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circularfoyers··on Pixel Tablet
It's not only the US. It redirects correctly for Australia with information.
circularfoyers··on Spotify-Qt
Your playback quality is still (I consider, severely) restricted[1], among other features I might not be aware of. They might also start injecting ads into the audio stream soon, if they realise ad blocking methods are popular (Twitch has done this for example).

[1]: https://support.spotify.com/us/article/audio-quality

circularfoyers··on Casio adds fitness features to original G-Shock digital watch
That's an article from 2006...
circularfoyers··on System76 Open Firmware
It's not a small effort, there's quite a lot Lenovo and Dell firmware on there.
circularfoyers··on Anti-recruiter prompt injection attack in LinkedIn profile
For manually-editing-browser-extensions allergies who are already allergic to manually-editing-links: https://libredirect.github.io
circularfoyers··on AstroNvim is an aesthetic and feature-rich Neovim config
I noticed the credits of the README mention a few other configs I hadn't looked at before including NvChad, LunarVim and CosmicVim. I'll have to try all these at some point to compare them to what I started using not long ago, SpaceVim.
circularfoyers··on Shane Pitman, leader of the warez group Razor 1911: life after prison (2005)
I've never heard anyone pronounce it as rooter in Australia.
circularfoyers··on Ask HN: Indoor air quality sensors and other IoT that's local-first and not DIY?
Having said that, there's plenty of people using this method[1]. I particularly like the work this person did presenting that data in Grafana[2].

[1] https://community.weatherflow.com/c/developers/5

[2] https://github.com/lux4rd0/weatherflow-dashboards-aio

circularfoyers··on High Court of Australia rules hyperlinking is not publishing [pdf]
ABC news (Australia) have a good summary, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-17/high-court-decision-g....
circularfoyers··on Photoshop CC v19 installer for Linux
Unless I missed something, it appears[1] this script installs a tar archive of Photoshop from the domain https://victor.poshtiban.io without any information about where or how this tar archive was generated.

I'm not sure how I'm suppose to trust this.

[1]: https://github.com/Gictorbit/photoshopCClinux/blob/5f8f0adcd...

circularfoyers··on Ipcalc – Command line CIDR calculator with IPv6 support
Last I checked (unless I missed something), this didn't have the ability to perform VLSM. Which is what I thought distinguished Jodie's tool from every other similar command line tool. Which is frustrating that this is what replaced Jodie's tool on Fedora.
circularfoyers··on 4th Gen KDE Slimbook – Linux Ultrabook with an AMD Ryzen 7 5700U
I don't think there's anything specific about the hardware for KDE besides the logo. I think this is more about giving back to the community, which I personally think it admirable and makes me look upon Slimbook more favorably.

> Remember that with every purchase, KDE receives a donation from Slimbook and KDE Community members get a generous discount!

https://dot.kde.org/2022/07/06/new-kde-slimbook-4-now-availa...

circularfoyers··on SumatraPDF 3.4 Released
Many people aren't willing to do this when the document contains sensitive information.
circularfoyers··on Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)
I'd argue using an OS and init system with significantly less support compared to Linux is more likely to have a lot more reasons to hold you back.
circularfoyers··on Ask HN: What are you using for a RSS Reader?
I'm using Nextcloud already and that has an officially supported RSS daemon app[1]. I mainly use it with this really good Android client[2] (that's on F-Droid) that supports connecting to it (and Miniflux it appears, which I noticed a bunch of mentions in this thread of).

Probably worth mentioning too since this is HN, of the really nice hnrss[3], which I use for comment notifications in RSS.

[1] https://github.com/nextcloud/news

[2] https://github.com/bubelov/news

[3] https://hnrss.github.io

circularfoyers··on Ask HN: Why do password managers have TOTP?
They are significantly more locked down and it's hardware more strictly controlled than most desktop OS's, so I would say that assumption is correct.

