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this meme using the verb found instead of reached is mildlyinfuriating

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prefixing it with "# " makes it a heading (larger text).

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👍

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huh? what is the misinformation here?

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(The onlt client that implements material you in a fun and usable way, sync is usable one-handed)

Touchscreen keyboards and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

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Works fine on Sync :,)

It sounds like Sync is either blocking users client-side (which would be confusing, since server-side blocks do exist), or it is trying and failing to add a block server-side but suppressing the server’s error message.

either way, it sounds like a bug.

do you know where the project’s github is so someone can open an issue about it? /s (explanation here on mouseover)

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s/browser/spyware/

cypherpunks,
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If your local censor is not effectively blocking Tor, then you can just use Tor Browser to access lemmy.ml’s normal address via an exit node. Onion services don’t particularly help with circumventing censorship that is performed by the ISP of the user.

Onion services are useful for removing load from the exit nodes (since connections to them don’t need to go through exit nodes) and for having a self-authenticating address that doesn’t immediately reveal the location of the server. However, the location-hiding properties of onion services are not actually very strong at all (note that they used to be called hidden services and mostly aren’t anymore) and should not be relied upon. There are many adversaries who can locate a “hidden” service in a relatively short period of time. So, onion services are only potentially useful for resistance of censorship at the server’s location in the short-term and/or against weak adversaries.

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You’re agreeing with something I didn’t state.

knowyourmeme.com/…/misinterpretation-comedy-trope HTH

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oops you beat me to it, though i put it in the 50s (it started in 42 but i think its iconic phase was more in the 50s)

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J.G. Hertzler and Vaughn Armstrong have entered the chat

Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding (kitklarenberg.substack.com)

On November 16th, Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal, published a detailed breakdown of the popular encrypted messaging app’s running costs for the very first time. The unprecedented disclosure’s motivation was simple - the platform is rapidly running out of money, and in dire need of donations to stay afloat....

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I have mixed feelings about this article. It gets some stuff right, but also some stuff wrong and it misses some important details.

  • I don’t think Signal has actually received money from OTF (Radio Free Asia) since 2015 or so; if it needed any today it would likely get it from one of the less transparent US government internet freedom funding vehicles. There is no indication they are “facing collapse” beyond a blog post talking about their expenses and soliciting donations.
  • This article mentions “over a billion” people repeatedly, but doesn’t explain that number is actually referring to WhatsApp (which uses the encryption protocol developed by Signal). Signal says they have 40 million active users.
  • It doesn’t mention that Brian Acton (billionaire WhatsApp founder) gave them a $50M interest-free loan when he co-founded the Signal Foundation with Moxie in 2018, and became its “executive chairman” or whatever. That “loan” had increased to over $100M by the end of 2018, and is presumably much larger today.
  • It doesn’t mention that Signal Foundation president Meredith Whittaker worked at Google for over a decade, and co-founded a department there that worked alongside OTF on various internet freedom projects (and was later on the OTF advisory board herself)
  • it doesn’t mention the salient properties of Signal which actually make it particularly beneficial to US interests (keeping the communications of privacy-desiring people associated with their phone numbers while concentrating their metadata on Amazon servers)
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Picture of Miles O’Brien with his duplicate from the future from DS9 S03E17

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seems plausiblescreenshot of wikipedia text “Some sources state that Butrick was homosexual.[8] Kirstie Alley, his co-star in Star Trek II, identified Butrick as being bisexual.[9]” with citation 9 saying “Alley, Kirstie (2012). Art of Men (I Prefer Mine Al Dente). Simon & Schuster.”out of curiosity i found her book; it only has two sentences about him: screenshot of text “I got married in 1983 while I was simultaneously doing a TV series and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof onstage. I’d done Star Trek II in 1981 and I was slightly crushed out on my young, bisexual costar Merritt Butrick, who became my friend. Sadly, he died of AIDS in 1989 at the young age of 29.”… and one photo: photograph with caption “Merrit Butrick and I goofing around on the set of my first movie, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.”

would it be illegal to download Ubuntu on a Chromebook?

what if I, for example, had a job in Google and I liked Linux so much I install Ubuntu on my Chromebook, would that be illegal/send me to prison?? Or, if I had the job, would I be kicked?? I like Chromebooks because they are so smol and nice. But I don’t know if it’s legal to install a Linux distro on it. Thank you!!

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I think most chromebooks allow you to disable their boot security? some even allow you to re-enable it with different keys so that you can have a different trust anchor instead of google.

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https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/3b9de0dd-e091-4de0-a382-2334a4e10bad.png

(from this video which also features him operating guillotine)

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it’s weird how this gist was updated 3 hours ago but still contains lots of claims that haven’t been accurate for years

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💯

this is way more beautiful than i expected. amazing work!

to everyone reporting this post as “malware”: 🤣 it really isn’t.

(i read it carefully before running it… if you don’t comprehend something like this, refraining from running it is a good choice.)

edit: lmao at the downvotes! For fun I ported it to Python… this version produces identical output to the original, but stops after a couple thousand seconds instead of running forever. and it is sadly 36 bytes longer.

(maybe the python version helps convince a few people it isn’t malware?)

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It’s used for the Firefox brand of products

where?

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I can understand why someone would say open source

I can understand why too: it’s either because they were not aware of the widely agreed-upon definition of the term, or because they’re being disingenuous. I’m assuming it was the former; whether OP edits the post will reveal if it was actually the latter.

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there is no single universally agreed upon definition

There is an overwhelmingly agreed-upon definition. Look at who agrees with it: opensource.org/authority/

And who doesn’t agree? Historically, a few of the giant software companies who were threatened by the free software movement thought that “open source” was a way for them to talk the talk without walking the walk. However, years ago, even they all eventually agreed about OSI’s definition and today they use terms like source-available software for their products that don’t meet it.

Today it is only misinformed people like yourself, and grifters trying to profit off of the positive perception of the term. I’m assuming Louis Rossman is in the former category too; we’ll see in the near future if he acknowledges that the FUTO license is not open source and/or relicenses the project under an open source license.

there are over 80 variations of open source licenses all with different term and conditions. Some are more permissive, some less so. Yet they can all be considered a variation of open source, though I’m anticipating you wouldn’t agree?

There are many open source licenses, and many non-open-source licenses. there is a list of licenses which OSI has analyzed and found to meet their definition; licenses which aren’t on that list can be open source too… but to see if they are, you would need to read the license and the definition.

Have you read The Open Source Definition? I’m assuming not.

I can’t understand why you are acting like the definition police here, it seems very pedantic tbh.

It’s because (1) FUTO are deceiving their customers by claiming that their product is something which it isn’t, and (2) they’re harming the free and open source software movements by telling people that terms mean things contrary to what they actually mean.

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It isn’t about the list of approved licenses, it’s about the criteria for being added to the list. New licenses regularly meet the definition. This license clearly does not.

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it is open source. Stop gatekeeping the term

i guess you didn’t click the link in my comment? here is another, with a list of governments and other entities who all agree about the definition: opensource.org/authority/

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