And that’s why you should stick with tor browsers defaults (with the exception of adjusting security slider to meet needs). They have a whole team who are paid to think about it.
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What dumb phone has reasonable security and the ability to run Signal?
They also ditched nuclear energy and stayed over reliant on russian fossil fuel, funding the Russian war machine
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News@lemmy.world•Ye song glorifying Hitler gets millions of views on X while other platforms struggle to remove it
10·7 months agoNitrous addiction can cause brain damage too
technically there is a lot it could do, but it would not be a number 1 pick for any of it (even if you only have a $100 budget) so i agree, get rid of it.
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Open Source@lemmy.ml•My open source "proof of useful work" captcha alternative (python)
4·1 year agoThere is already gridcoin which is a cryptocurrency that awards boinc work, so I’d say this concern has already been addressed because of that.
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Open Source@lemmy.ml•What open-source software would you like more people to know about?
9·2 years agoxpra: it is like tmux but for X windows (works on wayland), but it can do much more than that. You can seamlessly run GUI programs from a container or VM on your main desktop while still sandboxing their X capabilities, forward windows from Windows desktops, and it has efficient encoding so it is usable over poor connections as well.
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Programming@programming.dev•Is TypeScript a fad or is my manager delusional?
2·2 years agoAs a Go dev, its simplicity is arguably taken too far. For example there are no union types or proper enums
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Proton Mail Finally Releases Desktop Apps With a Linux Beta Version
1·2 years agoThe main benefit is since it is locally installed, it is harder for proton’s server to access your encrypted data by serving you malicious JS. A malicious desktop app/update could be served too, but that may be trickier.
I do something similar with rclone and vultr’s s3 service. I made an s3 remote in rclone and then a encryption layer remote on top of that.
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Do you donate to FOSS projects?English
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I don’t think tar is actually hard, we are just in the time where we externalize more information into resources such as Google. Its the same reason why younger people don’t remember routes by name or cardinal direction as much anymore.
side note: $ tldr is much better than man for just getting common stuff done.
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•A way to disable laugh tracks?English
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Open source doesn’t mean you have to accept contributions or help anyone with anything 😃