Oh that’s bad. Good luck getting rid of them.

I personally find downvotes useful because there are a lot of low quality comments and content. Downvotes help me (and others) to avoid seeing them. Thus not wasting time with uninteresting posts or comments. But you aren’t supposed to downvote everything that someone says.

It sounds like a weirdly specific thing for a bot to do.

It could be a case of the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon:

Frequency illusion, also known as the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon or frequency bias, is a cognitive bias referring to the tendency to notice something more often after noticing it for the first time, leading to the belief that it has an increased frequency of occurrence.The illusion is a result of increased awareness of a phrase, idea, or object – for example, hearing a song more often or seeing red cars everywhere.

what do you mean? I haven’t seen one myself yet. It’s just a common expression.

I don’t think that comment is trolling, just a bit low effort post. But that’s nothing rare in Lemmy/Reddit.

It was a stupid decision to attend a party created by the creators of a stupidly overpriced asset.

why’d this get downvotes

Recommending Medium and Blogger in a privacy community is terrible advice. It’s disappointing that this is actually getting upvoted.

Edit: The other two comments provide actual private recommendations. This comment would be fine outside a privacy community.

audio driver support in Linux is good enough these days.

and if it doesn’t work in your specific hardware, that’s your hardware’s fault and not Linux’s.

It’s like buying a Raspberry Pi and saying “windows doesn’t work”. You’ve acquired the wrong hardware.

it is a fact. you have to be logged in to do a search or use an API key which directly associates your search query with your account.

Let’s say you don’t give them a real email, that’s good. Maybe you’re using Tor or a VPN and they don’t get your IP. And somehow you manage to make your payment anonymously. That’s great.

Well, Kagi is still getting all your search queries which are directly associated with one account. We don’t have their server’s code. We don’t know how or what are they logging. They can claim whatever in their privacy policy, I don’t care. A single entity is receiving all your search queries directly linked to your pseudonymous account. This gives them a vast amount of data about the person using it, even if they do not know who you are, probably very sensitive information too.

Let’s make a huge assumption and assume they are not correlating your search queries and they do not use this information for anything. Well, a third party actor with access to their servers could very well make use of this vast amount of personal data, whether it is a government, their hosting provider, a malicious actor, a security breach, etc.

And that’s considering the best case in which you were covering your tracks hiding your IP all the time and making anonymous payments, which, being honests, most Kagi users don’t do. So yeah, Kagi is a privacy nightmare.

yet another Kagi shiller.

they are still pulling results from Bing. they are partially powered by their own engine, but it has a minor database of sites when compared to Bing.

And needing to have an account is just horrible for privacy.

what a surprise, yet another search engine related post where there’s someone making promotion for Kagi in the comments.

security through obscurity is a bad practice.

it’s better to be transparent and let everyone analyze your design. the more eyes on it, the better. even the proprietary and obscured Intel CPUs have had security vulnerabilities in the past.

It’s just getting used to it. You can add the Collins (or any other dictionary search to Firefox) and it’s as easy as selecting the correct search engine and writing the word in the search box.

there was an app for Wiktionary on fdroid. But I don’t like Wiktionary’s definitions as much as Collins’.

immutable OSs are killing the desktop OS, keeping the user restricted.

yeah, phone number and centralization makes it no good. XMPP it is.

I just use the Collins dictionary which is the best one IMO through Tor. There’s no private (good) dictionary.

Edit: Also, installing an app for everything is not great for privacy either. They have a greater access to your device than a web. And for something I can perform in a web search, that’s my preferred method.

you got the reparability totally wrong. if the motherboard fries, you have to replace basically the whole device. In a desktop you just replace the motherboard and keep the CPU, GPU and RAM.

you can obviously plug an external HDD, but can you upgrade RAM? can you upgrade to a better CPU or replace your current CPU without replacing half of the phone components? No, you can’t.

and yes, Android uses the Linux kernel. But very few manufacturers release the kernel’s code. No upstream kernel support makes it quite hard to keep updating after the manufacturer stops, even for custom ROMs that have to keep using the kernel as a blob, which eventually becomes inviable.

And if you’re already limiting yourself to devices supported by LineageOS, you’re discarding 90% of all phones, which let’s be honest, if the primary reason to use a flawed OS to self-host was to recycle hardware, you’re discarding most phones anyway so not a great reason.

they’re downvoting you because your logic was “apple does hardware so they must know better” and trusting a big corp to do your encryption better is kind of innocent.

anyway, seeing that they do hardware encryption, they are right to downvote you. I’m not with Microsoft either, bitlocker is probably backdoored, but hey, at least you’re not trusting your hardware manufacturer to actually maintain an up-to-date secure firmware.

if it’s made for power users why is it proprietary software? Vivaldi is yet another chromium browser with a fancy skin.

what are you talking about? XMPP doesn’t have such a thing as default settings. It varies from client to client. There are clients which have E2EE enabled by default, clients which make it available, others that support it with a plugin and there are others that do not support E2EE.

That’s no excuse to avoid XMPP. XMPP is an open standard, the key is choosing a good implementation.

I wish I was in the EU to sign this.

I hope they listen to you this time, even if politicians hardly ever listen to the people.

if you create a MUC in XMPP, I’m in