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Cake day: September 13th, 2025

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  • Um no, any propreitary game with an internet connection and privileged access to your computer can and will spy on you, your goal should be sandboxing, limiting permissions and information access and using a zero trust policy.

    What country a proprietary application is from doesn’t matter, any private company can and will spy on you for profits, be it Chinese or American, even better if the courts are corrupt and run on cash.

    The US can just as easily launch a centralized surveillance campaign, and likely does through the NSA, do not trust any proprietary application just because it’s from a “civilized” or “developed” country, they are but the same as long as they are chasing profits.




  • ‘‘We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror. But the royal terrorists, the terrorists by the grace of God and the law, are in practice brutal, disdainful, and mean, in theory cowardly, secretive, and deceitful, and in both respects disreputable.’’

    • Karl Marx


  • More features, no rakuten tracking, advanced gestures, UI customization, file system access, sleep, advanced progress tracking and sync, cloud sync, wallabag (self hosted mozilla pocket), RSS/OPDS feeds and more, read more on their website, pretty easy to get started with however if you care about nothing except just basic reading like a book then it might be too featureful/complex




  • rclone also works over SSH, and isn’t needed on the remote side, rclone also shows you exactly what it’s gonna do with colored text and formatting along with conflict management, but yes it is a bit complicated and a step above nextcloud etc, although GUIs exist I haven’t tested them. Loking forwards to how a new tool focused on personal use specifically can manage to be more user friendly and adapt exclusive focused features for such, looks more approachable and simple.






  • Adding to this, it has already started happening on phones in the form of propreitary carrier locked devices being artificially cheaper than normal phones that you don’t even “own”, they are going for the ultra budget range first, then climb up from there, it will take a while to jump to computers but I absolutely see no reason for it to not start happening, after all the majority of users use Windows anyways, it can spread slowly.