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chemicalwonka

@chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de

🇩🇪 Marxist, Free (as in freedom) Software Advocate and a loyal player of Yu-Gi-Oh TCG

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Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution (www.theguardian.com)

The two tobacco companies Altria and Philip Morris International combined made up 2% of the branded plastic litter found, both Danone and Nestlé each produced 3% of it, PepsiCo was responsible for 5% of the discarded packaging, and 11% of branded plastic waste could be traced to the Coca-Cola company.

U.S. Secretly Shipped New Long-Range Missiles to Ukraine (www.nytimes.com)

The United States last week secretly shipped a new long-range missile system to Ukraine, and Ukrainian forces immediately used the weapons to attack a Russian military airfield in Crimea last Wednesday and Russian troops in the country’s southeast overnight on Tuesday, according to a senior U.S. official....

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We are reading this news right now so it is not secret anymore I guess…

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and a cancer for dessert, please

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mostly yes but it will depend how you block your Internet connection, with exception GrapheneOS approach all the other ways to “block” internet on Android devices may leak some data.

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Lanwchair is a great replacement but I am facing many problems with its widgets and don’t forget the default launcher is always the best option if you consider less surface attack

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this approach may leak data, don’t blindly trust it

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Or even better use a local password manager. People will be swallowed by so much false comfort

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Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

which launcher would you suggest and why?

so I finally got the motivation to install lineage os to my phone after thinking about it like year. and now that I finally modified this phone I started thinking about ricing this phone a bit. I’m looking for a launcher that isn’t too minimalistic and with a decent amount of customization. kinda like kde bit you know…...

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I use Lawnchair btw they released a new version days ago

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Nova Launcher is good but unfortunately they are proprietary

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Chrome is the pimp Firefox is the whore. Vanilla Firefox is full of spyware from Google.

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Yes, Firefox is not based on Chromium but that doesn’t exempt it from being full of built-in Google crap

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just make a check of your DNS requests and open about:config and you will see a lot of google crap

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Yes, this forks are better than Vanilla Firefox but I’m not referring to them in this case

Other point, Firefox is not so secure as you think

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neoliberalism and late stage capitalism in its essence

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Elsevier business model or exploitation business model as I prefer to say

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