resist1984 @resist1984@social.privacytools.io
Joined Mar 2019
#Republicans have high respect for private property rights- moreso than #freeSpeech.. Right up until their king gets booted from #Twitter's private #walledGarden (where free speech doesn't even apply).
@d3vnull So this #CloudFlare site #westernjournal is bitching about "tech oligarchs" doing "an assault on freedom of expression"? LOL. #Hypocrisy
@rysiek @nemo didn't the #isolateGab movement work out pretty well? I'm not seeing much of that kind of garbage on social.privacytools.io
@h_tejas @prasoon The ban is a good thing precisely for the reason you give: private companies should not control who gets to interact with a public servant. Twitter *should* be out of the loop. https://social.privacytools.io/@resist1984/105526982055281931
@kzimmermann @kirschner interesting. I also see that /screen shrinks it even more: https://gist.github.com/firstdoit/6390547 But I usually prefer to ditch JPGs altogether and use pdf2djvu. It seems to substantially shrink PDFs with no noticable quality loss. The extra perk is that #djvu is easier to trust (it's just for docs).
@kirschner @JayVii_de just a warning, iirc, ImageMagick can have strange results if the PDF isn't simply a container of raster images.
@PaulaToThePeople @dsfgs Other options (non-GL): git.teknik.io, sourcehut.org, git.nixnet.xyz, git.openprivacy.ca, yerbamate.dev
@dsfgs @PaulaToThePeople #Gitlab.com is a terrible suggestion particularly when there are so many viable alternatives. There are bigger problems w/Gitlab.com than #Google: https://lemmy.ml/post/30312/comment/2239 GL s/w is fine but most ppl don't run their own. It makes more sense to not even mention gitlab.com, & mention the other services that use GL s/w (framagit, git.feneas.org).
@PaulaToThePeople @dsfgs #OpenBazaar is a #CloudFlare site. It's especially a bad idea to use a CF site for shopping because CF gets sensitive info (name, address, payment info, user and pass [which some ppl foolishly reuse on multiple sites])
@IzzyOnDroid Indeed one can always supply a 3rd party repo, PPA or not. But a PPA *must* be 3rd party wrt Debian. All 3rd party repos are exempt from Debian's quality standards. The goal should be for projects to get into the official repos, as this reassures users that it reached a QA standard & thus broadens the selection of quality s/w. It also gives the app some worthy recognition.
@dsfgs @PaulaToThePeople I would either remove #Kodi, or at least heavily caution that the Kodi docs are #CloudFlare-jailed (same place as #Mint docs). I quit using Kodi for that reason. #MythTV is a decent noteworthy choice but it's not the same thing as Kodi. It's more compatible with the free world than Kodi, as MythTV gets non-DRM content from free local broadcast.
@IzzyOnDroid some would say live-and-let-live, but by putting a majority of users on Ubuntu which then facilitates PPAs, this encourages marginalization of Debian users who an app creator would otherwise accommodate. It also cultivates relaxed trust on the part of the users, lowering the quality standards of free software overall.
@IzzyOnDroid PPAs are typically a means to deliver binaries. The harm is not just being an enabler for proprietary s/w, it also introduces exclusivity, as genuine Debian does not have stock support for PPAs, deliberately. The PPA apps not only leave out Debian users, but they circumvent the high quality standards that Debian requires of all official pkgs.
@IzzyOnDroid there are hundreds of linux distros which vary wildly on subjective matters of taste. I'm biased toward Debian which is already a listed. Ubuntu is problematic b/c of the PPAs & tendency to serve as an enabler for proprietary s/w as well as unvetted s/w. I'm moving some Mint users to #Sparky.
@PaulaToThePeople @dsfgs #Mojeek does their own crawling, and so unlike #DDG & #Ecosia, Mojeek is not dependant on #Microsoft, which is an environmental perk above & beyond their green data center. DDG & Ecosia should really be removed, and there are several decent #searx nodes that could replace them. Searx is just software used by good and bad services, so it's better to name the good nodes.
@dsfgs @PaulaToThePeople #DuckDuckGo is really a terrible option. IIRC DDG has moved from #Amazon to #Microsoft, but there is a huge list of reasons to stay away from #DDG: http://techrights.org/2020/07/02/ddg-privacy-abuser-in-disguise #Ecosia is actually #Amazon hosted & #Microsoft fed, & you don't caution that. Amazon & Microsoft are both very harmful to the environment.
@PaulaToThePeople @dsfgs You propose #LinuxMint. That would have been a good suggestion a couple years ago but now most of Mint's docs have been jailed in the #privacy abusing walled garden of #CloudFlare. So I've started moving ppl away from #Mint.
@dsfgs @PaulaToThePeople You propose #Yalp as a Playstore app compromise. The fake acct still keeps track of all your installations, and if Orbot is not in the loop #Google links your fake acct to your real acct.
Joined Mar 2019
