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onlinepersona ,

The West was laughing and pointing at China. "Look at them surveilling their citizens! So cringe." Meanwhile, people massively bought into surveillance capitalism, gobbled up all the bullshit about "if you have nothing to hide", and look where it's taking us. Yet people continue to buy Google products, swear that Malus won't ever be evil and store their lives on iPhones and Macs, they vote for right-wing candidates who talk about building walls, surveilling the poor, foreign, and different, and don't somehow fail to see how their countries are slowly becoming more China-like.

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onlinepersona ,

What's up with Owncloud? Why did devs leave for Nextcloud? And what happened to prevent that from happening again?

I too dislike that Nextcloud is in PHP, but if Owncloud went closed-source, then opened it up again (not saying that's the story here), who's to say it won't happen again? Putting my eggs in that basket might seem quite dangerous as I don't want my server to suddenly stop working and sit behind a paywall or something because management decided they want to make a quick euro.

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onlinepersona ,

The "what do we even pay you for?" is just like with projects:

"why isn't this finished yet?"
We have to add tests and make sure we've tried to cover our bases.
"that's not necessary, if it works now, just release it"
That's not-
"I don't care, I pay the bills"
Sure thing boss.
*a few weeks later*
"This thing doesn't work"
Yeah, it's what we wanted to test.
"Well why didn't you?"
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onlinepersona ,

So trying to hack hackthebox is not permitted? Confusion is the name of the game

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"Mentioning Xi Jinping leads to a complete block of translation results": Microsoft Bing’s censorship in China is even “more extreme” than Chinese companies’ ( restofworld.org )

Bing’s translation and search engine services in China censor more extensively than Chinese competitors’ services do, according to new research....

onlinepersona ,

Probably a bug in censorship that they now consider a feature. Most likely it can't find the right sentence to censor, so it just doesn't try.

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Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, U.S. lawsuit claims ( arstechnica.com )

Temu—the Chinese shopping app that has rapidly grown so popular in the US that even Amazon is reportedly trying to copy it—is "dangerous malware" that's secretly monetizing a broad swath of unauthorized user data, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday....

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So just like the majority of USAian apps out there? I think Temu fits right in. Why are people so concerned about what China is doing with their data, but not the very countries they live in or (more importantly) the dominant online surveillance presence: the USA?

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onlinepersona ,

It's funny that every time someone points out the pot calling the kettle black the training kicks in to shout "whataboutism" and it must be "wumao". It's almost a meme. You don't think an article about Xi Ping's government warning about USAian surveillance would be mocked and ridiculed due to their Great Firewall? That wouldn't be "whataboutism" though, right? It would be a "critical opinion"?

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onlinepersona ,

Not sure if you're trolling now 😂 Good meme.

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onlinepersona ,

Because I find USAian more appropriate. USA isn't a representative of two entire continents.

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onlinepersona ,

More about the part about stealing information. Most people barely look at permissions.

A flashlight app needs access to my calls, microphone, clipboard, filesystem, and network? Sure, I'll install it.

or

Facebook needs access to all permissions? Oh is that what the popup said when I installed it?

All Temu had to do was ask and people would grant it.

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onlinepersona ,

Believe it or not, I can be concerned about both.

Yes you can, most people aren't. In real life, by far the most common response I've gotten when talking about privacy is 😴 . My colleagues in tech will hotly debate China's surveillance, but happy use face ID on their iPhone, upload their entire life to Google or iCloud (including recordings of therapy sessions), send their blood into do a heritage check, nearly exclusively use Amazon for shopping, have an Amazon Ring camera at their door, and so much more.

You are the minority.

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onlinepersona ,

Good job on not reading it and understanding absolutely nothing 👏

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Could offline physical piracy be good to games?

