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IratePirate

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  • Degoogled FairPhone users: which camera app do you use?

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  • The phone's manufacturer (Google in my case) may stop pushing firmware updates, allowing vulnerabilities to remain unfixed and exploitable.

    The custom ROM's maintainers may lose interest in the project, or the project may stop supporting the phone in question, again allowing vulnerabilities (this time in Android's source code) to remain open.

  • I've been busy

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  • Music isn't expensive to self-host; 1 min of music cost you roughly 1MB of space, which means your playlist of 7k tracks (assumed average length: 5 mins) clocks in at around 35 GB of storage space. So just start collecting.

    As for your other request. I'm not too familiar with Spotify, but a net search yielded this. I cannot speak to the legality if any of the solutions recommended there, and if they still work (the thread is 2 years old).

  • Microsoft Mysteriously Freezes Accounts for VeraCrypt, WireGuard, Windscribe

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  • @Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works was faster than me (thanks!). Yes, as of now, firmware updates for existing models are only allowed for yet another year and must be discontinued after. As always in this administration, the reasons given for these measures (Chinese attacks on US infrastructure) are built on lies and misinformation (none of the attacks targeted consumer routers). Hence, this is likely just another shakedown: "pay us a bribe or we'll damage your opportunities to do business in the US." Depending on whether foreign router vendors opt to go this route and give in to the orange grifter's demands, things may be different in a years' time.

    Could you in theory demand a refund from the government if you were willing to switch to their backdoor US hardware now?

    From a government of the Epstein class, by the Epstein class, for the Epstein class? No. You most certainly cannot.

  • Amazon: Older Kindles can no longer download e-books

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  • Old or new, doesn't matter. They stopped allowing you to download books licensed ("sold") through the kindle shop in order to prevent you from putting them onto your device via cable.

    ...which makes "cunt behaviour" even more accurate. ;)

  • Amazon: Older Kindles can no longer download e-books

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  • No misunderstanding, that's precisely what I meant and linked to.

  • Tesla registrations in Germany quadruple in March, KBA says

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  • I prefer the term "Swasticar", as coined by this amazing British campaign:

  • Amazon: Older Kindles can no longer download e-books

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  • R.I.P. Irony (100,00 BCE - 2025)

  • Microsoft Mysteriously Freezes Accounts for VeraCrypt, WireGuard, Windscribe

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  • Amazon: Older Kindles can no longer download e-books

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  • Just another day in the life of an enshittificator.

    Corporations like Amazon are a scourge. Switch to free and open formats, software and hardware. Ditch what you can. Hack and pirate what you must. Starve big tech.

  • Amazon: Older Kindles can no longer download e-books

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  • At least for the kindle platform, they've stopped offering a USB option a while ago, precisely to keep people from circumventing their planned obsolescence.

  • WireGuard VPN developer can't ship software updates after Microsoft locks account | TechCrunch

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  • “We’ve been trying to resolve this for over a month, and getting nowhere. Support is non-existent,” Windscribe said in its post. “Anyone know a human with a brain that still works at Microsoft and can help?”

    Microslop. The word is Microslop, for reasons you have just experienced first-hand.

  • Thousands of consumer routers hacked by Russia’s military

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  • When connected devices visited the selected domains, their connections were proxied through malicious servers before reaching their intended destination.These adversary-in-the-middle servers used self-signed certificates. When the end user clicked through browser warnings, the servers captured all traffic passing through them.

    🙈🙈🙈

    We really, really, really need to teach people to read error messages, particularly certificate warnings, and not click "accept" at the drop of a hat.

  • I've been busy

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  • I'm still not sure what it is you're asking. If by "finding" you mean

    • finding sources for your music: search engines are your friend. Your tastes are likely not so exotic they will exist nowhere else on the net.
    • procuring the media themselves: borrow CDs from the library / friends or buy and rip them. Buy digital files. Procure them in... other ways.
    • accessing the files you own to your devices: USB / cloud transfer. Self-hosting and streaming to your devices (see my OP above).

    If you have really never assembled a library of music you truly own, start now, and start small. Don't let the large number Spotify gives you trick you into believing you need that. Realistically, you're not listening to a fraction of the 7k songs it gives you all day every day. Focus on the albums/artists you really cannot live without, and once that is settled, branch out to the more exotic parts of your playlist.

  • The founder of /e/os is anti-security

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  • Do you think it’s possible for companies or individuals to not comply with court ordered surveillance and search warrants?

    Companies can't, no. That's precisely my point. Hence your argument that iOS is more "secure" than any other bar Graphene is disingenuous. iOS is developed by a company which can be (and likely already has been) pressured into compromising its users on behalf of three-letter agencies. The NSA slides are strong evidence of that.

    Large collectives of devs spread out all over the world, however, can withstand such pressures since they're hard to get a hold of. The developers of OSs such as Graphene, Debian or Lineage could easily resist such attempts, simply because they're not a legal entity incorporated inside a single jurisdiction.

    You're correct in saying that Apple is "selling" privacy and security (as in: marketing, pinky-promising). They may be selling that story, but I ain't buying it.

  • YouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads!

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  • Did that years ago. Add Jellyfin, Navidrome and Retroarch for a perfect living room media centre/retro gaming rig.

  • YouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads!

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  • Video content eats storage like nothing else.

    And now storage is being eaten by data centres in their quest to force yet more AI slop on people in order to keep the bubble going just a little longer before the inevitable collapse.

  • YouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads!

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  • I've read that YT is injecting the ads directly into the video stream, i.e. the source is not ads.someshittycompany.com, but rather videos.google.com (which you cannot block for obvious reasons). The only solution to kill ads is to use addons like uBlock or client software like Freetube, Newpipe and the like that strip out the ads in some other way.

  • The founder of /e/os is anti-security

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  • Degoogled FairPhone users: which camera app do you use?

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  • Any idea what the default cam is on /e/OS? Is it opencamera?