Comment on: "This Is About Control, Not Children": Eric Weinstein Calls Out Apple's Virtuous Pedo-Hunter Act
You're in the business of making consumer electronics **not** solving criminal behaviour. Fuck off with this "save teh chuldren maaaaan" shit already ffs.
1 09 Aug 2021 16:46 u/BigDoode in g/technology
Comment on: Firefox lost 50M users since 2019
Hate to break it to you but tamper monkey/grease monkey/violent monkey all work for firefox too. More efficient? Maybe. Doesn't matter unless your computer is a potato. You have a point with the extensions, I'll admit that. AFAIK only firefox has container tabs which are a great privacy tool especially when combined with an extension like temporary container tabs. Brave is chromium - you can never entirely get the spyware out. It makes requests to google services etc.
4 31 Jul 2021 21:45 u/BigDoode in g/technology
Comment on: Firefox lost 50M users since 2019
It's a great browser for the most part, but the Mozilla org is terrible.
14 31 Jul 2021 11:14 u/BigDoode in g/technology
Comment on: Deurbanizing the web [pdf] - "We are drowning in churn and noise. I am fighting back by switching this website from HTML to PDF."
I've read it and while on an emotional level I sympathize with the message, I take a major issue nonetheless: These types of essays/manifestos always seem to portray consumers as clueless victims of corporate interests and propose solutions to supposedly help them. Well guess what: you average user DOESN'T GIVE A SHIT. On the contrary he's quite happy with how easy, fast and reliable the webapps he uses are and doesn't in fact care about privacy, decentralization or the FOSS/libre cause (which he most probably doesn't know exists). And I'm not stating that as an elitist point. My thought is we should accept and respect that majority of people want the web to go in the direction in which it's going right now and instead of trying to change that build our own thing.
1 19 Jul 2021 22:31 u/BigDoode in g/technology
Restore Firefox Compact Layout
9 0 comments 12 Jul 2021 18:46 u/BigDoode (self.technology) in g/technology
Comment on: How to Prevent Hackers From Getting Into Your Facebook Account
>having facebook You deserve to be hacked since you're literally subhuman.
4 22 Jun 2021 11:54 u/BigDoode in g/technology
Comment on: A new HTTP spec proposes elimination of obnoxious “cookie banners”
1. Go to add-on store of your browser of choice. 2. Search for "I don't care about cookies" 3. Install 4. Profit Thank me later.
1 17 Jun 2021 10:39 u/BigDoode in g/technology
Comment on: Can a PDF carry viruses and other malicious code?
Firefox allows you to turn off js in pdfs. go to *about:config > pdfjs.enableScripting* and set to false
1 14 Jun 2021 18:33 u/BigDoode in g/technology
Comment on: I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put me on the no fly list
First off: that's fucked up. The govt is just a bunch of gangsters. Second: this has absolutely nothing to do with technology. Post it somewhere else.
2 06 Apr 2021 20:51 u/BigDoode in g/technology
Comment on: ‘Protecting Biden from further embarrassment’: YouTube to hide ‘dislikes’ on videos as users ruthlessly downvote president
Uhm, reading the article I'm absolutely unconvinced that this has anything to do with Biden. Youtube is experimenting with a new feature on few random people. It has nothing to do with Biden in particular. But some people on Twitter said "that's cuz Biden has disliks" and so they made a retarded clickbait title out of it. This is CNN quality journalism. It's sad that people here jump on anything apparently when it confirms their bias.
3 31 Mar 2021 22:47 u/BigDoode in g/technology
Comment on: reddit: Announcing Online Presence Indicators | opt-out
wholesome 💯
1 05 Mar 2021 14:52 u/BigDoode in g/technology
Comment on: reddit: Announcing Online Presence Indicators | opt-out
actually kys
0 05 Mar 2021 03:12 u/BigDoode in g/technology
Comment on: reddit: Announcing Online Presence Indicators | opt-out
Nobody wanted this. Nobody asked for this.
1 05 Mar 2021 03:11 u/BigDoode in g/technology
Comment on: Facebook unfriends Australia: news sites go dark in content row | Reuters
Agreed. But I would add that the fact that big tech has the power it has is largely due to governments all around the world passing regulations which benefit them to the detriment of competition. Meaning a big company like facebook can deal with regulation better than much smaller competition (due to economies of scale), they can lobby much more effectively etc. See [here](https://www.gdpr.associates/another-report-shows-the-gdpr-benefited-google-and-facebook-and-hurt-everyone-else/) for a concrete example.
