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EU says X’s paid-for blue check deceives users, breaks law • The Register by AnonStoleMyPants in c/technology@beehaw.org

[-] AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz 65 points 3 months ago

Musk decided to respond to the EC's findings on Friday by claiming: "The European Commission offered X an illegal secret deal: If we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us.

"The other platforms accepted that deal. X did not."

The same Musk who in March said, "Just to be super clear, I am not donating money to either candidate for US President," and reportedly now has donated to a super PAC working to elect Donald Trump to the White House.

Lmao. What a response. Doesn't respond in any way, instead blames eu for some random "illegal secret deal". Sure bud.

Weird how much that response sounds like Trump. Just say random bs to divert the actual question.

Phones are distracting students in class. More states are pressing schools to ban them by AnonStoleMyPants in c/news@lemmy.world

[-] AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz 61 points 7 months ago

Yeah, so problem isn't phones. Problem is that teachers don't have enough authority. If teachers cannot take away the phone, then just toss them out.

I feel like this "ban phones" is getting common but it does not fix the actual problem of teachers not being able to keep discipline in class.

Kagi is now partnering with Brave by AnonStoleMyPants in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz 46 points 9 months ago

That is kinda disappointing. I had a distaste for Brave after all the initial controversy regarding the ad blocking, which only got worse from the crypto crap they now have in the browser.

I'll still keep paying for Kagi, but this is a step in the wrong direction in my opinion. Let's hope at least the results get noticeably better.

How Meta’s New Face Camera Heralds a New Age of Surveillance by AnonStoleMyPants in c/privacyguides@lemmy.one

[-] AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz 51 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Meta said in a statement that privacy was top of mind when designing the glasses. “We know if we’re going to normalize smart glasses in everyday life, privacy has to come first and be integrated into everything we do,” the company said.

Ha.

I don't think Meta has the same idea of privacy than the people do. I mean, Meta having all the data hidden in their servers, being fed to AI and given to advertisement algorithms is privacy when the data is "anonymized" and held onto securely. Right?

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Can you block an entire instance from Thunder? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 10 months ago by AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

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Pretty much the title. I could not find an option to do it, nor did I find comments or commits about it.

Marketer sparks panic with claims it uses smart devices to eavesdrop on people by AnonStoleMyPants in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz 35 points 10 months ago

Good breakdown on this in arstechnica:

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1991469

In a statement emailed to Ars Technica, Cox Media Group said that its advertising tools include "third-party vendor products powered by data sets sourced from users by various social media and other applications then packaged and resold to data servicers." The statement continues:

Advertising data based on voice and other data is collected by these platforms and devices under the terms and conditions provided by those apps and accepted by their users, and can then be sold to third-party companies and converted into anonymized information for advertisers. This anonymized data then is resold by numerous advertising companies.

The company added that it does not "listen to any conversations or have access to anything beyond a third-party aggregated, anonymized and fully encrypted data set that can be used for ad placement" and "regret[s] any confusion."

McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hackers Say They Found the ‘Smoking Gun’ That Killed Their Startup by AnonStoleMyPants in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz 48 points 10 months ago

Big corporations doing shady shit fucking over (or buying out) small companies trying to fix the shady shit to make the lives of the customers of said big business a bit easier.

Not sure what to say. Seems like the standard nowadays.

Twitch updates sexual content guidelines amid ‘topless’ meta backlash by AnonStoleMyPants in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz 56 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Oh no, almost visible tits!? Nono we can't have that, it'll morally bankrupt our audience.

Edit: apparently they're more lenient as long as it is properly tagged. Nice.

Panera founder says employees today aren't motivated by the idea of making money for shareholders: 'Nobody cares' by AnonStoleMyPants in c/news@lemmy.world

[-] AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz 96 points 10 months ago

"No employee ever wakes up and says, 'I'm so excited. I made another penny a share today for Panera's shareholders,'" Shaich told Business Insider in an interview. "Nobody cares. You don't care whether your CEO comes or goes."

In case people read the title and not the article.

