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Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection?
  • I would still recommend turning wifi off when leaving home for privacy reasons (which can easily be automated). The process to identify if a network is trusted or not requires a handshake. So leaving wifi on makes you trackable by the wifi network operators and the apps on your phone with access to your wifi, wether you connect a network or not.

  • A Cool Guide to genocides
  • To my knowledge, with the exeption of number 5, Israel has checked every point of this list.

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    Looking for a free email service
  • I second disroot. Been happy with their service.

  • How to diagnose Ubuntu touch randomly powering off
  • You can get the kernel messages from previous sessions like this: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/181067/how-to-read-dmesg-from-previous-session-dmesg-0#345978

    I'm on Fedora so YMMV

  • A Cool Guide to Kosher and Halal Food
  • Saw this posted on reddit and people there rightfully criticised it. Dog tastes better than lobster? Human tastes better than camel? WTF.

    Also, lots of oversimplification on what's halal and / or kosher.

  • Passiert auch bei euch, dass online Termine nach dem Termin als SMS auf eurem Phone geschickt werden?
  • Weil Tel.Nummern eine hohe Qualitätsgüte haben bei der Personenidentifikation. So lässt sich das Kaufverhalten über mehrere Dienste hinweg deutlich besser tracken.

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    Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 12th
  • I played a resist durge and I get the feeling I saw like at least 80% of the game. I might do a murder hobo illithid run at some point, where I drag all my origin companions to the dark side. But another 100 hour run just to see the remaining 20%... I don't know, seems like work.

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    Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 12th
  • Couldn't participate in these threads for a while, because it would have been the same game over and over again. But now I'm finally free! I beat Baldurs Gate 3 with a 150+ hours resist dark urge run.

    I started Immortals of Aveum as a palate cleanser. Pretty decent FPS with a cool story and lots of secrets.

  • The Joys Of Cleaning Ecologically
  • Joy and cleaning are not words I often put in the same sentence.

  • Have win7 laptop. What to play on it?
  • I get the feeling you're just being contrarian on purpose now. Most, if not all games released on win 7 will still run on win 7 now, and will continue doing so forever, period. That's exactly why OP is asking for cool games from that era.

  • Have win7 laptop. What to play on it?
  • Actually the opposite is true. I don't know of a single game where the devs patched out something so it stops working on the OS it released on.

  • Have win7 laptop. What to play on it?
  • Well, games used to and still run on MS DOS, so Win 7 really isn't an issue.

  • Have win7 laptop. What to play on it?
  • Have you really never heard of GOG? It's an awesome platform. They allow you to actually buy games so you can 100% own them drm free. No Steam or whatever other game launcher is needed. Also they specialize in older games, so it's perfect for this use case.

  • Germans grill Olaf Scholz over soaring cost of doner kebabs
  • Almost as if only a very small percentage of the population is profiting from those price hikes.

    I've worked my ass of these past 5 years to advance my career, earning about 30% more, just to have the same buying power I had when I started. It's ridiculous and utterly demoralizing.

  • Some green apps to try!
  • It's ad money

  • We need an exodus from Zionism | Naomi Klein
  • r/atheism is leaking... This conflict has as much to do with religion as the apartheid in south africa had. This is just pure unadulterated racism, period. The best way to heal that imo, is literally fuck each other until there are only brown people left in the world.

  • I'm giving Linux gaming a shot, but I've run into a couple display issues
  • Nobara is great distro that includes nvidia fixes and has a KDE spin

  • The Best Secure Email Providers in 2024
  • Let's see what europes e2ee ban will bring. Proton is one of the "high risk" services mentioned in the bills debate. Might not be too long before you have to host your own mail server if you want privacy in europe.

  • UK surgeon who described Gaza ‘massacre’ denied entry to France | The Guardian
  • Read the article. France is the one trying to find a solution. Germany is to blame.

  • "just got doxxed to within 15 miles by a vision model, from only a single photo of some random trees. the implications for privacy are terrifying. i had no idea we would get here so soon. holy shit"
  • Privacy matters most in the individual case, with people who know you.

    That statement is subjective at best. My friends and coworkers knowing where I live certainly isn't my concern. In today's day and age privacy enthusiasts are definitely more scared of corpos and governments.

    isn't worth it yet.

    You're thinking too small. Just in the context of the e2ee ban planned in europe, think what you could do. The new law is set to scan all your messages before/after sending for specific keywords. Imagine you get automatically flagged and now an AI is scanning all your pictures for locations and contacts and what not. Just the thought that might be technically possible is scary as hell.

