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macattack

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  • I am a victim of the network effect who wishes to degoogle. What do I do?

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  • I agree with this general sentiment. I think the important thing to remember is that there are very few of us that are completely off the grid and with good reason. You have to pick and choose the battles in this frontier. There are people that have completely removed Google from their life, but still message relatives on Facebook or people that are running graphene OS but still talk to chatGPT on a daily basis.

    What's important is to find the balance that works for you and accept the trade-offs while still living a fruitful life

  • I am a victim of the network effect who wishes to degoogle. What do I do?

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  • Hmmmm. I actually disagree with this comment.

    I think that signal is a useful alternative for people that are privacy oriented or that do not have an existing chat, but to make the transition from Instagram to signal is going to feel like a step back for the vast majority of normal users especially teenagers/preteens.

    On a related note, because we do not know the age of the original poster, it is a non-starter to say that his parents should not be tracking his whereabouts until we have more information. For all we know, this could be a 13 year old. I'm more useful alternative would be to suggest privacy-friendly location apps

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  • If you think the title is hard to comprehend, try reading the actual article. I use Firefox (via floorp) but came away with the perspective that wasn't as clearcut and bad for consumers as I expected. I don't trust Google and I'm assuming that the largest negative impacts won't be evident until the product actually launches, but the arguments in the article were not very convincing

  • Looking for a simple, time-based night color control

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  • If you know how to write scripts in bash, that is an alternative way to trigger night mode/dark themes. You can use curl wttr.in to get your local sunrise/sunset, write a simple IF statement if the time is greater than sunset/sunrise and automate it via cron/systemD.

    Alternatively, there are a few options floating around on GitHub iirc

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    Predirect, A manifest v3 web extension with minimal permissions that automatically redirects popular sites to privacy friendly frontends.

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  • It is Google's attempt to limit what is possible within a chromium browser. It will potentially lead to the demise of numerous ad blocking extensions for example. It is one of the driving forces that encouraged me to move to Firefox to be honest.

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    Predirect, A manifest v3 web extension with minimal permissions that automatically redirects popular sites to privacy friendly frontends.

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  • It automatically redirects websites. So for example every time that I go to a site that has unscrupulous marketing and tracking, I can potentially use a privacy friendly front end alternative website. For example, every time I visit a Reddit link, it can redirect me to a teddit link, which is a front end alternative that strips out the marketing. These front end alternatives apply to a variety of websites such as YouTube, Urban dictionary, Wikipedia, etc.

    You can find either of the listed extensions on GitHub to install them

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    Predirect, A manifest v3 web extension with minimal permissions that automatically redirects popular sites to privacy friendly frontends.

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  • Can you elaborate on what makes it different from libredirect/redirector?

  • Linux on a Chromebook, my favorite way | Veronica Explains

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  • Glad to see a detailed review that also doubles as an installation guide. I definitely had anxiety following the docs when I took the plunge last year.

  • Apple hit with class action lawsuit over iCloud's 5GB limit

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  • Sometimes it's hard to feel sorry for Apple users given the amount of repeated nickeling and diming they go through,yet make excuses for (as seen in the comments). Definitely shades of battered woman syndrome

  • How often do you contribute to open source projects?

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  • At the moment never.

  • Thanks to OpenAI, it's never been clearer that Sundar Pichai is Google's Steve Ballmer

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  • Good bot. I will say Google never had public dominance in AI products, only research.

  • What I Learned Using Linux This Week (04)

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  • This feels like a blog, in a good way. It's interesting perspective hearing a Linux user work their way through issues, instead of the norm of being a seasoned vet. let me know if you have a blog and I'll throw it on my RSS feed.

  • Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot.

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  • There are dozens of us, dozens!

  • How do I automount sshfs?

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  • I run Debian 12 and ran into similar issues trying to automount NFS, even down to having to use an alternative console to log in and undo f stab edits

    My solution was simple and so hopefully it helps you as well. In fstab, the backslashes don't cancel out spaces. Since my directory path had a space in it, that would break fstab:

    Path/to/your/Video\ Files breaks fstab

    Path/to/your/VideoFiles good

  • Stop wearing Vision Pro goggles while driving your Tesla: U.S. transportation officials, Calif. police

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  • I expect nothing less from Tesla drivers

  • Google’s Once Happy Offices Feel the Chill of Layoffs

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  • Definitely feels reminiscent of the "Leopards Eating People's Faces Party" joke. They've been increasingly antagonistic towards their own customers regarding the efficiency of search and numerous other pipelines. It shouldn't come as a huge surprise that they are also being dicks to their own employees

  • RIP Nitter ​:ablobcatraindepressed:​

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  • RIP to a great service

  • Reddit: IP Address Disclosure Puts User Anonymity At Risk * TorrentFreak

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  • Man, how bad do movie industry execs have to be to make us root for Reddit

  • TIL that the top soccer league in Spain is officially known as "LaLiga EA Sports"

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  • It sounds jarring until I remember Barclay's Premier League being synonymous with English soccer for decades