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- on Why yes, I do communicate via esoteric languages incomprehensible to the average person, why do you ask? in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 1d ago
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on What are the better places to get a domain without any selling data nonsense? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 1d ago
Cloudflare is one of the largest surveillance operations in the world. They might not directly sell your data, but they are absolutely in a position to exploit your data and track your behavior. They should be avoided if privacy is a concern.
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on iPhone users are flooding social media with complaints — Apple’s latest iOS move is adding persistent ‘ads’ that can’t be dismissed to users’ devices in c/technology@beehaw.org · 1d ago
you can accept the free trial
In my experience, accepting a “free trial” usually requires accepting a long list of some company’s terms and conditions.
You might find that an acceptable imposition in an interface upon which you depend, and on the expensive device that you bought. Many of us do not.
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on Custom email aliasing – throw-away emails using a custom domain in c/technology@beehaw.org · 2d ago
For the sake of other readers, let’s state this clearly: A custom domain with only one user can be used to track you just as a personal email address can, and Cloudflare itself is a massive surveillance operation. So I guess this might be helpful for some threat models, but it won’t do much for others.
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on Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee in c/technology@beehaw.org · 4d ago
license plate readers
This is a bit like referring to thermonuclear bombs as firecrackers. It’s very misleading.
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on Your Computer Might Demand Your Age Soon, No Matter Where You Live in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 16 Sep 2026
Devuan, AntiX, and MX Linux all seem worth a look for people wanting to avoid systemd. More are listed here:
itsfoss.com/systemd-free-distros/
(FWIW, I think systemd’s age data collection is optional, at least for now. It’s not clear which Linux distros will implement/adopt it by default.)
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on there's mostly only two relentless hardships in programming: networking issues, naming things, and off by one errors. in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 14 Sep 2026
OP might be suffering from cache misses. (Or maybe hasn’t yet learnt about it.)
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on there's mostly only two relentless hardships in programming: networking issues, naming things, and off by one errors. in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 14 Sep 2026
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
— Widely attributed to Phil Karlton
There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.
— Leon Bambrick 2010-01-01
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on Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of Users in c/technology@beehaw.org · 12 Sep 2026
Matrix isn’t a drop-in replacement yet, but it’s slowly improving. Here’s a relevant post from early this year:
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on 12 TB of Valve's data from 2003-2013 has leaked online, and Episode 3 content isn't off the table yet in c/games@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
There’s also a very good chance that early Half-Life2: Episode 3 builds are in there, but at the time of writing, nobody has found anything related to the legendary sequel that never came. There’s 12 TB after all, so it’s going to take a long time for the community to sift through all the data and work out what it all means.
In other words, this headline is pure speculative click bait.
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on Epic Games Store will get a Linux version sometime "soon" in c/games@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026
Epic showed their true colors when their store app was caught rummaging through unrelated files and collecting Steam account data from people’s systems. (This was no surprise coming from the creators of Epic Online Services, or from a CEO like Tim Sweeney, of course.)
Their software won’t be welcome on my systems even if they do make a Linux version.
I don’t see silicon. I see fiberglass and copper. Are you sure those demons are trapped?