I read their reasoning and it sort of makes sense: what they’re saying is essentially “We do Discord because that’s where the people we want to reach - the folks who don’t know anything about privacy - hang out.”
Well, I get that. But it’s kind of like Al Gore saying his flying around the world and spewing megatons of CO2 doesn’t matter because he’s doing that to promote environmental causes. I don’t like people who exempt themselves from the rules they preach, whatever their reason. People who walk the talk are usually more convincing.
But yeah, they do have a point I guess…
Oh I didn’t know that. Privacy-wise, Discord is… suboptimal to say the least.
Just wait until they learn that Jesus was a jew…
YouTube is Google. Asking how to use Google without losing your privacy is asking how to swim without getting wet.
Use PeerTube. You’re asking this question on Lemmy, so surely you’re comfortable with the whole Fediverse thing.
You don’t have a disability. Just saying.
there are some good guys out there
I know that. But it’s just a general rule at this point: I just don’t give money. It’s rarely satisfying to give money (and yes, the person doing the donation needs to feel good doing it too) and I just don’t want to find out who deserves to get mine and who doesn’t. I understand your sentiment too, but that’s my personal rule. One has to draw the line somewhere: I’m not Mother Theresa and I reckon I contribute more than the average person to my local community. But I’m also free to donate what I want to donate, and money isn’t part of what I want to donate.
I’m a programmer. I have created, maintained and contributed to many open source projects over 40 years. That’s my donation.
I never give money: I give my time - like for example I’m a volunteer at our local association for the blind - and I give non-commercial things like my blood, used clothing, used toys or food. And to repay the other developers whose work I enjoy everyday, I donate code that I strive to make as good as possible.
The reason I never give money is because the money - part or all - invariably ends up in someone’s pocket other than the intended recipient. When it’s legal, it’s called “overhead”. Still, legal or not, and justified or not, I’m not interested in paying for that.
HP laptop… That looks exactly like my stupid HP laptop with a stupid AMD Vega 6 chipset when it randomly craps its own display when opening the lid and waking up.
My solution is to keep the kernel woefully outdated at the last revision that seems to create the least problems. I can give you the exact version number when I get back home if you want.
Doing anything online that requires you to break strict anonymity… breaks your anonymity, hence your privacy. The two should be separate subject matters, but the corporate surveillance model ensures that if anything can be traced back to you, your privacy is as good as gone.
You say you do Facebook… There’s your answer.
Nah… It’s not a matter of embarrassing the company, it’s out of decency for the people who work(ed) there. There’s stuff like “This shit is why Stu was fired - Phil” or “Best leave this out of the repo for now as I don’t want to be included in the next round of downsizing - Tom” this would make Stu, Phil and Tom look bad and possibly hurt their careers. And it would advertise that whoever prepared this ZIP file for me didn’t bother sanitizing company confidential information out of it, possibly putting their job on the line too.
The code is GPL, and I consider the git history part of the code. The rest is inappropriate and potentially hurtful to people who didn’t do anything to deserve grief.
Conclusion of this thread:
It took a mightly long time, but the company eventually coughed up the source code. They sent me a big ZIP with an large git repo full of uncommitted changes and a bunch of comments and temp files that really shouldn’t leave the company 🙂 Clearly some engineer just zipped up the local repo on his hard disk without doing any cleanup.
So they complied with the GPL in the end. Just the bare minimum - i.e. providing the source code on request and nothing mode. I wish they put it up in their Github but they don’t want to do that apparently. I’ll clean up the embarrassing files and comments and put it up in mine.
I don’t know what it is with Mozilla, they’re both the only saving grace of the open-source browser world and the most stupid internet company at the same time. And they’ve been both for decades, with a budget that could have allowed them to be and to do so much more…
With Rosehip. But good news: it would appear my ticket finally made its way to the development team and to legal. They sure are taking their own sweet time like a good giant corporation dealing with a pointless single guy, but things seem to be moving in the right direction.
If they refuse again this time, considering they now acknowledged that my ticket is processed where it should be processed, I will contact the FSF, and name and shame. But for now they’re showing good will.
I gave $20 to the friendly wino who lives in the dumpster down my street. He’s reported a income growth of 1000% for today.
Because I’m not interested in being sued for defamation. Even if I’m totally right and they’re totally wrong, they’ll bury me in legal fees. I’m not rich enough to afford the law.
What’s privacy-focused ChatGPT? Is it like diet butter?
Hint: if it doesn’t run on your machine, it’s collecting monetizable data.
I’ll tell you something else that will bankrupt the healthcare system: obesity.
Here’s an easy solution: send the bill to those who caused the obesity epidemic and the need for expensive weight loss drugs in the first place: the agro industry. Slap a moderate tax on any heavily processed food (that is, the vast majority of the food sold in the US) and you’ll fund the weight loss drug free for everyone ten times over.
What is it about then?
It’s TOTALLY about preaching rules and activism: they advocate for privacy and purport to educate people on how to achieve better privacy.