Mikina

I mostly work in gamedev where they aren't that much feasible so I don't have much real experience working with them and I might be wrong but from when I looked into it a while back, it's basically just a docker container that you specify in a .devcontainer file (at least for VSCode, but other IDEs probably have something similar) and when you need to develop, compile or run your code, it runs it in the container. It also doesn't have to run locally on your machine, if you can run docker somewhere else (i.e on a more powerful shared server).

I can see several advantages (but I never really tested it in practice, so I'm mostly guessing) - containers are usually quick to start, you have the same and stable and replicable dev/build environment for all devs (since you just commit .devcontainers), so there aren't some hidden dependencies and "works on my machine" shouldn't happen too often. It also helps you keep your OS clean, so you don't end up with 5 versions of python, 3 JDKs and 20gb of random NPM packages installed in your OS after 5 years of development - which is the most important advantage for me.

Devcontainers are awesome once you set them up properly, no need to run a VM.

If you don't use any identifiable information for the account (i.e email, post any photos with your face, or real name, that you use for anythinh else), use a VPN, an anti-fingerprinting browser like Mullvad, and most importantly use IG just for DM and nothing else, you should be pretty ok. Just the people you talk to (and what you talk about) will give them plenty of data, tho.

One way to avoid having to use the website or their apps at all is to run your own Matrix server with meta-bridge, which can bridge Messenger (and I think even IG DMs, never tried that tho), so you minimize the contact surface you have with their site, because you are chatting through an unrelated app.

If you don't do most of that, Meta already has a shadow profile on you anyway, since they track stuff across websites based on numerous fingerprinting methods. I never really looked into it, but AFAIK most of websites have the "FB like" widget that Meta uses to track people across the internet, and I'd guess that Meta is pretty good at working with that data.

Not sure about directly poisoning the analytics, but you could just run something like a VM with a pyton script with Selenium that just randomly browses web or IG.

Managing centralized security and device management correctly on multiple OSes must be a nightmare. From EDRs to app and device provisioning.

You should do dev work in devcontainers anyway.

Not that it's an excuse or that I'm happy with that, but I can totally understand why companies do that, and tbh I'd rather see a properly secured than have the option to run Linux.

But I'm biased, because I used to do Red Teamings, and the things I've seen...

They don't want to deal with the costs, just get the data. At least that's what I got from the text, as a reason why they were pushing to make social networks extempt and keep it on app/OS level.

Fuckers.

I've been using Faugus and so far never had an issue.

I vivdly remember how, when I was studying classic Software Engineering in college, Watch Dogs 2 came out and made me pivot into cybersecurity, because hacktivism sounded cool. My basically teenage reasoning at the time was that once shit inevitably hits the fan, being a hacker would be useful.

I realized it's more of a pose fantasy, ofc, but I did eventually end up as a Red Team Lead for a bit, so it kind of worked.

I find it pretty ironic that the whole plot of Watch Dogs and reason for Dedsec was literally what's happening right now - AI based surveilance. IIRC, UK is planning preventive crime detection based on AI, which is exactly what the game was about.

Guess I need to finally learn parkour, that's the bit I'm missing. Life really does imitate art, huh.

Been using this script. It has freed 6Gb of space on my surface.

Haven't really auditted what it does, but in this case I just trust the stars (and the link is from tomshardware, not that it changes anything). Use at your own risk.

https://github.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI

The chorus of XIII. Stoleti's Elizabeth.

So this is the thing I'll eventually end up in jail for bypassing. I coul've sworn it would be drugs.

Oh well.

This is how you get mexican joker.

Does this means that I can just take someone's AI generated music and reuse it however I want? Or is licensing something different and you cpuld still get DMCA?

I also vote for banning AI music from this sub.

As far as AI art goes, I'm also mostly against it, but don't really care if I see it here - it'd just make me personally skip the song alltogether, but if the music is real, then they should get a chance for visibility.

It's also possible that the hype simply died down. Windows 11 forced updates have been done and forgotten, internet has moved on to the next thing, and people who tried switching to linux started encountering small issues and inconveniences with new games or the system and moved back to Windows.

I can very well imagine that someone who switched "just for the memes" will give up once a first inconvenience pops up, and it eventually will no matter how you look at it.

When I was looking through the official marriage papers you submit when oficially requesting marriage, to see what I need to do if we would want to get married, that option simply wasn't there in the checkboxes. And I asked for clarification, and apparently our laws don't allow that combination, at least not as a part of the marriage process.

I haven't really looked into it more, and a friend told me it's very probable that we could just choose one of the available options and then submit a separate request to change my surename to add the missing one. It was also more than a year ago, and someone also told me that our marriage laws did go through a revision recently and it might be actually possible to choose both for both now. I'll have to re-check again, but I'm certain that at least last year, it wasn't possible.

Oh, one option I found a funny loophole was that we could marry, she'd take both, then divorce while keeping our new surenames (so she still has both), then marry again and I'd take both. I would end up with three surenames, mine twice (since she already has both, and I'm keeping mine and taking her current at the point of second marriage), but while that would be pretty funny, realistically it's easier to just file for a surename change after wedding :D

As for the reason, who knows? But an ancient patriarchic custom is probably the reason, I'd guess that especially historically it's not really common for a man to take his wife surename in general, and usually it's just the bride either taking the man's or keeping both.

