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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!

  • technical debt

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  • By not accepting your time estimate,requesting your reasoning why it takes that long, you explaining you calculated time in for refactoring, then rejecting your idea and granting you only time to implement the new thing, without granting time for refactoring.

    And dw, my project manager is a pretty chill friend and fellow senior developer, who is reasonable and helps me with calculating in time for refactoring whenever possible/nessecary.

    It's only higher up, CEOs/management, who seek to cut corners, with rocks for brains, who don't see that in the long run such practices are bad for business.

    Which sadly is the case for most IT businesses. But at least in my workplace the project manager is not a rat & on the side of the developers.

  • technical debt

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  • Just increase your time estimate,calculate in the time needed to refactor,but don't tell them you're gonna refactor.

    Works out most of the time.Only when they ask why the estimate is so long, then you explain your reasoning behind it, and then they might reply with your statement and block your refactoring idea.

    However, getting time to refactor most of the time, is aleady way better then never being allowed to do so.

  • How do I poison my data (read body)

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  • For M$ no clue, for browsing,AdNauseam comes to mind.

    It's a fork of uBlock Origin,which instead of blocking all the ads,hides all the ads + clicks on them all in the background, which:

    • Costs advertisers a lot of money
    • Poisens your data profile, since they can't make up your actual interests anymore

    It's more protest-ware then privacy-ware though,since you'll be overflooding them with bs data,instead of minimizing the data collected.

  • SchildiChat got Trackers ?

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  • You can install ClassyShark3xodus,which can de-compile apps and scan them for trackers on the fly to figure it out yourself.

    Do let us know the results :)

  • Is Firefox tolerable to use on a pi 5 or 500+?

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  • I'd find it odd if a RPi4 can't smoothly run a browser :o

    You can use btop, to monitor if you have a bottleneck on your CPU or RAM, if Swap memory gets used, things will slow down, if your CPU is clocking @ 100%, same thing but not much you can do about that besides perhaps weeding out unnessecary processes that consume a lot, if there are any.

    In case your RAM is @ 100%, you could:

    • Use LibreWolf instead of FireFox,it's an open source privacy focussed fork,which removes some of the FireFox bloaty stuff, which reduces RAM usage.
    • Use uBlock Origin, to block advertisements, which will reduce RAM usage and increase page load speeds
    • Use NoScript, to block JavaScript trackers, to further reduce RAM usage and increase page load speedd, beware, will block all JS by default, so sites will break, but can be manually fixed by re-enabling only the nessecary JS components on a site
    • Switch to DietPi, a very light weight RAM/CPU friendly distro for SBCs like RPis, I've used it only headless (without GUI) but it only used 50Mb of RAM out of the box last time I monitorred it, which is impressively low.

  • Huge Victory: Chat Control no longer forces us to break encryption! But: It now wants age verification. | Tuta

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  • Well, it ain't just the EU :/

    Our right to privacy is under attack basically globally (EU, USA, England, Australia, maybe more, but those I'm aware off).

    Being wrapped into bullshit reasons "to protect the children" or "to fight crime", which won't help, since malicious actors and creative kids will find work arounds for such measures.

    The truth is likely more to put a oppressive surveillance police state into place. Where opposition can more easily be tracked down and silenced.

    Now it's more important then ever before to protect your rights to privacy. Since rights are easily eroded by politicians, but very hard to re-gain afterwards.

    E.g. look at Russia, where you accidentally slit your throat while shaving if you try to voice yourself against Putin.

  • Skyblivion dev here! Here to answer any questions you have about the project AMA

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  • Thank you for your extensive reply :)

    And sorry if question 1 came over a bit rude.I guess I'd be frustrated with Bethesda if they did that after so many years of pouring in my own time/effort, but I think it's commendable that you guys took the communities feedback from it, and kept on working on your own thing.

    Also nice to hear that there is hope for a Skyriel (full Tamriel in Skyrim's engine) in the future! :D

  • Skyblivion dev here! Here to answer any questions you have about the project AMA

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  • First of all, thank you and your team for the amazing voluntary work you're doing! <3I've got 2 questions for you :)

    1. Hope I don't come over rude with this one, but with the Oblivion Remastered release, what is still the benefit/point of Skyblivion? :o
    2. From the Skyblivion website's FAQ, I've understood that Skyrim won't be accessible in Skyblivion, could you explain why this is the case? I'm interested in understanding the technicalities behind it :) Since with Skywind also being a thing, it would be awesome imo to have a single game with Skyrim + Skyblivion + Skywind in one, perhaps slowly adding more until all of Tamriel is combined in a single massive game. But if that would not be possible, I'd be interested in knowing why :)

  • Most, if not all car companies collect and profile your data, how can I improve my privacy when buying a modern car?

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  • You should, privacy is a human right which is being stripped away from us.

