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submitted 1 month ago by astro_ray@lemdro.id to c/linux@lemmy.ml

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/206134

Recently I switched to Fedora 40 from Ununtu. Now, I am facing this weird problem, whenever my laptop suspends I cannot use the power button to wake my laptop if it's in tablet mode. It works fine in normal case. Also, this wasn't an issue in Ubuntu. Anyone knows how I can change it?

I am using a 2in1 laptop (Dell) if it's relevant

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by astro_ray@lemdro.id to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

Mozilla’s system only measures the success rate of ads—it doesn’t help companies target those ads—and it’s less susceptible to abuse, EFF’s Lena Cohen told @FastCompany@flipboard.com. “It’s much more privacy-preserving than Google’s version of the same feature.”

https://mastodon.social/@eff/112922761259324925

Privacy experts say the new toggle is mostly harmless, but Firefox users saw it as a betrayal.

“They made this technology for advertisers, specifically,” says Jonah Aragon, founder of the Privacy Guides website. “There’s no direct benefit to the user in creating this. It’s software that only serves a party other than the user.”

[-] astro_ray@lemdro.id 14 points 2 months ago

I feel like one of thr problem is LLMs hijacked the definition of AI. Like another comment said, the way they trained on copyrighted material, it's probably not possible. But imagine there was another model (not necessarily LLM) and it was trained with completely public domain material. For example maybe something trained to find genetic diseases from genetic samples of a person, or detecting asteroids from telescope images. Those could become open source. Now, I am not an expert, but do we consider those AI?

[-] astro_ray@lemdro.id 12 points 2 months ago

Isn't the only reason firefox gets google ad money is because google is afraid they would slapped with an anti-trust lawsuit? Firefox getting money from google doesn't seem like a valid criticism.

[-] astro_ray@lemdro.id 20 points 2 months ago

I couldn't help, so let me ask What about firefox stops you from using it for online shopping?

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submitted 2 months ago by astro_ray@lemdro.id to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/20260243

Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled

Google Chrome is now encouraging uBlock Origin users who have updated to the latest version to switch to other ad blockers before Manifest v2 extensions are disabled.

[-] astro_ray@lemdro.id 7 points 2 months ago

My supervisor was an FOSS guy. He used Linux, Libreoffice everything but he still insisted on whatsapp for informal communication. I guess network effects is hard to avoid.

[-] astro_ray@lemdro.id 10 points 2 months ago

So... Arch makes sad people happy...?

[-] astro_ray@lemdro.id 7 points 2 months ago

Same. I call bullshit. First of all, for me Lunduke = Bullshit. Second, the moment it said people voluntarily participated in this survey, you just know that the demography of the survey takers will be extremely biased.

[-] astro_ray@lemdro.id 12 points 2 months ago

Seriously, DRM is the problem. There's no one benefitting from it except for large corporations who have a stranglehold on content.

[-] astro_ray@lemdro.id 27 points 2 months ago

If someone wanted it, they could've installed the Firefox extension, but now for users who doesn't want this, they have an intrusive feature that is just a bloat. Also, even if I wanted it, it's fairly useless unless you live in western countries.

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submitted 2 months ago by astro_ray@lemdro.id to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

PSA (?): just got this popup in Firefox when i was on an amazon product page. looked into it a bit because it seemed weird and it turns out if you click the big "yes, try it" button, you agree to mandatory binding arbitration with Fakespot and you waive your right to bring a class action lawsuit against them. this is awesome thank you so much mozilla very cool

https://queer.party/@m04/112872517189786676

So, Mozilla adds an AI review features for products you view using Firefox. Other than being very useless, it's T&C are as anti-consumer as it possibly can be. It's like mozilla saying directly "we don't care about your privacy".

[-] astro_ray@lemdro.id 13 points 2 months ago

The firefox users who dumped Firefox because of all this fiasco, how many of you are using safari?

[-] astro_ray@lemdro.id 16 points 3 months ago

I was also looking into alternatives after all the fiasco and wanted to go with Floorp, but turns out floorp is also doing some shady stuff. Recently they made all their fork only part of the code source available from open source. I don't know about you, but that feels pretty shady to me.

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submitted 3 months ago by astro_ray@lemdro.id to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

I am very new to linux and all the open source stuff (my first post on lemmy actually) so I don't get how this stuff works but flathub is saying that floorp is proprietary. But after a quick google search it says that floorp is open source licensed under MPL 2.0

[-] astro_ray@lemdro.id 10 points 4 months ago

There is a this app called upscale, that uses an ML model to upscale images. It's Quite good at what it does, it's useful. I use it frequently. So, there are AI stuff in linux. Just not your myopic view of AI (LLMs). And your analogy with printing press is extremely wrong. Other than human errors, printing press didn't have have remotely as many errors as LLMs. LLMs have not evolved to the point of causing a a revolution. So linux has plenty of time to see if the bandwagon sinks or sprints.

[-] astro_ray@lemdro.id 10 points 6 months ago

How can I install non-free drivers on fedora like Debian and Ubuntu

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