Boycot / protest against any data centers being built for AI bs in your local area.

They will not only drive up the prices for electronics, but also for electricity & water

Boycot / protest against any data centers being built for AI bs in your local area.

They will not only drive up the prices for electronics, but also for electricity & water.

Thanks for creating this community.
Looking forward to what it will bring,
but assume/hope it will be some very welcome positive things! :D

Oh misread my bad,
not much experience with PostgreSQL

Yeah,
I did a speed test comparison between Oracle MySQL and MariaDB MySQL,
MariaDB is about 10 times faster.

FYI: When Oracle bought MySQL a lot of developers left and created MariaDB, so the brains behind the project moved, and in the meantime Oracle did a great job of fucking things up.

You’re right,
gambling is to screw you out of your money.
I’d recommend to steer clear of it.

Also the prediction market stuff,
it’s the latest new gambling hype thing,
since they can use loopholes to bypass gambling laws.

You can look into VaultWarden,
an open source self-hostable fork of BitWarden.

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

There are also free community instances available which you can use, however then you will depend on them for reliable uptime and security.

I wish more communities implemented this rule.

I highly doubt they started on TES 6,
straight after TES 5 (Skyrim) released (2011).

I think it’s taking so long,
since they procrastinated working on it for so long…

They where mostly focussed on milking TES through Online and re-releasing TES 5 an obscene amount of times, now they even re-released TES 4 (Oblivion), instead of putting in the time/effort/money for creating a new game.

Working on Starfield also took a chunk of their time, however that game is badly received. What scares me is that on the TES 6 wiki page, they mention that it will be written in the same Creation Engine 2 as Starfield used.

https://wikiless.tiekoetter.com/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_VI

The wiki does mention it has been in pre-production since 2018, which still seems doubtful to me.

You’ll run into that on many distros,
not only Debian, since most of the distros use a specific python version for OS packages, its recommended to leave the python for your OS unchanged.

But VirtualBox is not a good idea either.

Instead use a venv (virtual environment),
which is the python way to develop/run under different python versions.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html

I’m also living in the EU,
however I notice a global push to such mass surveillance. The EU has been under attack by Denmark for years now e.g. by pushing through chat control (a government backdoor into encryption).

However there ain’t such thing as a backdoor only for the good guys, this can and will eventually be abused, either by extremist governments, which may not yet be in power, but might come some day, or external countries, hacking into the backdoor.

Privacy and technology experts have been warning against chat control and age verification for these reasons, however we do feel ignored, since the topics keep on coming back up.

I kinda doubt that most of the politicians graps these risks though, and kinda find it dissapointing and demotivating that our rights to privacy keep being put under scrutiny again and again.

However I’ll refuse to give up, since maintaining your rights is important, and gaining them back once lost is often very hard / nearly impossible.

Thank you for being open minded and up for hearing my arguments though! :)

I agree that big tech’s social media is like digital heroin, not only bad for kids.

But it should be up to the parent to protect their kids, you also don’t let them walk the park alone, why should you let them browse the web un-supervised.

There are parental tools to restrict your child’s internet access, those should be applied by the parent.

Not every citizen should be under surveillance by the government under the rouse that they’ll protect your kids, which they won’t.

The real goal here is to detect people who go against the government and block them. While kids & criminals slip through the cracks by finding sketchy un-surveilled sites and messaging channels.

And if you really think your government gives a damn about your kids safety, then I urge you to look in the epstein ph/f-iles

*France seeks to implement mass surveillance online by requesting age verification, but politicians wrap it in “we do it to protect the children” which is bullshit.

Protect your rights to privacy, stand up against such erosion of your rights.

For M$ no clue, for browsing,
AdNauseam comes to mind.

It’s a fork of uBlock Origin,
which instead of blocking all the ads,
hides all the ads + clicks on them all in the background, which:

• Costs advertisers a lot of money
• Poisens your data profile, since they can’t make up your actual interests anymore

It’s more protest-ware then privacy-ware though,
since you’ll be overflooding them with bs data,
instead of minimizing the data collected.

You can install ClassyShark3xodus,
which can de-compile apps and scan them for trackers on the fly to figure it out yourself.

Do let us know the results :)

I’d find it odd if a RPi4 can’t smoothly run a browser :o

You can use btop, to monitor if you have a bottleneck on your CPU or RAM, if Swap memory gets used, things will slow down, if your CPU is clocking @ 100%, same thing but not much you can do about that besides perhaps weeding out unnessecary processes that consume a lot, if there are any.

In case your RAM is @ 100%, you could:

• Use LibreWolf instead of FireFox,
  it’s an open source privacy focussed fork,
  which removes some of the FireFox bloaty stuff, which reduces RAM usage.
• Use uBlock Origin, to block advertisements, which will reduce RAM usage and increase page load speeds
• Use NoScript, to block JavaScript trackers, to further reduce RAM usage and increase page load speedd, beware, will block all JS by default, so sites will break, but can be manually fixed by re-enabling only the nessecary JS components on a site
• Switch to DietPi, a very light weight RAM/CPU friendly distro for SBCs like RPis, I’ve used it only headless (without GUI) but it only used 50Mb of RAM out of the box last time I monitorred it, which is impressively low.

As already pointed out,
age verification everywhere.

As an example, the UK currently wants age verification everywhere, even on Wikipedia…

Besides the government tracking you, it’s also a risk for identity theft.

As an example, Australia wants age verification everywhere, even on Discord, which lead to a data breach where 70k IDs got leaked due to insufficient security practices on their part.

This is only the first of many of such leaks of these laws become more common.

• Social media is bad for everyone, not only for kids, basically digital heroin, getting you addicted to upvotes which release dopamine, the happy substance, in your head.
• Blocking social media for kids is not to protect the kids, but to create a police surveillance regime where it becomes easier for the government to track everyone and stop protestors who go against their regime.
• Posting fotos of your kids on social media should only be done with consent of the kids.

Please don’t mis-interpret these laws, they’re not to protect the children, but it’s spinned as such.

Protect your rights to privacy instead of swallowing political bs reasons while letting your rights get eroded away.

Well, it ain’t just the EU :/

Our right to privacy is under attack basically globally (EU, USA, England, Australia, maybe more, but those I’m aware off).

Being wrapped into bullshit reasons “to protect the children” or “to fight crime”, which won’t help, since malicious actors and creative kids will find work arounds for such measures.

The truth is likely more to put a oppressive surveillance police state into place. Where opposition can more easily be tracked down and silenced.

Now it’s more important then ever before to protect your rights to privacy. Since rights are easily eroded by politicians, but very hard to re-gain afterwards.

E.g. look at Russia, where you accidentally slit your throat while shaving if you try to voice yourself against Putin.

2 words though “Kiddie gambling”.

Sure Steam is one of the less evil companies out there, but they’re far from innocent.