fart_pickle 22h ago • 100%
They don't use it only for improving user experience. Based on a user profile they can bump your premiums just because you posted a photo on a snowboard (risky activity) or they can deny you a loan because someone posted on your timeline that you own someone some money.
Also based on your profile you are manipulated to buy products/services you don't really need.
fart_pickle 2d ago • 96%
I wonder how much Google spends on bribes?
fart_pickle 2d ago • 100%
Oh man, I had a few of those. For privacy reasons I won't disclose any of it but I've spent some chunk of my life in hospitals. What I can tell is that none was a life changing experience. I did made some adjustments to avoid such issues in the future but the whole "I almost died, it made me a different person" wasn't my thing.
fart_pickle 2d ago • 100%
Let me tell you a story. Many years ago I worked for big banks and insurance companies. One day I was tasked with a project. It was an amazing, from the tech point of view, project. It was something like this: a user navigates to a bank website looking for information about some product. The website presents the user a simple contact form - first name, last name, phone number and/or email. Based on provided data bank would use it to update user data (if there was no official account it would update the "ghost" account, aka "I know about you, but you don't know about me"). Next the bank would scrape all publicly available social media accounts and build the "hidden" profile (I'll get to this later). Based on all that data, user would be assigned a score based on which all future interaction with a bank would be determined. For a regular person this would mean that "I'm sorry but according to our system we cannot give you a loan".
Now, about the "hidden" profile. It's a thing that all big companies (including banks and insurance companies) hold. It's all the data collected from all publicly available profiles (and sometimes from the shady sites), used to create a profile that's not visible to a frontline workers and it's referenced as a "system decided based on your data".
Now, to make this more scary. This happened 10-15 years ago. Way before the so called AI. Imagine how much more data those companies have about you in today's world and how good they are in processing it.
fart_pickle 2d ago • 90%
I second that. If you express unpopular opinion in the most civilized way, engage in the discussion defending that opinion you will still get banned/downvoted because mod was in a bad mood. I've blocked many big communities because of that.
fart_pickle 2d ago • 100%
Well, it's more than one thing but I don't consider myself as a prepper.
- I have a few months' worth of food both frozen and canned/dried/long lasting.
- I have enough of flour to bake a bread for a year.
- I have enough toilet paper, toothpaste, shower gel, soap, cleaning supplies, etc. to use it for 6ish months.
- I grow my own veggies. Between October and May I don't buy any veggies and for the whole year I don't buy spring onion, radishes and herbs.
- I know how to fix things.
- I know how to cook.
- I have several flashlights and radios with a crank (no battery needed).
- I'm about to install solar panels, wind turbine and rain water collector.
fart_pickle 2d ago • 40%
Yes, it's normal. Lemmy is a left-wing echo chamber and anything that's not aligned with the point of view of a given community (even if it's supported by scientific proof, valid concern or reasonable doubt) you will be downvoted, ridiculed and/or banned. Just ignore close-minded mods and users and be yourself.
fart_pickle 2d ago • 100%
It's difficult to tell if it tastes better. Some store bought were better other worse. But the best thing about making it is that you can make the way you like it.
fart_pickle 4d ago • 55%
I have, but the moment I got to the Napster Wars part I realised that the article is nothing more than the "eat the rich" rant. I despise the music labels and all the crap that happened in late 90s but it's not an excuse to go "over the law" just because you think the law is bad. I know, there were many implications of piracy that shaped the current landscape of music industry but still, just because you don't agree with the existing law, it doesn't mean you should "work" around it.
Again, if you're unhappy with record label, vote with your wallet and buy from the independent ones. The more people to vote with the wallet (in the way you misunderstood) the less power major companies will have.
fart_pickle 4d ago • 100%
Well, I do like the systemd. But I have my own list of things. Recent three updates broke - graphic drivers, sound drivers and fingerprint support. If you don't have much free time, using linux as a daily driver is a huge waste of time.
fart_pickle 4d ago • 75%
Again, I think you are misinterpreting the phrase. The quote you provided proves it. If you're not happy about the "right way" of buying things you can buy elsewhere, aka "vote with a wallet". The phrase means that you pay for a product/service you are comfortable with. For example, if Amazon offers a great deal on something you'd like like to buy and the price is, let's say, 30% lower than a regular retail price, voting with a wallet would mean that you ignore the Amazon's deal and buy directly from a merchant.
