Stating that Sync client has ads, on a post about Lemmy clients, is toxic.

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Just to be banned too? No thanks.

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but sometimes you have kids online who don’t obviously seem like kids because you can’t see them

Point taken… Altho personally I don't care about how old someone is. When I game online or just squat on Lemmy/Reddit/forum, I'm fine taking to people whether they're 13 or 70. If anything, younger people tend to be more open minded, which possibly comes with having access to all the information.

But yea I guess some topics probably hit different when you grow up in a certain style of environment. Still, when I babysit kids, I find they are curious about everything and are willing to change their mind if they get explained something realistically. And I don't see younger people ask loaded questions as often as older folks do.

I’d imagine if you’re not in tech circles you also don’t find out much about privacy risks.

I don't begrudge people for not knowing things. What I find interesting is how they react when they learn about something, or their initial train of thought. You probably know the experiment of asking randos "should dihydrohen monoxide be banned?"

I have this hobby almost, I like finding new things, weird and divisive stuff. Oddball topics, weird fetishes, strange habits, crazy hobbies, wild art, whatever. If there's a community with "weird" in the title, I'll probably subscribe to it.

And it also gives me some insight into how outsiders react when they stumble upon that stuff. Most people, when confronted with something out of their ordinary, tend to go "damn good thing I'm normal, everyone is weird" or worse. So I guess it is human nature, but you can also imagine how tiring it can get.

I understand and even appreciate that people have different priorities, worries and preferences. Which is why I dislike the attitude some take, "if you don't care about X, you're part of the problem". It may even be true in lots of cases, but we can't all care about the same things, less we all worry about everything all the time, and that's not good or realistic.

Funny thing though. I've seen people have civil debates about the most sensitive, divisive topics, as long as the initial question or statement comes from a place of genuine curiosity.

But whenever I see people ask the "why is privacy important?" question, it's never just "am I missing something?" but more of a "gimme all the ads, collect everything about me, I don't care", sometimes with the "you conspiracy theorists weirdos, nobody cares about you and you're probably pedos anyway" sprinkled in.

So it's a bit tiring to see this over and over, hence my snark at the beginning. And I don't know where the attitude is coming from. Maybe it's just a relatively new issue and people aren't used to constantly being exposed to the debate, like with some other topics?

But in that case I gather that it should be the opposite problem - we used to have much more privacy than we have now, that just has to be obvious (hence the questions in the first place), so the proper question to ask would be "wait, why is everyone so interested in everything I do all of a sudden? Why is every corporation suddenly collecting all my data and giving me free stuff in return while raking in billions of profits? Hm, sus"

Eh maybe I'm missing something.

My point is that if it's something that clearly lots of people care about, it's probably a good idea to think a little.

The "why anyone would" part is in the "why people make a fuss". I don't wish to be a teacher here picking apart every word, don't get me wrong, but people get upset if you invalidate what they care about. It's like telling someone who's angry to calm down.

Fortunately people here have more patience heh.

Don't look in girls' bags though. If you do, you may stare into the void for eternity or get eaten by a 6-dimensional space monster.

Well imagine coming to a vegetarian forum and asking: "Why does everyone make a fuss about killing animals? I eat meat three times every day, go on hunts every month, sometimes just for fun, I don't even eat those animals. Also I don't care about cages and all that, animals don't have souls anyway."

It may also be a genuine question, but sometimes it's good to spend 10 seconds before asking, either by just thinking or maybe do a very brief web search.

In general, questions of the "I don't care about X so I don't see why anyone else could" kind tend to be like that. You can ask, but you can also expect people won't want to talk to you.

If you'd phrase this in a less twatty way, you could almost ask this in a "no stupid questions" community.

Don't see why not. You can download a database of hashes and compare that locally. Granted, those hashes aren't "free", but that's due to the legal status of such material. The principle itself - comparing hashes - can be foss.

Yea people can look into the algorithms to see how they work and circumvent etc., but that's no different than with… Anything else. If someone is motivated enough to distribute the material, they'll make their own network. Foss doesn't make any difference here.

SF: Europa Report

Lovely, but no widget support… Is there any foss weather app with good widget selection? I tried a bunch from F-Droid a while ago and didn’t find any.

For browsing, best use a browser with adblocking included, as that’s faster than using external apps. Browser can eliminate the calls right at source, while an external app can only intercept them.

Mull (Firefox fork) with uBlock Origin is the gold standard, or Cromite (ex Bromite) for Chromium fork.

You can’t say it’s similar Android device based on model. It may be similar or completely different. If it’s not supported, then you need to make a port yourself. You’re probably better off trying a custom ROM from xda.

• you open your code under a licence that means other people can use it, that means other people can use it

• reporting a bug is not demanding free labor

Like how do you think this is supposed to work?

A) That everyone who wants to use open source stuff needs to be a programmer and contribute?

B) That if someone posts code under GPL or some other licence permitting commercial use, that it’s not permitting commercial use anyway?

C) That you need to pay to report a bug?

Come on. If the dev wants to only fix particular things and wants payment for fixing other things, fine, but don’t say this is the only way foss should work.

Sounds good.

I wish there were such detectors for other triggering stuff, like gore, or creepy insects, or any visual based phobia. Everyone just freaks out about porn.

Honestly I just read the biggest classics and hits. Usually they’re classics for a reason, and even if it’s not to my liking, at least I learn something new and can cross it off the bucket list.

Now that I think about it, scifi is somewhat monocultural - is that a word? - this way. The consensus what’s good and what’s not, and why, seems to be higher than in real world fiction.

I do listen to more audioshows than books and it’s kinda the same. If something becomes very popular, it’s likely to be better than average. Although I’ve found some sleeper hits too, and nothing really bad. Producing an audio show is probably harder than writing a book.

As people mention, there’s a bunch of them. I’ll also add the Simple Mobile Tools phone project. And Divest OS.

OpenBoard fork with Gesture Typing: https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard/releases

Documents don’t help against identity theft. I guess selfies don’t either in the age of deepfakes, but it gives them plausible deniability.

The problem here is that you lost the 2FA, so that makes it difficult.

But yea as long as it’s just emails from a company you don’t care about, setting them as spam is the easiest solution.