Both are mesh networks, with slight differences. The idea is that volunteers run relay nodes with LORA (which has a range od a few KM, depending on visibility), and you also have client devices, and if you have a large local community of enough nodes and users, you can have an off-grid communication network where data is being sent node to node (both client and relay) before it finds the recipient. Both networks are encrypted.

Most cities already have a pretty good coverage. Meshtastic has a few issues that Meshcore tries to solve, mostly in regards to scaling, but tbh I havent researched it enough to be able to correctly list them (just like this answer is mostly a simplification). There's plenty of blog posts that explain it a lot better.

You can get standalone Meshcore devices (with a screen and keyboard) for around 70$, and devices that connct to your phone through bluetooth and you send messages through the network from an app for even cheaper.

My guess is that it's not entirely adversary-proof, but it probably beats having a phone with you to communicate when you're doing anti-goverment sruff.

And if you're asking about Anarchist Library, there's this site that has a lot of articles, zines and books about good operational security, how to behave on protests, what to (not) bring, first aid against common crowd control, and general anti-goverment guirrella stuff so you can protest as safely as possible.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index

She lived in an entirely different city across the country (Europe, so like two hours of train ride).

She saw me on Facebook, based on photos from a goth festival in our city, so I got a message on Messanger from a profile without a profile picture and no mutual friends. We talked for a bit, I was single at the time, and we eventually decided to meet. I had no idea how she looks like, and I kind of found this idea of a blind date funny - either it works, or I'll get a good story out of it.

We decided to meet and go to a local goth scene hangout, and not only she was really pretty, she also brought two bottles of mead. We managed to drink both of them before even getting to the hangout, where it turned out that she was actually not only a classmate of my best friend (a long time ago), but also used to be part of the scene around 5 years ago (before I joined it), before she went no-contact and changed her nickname due to a relationship (that eventually turned out really terrible). So, she knew most of my friends.

That was 7 years ago. At the time she was living in a small flat, after just getting out of a 7 y.o terrible relationship that she couldn't leave due to having a mortgage, but she managed to save enough on a minimal wage to leave when she found out he was cheating. Her grandma was living with her in her small flat, and she was really a terrible person, even had her aunt with the most entitled child move in, and they were even worse. Always arguing, screaming, being rude, and just acting like dicks. She let them live with her, just because they had nowhere to go, even though she was earning a minimal wage. Them saying that "If we don't like it, we should move out", or that "I shouldn't argue, because I don't live here", while I was actually helping her with rent they weren't doing anything for was insane.

I kept visiting her almost daily, spending time in the one small 5x5m room she had for herself, even though it was two hour train ride. During covid, I was mostly staying at her place, and since she loved animals (her mother worked at a zoo, before cancer got her), we discussed what we want to get, and pet racoon was high on the list. And when she said that we will get a racoon once we live together, I immediately found a flat in my city, and we moved in together around 5 years ago. We stole the ashes of her mother and went no-contact with the people living at her old flat. They can burn in hell.

Unfortunately, racoons are not easily legal to own, but we got a lot of different animals instead. She also helped me with starting to make our own goth events, DJ, and help local promoters, and now we're responsible for more than half of goth events that happen in our city. She's now earning more that I do (and I work in IT), and I'm really happy how did everything turned out. We have no idea how did the rest of her familly end up, but we don't really care.

We are kind of planning a wedding, with only witnesses, but so far what's stopping is that I can't find my birth certificate, and that it looks like it's not possible for both of us to have both surnames (the options are one of us keeps theirs, and the other get's both, or we choose one only, and we both want to have both), so we kind of didn't want to bother with it for a while.

Now is the time to look into Meshtastic or Meshcore.

The devices are pretty cheap, and the more poeple have it ready when needed, the better.

Also, stock up on guides from the anarchist library. Having an offline copy so you don't have to search for it later will help with going under the radar.

You are right, I'll fix it. Always confuse those two :D

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how to effectively poison telemetry collected by Meta?

No Microslop for me

I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who's behind the age verification bills

Lutris is AI slop now

The banality of surveillance | On an internet where everything is tracked, our privacy is maintained mainly because our data is too boring and time consuming to sort through. But AIs don't get bored.

Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser... for your own convenience

Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser... for your own convenience

If you had a small part from a song play every time you entered a room with other people, what would you want your theme to be?

Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought.

Mexico Requests Investigation Of 'Systemic Conditions That Led To' Death Of Citizen Under ICE Custody

AI-generated art can't be copyrighted (Supreme Court declines review)

[Meta] should there be a formal policy on generative AI in this community?

Steam hardware survey for February 2026. What happened? Why did it lose such a big percentage?

How did you meet your significant person?

Middle East: Using AI to stop dissent before it even starts

How did you meet your significant person?

Middle East: Using AI to stop dissent before it even starts

New rule for filesystem developers

Self-hosting Matrix is pretty easy thanks to matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

ChatControl has been already happening since 2021 for most common services, does anything change for people who use them?

New Jetbrains Update Dropped

What do you think would be an actually good use of blockchain/smart contracts? What kind of problems (big or small) is it a good tool for?

I'm looking for games with unique or experimental game design

In my understanding of the main principles of the Fediverse, federating with any large corp should never even be considered. Is my understanding wrong? What is the "idea of the fediverse" to you?