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  • Colloquial use of that word is not related to its technical use to describe a female dog in dog breeding. Colloquial use of the word is precisely driven by misogyny. Don’t try to play that game, it’s dishonest. Do you think the homophobic f-slur is acceptable because, after all, it is a technical term relating to bound wood fuel? If not, why is that not acceptable, but the one you’re using is? Historical linguistic justification for a word whose colloquial use has not been related to its historical meaning for a very long time is dishonest.

    By “otherwise discriminatory” I meant discriminatory in ways other than the two (sexism, ableism) that I explicitly mentioned; can you not think of other ways to discriminate? “Otherwise discriminatory” can include words that are specificaly xenophobic or racist, or homophobic. I didn’t bother doing a full inventory when I was illustrating a point.

    I find casual use of opaque blocklists without any second thought to their impact disturbing.

    It’s not opaque. The entire block list regex is publicly visible for every single instance. In fact, it’s in the page source of every single page you load. You’re simply uninformed. Moreover, if you think there was no second thought to it’s impact, you’re yet again uninformed. There was (and has been) discussion about it amongst developers and (early) users, and discussion continues; in fact, there was a post about it with large engagement maybe three days ago.

    I am not sure how I feel about enforcing a block list (and I said that in my previous comment), but one thing it does do, repeatedly, is illuminate how little people think about offensive things they say. Interestingly, more often than not, people would rather defend their use of misogynist language than consider using literally any other word in English or another language.








  • Have you been keeping up with the story? Few people are saying there is absolutely zero value in telemetry as a concept. Most people have an issue with it being on by default. For a FOSS community, especially one who tries to act as if privacy matters, the very nature of the concept “telemetry that’s on by default” is the problem. I wouldn’t personally use the phrase corporate shilling because I think it’s not the most precise descriptor of the situation, but it’s not entirely innacurate either. I think all of their talk about “it’s anonymized” or “it’s not excessive” or what have you is just distraction: the real issue is that it’s on by default.


  • 133arc585@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlWhat is the most opinionated linux distro?
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    I consider their past behavior to be counter to their stated goal of privacy, and counter to the notion that they deserve to be trusted.

    They have sent out direct mailers that basically equated to a customer list leak; also I’d take a peek at the wikipedia entry about their business model, which mentions some stuff that isn’t the most savory:

    … Brave earns revenue from ads by taking a 15% cut of publisher ads and a 30% cut of user ads. User ads are notification-style pop-ups, while publisher ads are viewed on or in association with publisher content.

    On 6 June 2020, a Twitter user pointed out that Brave inserts affiliate referral codes when users navigate to Binance

    In regards to the mailers, they messed up and passed blame,

    In this process, our EDDM vendor made a significant mistake by not excluding names, but instead including names before addresses, resulting in the distribution of personalized mailers.

    With regards to the CEO, he made a donation to an anti-LGBT cause when he was CEO of Mozilla in 2008. He lost his job at Mozilla due to his anti-LGBT stance. He also spreads COVID misinformation.

    As others have pointed out, it’s also Chromium based, and so it is just helping Google destroy the web more than they already have.




  • I don’t believe so. A battery standard would specify the interface, not the actual battery design from a technical standpoint. It would specify:

    • size and shape, i.e. where connectors go, assuring it fits in a phone
    • voltage and amperage provided

    The rest is up to the battery manufacturer and is completely open to innovation. You want to put a Li-ion battery in there? Just make it the right shape and as long as it can provide the output required, it’s fine. Want some future-tech fusion battery? As long as it’s the right shape and puts out the required power!



  • If you listen to more than one podcast, either

    • you visit once a week anyway, and just have podcasts delayed a few days from release to listen, or
    • you visit every day that one of the podcasts is released, which means you may be visiting several websites every day.

    Some podcasts I like to listen to the day they come out, or perhaps the next day if I don’t get to it, such as news podcasts.

    Also, if you listen to even more than a few podcasts, you aren’t going to “a website” once a week, you’re going to a dozen websites once a week.

    I just go to the website, download the show, throw it on my phone

    That’s three steps, per podcast per episode. Not everyone has their phone set up where it’s zero-effort to copy files to the phone from their computer, so that may be a multi-step process itself.

    Also, podcast apps offer some other features that to do manually either is more work, or more mental overhead:

    • Favoriting episodes, so that they stay downloded: to do this manually you need some sort of filesystem hierarchy where you put favorited episodes, or keep a list of favorited episodes, or keep track some other way.
    • Notifications for new episodes, for podcasts that don’t follow a strict release schedule, or those that put out “special” episodes off their typical release schedule, or even just not having to memorize which podcasts have what release schedules.
    • Viewing of “show notes” inline instead of having to open the browser, navigate to the podcast’s webpage, then navigate to the episode page.
    • Listening software designed for podcasts/human speech: silence trimming, speedup ratios, start/end trimming, smart chapter-based seeking and navigation, remembering where you left off. Some of these features may be available in whatever generic multimedia player you listen to podcasts in, but not all of them.

    Of course, a podcast app is not required to listen to podcasts by any means. But if you listen to a lot of podcasts and value time your time, there is undeniable benefit offered by podcast apps.

    Also, there are plenty of FOSS and tracker-free podcast apps, so it’s not a situation where you must sacrifice privacy for convenience.


  • So you’re acknowledging that form over function, even to the point of making the end user’s experience worse with no upside except to Apple in the form of more potential future profits, is so important to Apple that they’d rather pull out of an entire massive market than respect their customer.

    Just like you can’t get a “nicer looking” microwave that has a completely clear glass front rather than the mesh screen (becasue it’s bad for the consumer), and just like you wouldn’t accept someone marketing a cell phone that bricks itself after 45 outbound phone calls (because it’s bad for the consumer, and the environment), you shouldn’t accept Apple being anti-consumer and anti-environment by refusing to allow user serviceability.

    Don’t allow Apple to externalize environmental costs on to the rest of humanity simply because it’d be ever so slightly less profitable if they can’t force consumers into a (needlessly) rapid replacement cycle.




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    For the “schedule expression” (the * * * * * part), try https://crontab.guru/. Some distributions have shortcut expressions like @hourly or @daily so you don’t have to type * */1 * * * etc.

    The crontab generally has a header that shows the columns, but if not, they’re: m h dom mon dow command.

    From * * * * * /usr/bin/sct 2750 I’m guessing you want to run every minute. If that’s the case, as another commented pointed out, try */1 * * * * /usr/bin/sct 2750, meaning every 1 minute.



  • Oh it’s absolutely understandable why a good camera (and subsequently a good screen to view pictures on) would matter to some.

    It just doesn’t to me, at all, and so it’s not even the first thing that comes to mind when I think about a phone. I don’t like tablet-sized phones because I don’t use it all that much and when I do, there’s no added benefit of a larger screen over a middle-sized screen (or some higher-resolution display). I don’t use the camera at all, and so its quality doesn’t matter to me. I don’t use a stylus because I’d rather use a pen and notepad.

    I’m not criticizing someone wanting those features, I just sometimes need to be told what features are important to other people.