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RandoCalrandian

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Advocate for user privacy and anonymity

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And bringing the cycle full circle, Microsoft is barreling headstrong into “embrace” to build up leverage and goodwill before fucking everyone over again

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I switched my gaming pc to Linux over a year ago, never looked back and haven’t needed to

And I’ve never used a VM to game, either

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I game on a linux mint desktop using proton all the time. The work they’ve done for the steam deck translates almost perfectly to every other Linux distro I’ve tried it on

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And then we can celebrate the them at their funeral. So sad how many accidental officer firearm discharges are associated with people “making a point”.

Seriously, what part of surveillance police state do people not understand

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    You think this particular issue doesn’t have full bipartisan support among the elites?

    You’re delusional

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    about goddamn time

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    And then we move to steganography with cat pictures

    The government being an abusive piece of shit isn’t a good enough reason to stop trying to protect yourself

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    … why post a png?
    Link to the service

    can I be a Free Software advocate but still use non-free software??

    I’m asking this because one time, while browsing the GNU website, I noticed that some of the members’ emails had “gmail” on them!! And I asked myself how would that be possible?? And I think other members of the FSF had Gmail too. Why? Richard Stallman is against Gmail, so why would those memberse use it?? Would that...

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    I mean, it’s not like slavery or murder.

    Being pro-FOSS does not mean you are anti proprietary software. There’s plenty of middle ground.

    Video games, for example, where the company might not want to open source their server code for plenty of very legitimate reasons.

    Mail is a super important utility. For physical mail, it’s a felony for anybody to open it. For digital mail, gmail open, reads, and inserts ads before handing it to you. It’s ok to think some things are important enough to mandate FOSS, and some things not.

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    Still a minuscule fraction of its androcide rate, but don’t expect people to give a shit

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    Or people could stop making not gendered issues into gendered issues, like the sexist fucks they are. There’s a very specific and insidious reason the narrative has switched from “domestic violence” to “violence against women” despite women being provably more safe than men in 99% of contexts, and only a minuscule fraction of deaths by violence. It’s a sexist intentional exclusion of an entire gender, for no good reason.

    But you do you!

    RandoCalrandian, (edited )
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    Are we counting all the suicides due to the ex girlfriend’s actions, or the ones who die in situations instigated by women, like when she lies about something and the males in her family seek retribution? Those stats seem suspiciously absent from articles like these. Proxy violence is routinely ignored

    If we’re going to advocate against domestic violence, we should include all its forms and not carefully gerrymander the definition

    Does this exist?? Messaging platform with a panic button from any member.

    Basically I am looking for a messaging platform like signal or? but with anonymous signup, perfect forward secrecy, capable of video chat, sending photos the usual uses in today’s life. But with a panic button. So that any party member could use said button to wipe all other members devices of any data instantly inside the...

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    This part about the zoom acquisition is true, but to date no sketchy things have been committed to the client repos, they’re open source

    Personally I think the acquisition was to disrupt development, not to hijack it. You’re right that dev work essentially stopped at that time, outside of security fixes.

    Also, it doesn’t track you, it allows you to post public proofs so you can choose to let the people you connect with verify your identify. It’s not mandatory.

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    Best I can suggest is keybase with an auto destroy message timer on conversations, so anything after a day or week is automatically wiped

    [Discussion] How do you feel about age verification on Porn sites? (lemmings.world)

    Porn sites Pornhub, XVideos, and Stripchat face stricter requirements to verify the ages of their users after being officially designated as “Very Large Online Platforms” (VLOPs) under the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA)....

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    Don’t give them ideas, this is exactly the type of shit they want to enact

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    Almost like we knew the title was clickbait bullshit!

    "Combokeys" instead of hotkeys. [Feature/new command suggestion]

    Title. Basically, “if a street fighter gamer and a linux tryhard had a baby” where a combination of keys is issued to run a command/script rather than a single or a simultaneous stroke of two or more. i.e left, down, left, right arrow keys, R_CTRL to run Firefox. Right, right, Up, right arrow keys, delete to power off the...

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    You mean a key combination like OS, f,i,r,e,f,down,down,enter to launch Firefox?

    That exists, bud. There are even multiple ways to achieve the same command, like “OS,t,e,r,m,i,n,a,l,down,enter, ‘open Firefox’”

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    The same is true in Linux, but it’s harder to get the joke with “OS,f,i,enter”

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    And this is why having true ownership over our own devices is so important, so that they can’t force this on everyone and if they try, we just replace the root certs.

    This is why “trusted computing” has been pushed for so long, to remove control from the user specifically to enable bullshit like this

    Alright, I'm gonna "take one for the team" -- what is with the "downvote-happy" users lately?

    Title. “lmao internet points” and all, but what is the point of participating in a community that sees assumptions and other commonly non-harmful commentaries/posts as “bad” this easily? Do folks in here are really that needy of self-validation, even if it means seeking such from something completely insignificant like...

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    I love those two rules, when taken together. Seems these days communities just pick one, and both are worse off for it.

    RandoCalrandian, (edited )
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    It is criticism, and certainly from a subjective standpoint it’s very valid criticism

    But I’m free to downvote criticism I don’t like or agree with 😁just like you’re free to downvote a comment you felt was rude, in addition to pointing that out. It would also mean something different if you didnt downvote but also commented that I was being rude.

    Almost like the downvote was providing useful information

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    So, what, people are only allowed to like your content? Can’t possibly be shit posts or anything like that, clearly it’s just all the downvoters who are wrong.

    OR a downvote is as meaningful as an upvote, and it’s pretty childish to complain about them. (Especially considering that many instances don’t even count or display them)

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    The downvote is the feedback

    If people are downvoting and not commenting there is probably an obvious reason why.

    Usually you just said some type of heresy in that community, like going to a NASA forum and saying it’s idiotic to still be trying for manned space missions to the moon or elsewhere.

    It’s so anathema to the community they don’t even want to engage in a discussion about it, they just want to say “you’re wrong/I don’t like this” and move on.

    Far more civil than how religions used to deal with heretics, imo

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    See? I didn’t consider your post harmful, but I did consider it worthy of a downvote, simply due to how I felt it contributed to the discussion.

    And people who don’t feel like I’m contributing meaningfully can downvote my posts. Almost as if that was the point of the button, to give an indicator of how much readers liked or disliked the content.

    Negative opinions are every bit as valid as positive ones. Even more so in a culture where criticism is considered “rude” and socially suppressed.

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