  • FOSS app locker

    I'd like to harden my device and put some of my apps (mail & chat mostly) behind an additional layer of security. I found this app, that comes pretty close to what I had in mind.

    However, it hasn't been updated in 5 years and some options in the app are still flagged as in development. Anyone know of a maintained alternative?

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    KDE: update icon thinks I have a light plasma theme

    Since I upgraded all my devices to KDE 6 I have this weird issue with my laptop and media PC. The software update icon that sits in the tray and starts Discover seems to think I'm using a light plasma theme. It's only this one icon, and it's the same for all icon themes. I do not have this issue on my desktop, which has the same updates (comparison in screenshot).

    I have tried the following to no avail:

    • switching between multiple icon themes
    • switching between KDE light and dark plasma themes
    • deleting ~/.share/icon-cache.kcache

    Anyone have any further ideas?

    OS: Nobara release 39 (Thirty Nine) x86_64 Kernel: 6.7.6-201.fsync.fc39.x86_64 Shell: bash 5.2.26 Resolution: 2560x1440 DE: Plasma 6.0.1 WM: kwin Theme: [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3] Icons: Papirus [Plasma], Papirus [GTK2/3]

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    Reddit is blocking users based on user agents?

    Started to get this message when accessing Reddit. I use LibreWolf as a browser, which does indeed provide a more generic user agent to combat fingerprinting, but nothing out of the ordinary either (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/119.0). Anyone else experiencing this?

    Edit: seems to have resolved itself. Thanks for confirming I wasn't doing anything wrong. Let's hope this isn't some new algorithm to test if for insufficient fingerprinting so Reddit can kick ad-resistant users.

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    Lightweight touch-capable distro

    I recently was able to acquire an older Dell Venue 11 Pro 7130 with an Intel i3-4030Y and 4GB of RAM.

    I installed Fedora GNOME spin thinking GNOME might be the right DE for touch interfaces. Sadly it behaves sluggishly and the touch capabilities are lacking. Nautilus for example can't deal with long clicks to simulate right clicks, making file browsing a chore since I need to plug in a mouse and keyboard.

    Does anyone have any experience with older convertibles? What distro do you use to make use of the touch interface while keeping a snappy system?

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    Help request: labeling BTRFS encrypted partitions

    I've installed Fedora 38 with an encrypted system partition since I'll be traveling with my device. OS is running fine but now I'd like to have a more human readable label in dolphin for that partition. All renaming attempts in the terminal with "e2label" and "btrfs filesystem label" failed. The KDE partition manager didn't help either. Disks at least shows me the option to add a label, but can't unmount the partition to do so (Error unmounting, udisks-error-quark, 14).

    Does anyone have any experience and would like to share?

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    EU member states decide to restrict freedom of press for national security reasons
    www.heise.de EU-Staaten schränken Pressefreiheit im Namen der nationalen Sicherheit ein

    Der EU-Rat hat seine umstrittene Position zum Medienfreiheitsgesetz beschlossen, wonach Journalisten prinzipiell mit Staatstrojanern überwacht werden dürften.

    EU-Staaten schränken Pressefreiheit im Namen der nationalen Sicherheit ein

    Article is from a renowned german IT centric media outlet. Topic is a new ruling that allows for government spying through trojan horses on the press. This ruling is highly alarming.

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    Reddit doesn't snitch on "piracy" commenters
    torrentfreak.com Filmmakers Take Reddit to Court Again to Unmask 'Piracy' Commenters * TorrentFreak

    Filmmakers want a California federal court to compel Reddit to disclose the identities of several 'pirating' users.

    A group of filmmakers wants Reddit to disclose the identities of several users who made piracy-related comments. Reddit objects, citing its users' right to anonymous speech.

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    Browsing Reddit posts marked as NSFW redirect you to download the app

    Apparently Reddit is now preventing people to anonymously browse NSFW posts in the browser. Instead they invite you to download the app.

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    Mutireddit Alternative bei Lemmy?

    Ich habe mir bei Reddit gerne meine Interessen in Gruppen aufgeteilt. Somit hatte ich Multireddits zu Linux / FOSS, Gaming, Kochen, usw... jeweils mit unterschiedlichen Subs darin.

    Gibt es so eine Funktion auch bei Lemmy? Oder muss ich erstmal damit klarkommen, dass mir alles bei "Subscribed" zusammen angezeigt wird?

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