Rikj000

Rikj000, 4 months ago

Only show interest in open source software,
let the anti consumer surveillance tech companies drown.

For SearX,
checkout these random SearX redirectors:

• GimmeASearX - Self Hosted
  github.com/demostanis/gimmeasearx
• SearX NeoCities - Publicly Hosted searx.neocities.org

Both increase your privacy + prevent rate limits.

Rikj000, 19 days ago

vomits in mouth a little

Rikj000, 2 months ago

Figure out which politicians are behind this.
And throw them out,
since they are trying to take away your rights (to privacy).

They are looking to apply mass surveillance upon you guys wrapped into a “For the kids safety” package as usual…

Rikj000, 30 days ago

Correct, ChatGPT is proprietary spyware.

If the interface would support self hosted (local/offline) LLMs, then I’m sure people would be much more interested.

Rikj000, 1 month ago

Each article,
links to a news site,
which is riddled with data trackers,
which collects info about you,
which is sold.

In addition the sites contain advertisements.

Rikj000, 1 month ago

How do you think news sites earn money? They do not provide that content for free,
you are their product of which they benefit.

I use NoScript,
which tells me about each JavaScript piece a website has, most if not all of them contain trackers (= data collection).

Rikj000, 1 month ago

Only these 2:

• world@lemmy.world
• worldnews@lemmy.ml

Because they:

• Spam up your feed
• Spread depressing content (since it attracts more attention thus earns them more)
• Try to manipulate you

Rikj000, 1 month ago

Citra, internal resolution x9,
and you’ve got yourself an early access to this :)

No need to pay Nintendont, the law-suit company that makes games on the side, again for a game you already bought in the past.

Rikj000, 27 days ago

Correct me if I’m wrong,
but I have been disliking Ubuntu because they use:

• Proprietary pieces in their code
• Telemetry (spyware)
• Snap packages by default

Rikj000, 1 month ago

All I want to know is how it can be removed / disabled permanently from my work laptop when it reaches it.

Rikj000, 1 month ago

I feel you :/

I’d answer with:
Because it’s a privacy nightmare.

They’ll answer with:
I don’t care about privacy,
I’ve got nothing to hide.

I’ll answer with:
That’s a dumb reply,
my privacy is not important,
but systematic privacy is,
if we don’t care about it,
we’ll end up in a oppressed surveillance state like China.

And then they say “huh” and likely will continue to not care… ;-;

However it does make some aware,
in which I’m putting my faith.

Rikj000, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Sign-up still requires a phone number… -.-"

Checkout Matrix/Element or Session,
there you can actually enjoy privacy by signing-up without a phone number/email:

• matrix.org
• element.io
• ~~getsession.org/~~

Edit: Due to Session’s company residing in Australia,
which appareantly has bad privacy laws,
i don’t feel comfortable with recommending it anymore

Rikj000, 1 month ago

• Forgejo: But ForgeFed, it’s federation software is still under development
• Radicle: But they have unnecessary ties with crypto stuff

Rikj000, 20 days ago

Don’t meddle with “stable-coins”.
They are pointless since they:

• Do not replace fiat
• Are not stable since inflation on fiat
• Are more risky then fiat

If you want a “stable-coin”,
just use fiat…

Only crypto you should still care about these days is Monero.

Rikj000, 10 days ago

You can use Aegis and/or Yubico Authenticator instead, that’s what I do.

Rikj000, 15 days ago

Never give up,
each eye you poke out is one less they can use for data collection.

It’s a slow process and they’ll grow more eyes,
but the less they have on you,
the more private you’ll be.

Rikj000, 1 month ago

CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies),
basically FIAT 2.0,
but now with even less rights and privacy over your money.

Rikj000, 1 month ago

Points that can help them change to FOSS:

• Cool new features not available in proprietary alternatives
• Awareness of privacy risks & issues
• Battery life improvements
• Storage size reduction
• Security improvements

Sites that can help them find FOSS alternatives:

• www.opensourcealternative.to
• github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
• www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/
• f-droid.org/en/packages/

In my experience it’s extremely hard to make someone not interested in software to try out new FOSS apps though…

Rikj000, 26 days ago

Currently at 30ish hours and still enjoying it.

Reminded me that Bethesda does release some great / huge games.

Albeit quite bugged at release,
but since they (usually) embrace the modding scene, lots of this can be / has been patched and even improved by the community.

The Next Gen update is a stupid cash-grab though, and imo should have never happened…

An official modpack would have been much better.

Rikj000, 26 days ago (edited 23 days ago)

My “nExT gEn” update experience:

1. Get baited to re-play Fallout 4 through the new TV show + Next Gen update
2. Be disappointed since the graphics aged like milk + Official HD texture DLC sucks
3. Be disappointed since the update broke nearly all mod support
4. Roll back to the release before the Next Gen update + Uninstall the Official HD texture DLC
5. Install 205 mods, and happily play with nearly everything in 4K

FYI, most mods I installed are from:

• The Midnight Ride:
  themidnightride.moddinglinked.com
• ESO-UI High End:
  eso-ui.com/fallout4-high-end/

Rikj000, 3 months ago

Gitea is not really recommended anymore these days, due to being taken over by a for-profit comany + introducing a paid tier.

Nowadays Forgejo is the project to look at.

Rikj000, 20 days ago

Don’t meddle with “stable-coins”.
They are pointless since they:

• Do not replace fiat
• Are not stable since inflation on fiat
• Are more risky then fiat

Only crypto you should still care about these days is Monero.

Rikj000, 23 days ago

You can ditch YouTube,
without actually ditching YouTube content,
through a privacy respecting alternative frontend:
www.privacyguides.org/en/frontends/#youtube

My favorite ones:

• Desktop: Invidious + Piped
• Android: Newpipe + Tubular

Rikj000, 1 month ago

Suyu is the most popular + actively developed afaik.
suyu.dev

They host their code on their own Forgejo instance:
git.suyu.dev/explore/repos

Which is more DMCA proof then Github/Gitlab.

I hope ForgeFed will go into production soon,
then we can synchronize the code in between multiple Forgejo instances in a federated fashion.
codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/59

Rikj000, 1 month ago

Human Centipede,
that shit is banned in a few countries for a reason…