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apt is easier (probably only because i’m used to it) and snap takes up a fuck ton of space. at one point it took up like a quarter of my entire hard drive, then i started deliberately avoiding snaps

it’s a file format

i only see good news here!

i think that’s kim kardashian on the left

i feel like the people that do this know that and couldn’t give two shits

cursed

is there a pic that i’m not seeing?

gross but wholesome

i hope the takeaway from that is that prisons are unjustifiable, and not that gulags, or other forms of supposed re-education, are justifiable.

it’s 7:37 right now. i guess i should go study

a simple script will do the job. do you know any programming?

the fact that an app can do that is much more concerning than the fact that one did. why were location services available when the app wasn’t being used?

works for me

ah my bad! thanks for the clarification

i mean, it’s not exactly “his game” anymore. i wonder what he would say if he was still profiting from its sales.

either way, long live TLauncher! i used it for years before i could buy the game, and whenever i introduce someone to minecraft that’s what i install for them.

vpn gives privacy from your ISP and whoever your ISP reports to, which is often the government. as long as your vpn service is in a jurisdiction that can’t demand your data from them, and your country doesn’t make vpns illegal, it’s pretty effective.

also i think it’s pretty clear to see that your vpn alternative is impossibly complex for the average person, and the ease of use of vpns is what people are paying extra for. perhaps someone should make an open source tool that automatically does all of this with a vpn-like interface, so you can just buy a vps with ssh already setup, give this software the credentials, and use it like a vpn. assuming that vps host gives you all the region options you want and the software is able to change them by itself

i didn’t read the article, but i’m inferring that it says the last 4 years have shown it to be ineffective. from personal experience i can say that digital privacy has improved greatly for me over the last 4 years, and i consistently have seen companies having to back off because of GDPR and provide more and better options. perhaps i’m misattributing some things to GDPR that were actually due to coincidence, consumer pressure, or some other reason, and perhaps my idea of significant improvement is a lot smaller than others’. still i personally believe that GDPR is responsible for much better digital privacy for me and many others, and though it obviously doesn’t accomplish everything, it does plenty for legislation meant to grant general privacy to the general population

if you have to manually encrypt and decrypt them, it kind of defeats the purpose of their service. just put it on google drive then and it’s pretty much the same thing

i love that it’s not just disdain but also pity

the software looks really good for an open source project, and would probably be very useful for collaborating on documents.

they store your encrypted data on ipfs, so in theory it’s decentralized and there’s no reliance on any one party. except in ipfs you still need a host to keep your file alive while the rest of the network doesn’t care about it, which would be this company, hence why there’s a storage limit. i don’t see any options to self-host or switch host, though technically the software is open source so you can just change the default host in the code. there might have been an easier option that i missed, in fact i really hope there is