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miss_brainfart, 7 months ago

I was going to say Siege, but they removed the ability to play as a team of exclusively shield recruits, I’ve heard.

miss_brainfart, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

They might not know know, but there sure can be a lot of meta data one can use to determine that a person goes to school, where it might be, and what school it most likely is.

Or someone else straight up posted the information publicly. That’s always a possibility you have to consider.

Either way, isolating certain websites and services from each other and/or the rest is certainly a good practice to limit what they can gather about you. If you don’t do that already, that is.

miss_brainfart, 7 months ago

Signals’ note to self chat is really convenient, ngl. A linear chat history is obviously not the most organized way of writing notes, but for some small save-for-later type infos here and there, I like it a lot.

miss_brainfart, 7 months ago

The most important part in malware protection is whoever sits in front of the screen. Systems like Android have so many safeguards in place, the only way to get a virus is the user forcing it through themselves, pretty much.

miss_brainfart, 7 months ago

Oh, and Wayland also isolates clients from each other too.

One of the biggest reasons I might want to say goodbye to xfce sooner than later.
I can’t make use of most of Waylands’ features and improvements, but this kind of isolation is very much worth it anyway.

miss_brainfart, 7 months ago

With how much Adobe infects a system, leaving multiple different traces behind even when uninstalled, I think it’s fair to say that Photoshop itself is almost a virus

Genuinely, how can you get rid of all that? How do you even find everything?

miss_brainfart, 7 months ago

I have confidence that they’ll do it right, but looking at its past, it will take a looong while until it’s ready

miss_brainfart, 7 months ago

Mate, you have go slow, ease into it

miss_brainfart, 7 months ago

• no bloatware

Does it come without GApps? Most people don’t need half of those

miss_brainfart, 7 months ago

Now for the important question though:

Do they allow the user to uninstall those apps like any other app?

miss_brainfart, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Microsoft

Will their new project at least not be racist and xenophobic this time?

miss_brainfart, 7 months ago

Scandalous

miss_brainfart, 7 months ago

Older MacOS versions had stuff like the chess game preinstalled for no reason, though I don’t know how current versions look like.

I also don’t know how easy it is to remove preinstalled apps nowadays. Back in the day, you could disable System Integrity Protection, remove whatever you want, and re-enable Protection afterwards.

miss_brainfart, 7 months ago

xed supremacy

miss_brainfart, 7 months ago

Same for me, but so far I have no idea why it happens

miss_brainfart, 7 months ago

But please tell your contacts that you’re using bridges, if you haven’t already.

You are effectively giving away encryption keys to a third party, since those messages need to be decrypted and re-encrypted mid-transit.
Everyone who is part of the chats you use bridges with deserves to know about that fact, at least.

miss_brainfart, 7 months ago

Okay, the funniest part about this is that even with all the bullshit Twitter/X does nowadays, those ads actually violated their terms, too.

That is hysterical.

Dear EU Commission: What the actual fuck.

miss_brainfart, 7 months ago

©helicerate, to be pedantic

miss_brainfart, 7 months ago

That would explain the joy I’m feeling when using my PC

miss_brainfart, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

One of the reasons why I like my desktop PC so much is that both webcam and mic sit in a drawer and are only plugged in for when I actually need to use them.

Android at least has the setting in developer options to disable sensors, which includes gyroscope, camera, mic and gps, I believe.

But core system services still have permission to override this setting. Which makes sense, you don’t want your dialer app to break when calling emergency services.

But it does make me think, is Androids’ sandboxing of an app enough to prevent it from abusing this possibility?

miss_brainfart, 7 months ago

I hope we’ll get to use LibRedirect, it does exactly that, but for a dozen or so services

miss_brainfart, 7 months ago

All I’m doing is hiding in bushes to look at tits, what’s so wrong about that?

miss_brainfart, 7 months ago

Hell yeah, and always make sure to snap a few pics for the collection

miss_brainfart, 7 months ago

But… Endeavour though

miss_brainfart, 7 months ago

And then in some languages, the word person is feminine, so you use she.

Not confusing at all