Plex update raises concerns over potential sharing of porn viewing habits | Be careful what you watch by AnonStoleMyPants in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz 50 points 10 months ago

Lmao what the fuck Plex.

Who the fuck thought it would be a good idea to have this thing be opt out instead of opt in? Well actually, I'm sure they realised that nobody would opt in because nobody fucking wants this garbage. So the only option is to make it opt out, right guys?

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BTRFS and moving /home to subvolume, in need of a sanity check. (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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So I installed Debian 12 with btrfs and apparently it only uses a single subvolume rootfs. I would like to have my /home in a separate subvolume (and possibly /var too I guess) and with a flat subvolume structure. I started figuring out on how to do it and I feel like I'm not entirely sure yet so I need a sanity check.

Lots of comments online seem to use something like this method:

cd /
mv /home /home_old
btrfs subvolume create home
cp -a --reflink=always  /home_old/* /home/

But this would NOT create a flat subvolume structure, right? And you woul NOT need to modify fstab as the /home would be automatically mounted because it resides under rootfs actually because / is rootfs and not its parent?

If I want to actually have a flat structure, then I would first need to mount the actual parent subvolume (subvolumeid=5), cd into it, then create the home subvolume, copy everything from the current home directory into there, unmount, modify fstab to mount home, and delete the old stuff and reboot I guess.

Soo something like this:

mkdir /mnt/tmp
    Make a folder for mount
mount -o subvolid=5 /dev/sdXX /mnt/tmp/
    Mount the actual parent subvolume
cd /mnt/tmp/
    Here 'ls -a' would output 'rootfs' if I understood correctly
btrfs subvolume create home
    Create new subvolume, now being sibling of 'rootfs'
cp -a --reflink=always  /home/* /mnt/tmp/home/
    Copy old /home
umount /mnt/tmp/
    Don't need it anymore

Then go to fstab, and do something like

...
UUID=  / btrfs  subvol=rootfs bunch_of_options_and_stuff
...
-> change into
...
UUID=  / btrfs  subvol=rootfs bunch_of_options_and_stuff
UUID=  /home btrfs  subvol=home bunch_of_options_and_stuff
...

Then just rm -rf /home/* (or just move to keep it as backup if something is fucked up) and reboot?

Does this sound about right?

Edit:

Everything went smoothly. Well just don't fuck up fstab like I did. Decided not to make /var into a subvolume because not sure if you can do it the same way, thinking that logs etc are being written all the time so the gap between me copying everything to the subvolume, and eventually booting might make weird things but dunno. Also added compress=zstd into fstab mount options to reduce writes on the ssd.

Why does this community, which is privacy oriented, use Discord rather than Matrix? by AnonStoleMyPants in c/privacy@lemmy.ml

[-] AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz 51 points 1 year ago

Wait, really? So you think Matrix is the ultimate form of secure and private "chat" communities? Because if it is not then it is a compromise.

This Lemmy instance for sure as hell is not the most private and secure.

Alabama Woman Gave Birth in Jail Shower After Begging to Go to a Hospital by AnonStoleMyPants in c/news@lemmy.world

[-] AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz 45 points 1 year ago

Man, what a fucked up story. I hope she gets massive reparations from this and hopefully this will get big enough to do some actual change. But I doubt that.

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permanent "not read" number if reply delete (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world

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I got an answer to a post I made and the person who made it deleted the post. Now there I a permanent "1" on the messages button as if I still have a reply that I have not ticked as "seen". But I can't do it because the button does not exist, assuming this is due to the post being deleted.

Anything I can do to fix this? It is kinda annoying.

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blocking or filtering communities? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Is there a way to filter or block communities? Can't browse by new at all because kbin's "random" is filled with spam bots and I'd rather not block entire kbin due to it.

It's time to take advantage of Reddit's decline by AnonStoleMyPants in c/opensource@lemmy.ml

[-] AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz 44 points 1 year ago

I really don't think Lemmy is polished and issue-free enough for tons of people to move here. It might be in the future but I feel like pushing it would do no good.