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I am certainly in favor of laws to protect the people, but i suspect as is already the case the legislation will be unable to keep up with technological developments, not to mention nefarious actors lobbying that legislation.

For countermeasures i was already mentally in the realm of cyberpunk, so probably equally technological solutions? Identity spoofers, ECM, if i recall correctly many cameras are vulnerable to infrared? Things in that vein.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago (3 children)

    I'm not necessarily arguing in favor of them, it just seems to me that we as people have found a convenient scapegoat by venting our frustration on the end user, while the real problem is systemic.

    As for the future hypothetical, that was meant as a thought excercise on what is likely to come, and how that will fit in with this social climate. It is only gonna get worse from an anti-creep point of view, and seeking to remain anonymous by not getting recorded seems a losing battle. We should be focusing on countermeasures instead, so regardless of if we know the camera is there, we can feel safe(r).

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  • [–] 1 point 9 hours ago (5 children)

    Not op, but i would say there are definite use cases for smart glasses/"eyes". Yes, corporations are pushing it without restraint or common sense because capitalism, but the technology in principle is not necessarily evil.

    We as a society are just struggling with the implications and long term effects that start to show now of omnipresent surveillance capitalism, and the people with a camera on their face are the most obvious and easy target. That is not to say that humans are not scum who use these for creepy stuff, but there are cameras everywhere, location data, metadata, microphones, GPS, wifi, comms towers, not to mention the software on all those devices.

    We are being crept on all the time, but the geek wearing one on their face is too far. Understandable, but also hypocritical.

    Given technological development, eventually we will have actual, invisible implants for these things. Smart eyes, enhanced ears. How will we cope with that? When you cant even tell that you are being actively livestreamed or recorded, or algorithmically analyzed for personal information?

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  • [–] 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

    I think he means that cilantro is an actual genetic matter. Some people can eat it, and some people taste literal soap water. Cant be changed or get accustomed to, genetics say this weed here tastes like chemical cleaning agent. Enjoy.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    For anyone in here enjoying radio, but not commercials or radio hosts, try out

    soma.fm

    It has a ton of channels and genres and is entirely free (donation funded).

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    Actually ☝️🤓, that is a common urban myth. We have mapped virtually everything down there, we were not everywhere with submarines and cameras but as far as i know virtually all of the deep sea has been mapped from the surface and the general consensus is that there is nothing spectacular or extraordinary down there.

    Maybe an unusual or unknown species here and there, but nothing like some unknown frontier for mankind with potentially revolutionary discoveries.

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  • [–] 34 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    Why do you keep repeating this throughout these comments chief?

    Being self important is not a political act and so far there is no indication of a political motivation, just that the dev somehow got the idea of appointing themselves secret online discourse admin. If it turns out there is some financial goal behind it i'm with you tho.

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  • [–] 22 points 5 days ago

    I will have a look at this, thank you for sharing your work! But also, i hope you listen to the other commenter and reach out if you need any help an online stranger can provide.

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    Hey guys, in the last few days my current one has started having some ghosting / unresponsive key issues and I am looking for a replacement.

    The current one is a logitech g910 with programmable keys, which sadly don't work under Linux (I bought the keyboard when I still used windows). Now I know most keyboards with programmable functionality require software on the computer to work, and windows software at that.

    Can someone here make a recommendation? I need

    • full Linux compatibility
    • 3-8 programmable keys
    • full layout with numpad
    • media / volume controls would be nice to have
    • (obviously) mechanical keys with good feedback, I mostly use it for gaming

    Thank you in advance 🙂

    E: thanks everyone for the useful responses, i landed on a keychron k3 (after some comparing i decided i could do without the numpad). Had to buy it from amazon sadly because their own store is like 3/4 sold out and didnt have the german layout i need in stock.

    submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by to c/linux4noobs@programming.dev
     

    Hello, I am looking for help with some small issues I've been having with gnome (bazzite), mostly annoyances. Their discord is okay ish as a resource but takes a long time to get replies to specific issues, especially when they are more generally Linux questions and not specific to bazzite. So here goes:

    I have 3 drives installed, one of them an old HDD for media storage. During the bazzite setup I selected all of them to be included since was about to reinstall the OS (and had them retroactively mounted in the old install and figured they might be treated more natively this way in the new installation).

    Well the plan worked too well, and I now have no discernible drives I can locate individually outside the drive manager app, which doesn't really bother me beyond not knowing if the system will use it inefficiently (I.e store things aside from data and media on the slow HDD). Is there a way to configure how it will use the drives?

    Second, I was given a pre-made admin account during setup. I really want to not have to log in with a password on each boot, is it possible to skip (only) that somehow and auto log in? I still like the password for admin level privileges.

    And last, part of the reason for my reinstallation was constant issues with the stupid keyring app (seahorse?). Most of the time it would prompt me on boot, when my VPN app would try to retrieve its credentials, to set up a new keyring for it despite there being literally dozens of keyrings from its previous boots with the needed info, all freely accessible.

    I have so far begrudgingly refrained from installing the VPN again because I want to find a solution for this first; and discovered that i can also set up a VPN connection directly in the OS. However from what I can tell this would prevent me from switching locations / slow servers easily, is there an alternative I am missing such as a different keyring app I could install or a function in Linux to change servers effectively (with load info and preferably without having to set up vpns manually for all the hundreds of possible servers I can choose from my VPN provider)?

    Thank you for reading the wall of text this has become 👀

    TLDR:

    • different types of hard drive are being used. How does the system, which manages them apparently as one, utilize them?

