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  • Iron Village is a sweet super-casual city-builder and railway manager out now

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  • They would need to run their own instance, which might not be something they want to do

  • thanks doc

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  • That would be $249.99 please

  • Official: Tsunoda to replace Lawson at Red Bull from Japanese GP

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  • It feels unfair to Lawson, he got to drive 2 races on the tracks he never drove before, with not much of adaptation time to the car that even Max and others at RB admit is hard to drive. I hope that car will not break Yuki's career in the same way. Although he was probably on the way out from VCARB by the end of the season without Honda's backing anyway, so that might be the best chance for him.

  • Vivaldi as alternative?

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  • LibreWolf is a decent alternative. I switched to it a while ago as Firefox enshittification required more and more tweaks in configuration to close leaks.

    I've heard good things about Mullvad browser too especially on fingerprint resistance, but LibreWolf works for me well enough to not search for alternatives.

    For rare sites that I need to use and which don't work in Firefox based browsers, I just use Brave.

  • Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta

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  • Because the data used in browser fingerprinting is also used to render pages. Example: a site needs to know the size of browser window to properly fit all design elements.

  • TIL, Reddit blocks VPNs since last march.

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  • No. I'm using Tor for Reddit all the time since they banned VPN. Reddit even has their .onion site

  • What's your definition of a wealthy person? Sure, Bezos is rich, but where do you put the threshold?

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  • Well, luxury and rich are closely related terms, aren't they? I think what you described is a financial independence.

    I'd add that if you can support your desired level of luxurity for yourself and your family without working anymore - that's being rich.

    Edit: I misread the original question, which was asking about wealthy, not rich. Still, I think my answer applies

  • Outside first DOGE caucus meeting, Republican says ‘there will be some cuts’ to Social Security

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  • Social Security fund invested in government bonds, so the interest from that goes into the fund.

    To be fair the budget deficit was there before Trump. His campaign promises are going to increase it, but they can offset that partially with spending cuts. Also, the government has been using money from the Social Security fund routinely, again nothing new under Trump. They just count it as an internal debt. According to Wikipedia, by 2022 it's been already about 20% of the fund "borrowed" by the government.

  • Revolut, McDonald's, and Authy have banned the use of GrapheneOS.

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  • Apple does extensive audit of mobile apps, including limitations of tracking. So the app cannot spy on something you are not letting it to know. But you are giving it a bunch of info voluntarily.

    I'd say using that app on iOS is similar to making a food delivery order using a loyalty member ID. Basically, you are letting the company (McDonald's) know who you are, what is your phone number, where do you live, and what do you like to eat. And if they wish to, they could use all that to purchase your profile from a data brocker. Or they can sell that info for a few cents to make up on that discount.

  • Are there good uses for the blockchain?

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  • Private transactions, despite what people here are saying. Let me explain:

    1. Privacy is not equal to anonymity. The latter is much harder to achieve.

    2. There is Monero, a crypto made specifically for anonymity. It's not very convenient to use, but it is preserving anonymity with multiple measures.

    3. Even Bitcoin, which is not built for that purpose, is private enough. It depends on how you use it.

    4. Deanonimization in general happens when you link your transaction with personal identifying information, but you can reduce your exposure by following certain opsec rules. I see this situation is better than traditional banking where your transactions are always not anonymous, and privacy is only protected by the bank itself. Data leaks happen, governments can get to your transaction info via legal means, but with crypto you have more options to protect yourself.

  • Most Common Country of Birth for Foreign-Born Residents (excluding Mexico), by State.

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  • Wrong guess. There is Germany on the list

  • A petition has been created by an Austrian EU rep. to replace Windows with GNU/Linux in all Europe

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  • This petition is for developing something dubbed "EU-Linux", so if implemented as is will be pretty uniform

  • An absolute bargain!

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  • A million or two shitcoins can buy you that easily

  • "Windows Intelligence": Microsoft may drop Copilot in major AI rebranding

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  • Microsoft is famous for nonsensical product and feature renamings. There is Microsoft 365 Copilot in their enterprise offerings, which integrates well with Copilot in Windows. And there is a tool to build your own Copilots with customized logic and data sources.

  • How is it that "protecting basic democracy and the rule of law, and not crowning a criminal dictator" wasn't even on the chart?!

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  • I don't think people want to vote for a party. People want to vote for someone who's making sense for them, and looks like for majority it was Trump this time.

    An "actual left wing party" must not only have ideology, but a sound plan on how to improve people's lives and an ability to communicate this plan to people, loud and clear. Actually, as populists are now trusted everywhere in the world, the plan is less important than communication

  • If Trump wins the election thru fraud how can the democrats refute it and prove they won? Or will it just be like another Jan 6 and four years of whining like Trump?

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  • Who are "they"? Child trafficking democrats? Oh, sorry, it was from another conspiracy theory.

    No offense, I just think that the idea of some masterminds ruling everything from behind the curtains is a bit ridiculous.

  • If Trump wins the election thru fraud how can the democrats refute it and prove they won? Or will it just be like another Jan 6 and four years of whining like Trump?

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  • Yeah, this scenario seems... feasible. I've read people were contemplating Obama to run for Kamala's VP before Waltz was chosen. And this attempt would certainly end up in Supreme Court.

  • If Trump wins the election thru fraud how can the democrats refute it and prove they won? Or will it just be like another Jan 6 and four years of whining like Trump?

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  • Russian Constitution literally had this phrase "A same person cannot be a President for more than two terms in a row", so it was already opened for an interpretation they did. This actually had changed for just "two terms" in 2020, but provided another excuse for Putin to be elected.

    Anyhow, in US Constitution the 22nd amendment says that "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice", so there is no room for interpretation. Even conservative SCOTUS would not do that.

  • Linus Torvalds on the kernel, GenAI, EVs, programming languages and more…[Video Podcast 49:58]

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  • Jeez, what an impressive troll work in the comments

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    First hand experience with TSA biometric collection in airport

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Microsoft addresses Windows Recall backlash, promises to fix security issues and make it opt-in

    www.windowscentral.com /software-apps/windows-11/microsoft-addresses-windows-recall-backlash-promises-to-fix-security-issues-and-make-it-opt-in
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Does self-hosted VPN make sense?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Preparing to move from Ubuntu to Fedora

  • Privacy Guides @lemmy.one
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    Privacy respecting language learning tool?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Privacy respecting location tracking without phone

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Congressional Report Finds Meta and Tax Prep Companies “Recklessly” Shared Taxpayers’ Data

    themarkup.org /pixel-hunt/2023/07/12/congressional-report-finds-meta-and-tax-prep-companies-recklessly-shared-taxpayers-data