linuxandrew

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by linuxandrew 1y ago
NewPipe blocks ads, and optionally blocks Shorts. NewPipe does also happen to break YouTube's terms of service. My opinion is that YouTube should be forced to permit third party clients (interoperate). NewPipe and the various other cli
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by linuxandrew 1y ago
I wonder if one could run Delta Chat on top of yggmail[1] (very much an alpha software release) for a truly P2P IM chat. yggmail runs over IPv6 with a tun interface same as yggdrasil. Might test this out at some point for fun. Not quite the
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by linuxandrew 1y ago
GrapheneOS scores well and rightly so, but my main gripe is that they don't ship F-Droid and they actively steer users to Google Play and Aurora instead. It's weird because the only AOSP app store that has any hope in hell of prov
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by linuxandrew 1y ago
Podman doesn't have a dependency on systemd. e.g. it is packaged in Void Linux. Podman has a better architecture than Docker in that it can easily run on a non-privileged user. Quadlet (aka podman-systemd.unit) is a podman-systemd inte
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by linuxandrew 2y ago
I mean you can find porn on Google and you don't have to look that hard
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by linuxandrew 2y ago
You wouldn't be doing anyone a favour by committing electoral fraud. But that aside, although Australia doesn't require any ID on election day, Australians do register with the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) with their name
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by linuxandrew 2y ago
Me neither, in Qld.
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by linuxandrew 2y ago
Maybe but that would be voter fraud and quite a serious offence, like going to prison for ten years, which is why not many people do that.
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by linuxandrew 2y ago
> They can opt out, by not participating with the site The definition of social media under the legislation is essentially any form of digital communication that allows two or more people to communicate, as decided by the minister. >
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by linuxandrew 2y ago
Ha! We have compulsory voting but unlike many Anglo countries we don't require voter ID, vote registration etc. In fact you do not need to provide any ID to vote, because voting fraud is so statistically low (see https://www
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by linuxandrew 2y ago
myID as it stands is a bit of a farce. It uses OIDC under the hood, but it only supports end users that download the myID app on their smartphone via the Google Play Store or Apple App Store. Security is effectively outsourced to Google and
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by linuxandrew 2y ago
> They specifically don’t prescribe any particular age verification methods. This would be a great time to follow up with legislation that updates their national IDs to be able to provide cryptographically secure proofs of age without le
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by linuxandrew 2y ago
Farting maybe, but the impact from cow burps is measurable and no conspiracy theory. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17517715/
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by linuxandrew 2y ago
Ty, I'll fix it very soon :) Something's up with Certbot and it's probably a trivial fix.
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by linuxandrew 2y ago
I put in a submission to the committee for this issue[1]. The big issues from my point of view are widespread ID validation and the security and privacy consequences of that, definition of social media, lack of controls provided by social m
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by linuxandrew 2y ago
Exactly this. At my old employer we (the sysadmins/operational DBAs) were pushing for newer, supported versions of Postgres. The push back was always the regression testing cycle, amount of desired change and willingness of the product
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by linuxandrew 2y ago
I've recently discovered systemd-nspawn which is an alternative to LXC, builtin and integrated into systemd. Much lighter than full VMs and it's quite similar to Solaris Zones and FreeBSD jails. One way to use it is to extract an
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by linuxandrew 2y ago
Some people recommend avoiding citrus and onions in compost and worm farms typically because worms don't like it in the early stages of decomposition. I've never followed that rule personally and my compost system works really wel
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by linuxandrew 2y ago
Not to mention cherry-picking facts (at best). Case in point, cars today are more environmentally friendly than the 1980s, we are told. So much so that a car driving down the motorway today is greener than a parked car in the 80s. Even over
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by linuxandrew 2y ago
> If you don't like that viewpoint then maybe you shouldn't entrust your private data to an American company that can alter the deal, and you should just pray that they don't alter it further. I don't use Facebook, an
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by linuxandrew 2y ago
> Clearly these users opted in when they signed up for Facebook and then uploaded their photos. Not correct. For instance I, an Australian, had an old Facebook account that I forgot about. I never agreed to any new conditions. In June I
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by linuxandrew 2y ago
> In spite of Manifest V3 being a shit show, I continue to see all manners of evidence that Google wants genuine honest reform for user privacy. The attitude & negativity is at severely problematic levels, and Google actually gets th
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by linuxandrew 2y ago
Not only that, they are the advertising industry, or at least a major player. Moves like Manifest V3, continuing 3P cookies and user-hostile moves on YouTube are all a part of that. Chrome should really not be a part of Google IMO. It&#x2
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by linuxandrew 2y ago
Out of the frying pan and into the fire. With regards to privacy and tracking Chrome/Chromium is so much worse than Firefox. Whether it be terrible defaults, exceptions which allow Google to see your system info, or an incognito mode w
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by linuxandrew 2y ago
> In the story above, a competitor to Teams couldn't "keep up". Is that really Microsoft's problem? Should Microsoft have made Teams more useless, more expensive, or less integrated so that competitors that couldn&#x2
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by linuxandrew 2y ago
I've been "engaging" with Facebook to delete my account, and it does feel awfully like I'm talking to an LLM. We entered a circular argument with me asking exactly why I needed a new email address to delete my account, a
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by linuxandrew 2y ago
Signal Foundation has already said they would leave the EU if Chat Control goes ahead. https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/112535616774247450
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by linuxandrew 2y ago
That's exactly the plan if it's not resolved soon. I intend to make a formal complaint following the Australian Privacy Commissioner's process[1], and if it's not resolved, then a complaint to the Privacy Commissioner. U
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by linuxandrew 2y ago
I deleted my then-active Facebook account at the end of 2023 without issue. Last week I found out via an email about AI @ Meta that I still have an old account, which I don't have the password for, but still have access to the email ad
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by linuxandrew 2y ago
There's one in Brisbane, Aus near where I live. Lots of big roads and motorways carve up remnant bushland and a few of those roads now have wildlife underpasses and/or overpasses for animals. Unfortunately new motorways are still

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