I'd argue the system is working quite well, every individual and/or community has the liberty to choose what to do about Meta.

That's what federation is all about, no central power taking decisions in behalf of everyone else.

basically Newpipe but only source available, not really free software or open source, so they are restricting your freedoms.

Just keep using Newpipe instead.

As a long term Firefox user, I've been disappointed with Mozilla's decisions in the recent years, but this is awesome. This is the kind of features Firefox should be receiving instead of useless UI changes.

As long as this allows running local, free software models I don't see the drawback of including this.

My main issue with ChatGPT and similar products is that they use my data to train their models. Running a model locally (like Llama) solves this problem, but running LLMs require extremely powerful GPUs, specially the bigger ones like Llama 70b.

So dedicated hardware for this is a nice thing for those that want it.

the discussion is happening here: https://github.com/7c/fakefilter/issues/73

Someone working at Proton has commented on the issue, the list maintainer wanted to take the discussion with proton private so we have only a few posts from them.

If you want my personal take:

It's very clear how the list maintainer opposes anonymity in the internet in any form, which I see as an attack on freedom, journalism and activism.

I'm not a fan of Protonmail of any sort and in fact I consider that their privacy is lacking... but I really hope they can talk some sense into this guy. This block list seems to be used by a lot of webs that will start blocking virtually every private email provider.

(Edit: I assumed the person that posted the email list was a maintainer, but they don't seem to have a "contributor" or "owner" badge, so idk. Maybe they are just very angry at privacy and anonymity on the internet)

the thumbnail is just cringe. more of a script kiddie vibe than a real programmer.

this makes use of an old windows specific vulnerability. Linux is only mentioned on the title, not again in the whole article. clickbait.

edit: downvote me if you want, but the original article didn't say a thing about Linux.

fuck paying Nintendo for life. I hope he can move to a country where Nintendo won't be able to enforce anything and start a new life. He committed a victimless crime which shouldn't even be a crime IMO and even worse, he was imprisoned for it. And now he has to live as a slave for Nintendo the rest of his life?

I don't really know which countries would legally shield him from Nintendo's bullshit tho.

this is just low quality content trying to grab a few clicks. it should be removed.

This is like the third different new battery technology I've seen today.

I'll believe it when it's available for purchase.

Let's be honest, Gmail, being a Google service, was condemned to have an awful UI which can't work without loading megabytes of JS into your browser.

The good news are that they still support mail clients, which everyone should be using except for those occasions you're working from a device you do not own.

The bad news are that Gmail still analyzes your emails in the server side, and uses them to serve you tracking ads and train AI models. So maybe switching providers altogether is a better option for those who have a choice.

Since most of Google’s revenue comes from tracking users across the internet and offering them personalized ads, it will be interesting to see how the company strikes a balance between user privacy and revenue generation.

Isn't it obvious? Google own's the proxies. And judging by the look of this, they are going to act as a a Man In The Middle for HTTPS, so they will be actually able to see everyone's plain text connections. This is not a privacy feature, but a privacy nightmare. Like everything else on Chrome, tbh.

Edit: I don't know if they will be breaking HTTPS or no, since I didn't see the details of how this works. But even if they don't see your plain text traffic, they are logging your every request, which is scary.

It's certainly not impossible. But this content is actively removed when detected. So that person must have found something very recently posted before it could have been removed.

Twitter has a high interest in removing CSAM, even if Musk now allows pro nazi tweets. CSAM is illegal and they would have to shutdown if they didn't immediately delete such content.

this is whitewashing Apple. It was introduced in iOS 14. A trillion dollar company like apple should have had this fixed long before.

Edge is an euphemism for Microsoft Chrome.

that's not really Mozilla's fault, users are too locked into Google and that's ultimately Google's fault.

Although I don't like at all that Mozilla is funded by Google and testified in their favor.

It's a rebranded chromium with some extra bloat. Just like his older brother Chinese Chromium, Opera, and their edgy cousin, Microsoft Chromium. All following the example of Papa Chrome.

the adblock detection is happening at the client side with JavaScript code executed in my browser. As the original comment said: my device, my freedom. I'll be blocking any JavaScript I don't like and nobody can stop me from doing that.

considering the lab experiment with just one laser required a sound level of about 140 decibels that consume 20 gigawatts, I don't think holodecks are going to be a practical device.

I'd advise against using Brave, but that's a different topic.

Just use the Flatpak. Do not care if it's official, most packages in traditional package managers are not packaged officially, yet we use them all the time. Check the Flatpak repo instead to see if there's something wrong.

Maybe check ungoogled chromium too while you're at it.

Not free software? No, thanks.

I'm very happy with Newpipe, which respects their users' freedom.

If the 62 year old had studied computer science and had specialized in AI, I would listen closely to them.

But I definitely not care about a politician that has no idea about technology.

anti-meta activism is not a bad thing at all. The billionaire corps have their marketing teams, individuals and communities have their activism. Everyone can listen to both and take an informed decision.

They are just that, activists, informing everyone about a possible issue. There's nothing wrong with that. They are not enforcing anything on anyone.

The worst that can happen is that if your instance admin decides to ban Threads and you want to federate with Threads, you'll have to switch instances. Not a big deal. You'll still be able to interact with the Fediverse, it's not like you were in Twitter, you had to leave and now you've lost all your contacts there.

PassKeys - a major browser feature that works in every browser except FireFox

So... Chrome and Safari? Because the rest of browsers are just rebranded Chrome.

I'm not particularly a fan of passkeys, because I'm fairly happy with my password manager, but personal opinions apart, just because Google and Apple decided to implement a feature, that doesn't make it an standard.

