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I just keep two browsers around for different purposes.

No. Ungoogled-chromium is literally just Chromium with the Google shit stripped out. If you want manifest v2, use something based on Firefox, like Librewolf.

For things that specifically need a Chromium-based browser, like WebUSB, I use ungoogled-chromium.

Vivaldi is a proprietary Chromium reskin. Use Librewolf.

Weird how the DHS isn’t stopping every Republican politician for suspected child abuse material, but they stopped a left-leaning activist who went to a protest.

It’s almost like we should never believe what they say or something.

They don’t have to stay insecure by design. It just requires purpose-built hardware.

I used to think gambling should be allowed from a sort of social libertarian-ish perspective. Nowadays, I would be in favor of an outright ban in all forms of gambling, betting, or any other name someone wants to give to the same activity, which includes the stock market.

It’s a rigged game, and the ones who win are the ones who rig the game to begin with.

No idea how that could realistically be enforced with things like exchanging currencies, crypto trading (which can be legitimately useful if wanting to avoid dragnet financial surveillance using something like Monero or wanting to bypass payment processor oligopolies, like when Visa/MasterCard strongarmed PornHub to delete all non-verified videos as an example of an abuse of their power), scalping/trading physical goods, etc., but at the very least, all other forms of direct gambling with money can be banned in the meantime.

I wonder if they spend time on Linux mobile devices, considering how niche they are.

But then again, security through obscurity is not real security, and I’m not aware of any reasonable way to run something like QubesOS on a phone in any way that would be usable.

We need a full ban on passive and dragnet surveillance, both from private and public entities.

I’ve been using Matrix for over a decade now. How is it a shitshow?

Shout out to Matrix, which is federated, self hostable, open source, and supports end to end encryption.

I think the problem here is more that the car has a network connection. I’m not sure how you could feasibly have an EV that isn’t fly-by-wire (meaning controlled by a computer or microcontroller).

Even something like a BMS is, in and of itself a computer.

The only wireless connectivity a car should have is Bluetooth to connect your phone to the head unit that is disconnected from the rest of the car.

It’s be nice to see some kind of modern EV run fully open source software.

Well yeah. One lf the requirements of being a billionaire is having no shame.

The other requirement is sociopathy.

I have no wings and I must fly.

The problem is the system that allows for corruption to exist in the first place.

I’m against paying for search because I don’t want my search history to be directly tied to my real name via my payment method. I don’t care what their privacy policy says.

Inb4 the Supreme Court overrules this.

Original source (look under the tax inequality index rankings): https://itep.org/whopays

I don’t know if corrupt is quite the right word. They all certainly engage in heavy amounts of corruption to gain their power, but they also heavilly engage in other horrid practices to the same end, such as exploitation of their collective workforce, userbase, and supply chain.

The root of all of this, of course, is capitalism, which not only enables, but encourages this sociopathic power-seeking behavior.

You could list basically every Big Tech corporation here.