    • pre made admin account requires password which makes login tedious. How to skip the password only for login?

    • keyring issues. Is there any alternative to it?

     

    So, i have been a Linux only user for about a year now I think. I went with bazzite, and am quite happy so far, i haven't yet managed to brick anything and almost everything I want to do is easily done.

    However, there is the keyring app that gives me nothing but grief. Supposedly it stores login credentials for applications on the system. Practically, it does whatever the fuck it wants, and I have no idea why.

    Randomly, on every system boot, it asks me to create a new keyring. Doesn't access already stored info, doesn't store afterwards entered credentials properly either. Ultimately it doesn't work for me at all.

    ...or so you would think. Sometimes, for no discernible reason, it works as expected. No keyring creation prompt, no manual typing of my vpn credentials. It has them stored, reads them properly, and connects the vpn automatically and quietly in the background just as I set it up and want to behave.

    But anytime I get used to it just working as expected it goes back to a period of constant password typing and dozens upon dozens of (empty) duplicate entries in its credential list.

    What the fuck is going on with that damn app, and how do I fix it?

    Thanks in advance

     

    Siehe Titel. Ich diskutiere regelmäßig per messenger Politik und Weltgeschehen mit einem ehemaligen Schulfreund, welcher neuerdings mit der bsw Partei liebäugelt als "das einzige was man noch wählen kann". Er ist zwar auch selbst russlandkritisch, ist aber nicht wirklich überzeugt dass die Partei aus Russland (mit)finanziert wird um kremlfreundliche Politik zu erreichen.

    Gibt es glaubwürdige informationen welche das klipp und klar "beweisen"? (Echte beweise erwarte ich natürlich nicht, anderenfalls wäre die Partei wohl hoffentlich verboten, eher so was wie Großspenden von bekannten russlandfreunden oder unternehmen in nebulösem besitz).

     

    Hey guys, I am trying to get rid of my old Facebook accounts. I have not been using them for years, in fact I dont know their login data and for one i dont even have access to the email address any more.

    I am a EU citizen and attempted to instruct them to close the accounts per email, since logging in requires me to consent to them using my data or pay money (probably illegal here too).

    They sent me a quick response basically to go fuck myself, even after I offered to provide personal identification to verify I am the account owner and reminded them that I am an EU citizen and that my data is subject to those laws.

    How can i force these fuckers to comply with my request for deletion of the accounts and associated data?

     

    Hey guys, I made the switch to Linux about a week ago and have mo complaints so far. Except maybe this: I can't seem to find a way in Linux to get proper loudness equalization like I got on windows.

    My issue is that I have a bunch of media, especially shows and movies, that are suffering from way too loud gunshots, explosions, music and so forth and really quiet dialogue. I know this is because sound engineers make the audio fit for cinemas and not my living room, it is a problem nonetheless.

    Under windows there is a simple toggle in even the most basic sound cards and settings called loudness equalization, that corrects those perceived differences quite effectively, which Linux is lacking. A bit of web search led me to the term ReplayGain, which seems to be the proper name for it, and I enabled it for my media from within the player apps. However it doesn't really work like i am used to.

    Sounds and language constantly change volume mid sentence, which is very irritating to me. ReplayGain also doesn't really help avoiding those sudden bursts of loudness, I still blast awake my neighbors on accident when watching a move later at night.

    Is there some way to get at that windows audio codec or whatever they use, that works so much better?

    Thanks for reading

     

    Hey guys, so i just now pulled the trigger, formatted my windows installation and installed Linux for the first time. I went with bazzite, which seems very gaming friendly and idiot proof with its rollback functionality.

    Now to the issue: I have 3 drives in my computer, one 500gb SSD which i used for the OS. This one can be accessed fine as expected. The other two, a 2tb SSD and 1tb HDD however, dont. I cant seem to find a way to access them, and i have all my media on there / want to install games onto them.

    How can i access them, and tell the OS that these two are also part of its system?

     

    Hey guys, I am somewhat new to android (went straight to grapheneos) and am a bit annoyed with this widget.

    It looks good, but the skip buttons are tiny and my gorilla fingers have trouble hitting them reliably. Is there a way to change to a different layout with bigger buttons or even gesture support?

    I am aware that most music apps come with a widget for the home screen but I specifically need the one shown on the lock screen and pulldown menu to change.

    Thanks in advance!

     

    I hope this is the proper place to ask, though probably only indirectly on topic for this community.

    What I am looking for is a way or tool to extract from a YouTube playlist the information which of my saved videos (usually very niche music from about a decade ago) are no longer available in it (so that I might procure them elsewhere).

    With google being google, and the condensed information of "x videos are no longer available" that is displayed, I am fairly sure the information isnt gone gone, just hidden from the user.

    Is there a way to get at that info?

    Thanks in advance

     

    So i recently got my first android phone after having been an iphone user for years. So far i am really happy and especially enjoy finding foss alternatives to as many apps as possible.

    However i cant seem to find a gameboy emulator, one oft the things i missed on ios all those years. Mostly for gba games, maybe gbc too. Does someone here have a recommendation? All the ones i found on fdroid were incompatible.

    submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/tenforward@lemmy.world
     

    So it just occurred to me that during the TNG production era there is a shift in ship nomenclature:

    • TNG: The Enterprise
    • DS9: The Defiant/Yukon/Danube/etc.
    • VOY: The Voyager
    • (ENT): "Ennurprais" is all that’s left.

    Seems towards the later shows they stopped referring to the ship as a, well, ship and just addressed it as a character? Why?

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