spacebear

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by spacebear 7mo ago
Not the OP, but I alternate between self-hosted instances of Outline ( https://www.getoutline.com/ ) and Nextcloud (with Collabora) for this. Outline I actually like better than Google Docs for most things. Nextcloud is a lit
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Please don't share our Signal messages with your AI Agent(touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org)
8 points by spacebear 7mo ago|1 comments
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by spacebear 2y ago
Same. Big fan of the YouTube metadata plugin.
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by spacebear 2y ago
I’ve been using Tauon for a few years and have been very happy with it: https://tauonmusicbox.rocks/
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by spacebear 2y ago
They’re also all software developers, right?
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by spacebear 3y ago
Are they worse than streaming? I don’t know the math, but it seems like constantly sending the same album over the network would use a lot of energy.
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by spacebear 3y ago
They’re selling your precise location to data brokers that sell it to the police ( https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/fbi-finally-admi... ) so you can get a deal on french fries that are killing you. T
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by spacebear 3y ago
That’s how I used Instagram in the first half of the 2010s. It seemed like the app was designed for that use case back then. Now it seems like it’s designed primarily for watching ads, so I text my friends instead.
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by spacebear 5y ago
Yes! Strongly agree with this. E2E is easier than you think and will be much harder to add after the fact.
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by spacebear 5y ago
I don't think this is true anymore. The average user may not know what end-to-end encryption is, but they know they don't trust Facebook. And Apple built a whole marketing campaign around user privacy. I think most people do care
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by spacebear 5y ago
Also, that massively centralizes the Internet in a way that's not great. If one of those CDNs gets hacked or just goes down for an hour, it breaks every website that uses it.
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Facebook is shutting down its facial recognition software(cnn.com)
2 points by spacebear 5y ago|1 comments
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by spacebear 5y ago
I think that they can do that is the problem, though? If you don’t like the way Google is running things, you can swap out the OS on your Pixel for one of several open source privacy-focused Android forks. But if Apple does something to iOS
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by spacebear 5y ago
Yes. We live in a world where our only real freedom is our purchasing decisions. I think that leads to people making brands, TV shows, video games, etc. a big enough part of their identity that criticism of that thing feels like criticism
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by spacebear 5y ago
Your every move is quite literally transmitted to Apple. That's how Find My works.
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by spacebear 5y ago
I would argue that modern TVs and smartphones are some of the most common ways that people are wasting their precious time on earth these days, but do what makes you happy I guess.
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by spacebear 5y ago
Maybe it's not, but this sure looks like a predatory data grab.
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by spacebear 5y ago
My bet is they wait a few months and quietly announce that they’ll do the scanning on the iCloud servers instead. That would be relatively uncontroversial in the tech press and probably never make it to the mainstream press.
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by spacebear 5y ago
If the million customers they lose also happen to be people who build apps and influence the tech buying decisions of everyone they know, that could be a very big problem over time.
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by spacebear 5y ago
I find the 3000x2000 mode mentioned here works well: https://community.frame.work/t/using-elementary-os-on-the-fr...
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by spacebear 5y ago
Likewise. I'm running Pop!_OS on mine. When I pre-ordered, I figured there was a 50/50 chance the thing would even ship. But it shipped exactly when they said it would, and it's fantastic. I'm very impressed with Framewo
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by spacebear 5y ago
I just switched to a Framework from a 2018 MacBook Pro. My take: the display is comparable, the keyboard is much better, and the trackpad is fine, but not as good as Apple's.
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by spacebear 5y ago
Many sex workers have been warning against political censorship for exactly this reason: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/532137-sex-workers-war...
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by spacebear 5y ago
Unfortunately, phones are most people’s primary computer.
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by spacebear 5y ago
Haha, likewise. I've been walking around for the past year thinking about how this should exist. Glad it does now!
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by spacebear 5y ago
It’s so tragic. We all have these supercomputers in our pocket and we’re not allowed to really use them. Imagine what kids would make if they could code apps on device and Airdrop them to their friends.
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by spacebear 5y ago
This article ignores the human rights aspect. We need to be able to install software independent of the App Store to work around government censorship. As is, if my government asks Apple to take down VPN apps, they will do it, and I’m left
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by spacebear 5y ago
Many of the jobs on the 80,000 hours board actually seem quite evil: "Research Scientist, AI. Facebook" "Data Scientist, Technology and Resource Investment Decision-making. US Government, Central Intelligence Agency" &qu
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by spacebear 5y ago
I think what the author is arguing for is allowing iOS users to install software without Apple’s permission.
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by spacebear 6y ago
It's not so much "unable" as "deeply invested in exacerbating the problem".

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