fart_pickle 4d ago • 100%
I cannot find the exact quote but it was something like "If you don't grow, you're dying". This is the source of all enshittification. Companies are being forced by VCs to increase revenue every year to meet unreasonable revenue goals just to satisfy a handful of investors.
fart_pickle 4d ago • 83%
I think you misinterpreted the phrase. "Vote with your wallet" means that if you're unhappy with a product/service, you stop using/paying for it.
fart_pickle 4d ago • 100%
This reminds me the story of a pressure cooker and the backpack - https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/08/01/employer-reported-suspicious-google-searches-that-led-to-terrorism-task-force-visit-for-long-island-family/ It's a 10 year old story and back then it seamed like a bad dream. Turned out it's a bad dream we are living today.
On top of that I do remember reading about people getting a complimentary police visit just because they have ordered nitrite based manure (mostly farmers). Unfortunately I don't have a link. And I do remember reading about students questioned by a police based on a library renting habits. Back then, when I was like "this will kill the privacy as we know it", I was ridiculed.
fart_pickle 6d ago • 100%
When I have time I do it from scratch but usually I end up using almond flour.
fart_pickle 1w ago • 50%
I will play the devil's advocate. What if the youths that committed the crimes just grew up and now appear in the adult's crime stats?
fart_pickle 1w ago • 90%
None. If I crave for something crunchy I eat carrots or nuts. If I want to eat sweets I make my own brownies, marzipan or chocolate chip cookies. And if I really want to each chips/crisps I make my own batch.
fart_pickle 1w ago • 50%
If anybody wants an invite to a new banking app send me credit card number with a date and cvv...
fart_pickle 1w ago • 100%
I wouldn't say that majority of lemmy is communism supporters. But I would say lemmy if (far) left-wing biased. If you express valid, supported by science and statistic, opinion that's not liberal enough you will still be called fascist, xeno/trans/homo/etc phobe. My advice, don't a single f*** about it and keep open mind.
fart_pickle 1w ago • 100%
Not the good old 90s forums. You could stick the post but all posts and comments were displayed in chronological order.
Only thing I remember about the movie was the scene where a woman (probably brunette) was sitting in an open space office with her legs on a desk reading a magazine. Her boss sees her from across the office and makes the sour face. He wants her to get back to work. So, the woman sits straight and starts typing on a keyboard ironically (waving her hands in the air and tilting her head).
I've been using all major OSes for a long time. I have the most experience with Windows, I've been using it since Windows 95 and stopped at Windows 8. I've been using macOS for about a decade and Linux (in total) for about 5 years. I have started with Mandrake, moved to Mandriva, spent over a year on Ubuntu and recently I've been using Fedora as my daily driver. And honestly, I'm running out of patience. Few days ago I ran into the gpu driver issue. Long story short, Steam games started to crash on directx issue. Games that were working few weeks ago. I admit, I was mocking around with GPU drivers in order to make Podman containers to access the GPU. But I did the fresh diver install and it didn't solved the issue (also my GPU was not found despite all commands showed it was there). I don't have much spare time and I would like to play a game, I used to play before, without spending hours/days fixing issue that didn't exist last time I played it. But it's not only about games. I have two laptops, both running Fedora 40 KDE spin. Some time ago on one laptop the power widget stopped working. It shows "no power profiles found on a device". But when I delete the widget and add it again, it works fine. Other issue is with the general look and feel. There are many apps that don't follow the OS look - lack of window borders/shadow, random icons that don't match the system, flatpacks having issues accessing system configuration (e.g. vscodium not recognising zsh as a default shell). Few more problems I had: - on GNOME, some extensions where crashing without any reason - some apps don't respect desktop scaling - bluetooth randomly dropping connections - syncing files between devices is always a struggle - you never know what's going to break when installing updates If you want a Linux like experience use macOS, and if you want to play games, stick to Windows.
Proton recently released WireGuard support on Linux. While I really like it there's a small UI issue with the wifi icon. When connected to VPN it looks like unknown network(?). I have confirmed the issue on two laptops. Both running Fedora 40, KDE spin.
