its not because they are adamant about OSS, but because the H.264 and H.265 codecs have software patents that require distributors paying a license fee. the situation is a bit unclear, that’s why some distros choose to distribute these drivers. Besides fedora, opensuse and others too do not distribute these drivers.

but flatpak versions of software will get downloaded along with these drivers, and that will work on any distro, because flathub decided they can distribute these drivers. bit of a courageous move, but I guess they know what they are doing.

and that’s why I’m holding my face when people say ublock lite on chrome is just as good… no, it fucking isn’t. not because of gimmicks like this but because it does many things to protect your privacy which you don’t see.

that’s a link for chrome. 4 upvotes…

most people can still only be contacted through facebook messenger and whatsapp

he stepped down a while ago

some users solve that with keyword filters, but be careful not to block too broadly

except that the new subscription costs more, and has AI features. now the line did go up, and investors can be told that people want AI

not all. make it so that it can still be worse for them if the need arises. useful for negotiations

they aren’t. one of them is an AP from another phone, so I believe that one couldn’t even be configured as hidden by accident, because the phone does not offer it. another is one I sometimes use, and it’s not hidden either.

almost worthless. I just learned that the android 13 xiaomi phone of a family member broadcasts some of the wifi AP names it knows when scanning for available networks! constantly! why the fuck it does I don’t know because neither are hidden networks that would need this, and there’s no setting for it

well it seems they are not using Industry Standards

Piefed.social is the flagship instance, comparable to lemmy.ml.

comparable in status, or in opinions?

my point is that it makes no sense for a couple to announce that they just started having sex and there’s no pregnancy yet. when there is now, or if they have been trying for long without success, that could be newsworthy, but otherwise it’s literally just announcing that you two started having unprotected sex.

they did not say they’re having a baby. they’re trying to have a baby. no baby yet, but they are doing things to have one

When I ran rooted Android, I used AdAway to keep my HOSTS file up to date. You can’t do that without root, though. At least AFAIK.

you can, not with adaway but others like rethink dns that function as a VPN, without actually using a VPN provider.

when you do that, you can’t use any other VPN apps. though some (including rethink) have additional functions, like an outgoing firewall, wireguard, proxy support, …
though if your company requires a different VPN app… then get a company phone, probably.

Full thoughts on my TT

holy shit I did not expect it to go that low

I kind of understand what’s the use of BGP, but the article was lacking too many details even for me. cloudflare has a better article, their conclusion is that this was probably an accident and not an attack, because the leaked routes were so low priority that it couldn’t cayse traffic to be rerouted.
they didn’t say but I think perhaps what it could have done is overload the venezuelan state ISP with traffic they shouldn’t handle, but I don’t know for sure

https://blog.cloudflare.com/bgp-route-leak-venezuela/

recommend trying Jitsi to your therapist. the main advantage of it to me is that it’s not made by big tech, who may be snooping in on the session. I love it, it has all the features and more

oh and also firefox. jitsi and firefox.

well there’s a firmware selector page, wherr you can request additional packages. maybe it can also be used for removing some?

but if you build it yourself you can do any changes you want, too

Don’t expect good Wi-Fi if you went with devboards like OpenWrt One.

why is that?