It's amazing how France and Germany seem to have the same view after US has been pushing the nuclear path. Feels like some play book is being acted out.
Sure, Manjaro is known to break on updates. OpenSuse TW is stable AF. Manjaro is a joke compared to most distros though.
If you are keen to make "inflammatory" "right-wing" comments, there is now Xitter for that. Reddit doesn't really seem to serve anyone but their shareholders.
Though the simpler life is probably much more rewarding, so hope it helps :).
I mean, it's the daily mail. You got a good and accurate source? Lol
The Daily Racist sucks.
What? Is this a positive step by large companies?
The cynic in me thinks they'll push to legislate for this so Indies cannot compete and they make more money from MTX hell.
If you're on xitter, most users are toxic and toxicity is incentivised because engagement is money.
If prioritising your mental health, taking a break from ones like X and Facebook help.
Blocking negative content and hope it becomes wholesome can be exhausting and fruitless as it will reccomend it, regardless.
I personally found regularly scrubbing contacts that are not meaningful until you can take breaks more and more helps. Eventually, I refused to allow it my time or to cost my mental health so no longer use it. For me, the cost was greater than the benefit.
Same. They were one of the coolest and nicest people I know. I just want them to be happy.
Some Fillipino's I've talked to have commented that drug problems in their area disappeared but used to be pretty horrible.
I'm not one to defend crimes against human's, but one cannot discount the level of criminality and the impact it was already having on people's lives. Whether the tactics were fair or decent is one thing, but another is, did it work? Did it solve a serious problem the country was grappling with? You only have to look at Mexico to realise that if you don't deal with these things, the level of murder and suffering often skyrockets.
Yes. You corrected a dyslexic. Well done.
That is more down to poor marketing. Here on Lemmy or reddit there are big open source communities where you can extol the values of it.
I never went with a software project from random scrolling. It has no value to me if it doesn't meet a need I have right now.
No contributor is going to be good that doesn't use it.
Why would it be? Software is good based on it's use and recommendations from real folk, not *s. Many project not on github
In what sense are you using AES? Are you referring to the soviet republic and unironically?
My initial vibes here is this place is mostly soviet supporting communists pretending to be socialists. Anything other than glowing praise of communism is showered in down votes. That's cool and all, but it feels a bit too echo chamber for my liking.
I always assumed the goal was to bring people with you, rather than go after any unpure view. Maybe arguing with libs online too long has clouded the goal of furthering class consciousness.
Based on my limited knowledge, I can agree with that. I don't yet know of a system that has been implemented that is optimal.
I think the electorate want change but I don't think those the current system allow offer that unfortunately. Reformists tend to get filtered out.
This is assuming you need a national political party. In the UK we have a population of 70m, and MPs represent seats of 60k. District councils could represent around 100k people, and county ones could cover 500k. If you localise power so that all decision making for an area sits with the councils running areas of 100k, then you don't need a nationwide party, a local party could gain a foothold and run an area. If that party is setup, so representatives can easily be voted out or replaced. For example open selection and you have to campaign to represent your local party again every term then the power sits with the members of that local party rather than a national party.
Ultimately, a system can exist for this, but it doesn't mean that a system does exist or runs effectively in the world at present. Getting that system set up and running is a whole separate problem.
You did cover this, and the thing you suggest about expertise and continuity and problems that can be solved. Term length (and how many seats change each term can solve the latter), while expertise would likely be a solution that can be taken up by think tanks, and there are good ones, and dreadful ones. Legislation on transparency of funding and ownership would be key with that. Secondly health groups, co-operatives can form, that can be paid by councils for their expertise, which can build credibility and hire specialists.
I'm not saying any of this is easy, or would be without contest, but it is very possible, and while if you centre power in the hands of the few, you create elites, if you distribute that power, you can solve the problem around wealth and corruption. A system can be set up that adapts to the demands of the skills that are needed, whether that is technical skills, or knowledge based skills etc.
It was a response to the point about an elite class. In communist systems, that is usually the political class, the ones that make the decisions. That needs to make the decisions and are essential to the system functioning. In a democratic system that is localised, those decision makers don't have that much power as they have a small sphere of influence and are more administrators. Redistribution of wealth doesn't mean there is no wealth. Wealth can still exist, be taxed significantly and redistributed.
The point being, you misrepresented my point. Saying there is no elite "political" class, doesn't mean there is no class.
