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They're at @protonprivacy

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This is a deliberate decision to force people to turn off tracking protection.

No this is a hilarious fuckup where they forgot to move twitter.com, pbs.twimg.com and more off of the Twitter domains, so Firefox started blocking it because to Firefox it looks like Social Media trackers.

Mozilla already pushed a fix.

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Seems like @firefox @mozilla is doing something right

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This issue comes from the fact that even though the domain is now changed to x.com, it still tries to load content from twitter.com which Firefox thinks is social media tracking because it's coming from a different domain than the one you're on.

It's a hilarious and dumb oversight with this change.

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They should've just moved the other twitter domains too 🫠

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FYI: xManager itself is Open-Source, Spotify obviously isn't.

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That's just fine.

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I won't properly reply to this, I'm biased cuz a friend of mine works on this 🥴

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I mean, to be completely fair, that's how data storage works.

We cannot really just make data disappear, so we let it get overwritten instead

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yeah cuz for normal, day-to-day use that's exponentially slower the more you're deleting

You can do that when you wipe something.

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no when I say "overwritten" I mean that the area is set as deleted in the filesystem and the next time something writes to that area the data that was there before is disregarded.

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no I don't believe a damn word of what apple's gonna say on this, I just wanted to get the message out there that generally file deletion works by allowing data to be overwritten, so if the images are local this could very well just be that either it's showing data that hasn't been overwritten yet or it accidentally brought things out of the "recently deleted" depending on how long ago it was deleted.

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If all that you wanna do is download stuff, maybe try https://cobalt.tools

It pretty much just grabs the raw URL to the content for you, without the UI and fluff (in the case of Instagram) so you can just do a little "save as..." and it's worked quite reliably for me to view content my friends sent me.

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Manifest V3 changes capabilities and meta-data about extensions, including limiting lots of things that worsen the experience for AdBlock Users.

Google's "cookie replacement" is Ad Topics, which collects your browser history and puts it into categories, sending those categories to websites.

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As per the MV3 Specification, it is supposed to remove some APIs.

Firefox included them anyways cuz they're not assholes.

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You can actually put alt-text in images, ![alt-text](URL)

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Note that tons of instances have increased the limit FAR beyond 500 chars. Mine has 2000.

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The algorithm was neither proposed nor designed by the US government, it was made by (what is now known as) Signal, a 501c nonprofit.

The claims of signal being "state-sponsored" come from assuming how money flows through the OTF - Open Tech Fund - which has gotten grants from government programs before. (IIRC)

It wouldn't make sense for the US Gov. to make such a grant to make a flawed protocol, as any backdoor they introduce for themselves would work for any outside attacker too - it's mathematics. It works for everyone or for no one. Would they really wanna make tools that they themselves use, just to have it backdoored by other state actors?

And again, Durov's claims are entirely assumptions, and that coming from someone that has had [various](https://mtpsym.github.io// different vulnerabilities and weird bugs on their platform

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Musk himself hasn't actually provided any sources either, all his statements made on Twitter recently are basically pulled from thin air, almost like vague references

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That already exists, but it's weak in terms of encryption.

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activism.

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+ the collision is much less of a problem, the issue was that even if you clipped through you had to be in the walking state to open the door (you could clip through before!)

This new tactic involves doing a turnaround, after which for ~1 frame you enter the walking state in midair, allowing you to open the door after being pushed through by the penguin at the right time.

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Just so you know, the actual source code for this project mentions both Jamulator and another project that did this for the N64.

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it sucks but can you blame them?

For picking discord I very much can blame them, I figure it won't be long until that goes down the drain too.

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Know what? That you just AI Generated this?

https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/533d463b-e09e-4474-8930-40a00a4b13ae.webp

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...what did you get away with then? 🤔

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Indeed, these decom projects do not include any of Nintendo's assets.

The code compiles 1:1 back into a unable ROM but isn't made just using a source code leak. It is reverse-engineered just like the SM64 decomp

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They probably mean the Super Mario 64 Decompilation Project.

The goal was to turn the finished ROM back into unable code, that would do 1:1 the same thing. They finished a couple of years back.

https://github.com/n64decomp/sm64

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Nintendo has not taken action on the massively popular SM64 Decompilation and PC ports (and ironically switch ports) in the past what...3 years?

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Open https://yourserver.example/.well-known/matrix/client and see if this part exists in it:

"org.matrix.msc3575.proxy": {
    "url": "https://slidingsync.lab.matrix.org"
}

if so, chances are it'll just work.

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Yes, the entire point is that it is the client where Sliding-Sync is being developed and tested.

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Yeah but logically speaking that's what EX looks fort, and chances are that it'll work (because why else would it be in the response?)

1000+ Firefox for Android extensions now available – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog ( blog.mozilla.org )

The new open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android launched in December with just over 400 extensions. Less than five months later we’ve surpassed 1,000 Firefox for Android extensions. That’s an impressive achievement by this developer community! It’s exciting to see so many developers embrace the opportunity to...

