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How to Browse Facebook Marketplace without a login account? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago

And by continuing to use it,
it will stay that way.

Just don't, plenty of other 2nd hand sites out there, with plenty of products available.

Sounds crazy but... maybe you shouldn't delete Facebook just yet in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

OP I appreciate the reasoning.
But I'd advise against it,
and would recommend users to delete their Facebook account asap.

Why? 4-5 years ago I already noticed the "illusion of free speech" on Facebook.

The platform is a data farm,
but I'm a data privacy advocate,
so I regularly posted data privacy articles/tools.

Which went against the best interest of Facebook, so they simply held back that content from nearly everyone's feed, resulting in it getting nearly zero attention.

But if I posted a dumb meme,
it would get a lot of attention.

I've asked around to friends back in the day who where scrolling online if they saw my data privacy posts, none did.

So staying on the platform to advertise things that go against Facebooks best interest, will likely not yield good results.

However deleting your account,
is a great conversation starter that can easily be directed into WOM (Word of Mouth) marketing, to teach your friends and family about Fediverse tools.

Mullvad has partnered with Obscura VPN in c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 44 points 1 week ago (8 children)

It does seem interesting,
but I remain skeptical.

This means putting your trust in Obscura, since they're the 1st hop, receiving your data without additional encryption, a new player, who yet has to prove that they're trustworthy.

Sure their Github may show great software, but that doesn't mean we can see which software they might additionally install on their servers.

Meanwhile Mullvad has already been proven to be trustworthy through the best possible review any VPN company can receive, being: Server seized by the feds, but zero useful info retrieved by them.

Which proves they back up their claim of being a No-Log VPN.

Due to this I trust Mullvad,
and don't have any issues with sending them my data.

But I can't put the same faith in Obscura yet, not before they receive a similar "review".

Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 46 points 1 week ago (13 children)

That's nice and all,
but when will they tackle loot boxes?

That shit has pushed plenty of minors into gambling addictions, but they don't crack down on it, since they get a sweet cut of it all.

Valve in general isn't the worst company,
but they're far from innocent as well.

if ya know ya know 😔 in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 53 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For those that don't know:
It was a jump-scare flash game.

The goal was to navigate through the maze with your mouse, without touching the walls, which gets harder near the end, likely resulting in you getting closer to and concentrating hard on the screen.

Near the end they flashed a horror image and blasted a loud sound through your speakers.

Personally, it didn't make me flinch much though,
but I guess it affected some others like OP.

The rise of ethical social media: can open-source alternatives challenge the tech giants? | The Optimist Daily in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes Fediverse software can challenge the tech giants,
but we can and must expect them to fight against it as soon as it gets on their radar!

They'll likely will attempt to do so by:

  • Censorship: Keeping it out of the feeds/search results of their users.
  • Propaganda: Putting it in a bad spotlight (e.g. marking it as security risks on their own platforms).
  • Direct Attacks: E.g. DDoS attacks and/or bot user networks spreading bad content on the Fediverse platforms.

We should already try to harness ourselves against the direct attacks.
And help with spreading Fediverse software through WOM (Word-Of-Mouth) marketing,
since the tech giants certainly will not help it spread themselves.

The Fediverse is one of the few sparks of hope I have remaining lately,
let us ignite these sparks together into something bright!

How one YouTuber is trying to poison the AI bots stealing her content in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 weeks ago

If the fines regarding to it are in proportion with the revenue of the business, then it likely would make a lot of them think twice about doing so.

I agree that it's hard to enforce the rules,
and that some would still ignore them.
However updating the rules give the abused people a chance of getting justice/consolidation for their stolen work, and diminishes the chance of companies breaking the rules.

It would not combat bit torrent (P2P) piracy.
But that's also not that important imo.
Most pirates are rather poor folks,
just trying to watch/play some content which they can't afford, they make up for a rather neglible amount of the profit that can be had.

However it would combat billion dollar companies that would use pirated content to train LLMs to sell further. All they need is x1 internal whistleblower about doing so, and they could be fined with an amount larger then the risk is worth.

How one YouTuber is trying to poison the AI bots stealing her content in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

No copyright law seems dangerous to me,
why create content if you can just steal it,
and earn on the back of the original creator without consequences?

I think I'd rather see it updated instead.
E.g. To hold AI companies and users accountable.
So they need explicit approval of copyright holders before they're allowed to train upon / use their data.

