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curry

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  • Pros and cons for an extra phone number (dual Sim)

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  • I have been doing precisely that. You have your personal number and the secondary number that doesn't have to be attached to your name if you want. Ofc law enforcement and telecom companies will be able to trace you based on cell tower locations and phone model.

    Pro: An extra disposable number to give out whenever people ask you for "we need your phone number for ShittyDiscount". Whenever the spam calls get annoying I simply pop it out and place another prepaid sim.

    Con: Phones with dual sim support can be rarer to find and be more expensive depending on your country.

  • Any non-tech-background self-hosters?

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  • Kudos for self-hosting fediverse stuff, man.

  • What is the best way to encrypt a USB drive that can be used on multiple OSes?

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  • I make 1 single partition for the entire drive and encrypt it with veracrypt. Veracrypt has portable executables for windows and if I lose the flash drive in the worst case people will think it's a corrupted disk (unrecognized partition) and reformat them probably.

  • Google Gemini might soon handle your WhatsApp calls, notifications, and more (APK teardown)

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  • Unless it's all local I'm staying out of this AI craze.

  • Google Gemini might soon handle your WhatsApp calls, notifications, and more (APK teardown)

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  • Not me either, but my acquaintances and colleagues will happily let them in with open doors.

  • Hundreds of Ancient Viruses Discovered Deep Inside Tibetan Glacier

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  • We've got the perfect global pandemic movie post-credits section.

    • Accelerating climate change and also the denial
    • Economic recession and increasing wealth gap
    • Myopic leadership both in government and corporate, rise of fascism
    • Misinformation campaigns, science and history denial becoming fashionable
    • Harambe

    We're truly fucked.

  • Research shows more than 80% of AI projects fail, wasting billions of dollars in capital and resources: Report

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  • Thank you for using IPA instead of other cheap beers.

  • Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10

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  • Ah crap, you're right.

  • TIL Debian releases are named after Toy Story characters

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  • Happy to be corrected. But I still wish they were used prominently as it used to be before.

  • TIL Debian releases are named after Toy Story characters

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  • They'll be fine. Remember when we all joked about Covid-19 Omega variant a few years ago?

  • The Pitch to Use Device Microphones for Ad Targeting

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  • The consensus a few years ago in /r/privacy was that it's too expensive and risky for smartphones to transmit audio data to their HQ, bandwidth constraints, processing power and capabilities considered.

    Now... with higher specs and advances and optimizations in AI for audio transcription, would it be feasible to do all that spying but locally on the device itself? The device would transmit 'daily reports' after processing.

  • Zen Browser | Privacy focused, open-source, Firefox Fork

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  • More fox the merrier. We have Icecat, Iceweasel, Palemoon, Librewolf, Tor Browser, Mullvad Browser... I'm sure I'm missing many more for desktop.

  • TIL Debian releases are named after Toy Story characters

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  • It made me wince when Android did away with its dessert based codenames and now they're just 'Android 12' etc. It really went corporate after that direction.

    And please tell me RebeccaBlackOS shows a cool popup or console message every Friday.

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    Samsung TVs will get 7 years of updates, starting with 2023 models

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  • I'd love standarized modules to unscrew and separate the "smart" part just like a desktop pc can. If they want to shove in that shit, then at least make me able to pull them out.

  • Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10

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  • We need to remind ourselves that there's an entire generation that has grown up with smartphones and only touching a laptop or a desktop pc occasionally. For them, windows or chromeOS alone is a challenge. Linux is just an isekai waiting to happen when you cross that bridge of no return.

  • Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10

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  • virt-manager has worked fine for me.

  • Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10

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  • Followed by smug mentions of cheap OEM keys and massgrave repo. Yeah, that ain't gonna fly for work laptops, guys.

    Obligatory PS mentioning that I do use linux everyday on my personal machine

  • Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?

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  • Fair enough. I've met both good and bad users.

  • Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?

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  • My man, have you ever worked in tech support? I admire your optimism.