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Rikj000

@ Rikj000 @discuss.tchncs.de

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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!

  • Don’t Use Session (Signal Fork)

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  • *Don't Use Session,if your threat profile includes government's spending +-100k to crack your encryption, since their encryption is not the best out there.

    Which they likely won't for an average privacy conscious user, but they might for high ranking criminals.

    It was a good read though,I won't invite new people to Session due to it.

    But the title is a little click-baity,"Session's encryption is not the best",would be a more honest title.

  • Fun Fact!: no matter in which order you read it, you can still understand this meme.

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  • Lately these lyrics come to mind ever more often:

    White Americans, what?Nothing better to do.Why don't you kick yourself out?You're an immigrant too.

    Song: The White Stripes - Icky Thump

  • It's a rules' life

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  • Shotdog x)

  • Introducing AI News Summary Bot for Lemmy!

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  • I hear you.Personally I mostly browse through Eternity,which easily allows to block NSFW content :)

  • Introducing AI News Summary Bot for Lemmy!

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  • You might miss out on new/interesting communities that way though :)

  • Introducing AI News Summary Bot for Lemmy!

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  • I use it very often since I tend to browse the "All" section,however that needs blocking and post filtering to keep unwanted content out.

  • Introducing AI News Summary Bot for Lemmy!

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  • No thank you,blocked the bot user + community.

  • Meet Orbit, Mozilla's AI Assistant Extension for Firefox

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  • Yes we need them to survive,yes they're better than Google.

    But no we're not being too negative/hard on them!

    Lately Mozilla has been pulling a lot of anti-consumer yet pro shareholder shit.

    AI is a perfect example of that,unwanted by the majority of their community, yet still forced upon us by shareholders, for now through an optional addon, which appears to be a foot in the door, which can quickly grow into a baked in addon which ships with FireFox by default.

    Sources:

    They blatantly ignore their community,and for that we're allowed to be angry with them.

  • What are some underrated Android features that users should try?

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  • Thank you, those are some interesting/good use cases indeed!

  • What are some underrated Android features that users should try?

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  • What do you use it for?I've had it for a while,but ended up uninstalling it,since I could not think of a good use case.

  • Has anyone successfully used a prepaid phone and number for app registration?

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  • Nintendo Switch Emulators?

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  • Oh did not know that, sad to hear.

    They did remove traffic to the old Yuzu domains though, which now are in the hands of Nintendo, used to monitor which users use emulators.

    Do you have other suggestions for promising successor forks?

  • Nintendo Switch Emulators?

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  • Foss Alternative to Android Auto

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  • There's 2 parts to this:

    • Android Auto app (on your phone)
    • Android Auto Head Unit software (in your car)

    Both of which are currently proprietary,and would need to be written as FOSS from the ground up by reverse engineering the above 2, which would be a huge undertaking.

    Also flashing custom Head Unit software to your car will be very hard, is not well documented, and likely will void your warranty, giving low incentive for developers to even attempt it :/

    The best you can do right now is aa4mg (Android Auto 4 MicroG),which at least allows to replace the proprietary Google Play services with a privacy respecting FOSS alternative and Android Auto's dependencies with empty stub packages:https://github.com/sn-00-x/aa4mg

    Full disclosure,I helped with writing aa4mg :)

  • Operating sysrule

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  • Do you like being spied on and having your data sold?=> Windows or ChromeOS

    Do you have too much money?=> Mac

    Do you have a decent set of working brains?=> Linux

  • AI Chatbots Can Be Jailbroken to Answer Any Question Using Very Simple Loopholes

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  • This post assumes I actually want to waste my time on LLMs, I don't.

    And even worse, it assumes you want to use the remotely hosted spy-ware variant, not even the less bad, but still a waste of time local variant..

  • GitHub launches a free version of its Copilot | TechCrunch

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  • Been using VSCodium for a few years now, for loose file editing,no complaints about it, imo it's what VSCode should be.

  • GitHub launches a free version of its Copilot | TechCrunch

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  • uBlock Origin Filters to get rid of Copilot + AI feed bloat on GithubuBlock Origin => Open the Dashboard => My Filters => Add:

     properties
        
github.com##.copilotPreview__container
github.com##.AppHeader-CopilotChat
github.com##li.ActionListItem:has-text(Copilot)
github.com##li.ActionList-sectionDivider:has-text(Copilot)
github.com##li.TimelineItem:has-text(Copilot)
github.com##div.pb-4:has-text(Copilot)
github.com###copilot_free_global
github.com###copilot-button-container
github.com###blob-view-header-copilot-icon
github.com##a[href*="/resources/articles/ai"]
github.com##a[href*="/settings/copilot"]
github.com##a[href*="/features/copilot"]
github.blog##a[href*="/features/copilot"]
github.blog##a[href*="/ai-and-ml"]
github.blog##article.changelog-label-copilot
github.blog##article.changelog-label-models

github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(LLM)
github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(OpenAI)
github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(ChatGPT)
github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(GPT)
github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(Llama)
github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(Gemini)
github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(Grok)
github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(DeepSeek)

    Also disable + block everything under: https://github.com/settings/copilot

  • Blocking Copilot + AI feed bloat on Github?

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  • Believe me, I'd love to ditch Github!

    But it's a really though bullet to bite for me..

    It kinda acts as my CV for when I'd apply for a new job, and in my nearly 10 years on the platform I've accumulated a nice follower and star count to prove my worth as a developer, which is hard to regain on smaller more privacy respecting platforms like Codeberg or Forgejo..

    Perhaps it's time to move to Codeberg though.If I'd do so I will probably:

    1. Initially mirror the repo's to Codeberg
    2. Notify the users about scheduled date to move to Codeberg
    3. Archive the Github repo's and finalize move to Codeberg

  • Blocking Copilot + AI feed bloat on Github?

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  • Awesome, thank you for that!