to encourage people to get their hands dirty with hacking their crap :)

Amazing, basically native speeds,
currently playing Horizon Forbidden West with maxed out graphics and DRS disabled at a steady 60-80 FPS.

Previously I also played Horizon Zero Dawn in it, also maxed out graphics, steady locked 100 FPS,
below is a benchmark comparison of HZD in the Linux host OS and the Windows KVM guest OS:
workstation-gaming-linux-vs-windows

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Hope my and other instances will de-federate from Threads/Meta.

We don't need that spyware giant in the fediverse..

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Never ever would I consider playing a game with kernel level access.

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You can't blame people for the (sometimes) limited brainset they receive.

If it's unclear to the majority, then it's Lemmy which should aim to simplify the process of joining/explaining it to the general population.

Federated software is awesome, but sadly the recruiting process is still too difficult for many.

If it's unclear which app to download / which instance to join, then that's where a lot of registrations are being missed out on.

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WASM = WebAssembly,
this has nothing to do with Java,
but with JS (JavaScript).

JS works with JIT (Just In Time) compilation, meaning every user that requests a web page, will request the JS and your browser will compile that JS on the fly as you request it.

WASM on the other hand is pre-compiled once, by the developer, when he/she is making the code. So when a user requests a WASM binary, they don't have to wait for JIT compilation, since it was already pre-compiled by the developer.

They only have to wait for a tiny piece of JS,
which is still JIT compiled,
a tiny piece of JS to load in the WASM binary.

This saves the user from waiting on JIT compilation and thus speeds up requesting web pages.

WASM also increases security,
since binaries are harder to reverse engineer then plain text JS.

Due to those reasons,
I believe WASM will be the future for Web development.

No clue why people are hating on WASM,
but I guess they just don't grasp all of the above yet.

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Yes/no.

I lived without YouTube / a Google account for years.

But I still use YouTube through a privacy respecting frontend:
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/frontends/#youtube

I usually go for:

  • On desktop: Invidious or Piped
  • On Android: Tubular or NewPipe

For me it works very well,
see my comment here:
https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/8950112

However I don't play anything with kernel based anti-cheat, so can't vouch for that

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Currently at 30ish hours and still enjoying it.

Reminded me that Bethesda does release some great / huge games.

Albeit quite bugged at release,
but since they (usually) embrace the modding scene, lots of this can be / has been patched and even improved by the community.

The Next Gen update is a stupid cash-grab though, and imo should have never happened..

An official modpack would have been much better.

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Btop has been rewritten in C++, hence the ++

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Remember,
if you participate in the subscription nonsense,
then you're supporting such a future.

If you refuse to buy subscriptions,
then you're standing up against it :)

  • Forgejo: But ForgeFed, it's federation software is still under development
  • Radicle: But they have unnecessary ties with crypto stuff

I run linux-xanmod-anbox for root support in Waydroid (Android on Linux).

And I configured my kernel to support VFIO (Virtual Function Input Output).
So I can fully pass through one of my GPUs to my Ameliorated Windows KVM,
which I use for both work and gaming.

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Yes that is the actual site.

LuckyPatcher has been around forever,
and has a good reputation + community.

Never seen anyone mention anything that it might contain malicious code.

The developer receives revenue through donations and showing ads on the site.

Sadly the project is not open source though.
My guess would be to prevent the hacks / patches it uses,
from being patched / made un-usable.

To be 100% sure though,
you'd have to de-compile the app,
and reverse engineer the source code,
which is a very tedious and time consuming task.

I love Termux too,
but honestly I have little use-cases for it.

Back when I ran a server,
it was nice to be able to SSH into it through Termux from time to time to do some maintenance on the go.

Nowadays I still use Termux to ping/telnet devices sometimes, to see if they're reachable, also on the go.

But other then that,
I don't know what I'd use it for.

Since imo, most CLI stuff is way easier behind a laptop/desktop, due to having a larger screen available to you, for easier:

  • Copy/pasting/dialing in long commands
  • Reading of long/large command outputs
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