It does matter, and I don't accept with a socialist system, you have an elite class. With communism, maybe, but with democratic socialism, the goal is democracy first, because if you give powers to local people, to decentralise, and remove the disenfranchisement that people feel, you get the change for people to push for changes that help their circumstances. This was a view advocated by the late, great Tony Benn.
First past the post puts too much power in the hands of a few "representatives" and the more you break it down, the more working people can campaign and win. It's hard to campaign against centralisation as it requires a level of organisation, mobilisation, and cohesive view that is very hard to organise. Then you get corruption within that as pro-business interests influence and fund those that aim to divert the movement from the benefits of people. The Labour party in the UK could be an example of that. Currently, they're pushing for deregulation, growth and tight controls on migration.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11253421
> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11253225 > > > Fossify Contacts (fork of Simple Contacts) and Fossify SMS Messenger (fork of Simple SMS Messenger) have been released on F-Droid. > > > > Other Fossify apps available for download on F-Droid: > > > > - Fossify Gallery (fork of Simple Gallery) > > > > - Fossify File Manager (fork of Simple File Manager) > > > > - Fossify Phone (fork of Simple Dialer) > > > > - Fossify Calendar (fork of Simple Calendar) > > > > (ICYMI, Simple Mobile Tools suite was acquired by an adware company and their apps on the Google Play Store now contain trackers and unnecessary permissions. This report from Exodus shows that the old version of Simple Gallery had 0 trackers and 10 permissions, whereas the app, after sale, contains 9 trackers and 21 permissions!) > > > > About Fossify: Fossify is all about community-backed, open-source, and ad-free mobile apps. A fork of the SimpleMobileTools, which is no longer maintained, and we’re here to continue the legacy, bringing simple and private tech to everyone. > >
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10796117
> Fossify Gallery (fork of Simple Gallery), Fossify File Manager (fork of Simple File Manager) and Fossify Calendar (fork of Simple Calendar) are now available for download on F-Droid. > > (Simple Mobile Tools suite was acquired by an Israeli adware company) > > About Fossify: Fossify is all about community-backed, open-source, and ad-free mobile apps. A fork of the SimpleMobileTools, which is no longer maintained, and we're here to continue the legacy, bringing simple and private tech to everyone.
Some folks recommended SimpleMobileTools such as calendar. After it was sold off, a fork was created by one of their contributors, and it's released on F-droid now.
Wanted to give this update in case folk were curious.
New draft guidance sets out how porn websites and apps should stop children viewing their content.
Looks like UK is going the same way as a few states. Spare a thought for us. So messed up this increasing surveillance state.
Back in July, Google's work on a Web Integrity API emerged and many equated it to DRM. The company announced today it's not proceeding...
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/5707453
> The Chrome team says they're not going to pursue Web Integrity but... > > > it is piloting a new Android WebView Media Integrity API that’s “narrowly scoped, and only targets WebViews embedded in apps.” > > They say its because the team "heard your feedback." I'm sure that's true, and I can wildly speculate that all the current anti-trust attention was a factor too.
Many said we couldn’t stop it. We, like many, applied pressure, and they backed the fuck off.
We have no room for complacency now though. Google cannot be allowed to dictate web standards. Firefox needs to eat into that Chromium market share.
Never forgive. Never forget.
Back in July, Google's work on a Web Integrity API emerged and many equated it to DRM. The company announced today it's not proceeding...
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/5707453
> The Chrome team says they're not going to pursue Web Integrity but... > > > it is piloting a new Android WebView Media Integrity API that’s “narrowly scoped, and only targets WebViews embedded in apps.” > > They say its because the team "heard your feedback." I'm sure that's true, and I can wildly speculate that all the current anti-trust attention was a factor too.
Many said we couldn't stop it. We, like many, applied pressure, and they backed the fuck off.
We have no room for complacency now though. Google cannot be allowed to dictate web standards. Firefox needs to eat into that Chromium market share. Never forgive. Never forget.
Hi, all.
We've grown considerably since rebuilding the sub (see https://lemmy.ml/post/2262830). Active monthly users 150 -> 380. 3.5k -> 5.42k subs. It seems to be growing organically now, and the higher we go, the more people will stumble across it. There is always a need to get away from Google, and hopefully our community can help people with this.
If you'd like to join us to help moderate so we have folk in place as we need them, that would be awesome.
If you are interested. Please send a message about why you think you'd be good for the role, and also an example post/comment in this community previously.
Thanks,
CrypticCoffee
How convenient these tech problems are.
