https://stackdiary.com/brave-selling-copyrighted-data-for-ai-training/

https://stackdiary.com/brave-selling-copyrighted-data-for-ai-training/

Derp.

Brendan went on in 2015 to become the founder and CEO of Brave Browser, which is promoted as a privacy browser by hiding and confusing your JavaScript fingerprints.

Altering links to add affiliate tags, selling data… privacy my ass.

A quotation circulates on the Internet, attributed to me, but it wasn’t written by me.

Here’s the text that is circulating. Most of it was copied from statements I have made, but the part italicized here is not from me. It makes points that are mistaken or confused.

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux,” and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.

Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

The main error is that Linux is not strictly speaking part of the GNU system—whose kernel is GNU Hurd. The version with Linux, we call “GNU/Linux.” It is OK to call it “GNU” when you want to be really short, but it is better to call it “GNU/Linux” so as to give Torvalds some credit.

We don’t use the term “corelibs,” and I am not sure what that would mean, but GNU is much more than the specific packages we developed for it. I set out in 1983 to develop an operating system, calling it GNU, and that job required developing whichever important packages we could not find elsewhere.

He actually added to the pasta…

Apple has quite a few apps there. Music for one.

It’s all 404 now, all the github pages are gone, the repo is gone.

I’ve had that on my Android phone for some time now.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.seemoo.at_tracking_detection/

Yes there’s an Apple version

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/airguard-tracking-protection/id1659427454

*btw

Last time I compiled a kernel it was on a bus-overclocked K6-3/500 (higher bus, lower multiplier).

Searching has brought up pcapdroid (it’s on fdroid) as a way to watch network traffic from apps via local vpn. I only just installed it myself though so you know as much as I do at this point.

Get Brother. Epson works but it’s more fiddly, I haven’t tried a Canon in a long time.

You’re going to use a 10 core 64GB machine as a firewall? Do you mow your lawn with dynamite also? 🤣

It does not require an internet connection to use!

It’s messed up that that’s a selling point.

It could still have branded firmware even if it isn’t carrier locked though. Did you buy it directly from Samsung as an unbranded unlocked phone?

Blame the carrier then, mine is unlocked direct from Samsung and doesn’t have Facebook or anything like that. Once it hooked in to a carrier for the first time it installed the carrier apps but any and all are removable and don’t come back after.

Unless you’re defining bloat as anything but AOSP in which case I don’t want to talk to you.

I didn’t see that as one of the included accessories though. I shouldn’t have to pay more to access basic functionality.

Because it needs an extra dongle that isn’t free and most headphones use an ordinary audio jack.

Charging while listening.

And above all, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

Not really, no.

There’s a confidentlyincorrect community calling your name.

Edit: Or it might be calling my name if that’s a minus not a dash… I think I misread, sorry.

Everyone who had ever had one, Chrome OS is based on Gentoo.