    You're basically saying I don't really care about my human rights.

    Without privacy, you're one step closer to an authoritan regime, where mass surveillance helps prevent an uprising of the people against it.

    E.g. Russia, where you "accidentally slit your throat while shaving" when you go against Putin.

  • dafuq are they doing over there

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  • What old movies hold up because of a lack of special effects or because clever use of effects?

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  • Alien,the original 1979 one.

    Imo it really aged well,recently rewatched it and was amazed by how good the special effects looked, especially for that time.

    It's also a really good movie,scores 8.5/10 on IMDB,kept me on the tip of my chair for the full 2 houra.

  • De-everything enough?

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  • Huh, if your parents are the blocking factor,how about trying to educate them a bit about F-Droid and data privacy?

    Software from F-Droid really is much more privacy/battery/storage friendly. Just open source software, no spyware services bloating up the apps.

    Perhaps after some convincing, they'll at least allow you to use F-Droid and Aurora Store! :)

    3xodus can help with convincing them:

    It shows known trackers (= spyware) in applications.

    ClassyShark does it by de-compiling the apps and scanning them on the fly.Their website shows reports by other users that scanned applications.

    Nearly everything from the PlayStore contains trackers, while nearly nothing from F-Droid does.

  • De-everything enough?

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  • Ufff sad to hear.

    What you could do:

    • Not recommened: Search on XDA for an un-official build of a custom rom for your device (stability may vary)
    • Recommended: Be patient, until it's time to buy a new phone, then first look for the OS you want, then choose a device from the list that the OS supports, that's how I do it nowadays :)

    Also interesting, but annoying that you can't install apks from outside the PlayStore :/ No way to circumvent it?

  • De-everything enough?

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  • Not really imo,however doing good taking small steps OP! :)

    Suggestions I'd make:

    • Aim to use nothing/as little as possible from the Play Store (proprietary, often filled with trackers)
    • Aim to use everything/as much as possible from F-Droid (open source, no or nearly no trackers)
    • Switch GApps for MicroG (The open source implementation of the Google system apps to make things like notifications work, which removes spyware)
    • Switch your Xiaomi OS (also spyware filled) for a more privacy friendly OS like LineageOS

    I'd suggest LineageOS4MicroG:https://lineage.microg.org/

    It's vanilla LineageOS,with MicroG + F-Droid pre-included.

  • Android Auto Alternatives

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  • You're very welcome! ^^

  • Android Auto Alternatives

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  • I absolutely love every single part of this.

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  • Check the changes,they're quite funny :P

  • Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular?

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  • As many pointed out, lack of apps.

    Don't know how much it improved over the years,but battery life wasn't the best either.

    What Linux mobile needs to gain traction imo,would be Android app virtualisation.

    Kinda like Waydroid, WSL, WSA, WinApps, WinBoat...But then specifically for seamless Android apps on Linux mobile.

    That could close the gap of lack of apps,resulting in more users/devs,resulting in more native apps,eventually resulting in less need for Android apps on Linux mobile.

  • Searxng search getting waaay worse. Anyone else?

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  • I've noticed this too.

    My assumption is that it might be mostly Chinese instances being hosted, configured to return such results, but it's just a hunch.

    How do you use SearXNG btw?

    I use instance randomizers,so each query goes through a random SearXNG instance, e.g:

    GimmeASearX could help here,since you can white/blacklist instances you want to use, but that can become tedious.

    Searloc + Neocities are great for mobile devices and other places where you can't self host GimmeASearX.

  • Discord Data Breach - Customers Personal Data and Scanned Photo IDs leaked

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  • "bUt wE nEEdeD iT tO pRoTeCt tHe cHiLdrEn"

    No you lying politicians, you needed it for surveillance reasons and now you harmed everyone instead.. -.-"

    Same for the chat control which keeps getting put on the table in Europe, there aint no thing like a backdoor "only for the good guys", bad actors will find and abuse it eventually.

    Hit up your politicians, tell them to start actually caring for your best interests instead of speedrunning towards a surveillance state.

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    Poisoning AI with ".ass" subtitles

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Dis/connect from Netbird through NetworkManager?

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    Happy socially enforced consumerism day everyone!

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    Blocking Copilot + AI feed bloat on Github?

  • Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org
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    SVN-to-Git-convert

    github.com /Rikj000/SVN-to-Git-convert
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    Release

    SVN-to-Git-convert

    github.com /Rikj000/SVN-to-Git-convert
  • Android @lemmy.world
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    Release

    Belfius Root

    github.com /Rikj000/Belfius-Root
  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    Forgejo or Radicle - Which do you prefer?

    github.com /orgs/community/discussions/49869
  • Emulation @lemmy.ml
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    Help preserve Yuzu's code base

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Am I the only one getting agitated by the word AI?

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    Introduction to fair Monero mining