I'm following several privacy focused communities. Mostly as lurker but in few I'm more active. Every time I see a posts like "how to be more private", I wonder about the reasons behind those questions. What's the reason you want to remain private (don't confuse it with being anonymous)? Could you elaborate on your reasons? Let me start. I worked (and still working) in a highly regulated industry as a software/devops engineer. I've been working with banks, insurance companies, global online payment companies, major credit card vendors, few global corporations. I have seen how data is gathered and (mis)used. Every time someone tells me "I'm sorry but the system..." I know it's the data gathered by the "system" and my profile created based on that data was the reason for "but". This is why I care about the privacy, to prevent companies from taking advantage of my current situation and charge me more.
Few days ago I did the weekly system update which included latest NVIDIA drivers. Everything went smoothly, no error messages, systems works as usual. Today I wanted to play some game and I noticed that the performance was horrible. This is what I found ``` lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)" 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] (rev 0c) Subsystem: Dell Device 0aff Kernel driver in use: i915 -- 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA106M [GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q] (rev a1) Subsystem: Dell Device 0aff Kernel driver in use: nvidia xrandr --listproviders Providers: number : 0 ``` I've tried to reinstall drivers, and ran some fixes I found online but still no luck. Any ideas how to fix it? *update* Just remembered. After last drivers update I wasn't able to run any Steam game. I always got some directx error. Before I had no issues. *update 2* I'm on Fedora 40, currently I'm using drivers downloaded directly from NVIDIA website. Before that I was using whatever drivers from these repositories ``` dnf repolist repo id repo name fedora Fedora 40 - x86_64 fedora-cisco-openh264 Fedora 40 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 nvidia-container-toolkit nvidia-container-toolkit protonvpn-fedora-stable ProtonVPN Fedora Stable repository rpmfusion-free RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Free rpmfusion-free-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Free - Updates rpmfusion-nonfree RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Nonfree rpmfusion-nonfree-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Nonfree - Updates updates ``` The only thing I remember related to messing with drivers was playing with podman containers accessing my gpu (nvidia-container-toolkit). Currently I'm using driver version 550.107.02
I've been using open webui for some time but I wanted to test the Alpaka, a KDE app - https://apps.kde.org/alpaka/ When I click on an "Install on linux" button, Discover app is opening and gives me this error "Could not open appstream://org.kde.alpaka because it was not found in any available software repositories." When using dnf there's no such package as Aplaka. I can find and install other KDE apps. What am I missing? I'm on Fedora 40, KDE spin.
Earlier today I received an email from Proton with an annual survey. Among standard questions there was a significant amount of AI related questions, e.g. mail assistant. Does it mean Proton is looking into AI?
I'm a happy user of Inoreader. I like it so much I'm considering buying a premium plan. However, I'm looking for an alternative I wouldn't have to pay for. I came across FreshRSS. The only thing that's keeps me from moving is the sync. I don't want to expose it to the internet but I want to be able to access it on a move. My first idea was to use Syncthing. Is there a way to use Syncthing to sync feeds, settings (read articles, subscriptions, etc.) across different devices? By different devices I mean Linux, macOS (optional) and GrapheneOS (Android) phone.
Single portrait photo + speech audio = hyper-realistic talking face video with precise lip-audio sync, lifelike facial behavior, and naturalistic head movements, generated in real time.
I have setup Proton Mail app to autostart when I log in. It works fine but I want the app to start minimized. Is there an option I can pass to the proton-mail command to start it minimized?
I just stared using Proton Pass, moved from Bitwarden. I have few simple questions about Proton Pass configuration. 1. How can I switch to light theme on the website and in the Firefox addon? 2. How can I get rid of the available passwords counter on Firefox addon?
Is there a way to add Spotify to Android Auto running GrapheneOS? So far I have gotten to the point where I can add a new shortcut using the Assistant command. However, no matter what I tried, I wasn't able to add Spotify to the apps.
I've been playing around with the self hosted apps for quite a while and I got to the point where I'm happy about my local setup. Next step is to setup reliable offsite backup. I'm using borgbackup as a tool to manage my backups (so far only local backups). I've been looking for an affordable yet reliable service to store my backups. Is rsync.net worth it? According to the "internet" it's a good service but wanted to double check. What do you think about it?
Okta, a company that provides identity tools like multi-factor authentication and single sign-on to thousands of businesses, has suffered a security breach involving a compromise of its customer support unit, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.
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John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity, the company whose 3D game engine had recently seen backlash from developers over proposed fee structures, will retire as CEO, president, and board chairman at the company, according to a press release issued late on a Monday afternoon, one many observe as a holiday.