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  • Do you have an app that you use for a unique or uncommon purpose?

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  • Well, that's the thing. I wasn't going to bow down to that app's demands or put a band-aid on it, I had to conquer it.

  • Do you have an app that you use for a unique or uncommon purpose?

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  • There is a particular camera app that a few of my close friends and I have used for group photos since over a decade ago. It's proprietary and tracker-infested, but there's a certain humor and nostalgia to the filters and effects that I've never found a good way to replicate without the app. It's sort of an in-joke that we insist on using it whenever we do get together. So I have it on my secondary device and painstakingly patched the apk so it can run without any unnecessary permissions.

  • Equal Earth Map

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  • I'm really happy that the schools I went to used a similar projection for all of their world map posters. I think there's more educational value to seeing all the landmasses and countries properly scaled in size. It's not like we're going to navigate the world using some random Mercator projection poster torn from the wall.

  • New financed postmarketOS project: q6voice(d)

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  • Shutter times are ridiculous on mine. The preview will be perfectly focused already, but then it takes a good second to actually capture, by that time it might already have lost focus. Capture resolution aside, it's literally faster to screenshot the preview. And got into an argument with a friend once because the shutter time made miss a shot.

  • Have you ever been summoned for Jury Duty in either the US & Canada?

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  • Not yet, but everyone I know that were summoned, total 3 instances, never actually served.

  • Brower Data - Why are they not doing more?

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  • I don't have a good answer, but I wonder the same and about the technical reasons why, if some websites require such data, the browser can't just lie and touch up rendering in post to fit whatever unique window size I have. AFAIK, uBlock already does some of its own CSS touch-up so there aren't awkward gaps where ads once were.

    Of the browsers I've tried out, the Cromite project goes furthest to mitigate and obfuscate the data it hands out, but in their words, it's still not comprehensive.

  • How likely is it that there's an animal on earth that's smarter than human beings in key areas?

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  • All sorts of animals have superior application-specific circuitry. Like bearded vultures that, while in flight, can drop bones precisely onto rocks to break them open and get at the marrow. But they lack the general-purpose processing power needed to abstract such skills into mathematical representations. Same abstraction likely needed to apply one skill creatively to other uses or apply logic to analyze something.

    I'm no neuroscientist/biologist, but I could see an ideal scenario and measurement setup where dolphins and orcas maybe rival our general-purpose intelligence. But whatever it is, it still isn't enough for them to build any recognizable society yet.

  • Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE - allows any unprivileged local user to gain root access on a vulnerable Linux system - no patch available

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  • Removing all the system-level bloat that makes them unpleasant to use, perhaps stripping one down to the level of a fancy MP3 player with its microSD slot. Also having "disposable" phones to play with various rooted tweaks. All of my easily-rootable phones are too valuable as daily drivers to experiment on, while all of the ones I don't care about also don't have rooting methods yet.

  • RSS Lemmy Posting Bot from Facebook?

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  • Or maybe Meta’s walled garden is impenetrable to scraping?

    afaik, that's the case for Instagram. After scouring the internet for frontends, there are 3 archetypes:

    • black boxes like imginn, gets you images and nothing else. no source code to audit, self-host, or build an API
    • self-hostable frontends that get rate limited almost instantly, even for a single user
    • proper alternative clients that got cease-and-desisted into the ground

    They did a great job making a panopticon, closed to the outside, yet devoid of privacy

  • Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE - allows any unprivileged local user to gain root access on a vulnerable Linux system - no patch available

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  • Can't wait for one that'll work on Android so I can maybe root some otherwise useless old phones

  • We should push other phone OEM's such as Fairphone and Samsung to work with PostmarketOS, GrapheneOS, and Ubuntu Touch

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  • Both tantalizingly close with respect to GrapheneOS. I wouldn't expect Samsung to ever support the other two, but their phones are supposed to have every security element GOS expects. Only problem is that Samsung wants to make their own walled-garden ecosystem a la Apple.

    I do remember reading somewhere that GrapheneOS is open to someone making a GSI (generic system image) port that would work with phones like Fairphone, which GOS don't want to officially support due to a lack of security features. I wonder if anyone has started work on such a thing.