Extract apk of paid app from Google Play Store? in c/android@lemmy.ml
[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Might be a split '.apk' file (aka '.apks'),
for which you can try SAI (Split APKs Installer, to backup + restore):
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.aefyr.sai.fdroid/

Might be due to a check to see if the app was installed from the PlayStore,
for which you can try KingInstaller (Spoofs as PlayStore, does not work for split APKs, to restore):
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.example.kinginstaller

Might be due to custom licensing check,
then you'd need to decompile, reverse engineer and write a bypass.

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Poisoning AI with ".ass" subtitles (youtube.com)
 
YOU CAN LITERALLY PICTURE HER FACE WHILE SHE SAYS IT! in c/tumblr@lemmy.world
[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 43 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Ö

Found on Rednote lol in c/funny@lemmy.ml
Nintendo Switch 2 – First-look trailer [Official] in c/nintendo@lemmy.world
[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Woah the lawsuit company that makes games on the side did a thing other then filing lawsuits?

Doesn't matter, I won't be spending any more money on Nintendouch products.

They ruined enough fan projects for me to start hating them.

And I have not even touched the subject of the calculated breaking point in the original Switch, better known as Joy-Cons.

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Dis/connect from Netbird through NetworkManager? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml
4 comments fedilink
 

Up till now I've been using only OpenVPN connections.
Which can be integrated nicely in NetworkManager to connect + disconnect from them, through NetworkManager's UI.

However since recently I also need to use Netbird for some connections.

Is it possible to add Netbird as an entry in NetworkManager, for easy connection + disconnection?
If so, how would one go about setting that up?

Or is adding Netbird in NetworkManager not possible,
and is the Netbird CLI/GUI really the only option?

Edit:
It's not possible yet.
First Netbird needs to add Wireguard config support,
see: https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/issues/2504

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Happy socially enforced consumerism day everyone! (discuss.tchncs.de)
 

It's always sparkling capitalism if you're an Atheist.
Shareholders thank you for buying many of their junk with precalculated breaking points though!

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Blocking Copilot on Github? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
6 comments fedilink
 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/23000833

I've absolutely grown to hate everything AI/LLM related.

It's sole marginal benefit is to senior devs,
with generating some boiler plate code,
which you usually still need to adjust.

For the rest it's been a waste of:

  • Time during development, with wrong answers.
  • Time during reviews, with garbage generated PRs from junior devs.
  • Energy, contributing to global warming.

But lately M$ has been intrusively shoving Copilot down our throats on Github, which I'm quite unhappy with.

So if any of you have some uBlock Origin filters,
or any other ideas on how I can block this Copilot slop out,
please do enlighten me!

Edit: Did some searching of my own.

Go to: https://github.com/settings/copilot
Block + disable everything you can under there.

Then go to uBlock Origin => Open the Dashboard => My Filters => Add:

github.com##.copilotPreview__container
github.com##.AppHeader-CopilotChat
github.com##li.ActionListItem:has-text(Copilot)
github.com##li.ActionList-sectionDivider:has-text(Copilot)
github.com##li.TimelineItem:has-text(Copilot)
github.com##div.pb-4:has-text(Copilot)
github.com###copilot_free_global
github.com###copilot-button-container
github.com###blob-view-header-copilot-icon
github.com##a[href*="/resources/articles/ai"]
github.com##a[href*="/settings/copilot"]
github.com##a[href*="/features/copilot"]
github.blog##a[href*="/features/copilot"]
github.blog##a[href*="/ai-and-ml"]
github.blog##article.changelog-label-copilot
github.blog##article.changelog-label-models

It's not perfect, but at least it's a start of getting rid of the unwanted content.

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[Release] SVN-to-Git-convert (github.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/25352356

Simple Bash script to convert local SVN (Subversion) repositories to local Git repositories!

Source https://github.com/Rikj000/SVN-to-Git-convert#svn-to-git-convert

License GPLv3

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[Release] SVN-to-Git-convert (github.com)
 

Simple Bash script to convert local SVN (Subversion) repositories to local Git repositories!

Source https://github.com/Rikj000/SVN-to-Git-convert#svn-to-git-convert

License GPLv3

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Advertisements in Manjaro?!.. (discuss.tchncs.de)
 

I logged in today and was greeted with this advertisement in my notifications.

