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- Comment on News publishers take paywall-blocker 12ft.io offline 1 week ago:
Interesting about .onion websites, thanks!
- Comment on News publishers take paywall-blocker 12ft.io offline 1 week ago:
The primary purpose of archive.is is to get around paywalls though. That’s the only thing I’ve ever seen it used for.
- Comment on News publishers take paywall-blocker 12ft.io offline 1 week ago:
Very interesting article, thanks! I had wondered about this. The whole thing sounds pretty mysterious. Who knows, it could be Meta behind the curtains, lol! They’ve been known to resort to piracy to feed their AI.
- Comment on Linux smashes through five per cent desktop share in the US 1 week ago:
As much as I’m pro-Linux and anti-Microsoft and anti-Apple, I have to say that I don’t think comparing desktop use to server use is appropriate when it comes to security. I don’t think server use of any OS translates to desktop use in terms of security at all. If nothing else, the end user is a major difference between the two. End users download, install, run, and interact with all kinds of random software, websites, etc. without thinking and this is the main source of desktop malware. The same is not the case for servers.
- Comment on Linux smashes through five per cent desktop share in the US 1 week ago:
That’s definitely been a catalyzing factor for me. I had fiddled around with Linux and had been pretty ‘meh’ about Windows for years, but I was just coasting along the path of least resistance. Them telling me that I could no longer use my perfectly functional computer for Windows was the ‘last straw’ that finally what made me begin to take action and get ready to say goodbye to Windows.
If you think about it, Microsoft’s timing for this is really perfect. Wait until Linux is very viable for desktop use including gaming then tell vast numbers of your customers that they need to ditch a fully working computer in order to keep using Windows. I expect that this figure will probably double by the end of the year. There’s another article by ZDNet now that says that the share is more like 6% and rapidly accelerating. I’ll post it on the main Linux community if hasn’t already been posted there.
- Comment on News publishers take paywall-blocker 12ft.io offline 1 week ago:
archive.is probably next? It sounds like the same kind of tool.
- Comment on What are the privacy risks of exposing IP adresses? 2 weeks ago:
I’m inclined to think that your IP provides powerful cross-reference potential. Imagine someone either buys the data off of all data brokers out there or a law enforcement agency obtains similar kind of data through warrants, etc. They can cross-reference IPs and time-stamps and determine, that you, Joe Blow, age 35, who works at X, volunteers at Y, and lives at 123 main street, browse for some kind of very embarrassing porn every night. It’s a drastic example to illustrate the idea, but I don’t think it’s far-fetched.
This could be taken further by imagining a wider net: say, a large portion of people who have donated to this political candidate or who work for this company browse for that same embarrassing porn every night.
I’m thinking birds-eye view of potential privacy violations here.
- Comment on Just a note: When lemm.ee shuts down, all the images will break. 1 month ago:
Good to know, thanks!
- Comment on Just a note: When lemm.ee shuts down, all the images will break. 1 month ago:
Interesting, thanks! I did not realize that.
What do you mean to edit your top posts to an archived version?
- Comment on Just a note: When lemm.ee shuts down, all the images will break. 1 month ago:
What do you mean? Don’t instances keep a local copy of images from other instances?