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Given the state of the united states, and the world in general, gaining control over your personal privacy and security are fundamental to any other initiative you undertake

It’s important to remember wolves are pack animals so they would coordinate. Depending on the weight difference I think it could be as few as three

I didn’t look specifically near the wheels, but mostly it’s on the front of the hood. What’s the difference? Because you can’t paint the wheel well?

You can use rss and write a script to filter/summarize your feed. You can even use a local ai to do some of the work for you. The link comes along for the ride regardless.

Are you talking about rss?

I’m confused by the goal and the plan. You have to get pre check for your job, but you find it invasive. So you ruin one of the biometric samples they take? Won’t they look at it more carefully? I doubt they will just throw their handd in the air and say fuck it

It’s almost like if you gut the people who know what they are doing you can’t do the things that you want to do

What about using lynx or eww?

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How are we supposed to know other than you implying what you think the answer is? (Quasi serious question that in and of itself says something about your vibe)

Andrew

Excuse me. ‘Free Software’ is capitalized. It is a proper noun. Do I need to explain to you the differernce between ‘Free as in Freedom’ and ‘free as in beer’?

Just so none of us have to do a web search. What is spotted dick and why is it called that?

An unhealthy attitude for an unhealthy situation. You don’t need thick skin if you dehumanize others. If you work harder, you are typically better at what you do than they are. They are less than you. Contemptable. Useless. Even if politics gives them a leg up, you are necessary, and they are disposable.

Granted this is a maladaptive sociopathic extreme.

Once you download wikipedia, you can edit it and distribute. Other people with their own copies can merge your changes into theirs, or you can push your changes upstream. Even if they need to be signed to accepted. Doesn’t that make Wikipedia more like the Linux Kernel and less like The Encyclopedia Britannica? Sure, for the kernel there is a “main and central” repo, but the whole point of git is that it isn’t centralized. It’s distributed.

In fact, in a loose way, wikipedia meets the criteria of Free Software. You can:

1. Read the source code
2. Modify the source code
3. Distribute the source code
4. Distribute your modifications to the source code

edit: wikipedia is predominately licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL)

I have a fairphone 4 with /e/OS. It’s been everything I’ve needed without being spectacular.

A big complaint is the way you get apps. I don’t add apps often, and often I use adb, but the App Lounge is slow af. I predominately use obtanium to get the apk’s directly. It has F-Droid built in, but if that doesn’t work I use F-Droid proper. This splits my apps into 4 separate bins which I absolutely hate.

The camera also sucks. Stabilization, quality of images, low light, images with motion. They are all bad. Luckily for me, I don’t take pictures of people often. This applies to most camera apps. The default camera app has been patched to eliminate some of these problems, but I haven’t applied it. I’ve heard past the fairphone 4, these problems have largely been fixed.

What could be a dealbreaker for some is something I haven’t verified nor use. (If this is important look into it. I don’t want to spread rumors) The voice typing on the default keyboard now has/will have telemetry. Potentially to Google? I understand Murena needs to make money, and it isn’t personally a dealbreaker, but it is opening a door to other privacy violations. Many people in the community see this as unacceptable and once you’ve violated trust, you never get it back. For me, I’ll hang in there until I see a more substantial reason to switch (same as Proton, but leave me alone about that)

Those are all the negatives of the Fairphone 4 and /e/OS I can think of, but there are many other positives that imho outweigh the negatives. And depending on where you are coming from (e.g. google/samsung android or ios), you have to realize that with phones like the fairphone and roms like /e/OS there are large pros, but there are often large cons. Here, I’ll gladly accept those for what I’m getting in return.

LMK if you have other specific concerns. I might have just left them out. There are also ways I better secure my privacy, but you didn’t ask about that 🙃

Agreeish? (M)any one of us can download wikipedia. Does that still make it centralized when it is designed to be distributed that easily? That design choice is baked into the ethos. Centralized vs. Decentralized seems not to be binary.

My understanding is that booby traps, like landmines, harm indiscriminately. i.e. they harm whoever trips them and not a particular target. And they persist until triggered. So in effect you have a time and target independent death lottery.