Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.
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Linux and public awareness (ads, trailers etc)
Hear me out, the big players in the Linux space I.e. Canonical, Red Hat and SUSE could release trailers commercially on TV and social media to general users who may not be tech savvy or have a “basic windows” lingo in IT....
How much should an organisation reveal about a data breach? (www.arrl.org)
There is a growing trend where organisations are strictly limiting the amount of information that they disclose in relation to a data breach. Linked is an ongoing example of such a drip feed of PR friendly motherhood statements....
Any good Debian-based OS for a laptop?
I’m planning to put Debian-based operating system onto my Surface Laptop Gen 1, following the guide (linux-surface). Any good Debian-based Linux recommendations? For now I’m considering AntiX (lightweight debian) and normal Debian....
What are some privacy concerns that fitness apps bring?
I’m trying to understand the problem those apps bring as a whole....
Visitor to Taiwan hit with $9,000 fine over 'roast chicken and pork combo' lunch box (www.abc.net.au)
Taiwan’s customs officials have issued a fine of NT$200,000 ($9,369) to a traveller for attempting to bring a lunch box containing pork into the country....
Artificial Refugium rule (slrpnk.net)
Microsoft: "Greetings, fellow Trekkies." (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/12466174...
Rolling my own immutable distro
I’ve looked at a lot of other immutable distros and I might just end up using one of those, but I feel like taking on a bit of a challenge and there’s a few things I’m not very keen on with existing solutions (last paragraph is my idea if you want to skip the context)....
One Time Pads (a futureproof encryption mechanism that cannot be cracked with supercomputers) (www.youtube.com)
Israel says it will return video equipment seized from The Associated Press, hours after shutting down AP's Gaza live video feed (www.cbsnews.com)
AI Is a Black Box. Anthropic Figured Out a Way to Look Inside (www.wired.com)
archive.is link needed
Pretend you are my boss at the rule opening factory (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Ars Technica reports Microsoft will add AI to Windows, to steal your corporate secrets (www.reddit.com)
Microsoft has started rolling out a.i. to its Windows Operating System for PCs. This “feature” pretends to make it easier to find documents on a computer....
how to stop vim (lemmy.ml)
[Feature Request] Vote for a Proton VPN App for Ubuntu Touch on ProtonMail’s UserVoice Forum
…uservoice.com/…/47523629-ubuntu-touch-app
Guidance for clearing data prior to de-googling?
I’ve found helpful guides for de-googling here, but I wasn’t able to find any for limiting the personal data that is shared with Google before making the switch to other services....
Iron (and glory) (mander.xyz)
cross-posted from: mander.xyz/post/13003496...
Fake WhatsApp and Instagram apps that can steal personal data (www.infoterkiniviral.com)
Instagram locked my account and forced me to appeal and send a picture of my face, so I sent a picture of Shrek. They deleted my account
I’ve been a social media hermit for the past 3 years but recently I’ve given up and created a few accounts across different apps again. It’s unreal how strict the requirements are now....
FLOSS sound level meter for Android?
Is there such a thing? I wasn’t able to find anything in the F-Droid repository.
I would maybe like a smart watch, can you help me decide?
Hello,...
Looking for Scriptable asynchronous communication tools
Anyone know of any scriptable asynchronous communication tools?...
Privacy focused health apps
I’ve been recently looking into watching my weight and diet again. I had used Noom in the past and really liked their services, but then it came out that they were essentially wiretapping everyone. It seems like every health focused app is selling health information now....
Maintaining the world’s fastest CDN at Netflix on FreeBSD (freebsdfoundation.org)
More comments lobste.rs/s/…/maintaining_world_s_fastest_cdn_at
They say the opposite of pro is con right?
Well if the opposite of progress is congress, then what’s the opposite of prostate?
Why is my CPU usage always 100%? (Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 9) (www.downtowndougbrown.com)
Some tl;dr takeaways :...
Does enshitification happen because companies are publicly-traded?
Isn’t that a prerequisite for enshitification? Publicly-traded companies are required (by law, I think) to maximize profits for their shareholders, even if that means utterly ruining their original product (Reddit, Boeing, etc.), yes? What do you think?
Help improve OpenStreetMap with StreetComplete (streetcomplete.app)
“This app finds missing map data in your vicinity and displays it on a map as quests. Solve each quest by visiting the location on-site and answering a simple question to update the map.”
I just want to play my game...
Apparently the Ubisoft servers are down so I cannot play SINGLE PLAYER Breakpoint....