1 18 Feb 2021 13:24 u/BigDoode in g/technology
Comment on: Facebook unfriends Australia: news sites go dark in content row | Reuters
I know we all like to hate on facebook (I do as well) but this is clearly a case of a retarded law. Requiring big tech to pay companies for news simply means, that they will strike deals with the biggest news outlets and block everyone else, because going through the hassle of making thousands of deals for every independent or niche media isn't economically worth it to the company. Or, as in the case of facebook, they just won't bother at all. They can afford to lose a few millions of users. tldr: More media monopolization, yay!
4 18 Feb 2021 11:25 u/BigDoode in g/technology
Comment on: The Cloud is a Scam
This is kinda ignorant of the obvious facts. * Cloud storage companies can most probably secure your data beter than you can. * Hard drive on your desk or car is not accessible to you from anywhere. Cloud storage is. * If you're a company and your cloud storage provider fucks up and leaks or destroys your data, you can sue the shit out of them which (in an ideal world) should cover your losses. * It's all great to only count the cost of the drives, but if you're a company you also get rid of having to pay many high wage employees, building your own infrastructure and so on. Division of labor is a thing. Large companies aren't large and succesfull because they don't know how to manage their finances.
0 12 Feb 2021 15:09 u/BigDoode in g/technology
Comment on: A German man is keeping $60 million in bitcoin from police by never revealing his password
You can use tumblers to anonymize btc for example.
1 06 Feb 2021 20:23 u/BigDoode in g/technology
Comment on: Google Shuts Down Internet Balloon, “Loon” Project Due to High Operational Costs - Activist Post
Every company has different strategy and risk assesment ofc. If you're willing to take on more risky projects you'll fail more often than if you stick to relatively conservative ventures.
2 25 Jan 2021 20:05 u/BigDoode in g/technology
Comment on: Google Shuts Down Internet Balloon, “Loon” Project Due to High Operational Costs - Activist Post
That's how most business ventrues go. You try 100 ideas, fail in making 99 of them work, but the one good idea catches on and becomes profitable.
1 25 Jan 2021 19:16 u/BigDoode in g/technology
Comment on: What is the best privacy keyboard for Android?
I used to use simple but after you mentioned it in this post I tried open board and after configuring it to my tastes I really like it - so thanks. Though one thing I miss a lot about FOSS keyboards is the absence of swipe. I really loved how that worked on gboard. But hey, that's the sacrifices we make =). So yeah, since you mentioned not liking simple and open I've got no suggestions for you.
2 30 Oct 2020 02:16 u/BigDoode in g/technology
Comment on: Facebook responsible for 94% of 69 million child sex abuse images reported by US tech firms
People deal drugs on facebook all the time. This doesn't surprise me one bit.
1 12 Oct 2020 17:15 u/BigDoode in g/technology
Comment on: Someone enhanced old atomic blast footage from a 1953 film to 4K using AI
This is not le edgy 4chan. Stop calling people names for the sake of being edgy. And the joke doesn't even make sense. I haven't done any glowposting.
1 25 Sep 2020 11:34 u/BigDoode in g/technology
Comment on: Someone enhanced old atomic blast footage from a 1953 film to 4K using AI
Why not just post the link to the video directly? The middleman site is completely unnecessary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0y1Ju8pkWk
1 25 Sep 2020 11:19 u/BigDoode in g/technology
Comment on: Someone enhanced old atomic blast footage from a 1953 film to 4K using AI
facts
1 25 Sep 2020 11:16 u/BigDoode in g/technology
Comment on: Facebook Says it Will Stop Operating in Europe If Regulators Don’t Back Down
They'll just switch to another spyware social platform. Regulation doesn't make people care about privacy.
2 24 Sep 2020 06:42 u/BigDoode in g/technology
Comment on: Partner of Kenosha shooting victim sues Facebook, shooter, militias
Not related to this guild. Keep politics where it belongs.
0 24 Sep 2020 05:14 u/BigDoode in g/technology
Sensors of world’s largest digital camera snap first 3,200-megapixel images 📦
2 0 comments 13 Sep 2020 12:18 u/BigDoode (self.technology) in g/technology
Comment on: The internet is changing drastically for Hong Kong’s citizens | MIT Technology Review
True, but arms themselves don't suffice. The people would need the will to use them.
1 12 Jul 2020 15:11 u/BigDoode in g/technology