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Technology@lemmy.world•Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settingsEnglish
3·6 days agoThe more I think about this, the more I think it’s a really big problem how much Web surfing runs on Chromium.
It’s why I think Firefox (and forks) are the only real alternative to chrome. Switching to edge, Vivaldi, opera, Helium, brave; none of it truly gets you away from google’s dominance.
I suppose there’s always safari/webkit too, but that’s apple.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of UsersEnglish
4·8 days agoOh, yes. If I mention that “well you’ve made an account before” they will immediately be convinced.
I am still going to try, don’t take my prior comment as me throwing in the towel, but the chances are slim I’ll be able to convince all the people I’d want to. And even if they make an account, chances are they’ll rarely boot up the app and forget about it.
Discord has a certain critical mass that will be difficult to beat.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of UsersEnglish
151·8 days agoIs it though?
I don’t mind making another account, but I’ll have a hard time convincing many of my friends.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Your smartwatch is lying to you about how many calories you burned, Study findsEnglish
3·11 days agoMy Garmin shaking on my wrist during a drive will increase my step count.
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World News@lemmy.world•‘We’ll never ever back down’: Doug Ford unveils new Lake Ontario sign days after Trump renamingEnglish
4·15 days agoThe late Rob Ford was the one that was on tape smoking crack and was the mayor of Toronto. Doug is his brother.
They were very much a proto-trump, “anti-establishment”.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Proton analyzed 7,000+ mobile VPN apps. 64 apps actively collect physical location via GPS or other geolocation, 3 are owned by market research firms, and 85% of them contain trackers.English
701·16 days agoJust because it is, doesn’t mean it can’t contain useful data.
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Technology@lemmy.world•World's largest open library calls for volunteers to scan and preserve physical books as AI companies buy, scan, and destroy them — Anna's Archive says ‘time is running out’ as ‘knowledge is permanentEnglish
20·21 days agoThose who want to conduct large-scale scans and upload many titles can reach out to the archive for support, as the archive says that it “can help pay for the scanning fees and other rewards.”
That’s never sat right with me either.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Here’s The Argument For Why A Disc-Free PlayStation Could Actually Drive Game Prices DownEnglish
4·29 days agoThe author is somewhat critical of what they’re reporting on, the headline isn’t their own stance.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock OriginEnglish
2·29 days agoVivaldi is pretty neat, but as far as I understand it’s a closed source Chromium browser. Its my back-up one for when Zen(/Firefox) is having issues with a page, which thankfully is infrequent.
The main reason I steer clear from Brave is because of its founder (former Mozilla employee) who has donated to an anti-gay bill among other things.
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Technology@lemmy.world•YouTuber Hank Green Is Facing a Fan Revolt Over His AI UseEnglish
223·1 month agoYeah, I feel the response has gotten way out of hand. Sure, I’m not happy about it. But I have some faith Hank will actually reflect on the situation.
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Technology@lemmy.world•New EU law requires devices to be repairable - Every phone, television or washing machine you buy in Europe must be easier to repair starting tomorrow. That’s when the European Right to Repair Act takEnglish
7·1 month agoThat enforcement only came into effect recently.
You can also buy kits to lift the back of glass sandwich phones, but that isn’t the most straightforward process.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion copyright settlement to authors, publishersEnglish
71·2 months agoInformation between you and me? Yes.
Information a trillion dollar company really wants to get their greedy hands on? Fuck you, play by the rules of the society you have shaped.
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Android@lemmy.world•Fred TV 2.0: Ultra-Fast Open-Source IPTV app, now will full Android TV support and much more!English
3·2 months agoThat’s not what that means. Open source/source available only pertains to how the source code is published, it has nothing to do with how the app itself is distrubuted/sold.
Open source distributions are usually free, but don’t have to be.
Open source code may be copied in part or in full, source available generally may not.
Similarly, just because an app is closed source doesn’t mean it can’t be free.Does the GPL allow me to sell copies of the program for money?
Yes, the GPL allows everyone to do this. The right to sell copies is part of the definition of free software. Except in one special situation, there is no limit on what price you can charge.
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowMoney
There are open source licences that say you can’t charge money for any project which use said licenced code, but that’s not the case with the (A)GPL licence used here.
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World News@lemmy.world•American-style tipping system is gaining ground in the NetherlandsEnglish
1·2 months agoMoney, unfortunately, talks.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft Blocks Browser Choice for 1.4 Billion Windows 10/11 Users, Study FindsEnglish
6·2 months agoTeams too.
New Outlook also really wants you to send files through onedrive. When dragging a file in you get two big fields to drop it into, one for actual attachment, the other for a onedrive link. After you go for the former, it has the gall to add another small banner with “upload to onedrive”.Fffffuck off
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Android@lemmy.world•Fairphone 6 Review: The Ethical SmartphoneEnglish
4·2 months agoDo you know if Android Auto works with /e/os?
I’m using regular android on my fp6, but given everything google does–
I wish there was an easier way to try it out without the need to wipe/move everything.
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Technology@lemmy.world•EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: "Our children lose out"English
3·2 months agoCorrect. All the big cloud drive providers are scanning everything you upload.
I remember there was an article about onedrive even cracking password protected zip files.
I was curious what that was:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/return-youtube-dislikes/reviews/2746239