Todd Bonzalez

Didn’t this used to be common? One button glows in the dark, and if you push it a few seconds of backlight illuminate the rest of the buttons?

I swear half the remotes when I was a kid did this.

Yeah, it works, but it’s really quite clunky…

“Linux File Systems”

*List of root directories*

Uh, where are the file systems? EXT4… BTRFS… FAT32…

I’ve been on Linux for 20+ years now and it’s not as effortless as Windows or Mac, but it is definitely easy now.

So many things have improved with Linux desktop it’s crazy.

As long as it’s not writing to disks, you’re probably safe. This is a good method to avoid getting a remote device stuck too.

The issue is that the digital tap-to-pay cards are actually reissued cards with their own unique numbers. They also require significant security measures to protect from cloning attacks.

So banks need a party that they can safely issue a digital card to, knowing that the card data will be stored safely.

Even a FOSS app that covers all the user’s needs is going to have a lot of trouble actually getting a card loaded into it under current standards.

I hate to say it, but crypto wallets are likely the closest thing we’re ever going to get to a FOSS tap-to-pay system. Banks are inherently corporate and capitalist, so it’s not really in their nature to make things open source.

Perhaps if there were an industry standard for issuing digital cards, instead of banks partnering with centralized wallet apps, we could procure our own digital cards to load onto our phones and watches, or integrate into other devices. But that’s a whole other battle that nobody is fighting right now.

File Manager Plus:

It connects to all my SFTP servers effortlessly, and it’s an absolutely stellar file Manager.

JuiceSSH:

Manages all my SSH servers and identities, and has an extremely usable terminal. It’s got extensions too.

SIMlink 4G

Are these sensors connected to a cell network? What the hell? More than half my life ago, when I was in high school, we had wifi…

lmao, just now reading this incredible response to me calling you paranoid.

Hopefully it will be asked by the very smart people who actually develop TOR, and not just paranoid Internet randos like OP.

I went one step further than OP and actually read the article.

Web-based generative AI tools/chatbots

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he created fake AI CSAM—but using imagery of real kids.

All the privacy apps in the world won’t save you if you’re uploading pics to a subscription cloud service.

Oh, you failed up. Checks out.

You have never had a job before, huh?

I said free as in freedom, not free as in gratis.

But since you want to double down on this bad idea, let me explain why it’s shit:

If your employer expects you to use tools to do your job, they should pay for those tools if they cost something. Passing off operational expenses to the employees that use more expensive tools is hideously anti-worker, and it’s not even funny as a joke.

Employers should pay for the tools used to run their businesses, and you should learn what the “free” in “free open source software” means, because it’s not about money.

What an awful take. “Free as in freedom” includes not being docked pay for your software choices.

Isn’t this already true? Beer is essentially just water, barley, malt, and hops. We’ve been making it for thousands of years.

Ask him for his passwords, and when he says no, ask him to explain why. He’ll surely have things he doesn’t want you to access. Then explain that other people he doesn’t even know have that access right now, because he keeps thoughtlessly giving away digital access using apps and linked accounts.

If he gives you his passwords, log into his stuff and print his browser history or something. Stick it to his fridge.

Hey Microsoft: Windows is yours, GRUB is mine. I don’t give a shit if GRUB is vulnerable, I’ll fix that myself if I choose to.

Mind your own fucking business. The most you should ever do is let me know about it, not try to patch things you aren’t responsible for…

Good points.

I don’t quite get how you find it “understandable” to have a reflex against human rights, but otherwise I think we’re in agreement.

at a time when much of the US-influenced west was going crazy with polarization over the use of pronouns

lmao, speak for yourself. The anti-pronoun crazies have always been fringe, and their message has always been hateful and sexist.

When someone tells me who they are, I believe them. I’m seeing no evidence that anything has changed in 3 years.