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gerowen

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Husband, father, US Army veteran, IT specialist, school bus driver, diesel mechanic, tech, security, Linux and free software enthusiast, gamer, dog lover.

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gerowen, to Youtube
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I literally just got a Donald ad on asking us to donate to him. A criminal billionaire who tried to stage a coups wants ME to donate to HIM. Fuck that guy and the horse he rode in on.

gerowen, to Vivaldi
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So I've discovered another neat feature of the browser; Workspaces. It allows you to stay organized without cluttering up your desktop with multiple windows, each with their own set of tabs. Basically I can have a "tech news" workspace where I have news and social media all tiled. I can also have a workspace with its own, different set of tabs. Each workspace stays running in the background and you swap between them with the workspaces button. Kinda like windows within a window.

gerowen, to Youtube
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This is why I buy DRM free MP3s/FLACs, or I buy CDs and rip them. I can play them in the background, offline, etc. with no subscription required. Subscription services like Spotify pay very little to the artists, so not only do they get a bigger cut of the money when I "buy" a piece of music, but i actually own it with no further transactions required.

Headline: #YouTube #Music is discontinuing free background playback in #Canada

Source: https://www.neowin.net/news/youtube-music-is-discontinuing-free-background-playback-in-canada/

#YouTubeMusic

gerowen, to LinusTechTips
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Luke (from ) made a really good point that I hadn't considered about the new feature. What about public computers? How many libraries, computer labs or internet cafes are going to be absolute hotbeds for personal data compromise? You know Microsoft will have the feature enabled by default and you know that even if people disable it, they'll randomly re-enable it. What happens on public computers where everyone shares one user account? 1/

gerowen,
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I really hate to tag an individual who probably has other things to do, but @shanselman , for my own education, as a tech enthusiast, do you know whether or how Recall will affect public machines, say in a library or internet cafe? Will there be group policy objects to forcibly disable it so a Windows update doesn't turn it back on? Will it even run in a setting where the user isn't signed into a Microsoft account? What's the best resource to see updates on this?

gerowen, to Vivaldi
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Been giving the browser another try and one of its coolest features is the ability to tile multiple tabs in a single window. This makes it easier for me to share news across multiple social networks at the same time.

gerowen, to python
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Just posted an update for my little #Python #programming project that downloads videos from sites like YouTube. You can check it out here:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/youtube-dl-gtk/

GossiTheDog, to random
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For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

video/mp4

gerowen,
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@GossiTheDog I forget his name but the guy talking is actually here on Mastodon. He at least was, and I think still is an employee at Microsoft.

gerowen, to linuxmint
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Giving a spin in a virtual machine because my mom has expressed an interest in migrating to Linux when 10 enters end-of-life. It's actually pretty darn slick and user-friendly; comes with a lot of stuff made by the Mint devs themselves for Mint, and I think it might be the perfect thing to migrate my mom over to. Will probably stick with the based LMDE.

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