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Lfrith

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  • TikTok users freak out over app's 'immigration status' collection

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  • And people thought it being from China would mean their data would only be held by China when Google sharing data with China to be able to keep making money showed corporations don't care and will sell out everyone to be able to keep raking in money.

    Lot of naive people not realizing corporations whether it is west, east, or the upside down are in the business of data collection and sharing with no care for protecting domestic or international users.

  • TikTok users freak out over app's 'immigration status' collection

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  • Yeah there was privacy concerns when it first launched. People didn't care or thought it wouldn't matter because China owned it not realizing that corporations comply with countries they are operating in just like Google does in China. Just showing how ignorant people chose to be despite headlines of how companies operate.

    When it comes to corporate spyware chasing after billions of dollars whether it is the west, east, or the upside down capitalist companies will sell you out to any country domestic or abroad.

  • The Clicks Communicator stumbled by marketing itself as a "second phone". It has everything I want out of a "real" phone, no AI push, and it's small. I'm going to try it as my next (only) phone.

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  • An iPod Nano sized Android or Apple phone is something I wish existed as my second phone for apps that don't play nice with custom roms.

  • Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch

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  • Use Windows LTSC that is stripped of offline requirements, copilot, and the Microsoft store. And use veracrypt. You can set up a container or encrypt a drive such as an external.

  • How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton

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  • It is very freeing seeing updates that don't affect me much since I've moved on from gmail.

  • Epic Game Store’s free giveaways just cause a huge spike in Steam sales, reveals New Blood CEO

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  • Makes sense. By the time a game shows up on a giveaway it has been out long enough that there's lot of discounts for it. So small budget price that might be less than the price of buying lunch is worth it for some to not deal with Epic.

    And the giveaway is good promotion, since even people like me who don't have epic launcher installed will still be aware of it and claim it through a browser. Ends up being free marketing among those who subscribe to gamedeals type communities or visit sites like isthereanydeals. Gives games an opportunity to get a second wind.

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    DuckDuckGo Launches Public Vote on AI and User Choice

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  • Thought this comment from reddit summed it up well

    AI is more than a tool, it is a suite of projects that the richest companies in the world have poured trillions of dollars in to and are now flailing to recoup their investment. It has devastating effects on communities around the data centers that make up its infrastructure. When these companies continue to charge forward unregulated, it will have increasingly devastating consequences. A hammer doesn't consume all the fresh water in an aquifer and make it undrinkable, nor does a screwdriver drive up the costs of energy to unaffordable levels, a spanner does not purchase politicians and corrupt any effort to reign in the harmful effects of a blind advance for the sake of profit generation.

    https://old.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/1qerho4/duckduckgo_official_survey_say_yes_or_no_to_ai/nzzs2xb/

  • Here's how Google's getting ready for Android's upcoming sideloading restrictions

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  • Nice find! Didn't know a sub like that was on here.

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    Would it be realistic to try to set up an america-free instance?

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  • Thought so too after they banned the piracy sub.

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    Would it be realistic to try to set up an america-free instance?

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  • Yeah, fediverse with it having less uptake among mainstream users likely means those here are going to have more tech literacy, so VPN use is going to be higher than usual.

    It'll be a trivial bypass with how much this space already leans towards Linux and is more privacy aware and more likely to try to cut down on big tech than usual users.

    To achieve being free of US content methods needed would be incredibly strict moderation (shadowbans and mod approval for posts), news censorship due to possibility of international incidents involving US, defederating from popular instances, and most effective would be no english allowed.

  • Micron addresses Crucial exit backlash: 'We are trying to help consumers around the world' — company warns that DRAM drought could last until at least 2028

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  • Drones is what stands out. China is like the only one offering drone products to regular hobbyists. Whether its cheap whoops or more premium DJI drones.

    I wonder if China will fill that consumer segment instead of they themselves deciding to just ignore it all to go after the AI business sector too.

    Maybe PC will go the route of people having to scrap retro parts or jailbreaking consoles to install Linux when it comes to hardware acquisition in the future.

  • HBO Developing Game of Thrones Sequel Starring Arya Stark Now Jon Snow Spinoff Is Scrapped

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  • After Season 8 I don't find myself nostalgic to see a continuation of the Game of Thrones characters.

    I did give House of the Dragon a chance because it was so far removed timeline wise from Game of Thrones. Season 1 was great, but Season 2 was disappointing so other than special effects, costumes, and music I don't have much trust in sustained writing quality when it comes to HBO and the asoiaf IP. Which is the most important part.

  • Bully Online, the ambitious mod that brought multiplayer and more to Rockstar's classic school sim, shuts down a month after launch: 'This was not something we wanted'

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  • I wonder if it would have lasted longer if there was zero money being accepfed for it. And I wonder if the source code was shared so someone else in another country could work on it.

  • Bully Online, the ambitious mod that brought multiplayer and more to Rockstar's classic school sim, shuts down a month after launch: 'This was not something we wanted'

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  • You can't farm clown awards for steam points here. I don't think you get points from awards anymore from steam either.

  • Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public

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  • Do you really have to? I think these days its best to not create a new account for corporate run social media sites, and instead just lurk instead of being an active contributor. Ideally using a front end if available.

  • Do we need more users ?

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  • What social media isn't filled with politics and rage when looking at the all category? I don't know any social media that is broad appeal that doesn't have that stuff unless you stick only to your subscription feed or use filters.

    Only social media I've seen that's been free of that stuff by default have been niche topic focused communities like a video game forum that only allows off tangent stuff in the offtopic section.

  • Do we need more users ?

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  • Rage bait, tiktok/twitter/facebook/Instagram reposts, politics just happen to be what tends to get the most activity across social media. That's what you see when you view social media without an account whether it is lemmy or popular corporate run sites.

    Its why filter tools, avoiding all, and sticking to subscriptions has been a thing for a long time prior to the reddit third party hammer.

    I don't know any social media that isn't explicitly niche focused that isn't a terrible default experience. And by niche I mean like some old school forum that only talks allows talks of a specific topic like video games.

    Broad appeal talk about whatever topic you want is going to be generally trash by default, since so many different topics and communities are sharing the same space.

  • 'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells

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  • Inclusion of AI isn't meant to be a selling point to product buying customers but to convince retail investors who throw money at anything with AI into buying up shares of stock.

    And some companies like NVIDIA and micron have reached a point where retail customer revenue is a rounding error compared to direct corporate sales, so there's no need to cater them and for some no need to even sell to retail customers anymore.

    As things get more expensive it helps create a rental economy, so people having to rent leads to companies able to make money selling to companies that are making money providing subscription services to consumers who have been priced out.

    Kind of like the housing market in a way.

  • Fairphone vs Nothing (or any other phone)

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  • It likely doesn't matter if you install LineageOS on it. When I look into phones at the very minimum I check to make sure it has support from LineageOS, since I don't want to run or sign into Google apps on my phone. Better if it can run GrapheneOS, but that's unfortunately only available for Google Pixel.