[-] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 hours ago

Yeah, but so far I haven't had to provide any information to it whatsoever other than location access. For finding businesses and stuff like that, great stuff.

[-] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago

This is fucking gold. Thank you so much.

[-] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 49 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Still happening to me at 52 years old. Fuck growing up.

I live how, when my wife has to leave the city for a day or more, my kid's reaction is, invariably, "yeah! There won't be any adults in the house." 🤣

[-] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

Make no mistake, it's a real chore getting kids to understand, but showing them scary shit that happens to others out there for not taking care of their privacy is a seriously useful crutch. I think I've made my kids as paranoid as I am, they even bitch at my wife every so often about her still using WhatsApp 🤣

[-] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 25 points 3 days ago

That's ancient 'Moronic'. Like Ancient Greek, but written by morons.

[-] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 days ago

My kids use Fedora, and hate windows with passion (I wonder where they get that from), so they only play games that work in Linux and they can play on steam. Their friends and cousins have adapted to them, instead of the other way around (though I'm pretty sure they still play Fortnite and other 'winblows only' shot without my kids). I made my kids understand that anyone that does not respect their wish to control their own lives and privacy is not worth keeping around anyway, and it has worked fine so far. Also, they have time limits for gaming and watching TV, they read and play music instruments way more than using any type of tech.

[-] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago

I'm right there with you. If anyone asks me about it, my response is "imagine that Arch Linux and OpenAI were going to have a child, but they were both doing too many drugs and alcohol, smoking 3 packs of camels per day each and lived near a garbage burning field in a Saharan country, Omarchy is the material resulting from that miscarriage".

There's just too many good Linux distros out there for me to even entertain the idea of ever giving that shit a chance.

[-] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago

Yeah, I'm on the same boat. Shit, I would even drink coffee at his pace when watching his videos. He's dropped real low in the lat year or 2.

Then there's Tom Lawrence for networking. Objective, each tool has it use case and he will push nothing, basically just voice hos opinions and why. Like if Louis Rossmann was all about networking and way less angry 🤣. Full disclosure, I fucking love Rossmann, my wife hates him.

[-] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

So he is now a socialist? Mandani must be laughing his ass off after seeing this 🤣

[-] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 15 points 4 days ago

Exactly this. As much as I hate the current AI scenario across the board, the GOS team has shown, time and again, that they are stellar developers and coders, that they genuinely care about security, and that they are the best at countering anti-privacy on the technology front.

If any team can use AI responsibly to improve all this, it's the GOS team. And if it ends up failing on it's face, I expect them to move away from it if things go south. Now, if they don't because of 'AI addiction', then I will be looking at what my alternative options are. Until them, I'm 100% with them, as they have not given me any reason yet to doubt their judgement.

[-] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

Read the damn room.

[-] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 21 points 5 days ago

I swear that this is intentionally made. It wouldn't surprise me if the companies that sell our data pushed or even pay for this verbiage in order to scare regular users out of using these helpful extensions.

Yeah, I know I sound paranoid as fuck, but can you really blame me?

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submitted 2 weeks ago by jjlinux@lemmy.zip to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

So, all of my Proton services have been acting up today. I'm still waiting for them to resolve the issue. I guess I'll keep waiting for many "approximately 5 minutes" 🤣

In all honesty, this is the first time I see an issue with Proton in my 3 years using their services (I'm not saying there have been no issues, just that this is the first time I'm aware of them).

https://status.proton.me/

Anyway, I guess I'm just ranting now.

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submitted 5 months ago by jjlinux@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world

Just as it says in the title. All these companies offering 'privacy' and 'security' services when they can't even keep their own shit secure. At the end of the day, the only chance we have at keeping private and secure is by handling our own data and avoiding all these companies entirely, and hope they all eventually disappear in bankruptcy hell.

Funny how this company is also a 'sponsor' for Have I Been Pwned, yet they are evidently just using that to market themselves to privacy conscious people by having their brand on the site.

These companies never cease to amaze me, and this causes me to trust Have I Been Pwned a bit less in terms of their marketed philosophy vs what they actually are.

I'm just ranting here, because I'm getting increasingly tired of all this shit. Sorry for that.

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