Seriously? Matrix and signal already exists… So you can use them today instead of RCS to your heart’s desire.

Such a security risk though, but still better than curling scripts into sudo

Microsoft won’t even let you setup Windows now without an online account, unless you modify the installer or enter the terminal during installation. I don’t like Google but for God’s sake the issue isn’t just with Google. We need better laws and regulations in the US. Going after Google when other companies are just as corrupt or worse solves nothing. It just paves the way for worse actors. You can’t even remove your Microsoft Store apps once they’ve been downloaded from your library. At least with Google I can remove that and manage lots of privacy settings. Google isn’t an angel but there are bigger demons out there that seem to be getting a free pass.

Since when did the NYT become tabloid journalism?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/world/europe/germany-pro-palestinian-protests.html

Or Wikipedia?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_Kingdom

Which says, “there is no general right to free speech in the UK.”

I specifically said things that aren’t threats. Just because you don’t like what they say doesn’t mean that it isn’t free speech.

Arresting people for things they say even when they aren’t threats is anti-free speech and the UK and many European countries do not allow free speech. You can be arrested for even saying Israelis genociding Palestinians are Nazis.

Be careful. He might sue saying you have to use the platform. He’ll claim that not using it hurts his free speech.

It is hard to have a discussion with you when you exaggerate. Rapist mentality is far from what Chromium is. You really can’t equate rape to technology, since you have a choice.

The API you references communicates with Google using its own API when you use Google services, and as specifically designed for Google Hangouts at the time to report system information during calls. This has been known about since at least 2018. Any developer could have submitted a PR to have it removed. That is how open source works.

This has already been disabled in other Chromium builds:

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/flags.gn#L5

Just because Brave recently submitted a bug report doesn’t mean that others have noticed. Again, I encourage you to look at what can be disabled via policies in Chrome (like Firefox):

https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/#WebRtcEventLogCollectionAllowed

Again Chromium is open source. Chrome is Google’s bundled browser that includes API keys and plugins to share information for signing in to Google and syncing data with your Google account. You do not have to enable these, and they can be disabled using policies & flags.

Simply not true. The only way to stop Firefox from phoning home completely is via about:config or a policy template file:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making-automatic-connections https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/

You can do the same with Chrome:

https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/

Firefox certainly phones home less by default, especially when opting out through various settings, but not completely. Chrome/Chromium isn’t evil either. Chromium sandboxing has long been praised as a more secure browser, hence why GrapheneOS (praised as the most secure phone distro) uses Chromium as their browser and not Firefox. Not saying Firefox is bad either. I actually prefer Firefox in certain scenarios and there is a reason that Tor and Mullvad use Firefox for their browsers too (easier to prevent JS from leaking system info), but Chromium is open source as well and used in things like Electron for Signal.

It isn’t quiet. You can prevent it with enterprise policies. Firefox sends information to Mozilla too. With AI now though, more people than ever are willing to have their data mined to be able to participate in AI.

This is what NameCheap does too. It’s freaking stupid. Domain registrations should not be managed by corporations.

It means that questioning decisions or problems is seen as negative in the community generally and that everyone else must be wrong for not using NixOS.

As I used to say. The Nix community acts more like a cult of people willing to support flat earth.

They say they double encrypt, but it is more of a… You just have to trust us. They won’t release the source code. It is all about locking you in to only use their half-baked tools.

I shit on JavaScript for years… but Deno (built around Rust) is honestly one of the most pleasant tools I’ve used for development, and you get all the completion in VS Code.

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I use Hyrpland, and so there are times where I need to use GTK or Qt tools. I generally don’t like KDE-based tools though because they are dependency-heavy.

They already have, and they can do it in secret and hold people without trial. Once you give someone power, it’s hard to take it away.

So does many of the GTK tools though… so, again… why use Qt at all if you want to save memory.