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  • Iron Village is a sweet super-casual city-builder and railway manager out now

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  • They would need to run their own instance, which might not be something they want to do

  • Firefox alternatives?

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  • Fennec is a poor alternative because it connects to Firefox services. Sync is optional, but some internal components will talk to Mozilla, and Mozilla changed their mind about "never selling your data" recently.

    Brave is Chrome with a history of suspicious moves, toxic leadership, involvement with crypto and AI

  • Anonymity for Everyone: Why You Need Tor

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  • It's not a very bad idea. Tor browser provides good tracking resistance in clearnet, but there are more chances that uneducated person leaks personal information there and at the same time will have a false feeling of safety because they are using Tor, not Google Chrome.

  • Vivaldi as alternative?

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  • LibreWolf is a decent alternative. I switched to it a while ago as Firefox enshittification required more and more tweaks in configuration to close leaks.

    I've heard good things about Mullvad browser too especially on fingerprint resistance, but LibreWolf works for me well enough to not search for alternatives.

    For rare sites that I need to use and which don't work in Firefox based browsers, I just use Brave.

  • Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta

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  • And Mullvad is not in business if selling user profiles to advertisers, at least as far as we know

  • Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta

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  • Because the data used in browser fingerprinting is also used to render pages. Example: a site needs to know the size of browser window to properly fit all design elements.

  • GOP Proposes $4.5 Trillion Tax Giveaway to the Rich While 'Ransacking' Food Stamps and Medicaid

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  • The title of this is a misleading simplification. $4.5 tn is not "Tax Giveaway to the Rich". It's a maximum cap on total tax cuts that could be in this budget. It is likely to include renewal of 2017 income tax cuts and increased child tax credit - both of these were popular and not just "for rich".

    They may also raise SALT cap which benefits higher income people from states with high property taxes. Living in one myself, I can tell you that you don't need a mansion in a top school district to pay much more than $10k in property taxes. So this one is not just for billionaires for sure, but maybe from upper middle class.

    There are promises Trump made to eliminate income taxes on tips and social security, which are obviously not beneficial only to rich. But I heard it would cost a lot, especially SS one. Not sure if $4.5tn is enough.

    Unfortunately, it looks like proposed spending cuts to Medicaid and food stamps are favored by GOP and may be easy to pass, but they don't cover tax cuts by a big margin. So they can hurt people in need, and still have to balloon national debt even more.

  • Onboarding experience needs to be simpler for mass adoption

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  • I think this should be baked into client apps.

    The popular email analogy works here too. When you are setting up a new phone, you get a default email client app that offers you to log in or sign up to the default email service. And usually user can choose to log in with their service if choice, for which they have to sign up in advance outside the client app.

    Having a default Fediverse client on new phones is not happening anytime soon, but if someone's mother installs a client app from the store link sent to them by a family member, she can get similar default onboarding experience.

    Default instance can be picked by geo location, or maybe the less used out of 3 most popular instances. Or even maybe an instance ran by the client app developers.

  • Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop

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  • FAKE NEWS!!! Why would you want to pull an ancient lever mechanism if you can do it in a few taps on the touch screen. Sure, unless you have a premium subscription, you'll have to watch a short video from our partners, tailored individually just for you.

  • Outside first DOGE caucus meeting, Republican says ‘there will be some cuts’ to Social Security

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  • Social Security fund invested in government bonds, so the interest from that goes into the fund.

    To be fair the budget deficit was there before Trump. His campaign promises are going to increase it, but they can offset that partially with spending cuts. Also, the government has been using money from the Social Security fund routinely, again nothing new under Trump. They just count it as an internal debt. According to Wikipedia, by 2022 it's been already about 20% of the fund "borrowed" by the government.

  • Revolut, McDonald's, and Authy have banned the use of GrapheneOS.

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  • Apple does extensive audit of mobile apps, including limitations of tracking. So the app cannot spy on something you are not letting it to know. But you are giving it a bunch of info voluntarily.

    I'd say using that app on iOS is similar to making a food delivery order using a loyalty member ID. Basically, you are letting the company (McDonald's) know who you are, what is your phone number, where do you live, and what do you like to eat. And if they wish to, they could use all that to purchase your profile from a data brocker. Or they can sell that info for a few cents to make up on that discount.

  • A petition has been created by an Austrian EU rep. to replace Windows with GNU/Linux in all Europe

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  • This petition is for developing something dubbed "EU-Linux", so if implemented as is will be pretty uniform

  • Do you hold or trade Monero?

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  • Nice try fed /s

    But if you are genuinely curious, here are a few things you can pay for with XMR:

    1. You can pay for VPN, many providers like iVPN and Mullvad accept it.
    2. There are anonymous hosting platforms like https://njal.la.
    3. Recently I discovered Nostr, which is a distributed Twitter alternative less centralized than Mastodon, and there are paid relays you can purchase access to with Monero.

    I personaly donate to some Russian media outlets with XMR, which is not exactly a service purchase, but a good way to help them to survive government pressure.

  • Do you hold or trade Monero?

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  • Mostly holding with occasional spending on services that do accept it

  • An absolute bargain!

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  • A million or two shitcoins can buy you that easily

  • "Windows Intelligence": Microsoft may drop Copilot in major AI rebranding

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  • Microsoft is famous for nonsensical product and feature renamings. There is Microsoft 365 Copilot in their enterprise offerings, which integrates well with Copilot in Windows. And there is a tool to build your own Copilots with customized logic and data sources.

  • Linus Torvalds on the kernel, GenAI, EVs, programming languages and more…[Video Podcast 49:58]

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  • Jeez, what an impressive troll work in the comments

  • tension on kernel mailing lists continues to grow as a Linux Foundation board member finally replies with a "summary of the legal advice the kernel is operating under" re: enforcing US sanctions

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  • I'm afraid that if the sanctions will continue to be a go-to method of dealing with geopolitical rivals, we may end up with a few divergent forks. One for US and "the west" block, one for Chinese comrades with their junior Russian partners, and maybe one for Indian code gurus who don't like both sides and have capable engineering resources themselves.

  • Goodbye from a Linux community volunteer

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  • Not nationality but alleged involvement with sanctioned organizations. There are plenty of Russian names on maintainers list remaining.

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    First hand experience with TSA biometric collection in airport

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Microsoft addresses Windows Recall backlash, promises to fix security issues and make it opt-in

    www.windowscentral.com /software-apps/windows-11/microsoft-addresses-windows-recall-backlash-promises-to-fix-security-issues-and-make-it-opt-in
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Does self-hosted VPN make sense?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Preparing to move from Ubuntu to Fedora