The other day I saw a bunch of USB sticks for sale at a gas station with greatest hits of various artists and music genres and it got me thinking of physical piracy again. It's something I haven't consumed for over 15 years, but with the fall of prices of USB sticks it is completely viable economically if you do the math, and I...

onlinepersona ,

Just use I2P and share anonymously. No need to do it physically, get identified by a recording on a client's phone, and have your door busted in by the popo. Anonymous overlay network is where it's at.

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onlinepersona ,

🤞 Make us proud, bud!

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onlinepersona ,

Wut? It's an industry bigger than football and TV and film combined! Somebody's getting all those games and they have to be played on something too.

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onlinepersona ,

What happened in Nov 2023?

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ww-linux.jpg

OSX and Windows move in opposite directions at the same time? Seems a little weird.

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I just had an idea that people smarter than me have probably had long before I heard of Lemmy.....but I don't see it implemented, so I'm sharing it anyways!!!

Ok, so one of the bigger problems I see on Lemmy is the fact that I subscribe to dozens of different communities, but my feed is always the same. News news news technology technology technology....

onlinepersona ,

It's the most wanted feature.
https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/cc9d5acf-2556-4817-8a61-b72011a1752e.png

I think if people really want it, they can pool together on a bounty.

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onlinepersona ,

Code is the most in depth spec one can provide. Maybe someday we'll be able to iterate just by verbally communicating and saying "no like this", but it doesn't seem like we're quite there yet. But also, will that be productive?

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onlinepersona ,

Sometimes I'm in awe at the effort people put into these memes. Well done 😄

P.S Now make one about people who squash 100 commits into one without cleaning up the message and have a single commit with 1k added / 2k removed in it for the sake of "clean" history.

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onlinepersona ,

Doesn't seem like it's open source. Am I mistaken?

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onlinepersona ,

In I2P we trust 🙏 Can't sue what you can't find.

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onlinepersona OP ,

Who the hell came up with that? 😂 I'm sorry, but that's hilarious.

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onlinepersona ,

Sure you can. As others have said, a list comprehension returns a new list. See the documentation.

What are you trying to do though? Append a list comprehension to an existing list?

See a modified version of @eager_eagle's code from their comment.

def double(x):
  return 2 * x
a = list(range(10))
a.extend(double(value) for value in range(5))

# a has 15 elements
print(a)

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onlinepersona ,

Anything is better than C, right? Even 🤮 PHP.

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onlinepersona ,

Ah yes, the almighty counter "everything is relative". "Malbolge is a fine language with its strengths and weaknesses. It has perfectly valid usecases and can never be shit on, ever."

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onlinepersona ,

It shall infringe on your airspace unimpeded. Your corporate overlords demand it and so it shall be.

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onlinepersona ,

Exactly the same path Recall will take. Install Linux Mint, folks...

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onlinepersona ,

You will submit! Join the ranks of the less surveilled, my friend.

Or give your data to Microsoft for free, your choice.

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onlinepersona ,

Sure, let's propose Arch to absolute linux newbies. That'll go over splendidly.

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Am I the only one preferring low quality media over high quality one?

I have a very slow Internet connection (5 Mbps down, and even less for upload). Given that, I always download movies at 720p, since they have low file size, which means I can download them more quickly. Also, I don't notice much of a difference between 1080p and 720p. As for 4K, because I don't have a screen that can display 4K,...

onlinepersona ,

Nope. Most of my stuff is 720p because I won't be watching it again. My library has significantly dwindled in size. Only my absolute favorites are stored in high quality. Everything else is SD and quite a bit has been deleted.

Let's be honest, most stuff is shit and forgettable / not watching again. They are just remakes of readaptations of sequels. You know that by the time you want to watch it again, there will be a remake just as bad.

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onlinepersona ,

Do you want a livable planet or "fair competition"? China is doing what's necessary and the west is complaining about " distorted competition".

The priorities are clear.

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onlinepersona ,

That one casino hunted down my uncle. Poor guy. Was gobbled up by one right outside his house.

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onlinepersona ,

Anonymous torrents on I2P FTW 🏴‍☠️ Best way to safely find stuff unavailable on streaming sites.

