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NewPipe blocks ads, and optionally blocks Shorts. NewPipe does also happen to break YouTube's terms of service. My opinion is that YouTube should be forced to permit third party cl…

I wonder if one could run Delta Chat on top of yggmail[1] (very much an alpha software release) for a truly P2P IM chat. yggmail runs over IPv6 with a tun interface same as yggdras…

GrapheneOS scores well and rightly so, but my main gripe is that they don't ship F-Droid and they actively steer users to Google Play and Aurora instead. It's weird because the onl…

Podman doesn't have a dependency on systemd. e.g. it is packaged in Void Linux. Podman has a better architecture than Docker in that it can easily run on a non-privileged user. Qua…

I mean you can find porn on Google and you don't have to look that hard

You wouldn't be doing anyone a favour by committing electoral fraud. But that aside, although Australia doesn't require any ID on election day, Australians do register with the Aus…

Me neither, in Qld.

Maybe but that would be voter fraud and quite a serious offence, like going to prison for ten years, which is why not many people do that.

> They can opt out, by not participating with the site The definition of social media under the legislation is essentially any form of digital communication that allows two or more…

Ha! We have compulsory voting but unlike many Anglo countries we don't require voter ID, vote registration etc. In fact you do not need to provide any ID to vote, because voting fr…

myID as it stands is a bit of a farce. It uses OIDC under the hood, but it only supports end users that download the myID app on their smartphone via the Google Play Store or Apple…

> They specifically don’t prescribe any particular age verification methods. This would be a great time to follow up with legislation that updates their national IDs to be able to …

Farting maybe, but the impact from cow burps is measurable and no conspiracy theory. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17517715/

Ty, I'll fix it very soon :) Something's up with Certbot and it's probably a trivial fix.

I put in a submission to the committee for this issue[1]. The big issues from my point of view are widespread ID validation and the security and privacy consequences of that, defin…

Exactly this. At my old employer we (the sysadmins/operational DBAs) were pushing for newer, supported versions of Postgres. The push back was always the regression testing cycle, …

I've recently discovered systemd-nspawn which is an alternative to LXC, builtin and integrated into systemd. Much lighter than full VMs and it's quite similar to Solaris Zones and …

Some people recommend avoiding citrus and onions in compost and worm farms typically because worms don't like it in the early stages of decomposition. I've never followed that rule…

Not to mention cherry-picking facts (at best). Case in point, cars today are more environmentally friendly than the 1980s, we are told. So much so that a car driving down the motor…

> If you don't like that viewpoint then maybe you shouldn't entrust your private data to an American company that can alter the deal, and you should just pray that they don't alter…

> Clearly these users opted in when they signed up for Facebook and then uploaded their photos. Not correct. For instance I, an Australian, had an old Facebook account that I forgo…

> In spite of Manifest V3 being a shit show, I continue to see all manners of evidence that Google wants genuine honest reform for user privacy. The attitude & negativity is at sev…

Not only that, they are the advertising industry, or at least a major player. Moves like Manifest V3, continuing 3P cookies and user-hostile moves on YouTube are all a part of that…

Out of the frying pan and into the fire. With regards to privacy and tracking Chrome/Chromium is so much worse than Firefox. Whether it be terrible defaults, exceptions which allow…

> In the story above, a competitor to Teams couldn't "keep up". Is that really Microsoft's problem? Should Microsoft have made Teams more useless, more expensive, or less integrate…