I wish I had half as much trust with someone as anthropic has with that company to let them casually rack up 500M in use.

https://etcher.balena.io/

Jesus, there’s so much FUD in that gist. A lot of information out of date and emotional tone to the brim. Makes you wonder who’s putting that much time and effort to support an outdated system like x11 and what they gain from that.

The reality is that the main desktop managers, and by extension the most popular distros are abandoning x11, so that’s just a silly hill to die on.

I’ve been using cookie autodelete to clean crap from most sites, but whitelisting the ones I don’t want to log back in every time

https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete

another advantage is that cookies are cleaned seconds after the last tab on that website is closed

so she wants to be forgotten?

I did it that last month, not because I have any expectations of privacy (I wish we could move away from emails entirely), but because I don’t want to be so much at the mercy of what google decides, especially with their recent push on id verification left and right, and ties to this dystopian government. I’m gradually moving away from other of their products too.

If I was browsing options today, I’d also look into calendar and contact management / importing. Proton makes it easy to import existing calendars and they are kept in sync. They’re still improving the calendar features though, so maybe you’ll miss a thing or two there. Contacts are also easy to import, but there’s no feature to keep them in sync with what google has, if you need a transition period. There is a merging/deduplication feature though.

And if you’re using google workspaces, I couldn’t figure out how to send an email from proton using the work domain, so that’s something I still need to use the gmail web client or e.g. thunderbird.

6.6.6 is mentioned

dont tell me what to do

Right. But that was from a time where it was your friends and family who had your number, so having to change it was a major hassle not only for you. With it being asked by so many services, that’s eventually ending up in the dark web.

Many people don’t call anymore. A similar group blocks all calls from unknown numbers due to constant robocalls. So a phone number today is just another data point to fingerprint someone. Its usefulness turned into an artificially created need by services that want a cheap way to tell real users from robots.

yeah, phone numbers have been used primarily to fight spam and fake accounts, so my guess is that this practice will become even more common with stricter policies around phone number registration. I hate it.

This basically turns phone numbers into a deregulated government ID number. You’d think they had learned something with SSNs by now.

Some taxi companies use third-party Uber-like apps to connect to riders, the bigger ones might have their own apps, but my guess is that those also ask for a phone number.

The best way might just be hailing one off the street.

at least that one still requires you to be familiar with a work of fiction

because it does mean evil, the words share the same root

I thought that would be too on-the-nose, but people really fail to see that apparently

tab syncing and use of workspaces. Disabling tab syncing would break some things back in January, and the developers made it clear that Zen was - out of a sudden - a spaces browser, not a window one. So I jumped ship.

Last I tried that would break other basic things, making it unusable for everyday use, so I just changed browsers. Is it working 100% now?

It’s valid though, i had to move away from zen because they forced a particular workflow without a way to opt out from it, but I liked most of their UI stuff.

“If” heh

I wouldn’t trust any ISP to not be tracking users

well, the rest of my UI has rounded corners, transparency, and blur 🤷‍♂️

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either you didn’t get the idea, or you don’t know what’s identity theft