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(the sync can actually be self-hosted and is OSS, the DRM is third-party and proprietary)

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I don't know if they're all flatpak

They should be, the Steam Deck updates system components separately through steam.

As a diagnostic step, you might wanna run flatpak update in a new Konsole window to see if there are any errors that Discover might not be telling you about.

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It isn't google-free in the sense that it ships https://microg.org

Unless you enable SafetyNet, none of Google's code runs.

Android custom ROM with rooting support

So I'm interested in buying a Pixel 8 to install GrapheneOS in it but I'm also interested in rooting it and from what I've read rooting your device with a privacy focused custom ROM like GrapheneOS beats the purpose of installing it, so I don't know if it's actually posible to do it or if it actually has any grace, honestly I...

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Indeed, rooting usually beats the purpose.

Not because it inherently makes you less private, but because having bad security makes it hard to be private, and opening up a way in android to allow apps to do what they want (selective root access) usually requires punching a lot of holes.

Even with AVBRoot, which allows you to setup Magisk or KernelSU with full Verified Boot support, you're still leaving open the possibility that something abuses the fact you're rooted against you.

But just so you know, if you insist, you can skip the step of locking your pixel's bootloader and install Magisk, but do not expect any support from that point onwards.

Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )

By the way, the earlier posted article https://restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data-leading-to-arrest-in-spain had an update starting at the paragraph with title Update: Statement from Proton and additional commentary

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Proton and Wire didn't share any decrypted ciphertexts, Wire shared a ProtonMail address and Proton an iCloud Address that they had set as a recovery method.

Personal info like where they live came from Apple.

After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year ( www.billboard.com )

When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...

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"Inside the EU" in the sense of "its headquartered in the EU" or in the sense of "available in the EU"?

either way, I've heard lots of people here vouch for Tidal.

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The case is essentially "hey you kinda passed a bill that's against your own constitution? You're kinda supposed to follow that..."

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Most info came from the fact that they made the move to link their personal iCloud Mail as a recovery method.

Infinite wisdom.

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presumably, you're already in the right place!

Though, generally all over all kinds of places in the web you'll find communities of neurodiverse and/or autistic people :)

Trying to understand Consent Forms, Cookies and Third-Party Vendors ( slrpnk.net )

Yo peeps, I'm currently looking into TCF Vendors, Ad partners and their whole corporate greed hellhole of tracking. I am writing a paper on this, and would like for everything to be factually correct. However, I am struggling to understand one particular part of this "transparency framework" and hope someone can help me clarify...

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there are additional cookies with duration as high as 1825 days, not 180... So which is it?

Whatever the browser reports is what they are actually doing.

In Firefox, enter the developer tools, navigate to the "Storage" tab and open the "Cookies" dropdown.
For any given domain you can now look at the "Max Age" or Expiry date.

[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?

Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don't come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don't really get upset by it...

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Specifically the annoyingly loud, self-righteous, insists-everyone-must-join-them vegans.
Unfortunately, most people only really see this sort of vegan

On this note, I'd like to point to the Loud Minority problem; You have XYZ group, and within XYZ group there exists a minority that comes across as very "loud". You can barely miss them, and because they state they're a part of XYZ group, you start associating that group with the loud minority.

Happens with Vegans a lot, and usually people which have already associated a group with a minority within said group which annoys them do not want to learn that they are wrong, or will just refuse to accept they are wrong.

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In spirit

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I think what you're experiencing online is a mix of loud minorities^1^ and online disinhibition^2^, not an accurate representation of vegans.

1: When there exists a minority in XYZ Group that is "louder" than the majority, causing people to associate XYZ group with the minority.
2: The phenomena of people acting out more violently, frequently, or pushy online when compared to being in-person, primarily due to anonymity

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    cyrus ,
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    You're welcome! <3

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    One thing that Steam/Valve has done with the Steam Deck is lock down the ISO by default, and provide no tools to modify your image persistently. That is of course on purpose, because that works for 99% of users, but the 1% of users may wanna use something where they can, for instance, overlay packages and keep them with updates, or apply extra gaming-focused tweaks that may be more of a hassle to maintain on SteamOS.

    For instance, I use Fedora Silverblue daily on my Desktop, and even though it is immutable just like the Deck, it offers me tools to modify my image as I see fit and have the same modifications be applied to future updates too.

    Bazzite 3.0 out now with Steam Deck OLED support nearly ready ( www.gamingonlinux.com )

    For Steam Deck OLED support they said it's ready to the point that "it should be mostly functional", however there's at least one major issue left which "has to do with audio crashing when switching to Desktop Mode" and some other issues related to HDR support.

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    Bazzite is a Fedora Atomic-based operating system intended for Gaming, so you get a lot of the same benefits of that whilst still including all kinds of Gaming-Focused tweaks and patches out of the box. It is also immutable, e.g the system cannot be modified arbitrarily, whilst offering tools to still make modifications to the installed images if you want.

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    Video rooms are coming, Element is currently working on MatrixRTC, for Matrkx-Native VoIP.

    Demo is at https://call.element.io, Element X on mobile implements this and soon™ the desktop client will too.

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