  • systemd being mainstream is alarming and goes against the philosophy of linux

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  • There is a lot to justify my move to Linux in hindsight, including privacy, less bloat, the nature of FOSS, etc. But before I really understood those concepts, a good chunk of why I switched over was my dissatisfaction with the loss of customization options starting with Windows 8.

    I'd still never bounce back to Windows, of course, though I am strongly considering writing a full theming engine like Kvantum, but to act as a libadwaita replacement/shim, if it creeps into too many packages I use on a daily basis. I'm glad to see that the theming can be altered in some capacity system-wide, rather than being baked into each package.

  • What do you think of supermium browser?

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  • A fine way to browse the modern web on old versions of Windows. Which is a niche use case that I personally don't encounter.

    If I'm logging in to services tied to my real identity and need to absolutely make sure everything on the website works correctly, I use plain Chromium from the Debian repo.

  • What do you think of supermium browser?

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  • Well now I can't unsee it

  • systemd being mainstream is alarming and goes against the philosophy of linux

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  • I feel this but with libadwaita apps. Stick out like a sore thumb, can't theme them, and many aren't even GNOME's own core apps.

  • Online shopping, privacy and behavior prediction. A rant.

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  • No fun. If I order something that requires a signature, I probably won't be home at the delivery time to sign the package. So it gets dropped off at the post office, and when I go there to pick it up, they also ask for an ID matching the name on the package.

    Admittedly, I've stopped trying on this end since I order to my actual home address, which would be trivial for any company to trace back to my name. I try to find everything I can in a physical store and pay with cash, the rest is usually niche hobbyist electronics that would never make it to a store.

    Also used to be that you could go into a physical store, buy a prepaid credit card with cash, then spend it online. But fewer and fewer websites are accepting those prepaid cards.

  • The hardest thing about maintaining ur online privacy are the people around you.

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  • thank god my family discouraged me from using those services back before I became privacy-conscious

  • Data SIM for mobile router

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  • Prepaid IoT sim cards

    Not a heavy user, so I purchased one for 60 US that gets me 365 days of service or 24 GB, whichever depletes sooner. It defaults to T-Mobile coverage but can fall back to AT&T. No KYC. There are more premium options that get you Verizon coverage, also saw one advertising 300 GB a month at 50 Mbps for 350 a year, haven't tried those yet though.

    For the curious, I purchased from https://www.smartsimpro.com/, their website doesn't give the best first impressions, but I can say that their data plan does work reliably for me once I configured the APN settings.

  • Do True crime shows make you paranoid too?

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  • Admittedly it has affected my decisions, but to a lesser extent and not towards the people I meet in daily life. My paranoia is more focused on what an unexpected intruder could do, so I have fortified the entry points to my house a bit more.

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Does anyone else randomly get a stale, rubbery smell on their hands?

  • ThinkPad @lemmy.ml
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    X230 Users: how's your battery life and any suggested optimizations?

  • Lemmy Support @lemmy.ml
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    Timestamp language while pages are loading

  • ThinkPad @lemmy.ml
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    Some notes on me_cleaner with the (quad-core) X230

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Compatibility of Volla Phone 22 and FuriLabs FLX1 with US carriers?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What do you think of imitation and lab-grown meats?

  • DeGoogle Yourself @lemmy.ml
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    Options for backing up the stock ROM?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Why exactly does AI-generated comic/cartoon/2D art look so off-putting?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    If and how much longer until they take cash and browser-based banking from us?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Has anyone's browser failed the Anubis challenge on some sites but not every site?

  • ThinkPad @lemmy.ml
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    Observations on aftermarket batteries (based on the **10 ~ **30 series)

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Most people seem to assume fire alarms are false alarms. Is that how it's always worked? What can be done about it?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Can I automatically "preload" light-locker (or any screen locker) upon suspend?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    How to get started with anonymous cryptocurrency payments?

  • Hardware @lemmy.ml
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    Passively cooled system - N100 or Pi 5?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Recommendations for a tablet PC on a budget?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Volume control not working on USB audio device

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What could possibly make my left shoe develop leaks so often?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    What do you prefer: icon view or detailed list view?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Half of my typos are due to my right hand reacting faster than my left. Are there good ways to correct this?