Sorry, we cannot delete your account because... checks notes... technical problems.
It's just a "proposal," but it's also being prototyped inside Chrome right now.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2437896
> also on r/privacy
Apologies for multiple posts today. I hadn't planned on doing so. I stumbled across this and it communicates effectively what this is. As many are confused by this, it could be a reasonable bit of information.
Request for Mozilla Position on an Emerging Web Specification Specification Title: Web Environment Integrity API Specification or proposal URL (if available): https://rupertbenwiser.github.io/Web-E...
Mozilla's position on WEI is pretty solid.
This CL moves the base::Feature from content_features.h to a generated feature from runtime_enabled_features.json5. This means that the base::Feature can be default-enabled while the web API is co...
![[wei] Ensure Origin Trial enables full feature · chromium/chromium@6f47a22](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/OZCtR87G7h.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Oh boy, it's happening. Google is flexing it's muscles and abusing it's market position. It has never been a better way to convince and support family and friends in moving across to Firefox, a fast and privacy supporting browser.
We have been busy this past month! We released KDE Gear 23.04, which now contains most of the Plasma Mobile applications. The development of Plasma Shell based on Qt6 is progressing.
A few months out of date, but I'm keen on the project and waiting on the latest installment. As content here is a little dated, it cannot hurt to get this here so folk can dig into it more.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blackeco.com/post/25574
> And since you won't be able to modify web pages, it will also mean the end of customization, either for looks (ie. DarkReader, Stylus), conveniance (ie. Tampermonkey) or accessibility. > > The community feedback is... interesting to say the least.
It does seem that using Chrome (or Chrome based browsers) is just going to going to perpetuate this. Firefox has never been more important IMHO.
Hi all, I acquired moderator to recover this sub. I was dreading helping to build the community only for it to get spammed out of existence. This is our sub and we need to figure out the best way of going about it, what it should contain and what it shouldn't contain.
I have no desire of being sole mod, and perhaps not at all long term, and I would like people to join us.
I'm reluctant to dive into promoting people and regret it, and don't want to hold off too long and leave that all to me, so I'm open to feedback or challenge on how we do this. Maybe it's not my call at all. A few people may shine through as good people to take this forward and help build this community.
Please feel free to give your views on what this community should or shouldn't be. I will link to privacy and relevant communities so we can keep this one focussed.
A big shout out to comcreator@lemmy.world at https://lemm.ee/post/704704 for helping to avoid fragmentation. They probably have a claim for mod if there is no objections.
Discuss software recommendations. I locked it as I don't want it to be messy and hard to consume. Feel free to say anything here regarding that thread.
Here I will pin a list of recommendations for software. Getting started can be daunting, and it'd be great to pull that information together here for newcomers so they can take practical steps to degoogle their lives.
Disclaimer: These are recommendations by regulars here and on privacy forums. Use at own risk. We cannot due diligence on these, so if people do have issue with items in the list, please create a post and raise your concerns.
Recommendations
Browser -
- Firefox (Strongly recommend in light of WEI and Google's plan that could potentially restrict access to websites)
- Librewolf
- Brave (Not recommended, due to Google's WEI changes. Using chromium is a bad idea. I left this in case you really must)
Search
- Duck Duck Go
- Brave
- Proton mail
- Tutanota
Cloud storage
- Proton mail
Productivity Suite (Alternative to google docs)
- Libre office (Maybe not cloud based)
- Only office (for MS doc compatibility)
Degoogled Android phones
Phone OS - https://lemm.ee/post/663113
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GrapheneOS
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LineageOS (wihh or without MicroG)
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/e/OS
Android app store -
- F-droid
Messaging
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Signal
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Element (Matrix)
Maps - https://lemmy.ml/post/2211048
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Organic Maps
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OsmAnd+
SMS - https://lemmy.ml/post/2256135
Organisation
Task lists - https://lemmy.ml/post/2249613
Calendar - https://lemm.ee/post/704703
- Fossify Calendar - https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Calendar
Discussion
These items are ones either recommended multiple times or seem to have some form of consensus on them being good and privacy focussed. I will link discussion topics so people can see the logic and reasoning behind recommendation. If you are not happy with anything here, please discuss here: https://lemmy.ml/post/2262409
If you would like another item in this, please create a post discussion and we can pull it in and link to it.
Does anyone know a good FOSS app for managing task lists or notes where you can use checkboxes to mark off what is completed and what isn't?
Thanks.