Seriously Manjaro team,
I've been happily using your OS for the past few years,
but if you jump on the enshittification train and start with pumping out advertisements in my OS,
then it won't be long before I hop to Arch...

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[Release] Belfius Root (github.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/18470641

Simple Xposed module to support the Belfius app on Rooted devices!

Source
https://github.com/Rikj000/Belfius-Root#belfius-root

License GPLv3

Motivation
Belfius bank was pretty cool about having a rooted device in the past,
they just threw a dismissible warning about security risks of using a rooted device,
and then allowed you to keep using their app.

However on 2024-07-01 this changed.
Nowadays they assume that you're an idiot that will not be able to keep your own device safe if you have root.

I do not agree with that assumption, and likely neither do you.
Only power users that have a good idea of what they're doing tend to root their own devices.

After only a hand full of transactions, done through the tedious browser process,
I grew agitated enough to do the research to write this module.

Hope you'll enjoy this module and the ability to stay rooted!

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[Release] Belfius Root (github.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/18470641

Simple Xposed module to support the Belfius app on Rooted devices!

Source
https://github.com/Rikj000/Belfius-Root#belfius-root

License GPLv3

Motivation
Belfius bank was pretty cool about having a rooted device in the past,
they just threw a dismissible warning about security risks of using a rooted device,
and then allowed you to keep using their app.

However on 2024-07-01 this changed.
Nowadays they assume that you're an idiot that will not be able to keep your own device safe if you have root.

I do not agree with that assumption, and likely neither do you.
Only power users that have a good idea of what they're doing tend to root their own devices.

After only a hand full of transactions, done through the tedious browser process,
I grew agitated enough to do the research to write this module.

Hope you'll enjoy this module and the ability to stay rooted!

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Forgejo or Radicle - Which do you prefer? (github.com)
 

Just finished writing out a lengthy comment,
with the up/downsides I can see
on each of the code forges I currently deem promising,
on the Github Discussion "Alternatives to GitHub"

And I was wondering, out of following 2,
which code forge would you guys prefer and why?

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Help preserve Yuzu's code base (discuss.tchncs.de)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12733354

As you all know or may not know,
Nintendo has taken down Yuzu,
see following post for more info on that:
https://lemmy.world/post/12728163

Now it's important to preserve the code base of Yuzu,
so hopefully someday, once things cooled down a little,
an active fork can stick it's head up.

After looking at the Azure DevOps Pipelines
of yuzu-emu/yuzu,
I noticed the latest pipeline ran 8 hours ago
as of writing this post:

Which tells us that the latest commit,
was a merge of PR #13198 from
zhaobot/tx-update-20240301020652

This fork,
is the most up-to-date one / contains the latest commit
done to Yuzu before the take down:
https://github.com/zhaobot/yuzu/tree/tx-update-20240301020652

I encourage you all to pull, star and fork this fork,
not only the master branch, but all branches!
The more copies floating out there,
the better the project will be preserved.

You can pull the code base to your local machine, with:

git clone https://github.com/zhaobot/yuzu.git

(Requires https://git-scm.com/)

And you can pull in all the branches,
as described in this Github Gist:
https://gist.github.com/grimzy/a1d3aae40412634df29cf86bb74a6f72

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Help preserve Yuzu's code base (discuss.tchncs.de)
 

As you all know or may not know,
Nintendo has taken down Yuzu,
see following post for more info on that:
https://lemmy.world/post/12728163

Now it's important to preserve the code base of Yuzu,
so hopefully someday, once things cooled down a little,
an active fork can stick it's head up.

After looking at the Azure DevOps Pipelines
of yuzu-emu/yuzu,
I noticed the latest pipeline ran 8 hours ago
as of writing this post:

Which tells us that the latest commit,
was a merge of PR #13198 from
zhaobot/tx-update-20240301020652

This fork,
is the most up-to-date one / contains the latest commit
done to Yuzu before the take down:
https://github.com/zhaobot/yuzu/tree/tx-update-20240301020652

I encourage you all to pull, star and fork this fork,
not only the master branch, but all branches!
The more copies floating out there,
the better the project will be preserved.

You can pull the code base to your local machine, with:

git clone https://github.com/zhaobot/yuzu.git

(Requires https://git-scm.com/)

And you can pull in all the branches,
as described in this Github Gist:
https://gist.github.com/grimzy/a1d3aae40412634df29cf86bb74a6f72

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