I still would rather at least have a dedicated camera because A) They’re offline devices so you don’t have to worry about a hostile megacorp spying on your snaps, and B) they tend to either have better glass, including true optical zooms, bigger sensors, or both, or even swappable lenses in the case of things like SLRs or mirrorless ILCs.

Also, separate music players benefit from being offline too and some of them still have nice analog sections even by modern standards, such as the iPod Video and iPod Classic, plus both those DAPs can be flash-retrofitted and can have Rockbox installed on them.

AI companies lobbying to get this overturned in 3… 2… 1…

What happened to free speech rights? They just don’t exist anymore?

How soon before they start doing this to Win10 installations?

Scam Bankrun Fraud. Sam ‘Madoff’ Altman…

• Anyone trying to get people onto alternatives, which don’t help given Meta tried to EEE the Fediverse with Threads.

It’s going to be hard to completely kill off the Fediverse unless you block all ways in which it can be hosted, to include meshnets and the dark web.

On top of that, it’ll be really hard if not impossible to kill protocols which by their design are independently governed and completely open like ActivityPub and compatible protocols; it’ll be easier to kill ATproto because it has a centralized plc.directory ledger which if that gets taken out, the entire protocol goes down with it, that and even if you self-host a PDS, you still have to interact with Bsky corporate’s centralized infrastructure at some point, where with ActivityPub, each instance is independent of the other.

Windows is already KYC’d by default since consumer Windows requires an MS account and setting up an MS account requires your birthdate.

Assuming PCs don’t get wiped out as a platform first, which between AluminumOS being a thing and parts being made intentionally scarce and expensive, I wouldn’t be shocked if that happens.

Can’t control what people do with their PCs? Just kill PCs as a platform in favor of thin clients tied to cloud subscriptions that you can control or glorified Android phones.

Good luck with forcing this on FOSS.

KeePassXC, or ChiPass if you don’t like LLMs in your password manager, but there are no precompiled binaries for this fork yet so you’ll need to build it from source. That way you’ll have your passwords entirely locally-hosted and won’t have to worry about whether or not a cloud provider will rugpull you. I should advise, that if you do move to KeePass, you’ll need to export your Bitwarden passwords in a way that KeePass will recognize when you go to import them.

As for KeePassXC’s involvement in LLMs, this blog post covers that.

And here’s KeePassDX for mobile users.

This blog post goes over it.

Move to KeePassXC or its recent LLM-free fork while you still can, because at some point Bitwarden is going to try to go closed-source again.

They also bought out and screwed DPReview.

Isn’t this already a thing to some degree with sodium acetate pads?

Or at least that’s what people are saying anyways.

No, because if you come across this on a desktop, you’ll have to whip your Android or iOS device out to scan a QR code for verification… On your desktop… Linking your desktop to your phone.

And desktops in general?

That’s gonna be really hard with the increasing amount of sites that push this.

And desktop users? Will Linux and any non-Google Chrome browsers be locked out now?