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  • YouTube doesn't let me watch without turning off my VPN?

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  • They're killing third-party client access, limiting adblockers, blocking VPNs, and forcing sign in more and more. I sincerely hate it but this was inevitable. They have their monopoly, this is just the "abuse that position and enshittify for more data and money" stage. I hope an alternative takes off because I refuse to play by their rules.

  • Apple has 90 days to allow app sideloading in Brazil

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  • Corpo marketing to obfuscate the idea of installing software and nurture dependency to pre-installed proprietary repositories for an entire crowd of dependent non-tech savvy users that doesn't know what an apk is probably.

    I avoid using the term unless I'm being cheeky about "sideloading" from Google Play.

  • Mullvad's privacy-focused search engine Leta is now free for all users | Leta acts as a proxy for Google and Brave search results

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  • That's nice, but I feel we need engines with independent indexes and crawlers more than another metasearch engine that just acts as a private middleman to big tech corps.

  • Fusion of !memes@lemmy.world and !memes@lemmy.ml?

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  • Those are actually all really good points. Nevermind about my idea then...

  • UK’s first use of city-wide facial recognition in Cardiff

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  • 5 Eyes has been simping for China's Golden Shield for as long as China has had it. Now Curtis Yarven and his circle of authoritarian tech bro freaks and 5 corpos in a trench coat are running America. Then the UK gets Apple to remove ADP and now, a nation that already has a hard-on for security cameras decides to expand biometric surveillance in quick succession. Hmm... interesting.

  • Fusion of !memes@lemmy.world and !memes@lemmy.ml?

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  • Fusion of !memes@lemmy.world and !memes@lemmy.ml?

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  • I think it would be cool if something like "meta-communities" existed. Fully adjustable, fully optional. Less duplicates.

    You'd sub to one meta c/memes or c/news and see a combined feed of all known instance's versions. Post to whichever you want, show up in the meta (if you want).

    If you still want to block from the meta sub or individually sub to c/memes on ABC instance, you could do that. Moderation would be subject to the instance the user posted on, subject to broader instance admin's defederations and stuff.

    Idk just a quick idea. Decentralization is good, but a little bit of... aggregation like this could go a long way without actually centralizing power. Could help communities (big and small niche) to grow.

  • ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners

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  • McDonald's wants your IQ too. Seriously, it's in their privacy policy.

  • Donald Trump death penalty order sparks huge Luigi Mangione donation

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  • I combined French and Spanish in my first comment by accident. I did it intentionally in my response to the correction. The first part is French and says "yeah sorry, you're right, but..." and the second part is how I've seen "why not both" used in Spanish. 2x the revolution, you know?

    I'll show myself out.

  • Donald Trump death penalty order sparks huge Luigi Mangione donation

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  • Oui désolée vous avez raison, mais... por qué no los dos? lol

  • Donald Trump death penalty order sparks huge Luigi Mangione donation

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  • Viva la révolution? 🔪

  • The one change that worked: I set my phone to ‘do not disturb’ three years ago – and have never looked back

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  • The United States is Falling Apart and the World is Taking Notice

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  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

    Though I'd hardly signal her death out as the defining factor or turning point of the US's decline...

  • Are you in this pic?

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  • Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study

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  • A post from the reddit thread on this that led me down a "dark" (double pun in this case) rabbit hole:

    Larry Ellison is either independently coming up with, or stealing, an idea from an authoritarian freak named Curtis Yarvin. From an article about his ideology:

    Each patchwork would be ruled by a “realm”: a corporation with absolute power. Citizens would be free to move, but every other realm would also be ruled by corporate governments with chilling impunity. For example, Yarvin says the tech overlords of the San Francisco realm could arbitrarily decide to cut off its citizens’ hands with no fear of legal consequences—because they’re a sovereign power, beholden to no federal government or laws.

    In “Friscorp,” as Yarvin calls the San Francisco realm, an all-seeing Orwellian surveillance system would enforce public safety: “All residents, even temporary visitors, carry an ID card with RFID response. All are genotyped and iris-scanned. Public places and transportation systems track everyone. Security cameras are ubiquitous. Every car knows where it is, and who is sitting in it, and tells the authorities both.”

    Yarvin is a thought leader who influences many of the most powerful people in the world (and also a couple elected politicians).

    Larry Ellison basically floated the idea of an AI surveillance panopticon several months ago.

    Ars Technica: Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison

  • Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.

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  • It's the details that make up the whole picture.

    As an isolated situation, the renaming thing may be stupid and not worth giving any credence. Energy can be spent resisting elsewhere in more useful places. However along with the rest of the actions of billionare corpos that kissed the ring, it's part of the overall trend with devastating consequences. Bullshit details shouldn't be ignored, but acknowledged as "they're fucking us from all directions right now and waging war on reality, and we really should stop letting them".

  • Tesla demand is nosediving in EV-friendly Europe amid Elon Musk's endorsement of the far right

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  • Can you draw what she was holding?

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  • No one else did it, so someone has to...

  • Donations to Luigi Mangione's legal defense fund slowed, then surged

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  • If he doesn't walk, bust him out by force.

  • Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch

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  • Anything that uses FCM doesn't get push notifications. That's most of them. Very few apps work fine, others I have set up to use UnifiedPush. Unfortunately Proton Mail requires manually checking. I've not had any issues with location.

    I've had one app straight up refuse to work at all and others that throw up an "enable Google Play Services" at every launch (dismiss it and it still works), but it's nothing critical so I don't care. Most of my apps come from F-Droid anyway. I haven't had enough time without the play store to see if other apps trip the play integrity api stuff. Even if it did I don't care.

    But apps can't hijack my entire screen anymore, battery life is improved, naturally privacy and security as well. No more "update available" pop-ups on app launches or that pop-up to scan all apps that I kept having to decline. No more anxiety from waking up to a bunch of marketing notifications. There's also just the plain satisfaction of being free.

    Google has Android by the balls but I'm so jaded and done with this corpo hell world shit to put up with even their privileged system apps anymore, even if it's less convenient. Maybe Linux phones will become viable.