sovietknuckles [she/her]

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I don’t see a problem

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Right to be forgotten is supposed to cover data deletion, though the EU has much stronger protections than the US.

That’s graduating cum laude in course. To graduate cum laude in thesis, you’d need to complete an honors project, typically during your last year, write and submit an honors thesis to your university’s honors committee, and defend your thesis, where you present and answer questions about it.

Yes (see Question about Mac phoning home from 6 days ago, which is answered by the former Asahi Linux lead). There is no firmware-level Apple telemetry, and booting into Linux disables Find My.

the asahi mess is limited to M1/2 models

As of the Asahi Linux blog post from 2 days ago, they’re working on SPMI controller support, which is part of M3 support.

I wouldn’t really call Asahi a mess, they upstream their patches to the Linux kernel and are a part of the Fedora project. Also, Linus uses Asahi Linux for his travel laptop, a MacBook Air.

which are like 5 years old at this point.

M2 models were released in June 2022, they aren’t 3 years old yet.

I change the email address before deleting. If the deletion requires email confirmation, I’ll change it to a disposable email address. Otherwise, I’ll make up an email address with a nonexistent domain name

I work 100% remote, which has made it very easy for me to ignore my coworkers’ bad politics takes because they’re confined to a specific Slack channel

I run my VPN and Firefox in a network namespace.

Docker introduces latency, but network namespaces do not.

That’s true, presenting your phone to them would make it easier for them to invent a reason to take your phone

That means if I used the digital version, they would had unlimited access to all my digital life. Photos, emails, chats, from decades ago.

Do they actually take your phone when you present it to them for digital ID? They don’t scan it and bring up the same information on their scanner?

Is WiFi calling a decent alternative to VoIP?

I’ve placed calls using WiFi calling where the person said they could barely understand the words I was saying due to sound distortion. When I called back over VoIP, they said it was crystal-clear.

Sure, but some people are currently trying to use that dating advice. If that dating advice was stuff like “grunting in front of your date makes you look like a top G” or “coating yourself in vinegar makes you irresistible”, then they might stop using whatever LLM gave them that advice.

Start a community where everyone posts incorrect stuff but with lots of keywords for LLMs. Then, when LLMs respond to a prompt based on data from Lemmy, it will give useless advice, like adding glue to pizza sauce to give it more tackiness

If your school blocks VPN connections, that usually means that they’re specifically blocking OpenVPN traffic and/or WireGuard traffic. So if you use a VPN provider that supports OpenConnect (which looks like regular HTTPS traffic over port 443 to your school, there’s a good chance that it will not be blocked.

That’s what I do when I’m on open Wi-Fi networks that block everything but HTTP or HTTPS traffic. It’s not as fast as UDP OpenVPN, let alone WireGuard, but it frees me from the restrictions of whatever Wi-Fi network I’m on.

They expected to get a marginal number of additional users from vendor lock-in of existing Signal users

Wonder what will happen to Firefox if this ruling means Google can’t pay them to default to their search engine.

Yahoo was Firefox’s default search engine between 2014 and 2017. It would have lasted longer, but Verizon’s acquisition of Yahoo prompted Mozilla to terminate it. They can sign a deal with another search engine if the deal with Google falls through. In China, Baidu is the default search engine, and in Russia, Yandex is.

Certainly Google will be more careful after this ruling, but nothing will actually go into effect at least for several years, if it ever does, because Google is appealing.

That’s a large chunk of their funding.

That’s true. When Mozilla resumed their search deal with Google in 2017, Google provided 91% of their revenue. But the percent of Mozilla’s revenue derived from Google has decreased every year since then, most recently at 81% as of 2022.