I’m curious where the security theater accusation comes from

Closed source ad-block that allows “unobtrusive” ads by default. They also ran a scheme a few years ago that replaced ads on web pages with their own and paid users tiny amounts of cryptocurrency for viewing them.

All this is marketed by them as browsing securely

Opera, like Edge and Brave is just Chrome in a trenchcoat

I’m no expert, but I read that self hosting your own instance doesn’t actually help with privacy since the search providers still track those requests and if you’re the only one using it, that’s just tracking you with extra steps.

Of course if you use a public instance, you have to then trust that the instance isn’t tracking you

No character growth, no arc, just in one scene he has no trouble murdering an innocent guy WHO HELPED HIM BTW, but later refuses to take out a military target HE WAS SUPPOSED to kill.

Yeah, it’s almost like the target he was about to assassinate could be the only person in the galaxy who knows how to take out the weapon he just witnessed level a city.

To say nothing of crapping all over the iconic opening of Star Wars by having Vader watch the Death Star plans fly away, personally, with his own eyes.

Those two scenes line up perfectly and imo are quite satisfying when watching the two films back to back. In what way does Rogue One’s ending “crap all over” A New Hope’s opening?

At the start of the year, we were having to kill 50 or more a day, some of them were huge, prehistoric era looking things. By the end of the year, we were only finding 1-2 a day and they were much smaller so we were definitely putting a lot of pressure on the population. Not sure if we would have wiped them out completely if we’d had to stay longer but I certainly wasn’t gonna stay in that place any longer than I had to.

Third year in University - when we moved in, it hadn’t been cleaned from the previous tenants, my parents were kind enough to come and help us clean and it took the five of us (during covid too so we were trying to social distance as much as we could) 3 days to get it into a livable state.

That was only the start though, over the course of those days cleaning, we started noticing these weird bugs everywhere. Yup. Massive silverfish infestation. Huge ones, small ones, every room, coming in through the floor, the walls, the ceiling, behind furnature, anywhere there was a gap, they’d slither out of. We had to spray insecticide all over the place which gave me bad headaches if there wasn’t enough ventilation.

Sometimes still, out of the corner of my eye, I’ll think I see one and kind of panic for a fraction of a second, I’m not sure if I’ll ever get over that.

Out of all the options, you somehow landed on the one thing that’s actually worse. I’m genuinely kind of impressed.

Flashback to my Galaxy Ace circa 2012 with its cheap plastic back cover that literally snapped in half, leading to me being “that kid” in school with my phone held together with tape… 😐

I worked around that by making a smart playlist in Navidrome with all my tracks sorted by date added. In Tempo you can then download the entire playlist.

I have just set up Navidrome from the first time and I’m using Feishin as my Linux desktop client. I installed it via nix because it isn’t in the Fedora repos as far as I could tell

It sounds to me like one (or more) of your containers is referencing something on your storage drive, but Docker is loading before your drive gets mounted. When Docker sees that the folder its trying to access doesn’t exist, it creates it, blocking your drive from taking that name.

To fix it, you would need to make sure your storage drive is mounted before Docker starts, how you do that is down to you and your particular setup though.

Sure, while simultaneously sending everything on your screen to Google for them to build up a profile of all the content you’re looking at, even when it’s not on their platform…

Google Play is so full of shit they could pivot to being a sewage plant

This is the way.

Zen’s UI is great, and it has better defaults for privacy than Firefox does, as well as having its own mods repository on top of all the standard Firefox webextensions. (Try “better find bar”, “floating history” and “floating status bar” if you haven’t already, they make the last few bits of the UI look consistent)

I’ve had a pipeline in mind for exactly this purpose that I want to build when I get around to it:

• Download the audio file from RSS feed
• Self hosted AI transcription model (with output that includes timestamps)
• Self hosted LLM to recognise ad sections and return the start and end timestamps as json
• ffmpeg to slice those timestamps out and stitch the rest back together

In theory, this should be able to remove ad and sponsor sections of any length completely automatically and there’s nothing to stop it working on videos too

Every user has to self host their own?

Did… Did you see what community you’re in?

Ooh, that is neat! I’ve been using Lemmy for months and didn’t know this was a thing. You’re my first tracked upvote now :)

Ooh, thanks for pointing that out. The image was uploaded in November 2021 so it’s older than I realised

It’s WSL, I think the logo is relatively new though or maybe not official idk