Joshua Crawford has moved @jlcrawf@librem.one
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Joined May 2019
@realcaseyrollins
well the square root of -1 is kind of imaginary.
@realcaseyrollins
My second biggest problem with newer cars (not just electric, though they are the worst offenders) is that they make you pay for subscriptions to allow cars to do something that the car is completely physically capable of doing except they have it disabled in software.
@realcaseyrollins
My biggest problem with any newer vehicle, but especially the electric vehicles is the control that the manufacturers keep over them. I stopped using windows because of forced updates. If it is my computer, I will decide what gets installed and when.
Likewise, with Tesla's, they can update the software on your car without your permission. This power will be abused.
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I've only recommended one VPN service, ever (and no, I don't have any financial relationship to them): Mullvad. They have always seemed to be one of the few entities that practices the mantra, "You don't have to protect what you don't collect."
This quite a press release:
"Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant. Customer data not compromised
20 April 2023 NEWS
On April 18 at least six police officers from the National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish Police visited the Mullvad VPN office in Gothenburg with a search warrant.
They intended to seize computers with customer data.
In line with our policies such customer data did not exist. We argued they had no reason to expect to find what they were looking for and any seizures would therefore be illegal under Swedish law. After demonstrating that this is indeed how our service works and them consulting the prosecutor they left without taking anything and without any customer information.
If they had taken something that would not have given them access to any customer information.
Mullvad has been operating our VPN service for over 14 years. This is the first time our offices have been visited with a search warrant."
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/07/a-deep-dive-into-the-residential-proxy-service-911/
@realcaseyrollins
If you are talking about the cars driving themselves, it actually works surprisingly well. Scarily so.
@jeremydboreing @twitter @mattwalshblog
No matter your political leanings, this is why you don't use the same password across services.
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You may be aware that @mattwalshblog had his @twitter account hacked last night.
What you may not know is that the attack went well beyond Twitter.
The hackers have managed to gain access to, well, everything, including twenty years of Matt's emails.
@nicksortor
Why don't we have bomb control laws?!!!!
@indie1337@vivaldi.net
My first smartphone was the #pinephone before that all I had were android or iOS devices.
@tazz602
I laughed harder than I probably should have!
@kyle
That is a tremendous loss to Purism. They have a lot of good people, so I am sure that they will survive, but I also know that you did a lot of good work there.
@PublicLewdness @Linux_in_a_Bit
They do not have it in their repository, which is not something that I have a problem with. It is their repository, they can have what they want. I added a repository so that I could install it. The "error" that it gave me was that it could be used to install non-free software.
@Linux_in_a_Bit
This is actually the main reason that I stopped using the fsf endorsed Trisquel linux. It would not allow me to install python because python could be used to install closed source software. It didn't matter that it could also be used to install open source software which I wanted.
It's my computer, I will install what I want. Them deciding that I can't makes them as bad as Microsoft.
@feditips
I know that it is a different setup than most, but the librem server that I am on has DM's disabled. I don't know if you get a rejection message or if the message goes out to nowhere land. Something to keep in mind if you DM somebody and they don't respond.
@lcruggeri @realcaseyrollins @RustyCrab @i
It seems like a bit of a cheat to say, we are just as good if you disable all of the bloatware temporarily, even though we will just turn it back on when you are actually using the machine.
@lcruggeri @realcaseyrollins @RustyCrab @i
Back to @realcaseyrollins 's question, I get disabling things so that the test compares things with similar programs running, but wouldn't a better test be fresh installs with nothing disabled? Especially not disabling things that can't be permanently disasbled?
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@drloupis Pronouns are virtue-signaling, so inevitably, as with all virtue-signaling, they will be used as a shield by bad humans
@feditips
Or that they don't know that is a feature of mastodon. I have been on here for four years and did not know that.
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The US federal govt has just begun implementing a centralized digital currency project (CBDC) to bring about a cashless society where every transaction we make is tracked, monitored, and controlled, thus undermining our autonomy and freedom. To protect our freedom, we must all stand together in rejecting this effort to institute a digital cashless society.
@hamblingreen
The PPP is definitely faster. If you are not using it for calls, then yes, it is entirely worth it. The biggest issue with calls is that the people at the other end hear an echo of thermselves.
I have migrated my account to joshua@mbbc.us
Joined May 2019