This is why Chrome having the web engine monopoly is such a big problem. They can implement whatever they want and because it will also be adopted by Edge, Opera and others, it seems to automatically be considered a web standard and websites will start using it even when the other major independent browser (Firefox) hasn't implemented it.

Can we stop posting about OpenAI's internal dramas? You're welcome to post about their new models or research. But the business drama is not something I want to see in technology.

Not like I'm a Qualcomm fan, but this sounds great. If Linux support is good (and I'm guessing it'll be), my next laptop may be Qualcomm inside.

I'm specially interested in seeing if these laptops will be able to have Coreboot, that would be fantastic.

not exactly. You can of course still get existing works by pirating them.

But if the Tolkien works entered the public domain, anyone could use them for any creative purposes freely. And yes, a lot of the new material would be trash. But some excellent works would appear to.

A good example of this is Lovecraft's works and the Cthulhu Mythos, that although not public domain until recent years, Lovecraft encouraged others to use his own creations on their own stories, thus expanding the literary universe of his own creation. Some stories are awful, but there has also been a ton of great works based on Lovecraft's creations that couldn't have existed otherwise.

repackaging is a fundamental software freedom. that's just for starters.

Here I leave a comment I saw here for a more detailed explanation.

Friendly reminder that Grayjay is only source-available.

FUTO Temporary License (FTL) violates the following open-source principles:

• Open source licenses must allow free redistribution. FTL allows license suspension and termination at any time, without notice, for any or no reason.
• Open source licenses must allow source code distribution. FTL allows restrictions to access the code at any time, without notice, for any or no reason.
• Open source licenses must allow modifications. FTL allows modifications only for non-commercial use, or maybe not even that. FTL dodges the word modifications here, no clue.
• Open source licenses must explicitly allow distribution of software built from modified source code. FTL forbids distribution of software built from modified source code for commercial use.
• Open source licenses must not discriminate against persons/groups and fields of endeavor. FTL allows license suspension and termination at any time, without notice, for any or no reason.

The FTL enables the following practices:

• Copyright holders can change the license terms.
• Copyright holders can re-license everything.
• Copyright holders can target specific groups and individuals with discriminatory license terms.
• Copyright holders can close source everything.
• Copyright holders can forbid specific groups and individuals from using their work.

My main gripe here is that the video sells a source-available software with severe usage restrictions as open-source. These restrictions may sound reasonable to people outside of the open-source world, especially to people who use similar wording in their own terms of service, but nobody would touch your software with a ten foot pole with a software license like that.

This is too much catastrophism for my taste, but If I wanted to start archiving, I'll start by downloading Wikipedia, The Library Genesis and the Gutenberg Project.

Videos are too heavy to archive with ease, and they are probably of much less value of actual knowledge.

yeah, OP made a big mistake by thinking that an old Apple device is more valuable than a paperweight.

They are infamous because once they reach EOL a perfectly capable device in terms of hardware becomes ewaste because of Apple's proprietary ecosystem.

I mean, as long as you visit libgen with https your ISP shouldn't be able to tell if you're uploading books. But yeah, if Tor doesn't slow down the upload too much, it's a good protection measure.

For checking on metadata, I recommend you to use Calibre. It allows you to view and remove undesired metadata and you might also use Calibre to automatically add the correct metadata to the PDFs so they are searchable in libgen's database.

I only use wired headphones.The annoyance of batteries, the higher prices and the much shorter lifespan makes wireless a no go for me.

You can buy some nice wired headphones and expect them to last 15+ years if taken good care of. Good luck trying to keep wireless ones for more than 5 years with a good battery life.

Interesting. I like the UI. I doubt the aesthetic people on Tumblr would like it but that's not the point.

it's always welcome to have more options in the fediverse.

How is federation working, BTW? I see you've commented from wafrn, are you able to follow Lemmy communities from there?

I think this depends on your icon theme.

a comment in the article you linked says this better than I ever could:

This whole narrative about alleged “subsidies” to Chinese EV makers and them “losing $35,000 per vehicle” is pure propaganda. Firstly, that company - Nio - is a relatively new one and it is still ramping up its production. A year ago when they were not selling EVs yet but invested a lot in R&D it could be said that they were losing infinite amount of money per vehicle - because infinity is what you get from dividing by zero. Both this logic and this math are erroneous. Tesla was losing money for years even after it started making and selling its cars.It kept going by taking money from investors in exchange for shares. That is exactly what the Chinese EV companies do. So secondly, those are not “subsidies” but investments, even if the money comes from Chinese government entities. This article states itself that local governments take stock in companies in exchange for investment - exactly the same thing Tesla investors did.

The article also talks about BYD, a more established manufacturer than Nio, that is making profits selling electric cars.

LLMs are orders of magnitude more sophisticated and expensive to run. But don't worry, I'm sure not so far in the future we will see smaller LLMs being run on device to be used as autocorrect.

Don't you all have a business or economics community to post this?

If I subscribe to technology, I want tech news. Not how this month one tech giant is valued slightly higher than another.

that's a totally fair claim. This time it's "okay" because the far right is being banned. But we shouldn't let that distract us from the fact that two private mega corporations can censor any social media or journal they want.

(they would only be banning the app and not the actual website, but so many tech illiterate people can't tell the difference)

I value more the opinion of a worker in the field than that of a shareholder talking about their competition.

I also thought of Unity the DE before reading the article

I understand the confusion. This doesn't belong to a Linux community. I mean, I see the relation with FOSS but I'm sure there are FOSS communities out there. The article doesn't even mentions Linux, just Windows and Android.