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lwn.net 20d ago

CalyxOS is back

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www.theregister.com 2mo ago

AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies

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obdev.at 3mo ago

LittleSnitch for Linux

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www.stepsecurity.io 4mo ago

Hackerbot-Claw: An AI-Powered Bot Actively Exploiting GitHub Actions

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www.youtube.com 7mo ago

Rust Training Sessions by Circl

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www.libravatar.org 1y ago

Libravatar: FOSS alternative to Automattic-owned Gravatar

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distrosea.com 2y ago

Test drive Linux distros online

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aeon.co 2y ago

Why strive? Stephen Fry reads Nick Cave's letter on the threat of AI [video]

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en.wikipedia.org 3y ago

Ella Minnow Pea: a progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable

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nimblebubble.com 3y ago

Nimble Bubble Feedback Training

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euromaidanpress.com 3y ago

Candy companies financing Russia’s war in Ukraine

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ooni.org 4y ago

OONI Measurement Aggregation Toolkit (Mat)

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twitter.com 4y ago

Novalpina Capital, the private equity owner of NSO Group is to be dissolved

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www.archaeology.org 5y ago

Last Stand of the Hunter-Gatherers?

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info.shapeshift.io 7y ago

Shining Light on WSJ’s Attack on ShapeShift and Crypto

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arstechnica.co.uk 10y ago

Legal moves to force Facebook to stop sending data to US

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arstechnica.com 11y ago

Microsoft to invest in Cyanogen

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www.pri.org 13y ago

Women form special cab service in Delhi – catering exclusively to women

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vimeo.com 13y ago

It's hip to be square - Static Pixels

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hellofajob.co.il 14y ago

Interviews inside MMORPGs - Yay or Nay?

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Freelancer looking to submit feedback: blog or email?

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github.com 14y ago

Ievms.sh

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gigaom.com 15y ago

EBay acquires Magento

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code.google.com 15y ago

Send files to Dropbox through email with Context.IO

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: What do you look for in freelancers?

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www.no-margin-for-errors.com 16y ago

Unvealing prettyLoader, a solution aimed to unify ajax loaders

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It's one thing to spy on your population/users, it's another to spy on your clients.

You can go all authoritarian fascist if that's what floats your boat, but at least don't backstab people who buy shit from you.

Can't you be repressive and professional?!

There was a time where the default assumption was functionality created tracking opportunities. Nowadays, it's more the opposite. Social media have always been on the forefront of monetizing data, but the same data in the hands of governments is used differently. My point is that the way you/we feel towards Facebook, the entire world is increasingly feeling about most, if not all, US tech.

I know people who won't use Israeli or Chinese-made tech for fears of sabotage. US tech is quickly making its brand in that market.

I mean... if you look at the "Logging on today" section, they're using Chrome on Windows 10/11 and spend half the 17 steps dealing with those two things.

The first thing about the Internet is that you should know by now how to use it, at least as well as it knows how to use you. If not, you will be subjected to the Internet, not using it but being used. The web has evolved to a point where you need to remove a few layers before you find the actual web.

Don't use predatory social media. Don't use Chrome. Don't use Windows. Those three things will get you 90% of the way back. The rest is using the Fediverse, the small web, moving away from Google and subscription shit like Netflix and the rest of the business who trade with your time.

Learn to identify the things that are actively trying to profit off of you and don't use them, even if they're made to be extraordinarily convenient. The web you like is still there, it just takes some effort and know-how to get to.

Wouldn't that be.. acceptable, if not entirely the point? Raising awareness? Some rando getting arrested for a screensaver they didn't know contained a flag is pretty efficient propaganda and would likely turn at least the involved people and their inner circles? It might not be the point but I doubt they'd be disappointed