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  • What do you recommend for batch converting music files?

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  • thanks, going to try it :)

  • Against ‘chat control’: we can’t eliminate child abuse by eliminating privacy

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  • Some government any day now: To fight CP, we are going to make children illegal.

  • Possible near future or even present.

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  • Wait... that's what ml stands for??? I got here because it advertised itself as being for opensource software enthusiasts haha

  • Possible near future or even present.

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  • I don't know much about Lemmy and I'm new here, but on Mastodon there seem to be just an illusion of federation because it's actually ruled by peer-pressure. Instance A doesn't like instance B so it defederates from it (absolutely fair), then it goes and tell instance C to also defederate from B else its going to tell instance D, E and F to defederate from C, and so on.... remember when people bullied mastodon.lol admin into closing his 18k members instance just because he didn't want to ban users for liking the Harry Potter game?

  • Possible near future or even present.

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  • I feel like the Fediverse has even more thought police than regular social media.

  • Why Signal over Jabber/XMPP?

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  • If I could get a single person to use Signal instead of Whatsapp... or even the nerds I know to use matrix instead of Discord...

  • Opinions on DuckDuckGo Browser and services (search, AI, translate, VPN, email aliases...)?

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  • update: Lumo sucks.

  • Winded windows become a privacy nightmare?

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  • If you use something like simplewall or Portmaster you can block every OS communication with the mothership and make it look like you are offline for them :)
    Probably soon they are making it that you can't use Windows offline though lol

  • Winded windows become a privacy nightmare?

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  • But up until recently you could download packages and utilities directly from their site, now you are forced to do it through Microsoft Store. I just started this new Win11 laptop and right after debloating the shit out of it I noticed the updates didn't install HEIC and AV1 codecs and there was no way for me to install them without getting Microsoft Store back, so I restored it and downloaded them and then removed Microsoft Store... guess what? Removing it removed the downloads as well lol

  • How do you all stay calm with all this pressure

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  • maybe the guy is just brown and afraid of the ICE?
    being brown is a dangerous activity nowadays.

  • Another L for bigotry

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  • My point is that what we fear bible‑thumpers can do, qur’an‑thumpers are already doing in several parts of the world, so they must be treated as an equal threat.

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  • thanks :)

  • Another L for bigotry

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  • I love Handmaid's Tale, I suggest you reading Persepolis as well, this is one is a true history though.

  • Another L for bigotry

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  • I never claimed to have Muslim friends though, just arab friends :P
    About religions, I'm a "phobe" of them all.

  • Opinions on DuckDuckGo Browser and services (search, AI, translate, VPN, email aliases...)?

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  • Word (about being practically useless). I have been using it to automate some stuff, like when I'm creating a json I just paste a bunch of data there and ask it to format for me, but I have to do in small batches and constantly correct the way it's doing... Chat GPT was way better, but I don't want to use it anymore
    Sometimes I use AI to grammar check me (I'm not a native speaker) if I'm unsure of what I'm writing or I absolutely want to write stuff correctly, I did it a few times in Lumo, but I didn't use it enough to compare with duck.ai, so I can't say if it's better or worse - but I always add "don't rewrite, just point errors, ignore slurs, ignore slang, ignore informal language, ignore internet lingo" etc etc, and they go and rewrite my sentence changing everything hehe (again, Chat GPT was way better)

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  • I've read this on GrapheneOS page

    "Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they're currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface. Gecko doesn't have a WebView implementation (GeckoView is not a WebView implementation), so it has to be used alongside the Chromium-based WebView rather than instead of Chromium, which means having the remote attack surface of two separate browser engines instead of only one. Firefox / Gecko also bypass or cripple a fair bit of the upstream and GrapheneOS hardening work for apps. Worst of all, Firefox does not have internal sandboxing on Android. This is despite the fact that Chromium semantic sandbox layer on Android is implemented via the OS isolatedProcess feature, which is a very easy to use boolean property for app service processes to provide strong isolation with only the ability to communicate with the app running them via the standard service API. Even in the desktop version, Firefox's sandbox is still substantially weaker (especially on Linux) and lacks full support for isolating sites from each other rather than only containing content as a whole. The sandbox has been gradually improving on the desktop but it isn't happening for their Android browser yet." https://grapheneos.org/usage

    And all I use is Gecko-based hehe (although on desktop), I'm currently using Brave just to have some old/disposable accs logged, but I'm looking for Chromium alternatives... and I just looked at ungoogled git and it seems like I have to download a bunch of stuff to compile it myself, argh, I hate that :P

  • Many Eyes

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  • I'm also in no way qualified to check code, so I just trust that if something has a lot of forks it means a lot of people are looking at it.

  • Another L for bigotry

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  • I'm sure some are, actually in the last Israeli incursion in Lebanon our government sent planes to rescue several of our citizens that were there and majority seemed to be Muslim, but they were probably part of a newer immigration and I'm not sure if there are communities or if it's individual families that immigrated, because the historical mass immigration that we had here (which started in the 1880s) and founded a strong community was actually running from Muslims. As I said, it's the largest Syrian and Lebanese population outside their own countries, it's not just some small community, so they are very well spread and integrated, they even founded our most important hospital (which, by the way, is called Sírio-Libanês). How do I know? Well, turn out I went to college just to study history, but I do personally know Syrian/Lebanese descendants because, as a I said, they are not few, I went to school with several, they introduced me to arak, great times, also my mom's godfather was Lebanese... but that doesn't matter because I'm sure you already know everything about me and my country's history.

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  • I’m always amused by the amount of people who think Muslim is a race... my country has the largest Syrian and Lebanese population outside their countries, all very cool people with the most delicious restaurants and a very proud of their culture... none Muslim, though. The immigration actually started with people fleeing from Ottoman religious persecution.
    I miss the pan-Arabism, but the USA has managed to slowly crush all secular regimes and groups in the region, first by training and arming radical religious militias to fight the Soviets, and then doing that just to take control of the region's resources, and all that was left were destroyed cultures ruled by religious fundamentalists.

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Opinions on DuckDuckGo Browser and services (search, AI, translate, VPN, email aliases...)?

  • Technology @lemmy.ml
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    What happened to offline installers?

  • Mastodon @lemmy.ml
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    Any general-purpose instance with 1000+ character limit?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Snowflake addon = Tor relay? Oo

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Benn Jordan doing an amazing work showing the state of surveillance we are living in

    invidious.f5.si /watch
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Proton VPN and Portmaster breaking each other?

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    Simple and light alternatives to Notepad, Paint and Calculator (Win11 lol)

  • Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org
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    Like VLC but for images? (Win11)

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    Like VLC but for images? (Win11)