@hyde I gave up on this quest years ago. Today, if someone outright says to my face they don't care about #privacy, I just shake their hand, wish them good luck and walk away. End of conversation. Nothing in the book says that I must bear that person, and that attitude is a sign that I didn't miss much anyway.
@hyde but chances are that the person who asked has a smartphone at that precise moment. Ask to see it. If it's locked, ask "hey, why is it locked? Are you hiding anything from me?" If they say something about "security," you go "against what? Are you under attack? Are a person of interest or- WHOA WTF ARE YOU A TERRORIST?!"
Eventually they will admit it's privacy, and you can call their bluff. And if that phone was unlocked, well, bon appetit digging through their dirty shit!
> On 22 May 2016, a 34-year-old woman in Madrid, Spain, was charged under Article 37 of the Citizen Safety Law for carrying a bag displaying the acronym "A.C.A.B." accompanied by the words "All Cats Are Beautiful". The charges were dropped 3 days later.
@aner same. But just 10min ago I bit it and changed my default search engine to a #searx instance I used to use. Working great so far... except for some instant answers things like weather.
Well it's back up again, but I kind of enjoyed the ride; re-visiting #Searx after a while was a great refresher. I shall do it more often to fight data silos.
@maulanahirzan very nice! I have a Pi4 which I deployed as a a desktop for a few months. FreeBSD was what enabled it to be usable. I even used Office365 on it!
@maulanahirzan it's not a magical solution, though. Considerably lagging performance in comparison to even a medium-range PC. But to think it's like an 80-dollar piece of hardware, it's packs quite an impressive value per price. Also: cooling...
So today I decided to turn down my laptop's screen resolution to make fonts a little bigger to match those in my large external monitor. I wondered if the experience would be negatively impacted by it.
Turns out it was the best decision I could have taken. I can read everything in both screens now, and probably will keep it this way even without the external screen. Not everything needs to be tiny. #accessibility
@ckoul no thanks. This requires me to fiddle with all the config files and some applications even just ignore it (GTK/Qt widgets and so). Setting a different display mode on other hand takes just one command (which I can automate) and just works. Less window space doesn't scare me; this tiling wm has 10 workspaces to share the load.
@stux there is confirmation that they collaborated with the PRISM program in the past. Reformed offenders? Maybe. But also let's not forget that #privacywashing is a very good marketing and PR enabler. I personally still don't trust them.
If you are curious and courageous, and run #Debian testing or unstable, you might like to try the latest snapshot of #Gajim by @gajim. It features message replies and message reactions.
Expect bugs! This is not a release version, but a snapshot. It's called "experimental" for a reason.
echo "deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ experimental main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/experimental.list
Ayy looks like #gpg borked in #Devuan unstable (silently, too. No apt warnings). I now can't validate the signatures of the packages anymore which means apt upgrade stopped working. Oops? :devuannew: :blobfoxpat:
... and naturally, the apparent fix is being held back by apt: gpg, gpg-wks, etc all not upgradeable because of uncheckable signatures. :blobcattableflip:
Is there a way to force this upgrade, ignore signature and such?
#TIL that @JasonPunyon curated and compiled a whopping archive of answers from #StackOverflow and assorted #StackExchange Q&A sites in a minimal sqlite format, where they can be downloaded and analyzed offline:
Amazing effort and great idea. Reminded me of the archives that #Kiwix kept of it (alongside Wikipedia and similar projects), but more streamlined and cross-platform. Nice.