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submitted 1 week ago by 1984@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

Julian Assange is free.

After living in a cell for more than 5 years, he can soon go home and meet his family again.

I'm wondering if it was worth the sacrifice. The governments and tech companies are spying more than ever on everyone.

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by 1984@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

I personally don't trust Snowden. Looking at the difference between how he was treated and how Assange was treated. One guy gets to rot in prison, other guy gets movies made about him from Hollywood. Snowden is very much controlled opposition in my mind.

But that being said, I think he is truthful about OpenAI. Which sucks, because now I and many others love using chat gpt.

It's possible to self host these things though. I read an article about it here:

https://blog.lytix.co/posts/self-hosting-llama-3

But probably not worth the money for most people.

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submitted 3 weeks ago by 1984@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

I think its not just kids anymore, it's adults too. Everyone is glued to their screens these days. But kids are more vulnerable to influences from "social" media and don't have any defences to the psychological warfare going on. Of course they feel like shit.

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submitted 3 weeks ago by 1984@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

I think this is the perfect analogy for what's happening right now to the open web.

We are part of the Cosy Web here on Lemmy.. :)

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submitted 4 weeks ago by 1984@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

This is actually pretty brilliant and innovative.

With other solutions, the "key" that re-enables distractions is always present. Brick allows you to leave that key behind, turning your phone into a new, distraction-free device until you return.

This tickles some part of my brain... The scanning part is so cool. Would you use an app like this?

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submitted 1 month ago by 1984@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

This is a very entertaining and educational article, giving insights into the methods used by thiefs to try and get access to your phone data.

I don't like Apple but it's great that their security is so good when it comes to this.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by 1984@lemmy.today to c/rust@programming.dev

This was a really good summary of what Rust feels like in my opinion. I'm still a beginner myself but I recognize what this article is saying very much.

The hacker news comments are as usual very good too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40172033

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submitted 3 months ago by 1984@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

Get your shorts ready, this will be very interesting to follow. Seems like the stock will appear tomorrow already?

I fully expect a nosedive in stock price but who knows. Maybe a pump and dump.

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Who is actually surprised by this? I would be more surprised if young Americans felt it was a great place to live.

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submitted 4 months ago by 1984@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

I didn't know reddit gave out the personal details of their users, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

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[-] 1984@lemmy.today 261 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Classy to blame Firefox for bugs in their code :)

If devs write code for Chrome, yeah, maybe then it doesn't work in Firefox guys....

We had exactly this situation in the 90s with internet Explorer.... But new devs need to relearn lessons of course.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 297 points 6 months ago

The internet archive is becoming one of the most valuable sites on the web, specially to avoid paywalled corpo pages.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 160 points 6 months ago

If only keyboards would have function keys for this purpose, named F1 to F10 for example, so any program could use them for their specific functions...

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 280 points 9 months ago

I actually don't agree, and the reason is - non tech people. You and me can install plugins but ordinary people don't do that. So the default experience must be good, offering improvements to the experience over Google Chrome.

Otherwise all privacy features could also be plugins. Imagine if that was true. Firefox would have no identity and you would have to install plugins and make it your own.

So some features should be built in. Maybe the ability to get pop-ups about false reviews will actually make users go "wow that is so useful".

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 211 points 10 months ago

It's disgusting. Users browser history is private, just like their search history. Fuck Google.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 222 points 10 months ago

Companies are often insane. I'm working in one who has this one guy build a super complicated architecture, because he don't know aws. So instead of just using a message queue on aws, he is building Java programs and tons of software and containers to try and send messages in a reliable way. Costs the company huge money, but they don't care, since he is some old timer who has been there for like 10 years and everyone let's him do what he wants.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 163 points 10 months ago

The mentality of these people are like slave owners.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 171 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Subscriptions.

People pay every month but most don't use the sub to it's full value, and forget how expensive it becomes over the years. And you don't own anything on a subscription, you just borrow it.

Also trial periods that prolong automatically into subscriptions.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 182 points 11 months ago

I asked in the other thread about GDPR.

Nobody thinks it's very interesting but if instances don't follow gdpr, the entire network is at risk of legal consequences.

So please bring this up, even though it's not very fun.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 188 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Google "Only spy the web" is highly inaccurate...they are everywhere. In every website, in your android phone, in your YouTube, in your Google drive, in your email, in your Google maps...

Anyways... I will calm down now. :)

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 179 points 11 months ago

Yes exactly. This is what worries me the most since I also run only Linux, and I can't imagine even being interested in computers anymore if Linux is not allowed on the web. That would be horrific.

It's 100% critically dangerous and must be stopped.

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