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onlinepersona ,

Happens to the best of us🤣

I spent what felt like an eternity debugging a website because it wasn't updating. You gussed it, I was looking the build output of webpak in the wrong folder.

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onlinepersona OP ,

Thanks. That's a good read.

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onlinepersona ,

The problem with Mac hardware is that it's ARM and vertically integrated with everything Apple. Not all hardware is supported by Linux because Apple won't write any linux drivers and everything is reverse engineered. You're better off buying something non-Apple which linux properly supports.

If power consumption is an issue for you get, a R9 7950X consumes as much and at times less power than an M1/M2 (I think even M3). Check out GamerNexus's charts. IINM AMD in W/Ghz performs better than Intel across the board.

No idea where you are, but you can get a small factor PC from one of the vendors that preload linux, or configure a small form factor PC of your liking for cheap and put linux on it. You'll get more out of your money for the same or better performance with about the same energy consumption (or a bit more).
Somebody I know who happens to live in Hungary got himself this cheap beauty. They deliver all over Europe, but if you live elsewhere on this planet, there probably is something similar like this out there.

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onlinepersona ,

That may be, but buying a Mac Mini is like buying a device made from the ground up for Windows, where any other operating system has to reverse engineer 100% of the things to work well, or you have to emulate another OS on it (which comes with its own pitfalls), and it's 200+€ more expensive than its nearest equivalent.

Every single company I've worked at which introduced Apple Silicon to its developers has had headaches with compatibility. The worst I've seen was it taking a developer a month to get up and running because the specific component we used didn't have a build for the specific ARM architecture. Multipass, UTM, podman, docker desktop, all didn't work until colima and forcing the VM to emulate x86 + forcing docker in the VM to use the x86 image worked. There was a persistent problem with disk IO since it used 9p or whatever. Installing dependencies from scratch meant waiting 30 minutes on the M2.

Why pay a premium for less compatibility and worse specs? Just get yourself something that works, which is cheaper, maybe even supports a company that invests in Linux and its ecosystem, and be able to ask an existing developer community instead of asking the subsection of linux users that run your specific app on however you're running linux on Appe hardware.

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onlinepersona ,

That's great if it's your experience.

I'm just saying me and others have consistently had different experiences, and OP can get a better experience at half the price, with the same (or better) energy consumption, all while supporting the Linux ecosystem directly.

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onlinepersona ,

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/power_performance.html

onlinepersona ,

Might as well suggest smoke signals. IRC is way past its prime. Matrix and modern protocols exist.

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onlinepersona ,

That's cool and all, but how will they make money?

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onlinepersona ,

I honestly thought C++ (aka dumping ground of programming concepts) would implement this for "completeness".

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onlinepersona ,

I am I'm favor of an "open" source license minus profiting off of your forks, which I understand makes the resulting license not open source. In a capitalist system, the capitalist class will take every opportunity to parasitically take where ever possible. Nothing free in a capitalist system, including living. Free development comes at a cost, even iif made purely out of passion.

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I don't get why people still believe they have to gatekeep the open source definition or how to prevent capitalists from exploiting free labour.

Life and circumstances aren't static. They are constantly evolving. Just because capitalists treated open source as a threat, back when it was created, doesn't mean they didn't learn how to exploit it and those who work on it. They do now and it's only natural to evolve and try to find a way to protect from such exploitation.

To stand still and point fingers at others trying to move forward is conservative, the exact opposite of progress.

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onlinepersona ,

Oh sweet! And it was released 2 days ago! Wow, some people move quickly.

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onlinepersona ,

I dunno how old you are, but I come from the time of internet where loading pictures happen line by line. It took me a decade or more to get my library.

I'm patient. I don't need my stuff to be there immediately. Maybe that's the minority, I dunno, but a little bit of anonymity and patience ain't hurt nobody.

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onlinepersona ,

That's cool. It's your choice. I'm cheap and patient, so it's all good.

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