It is looking as though desktop OS's will catch up in this regard considering the progress that's being made with immutable root filesystems and sandboxing with permission sets for user facing programs.

circularfoyers··on KeePassXC 2.7.0
Have you tried KeePassDX?
circularfoyers··on Degoogled phones running privacy oriented OS
I do without issues, but it varies on your bank's app. There's a good chance you'll need Google Play Services, so you can receive two factor push notifications for example. But thankfully GrapheneOS has the option for Google Play Services to be installed sandboxed to varying degrees.
circularfoyers··on Discord is a black hole for information
> Guilds in Discord represent an isolated collection of users and channels, and are often referred to as "servers" in the UI.[1]

This is why it's users refer to them as servers.

[1]: https://discord.com/developers/docs/resources/guild

circularfoyers··on Why is the Zoom app listening on my microphone when not in a meeting?
I think what you're looking looking for is here https://jaas.8x8.vc, which states their pricing for the enterprise offering of Jitsi Meet.
circularfoyers··on Why is the Zoom app listening on my microphone when not in a meeting?
https://meet.jit.si has a similar drop in like experience, where no accounts are required, which I believe is in part the reason Zoom was popular in the beginning.
circularfoyers··on Open-source tests of web browser privacy
I would disagree. Most of the fingerprinting protection is enabled by the user.js, of which LibreWolf inherits the efforts made by arkenfox[1][2]. Many of the most significant preferences themselves made it into Firefox by the Tor uplift project[3].

[1] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js

[2] https://librewolf.net/license-disclaimers

[3] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Tor_Uplift

circularfoyers··on Alexa suggests lethal challenge to child
While I do agree that fundamentally the issue needs to be tackled on a political level, I don't agree that individual changes don't impact that individual.

I don't think it's possible (for most) to have complete privacy, but I don't think any (or very few) even want that, they just want more control over it. They don't want people they don't even know, to know more about them than people they do know.

Before the changes are (if they ever are) made from a political level, it's possible to take steps to have more control over what information is collected.

circularfoyers··on Alexa suggests lethal challenge to child
I feel like this argument is not productive for improving privacy because it suggests we shouldn't try. I think improving privacy is incremental and these improvements can make a difference, however small. It's never going to be complete, but neither are security measures.
circularfoyers··on Alexa suggests lethal challenge to child
It's still up.
circularfoyers··on Why Zulip will stand the test of time
I heard Richard Attenborough's voice in my head as I read this[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX0oubhFydc

circularfoyers··on Show HN: Overpass – a self-hosted video live streaming app
Lowering hls_fragment[1] to 1s should help out a little with the latency. This is what I've done in the past with a similar project as yours, Open Streaming Platform[2], with good results.

Since you mentioned WebRTC for streaming to provide even lower latency, this is what I believe Project Lightspeed has achieved[3]. Might be something you'd be interested in, if you hadn't already seen it.

[1] https://wiki.openstreamingplatform.com/Usage/Streaming#osp-n...

[2] https://wiki.openstreamingplatform.com/Usage/Streaming#osp-n...

[3] https://github.com/GRVYDEV/Project-Lightspeed

circularfoyers··on Terms of Service: Monitoring and Anti-Cheat
I'm not sure this is even enough, when these anti-cheat systems rely on kernel driver implementations.
circularfoyers··on Show HN: Deeplinks.js – Simple deep links to selections of text on your website
I think the issue is that even if Mozilla did do that, to achieve the same level of configurability for privacy and security, in ways that the user.js and all it's options offer, or with the many objections they've had to new standards, they would end up needing to fork Chromium to a point where it might become debatable whether the effort was worth it in the first place.

I don't think enough users care about a lot of the values offered by Firefox, and simply use whatever is the default or what most people they know use. If anti-competitive laws force vendors to provide users with a choice, I think this could hopefully give Firefox more of a fighting chance. I think it's important there are options like this that exist, even if they are small, because they provide for the needs of Tor Browsers users for example. Where there are no other browsers that match the anti-fingerprinting features that Firefox offers and which Tor users require.

circularfoyers··on Show HN: Deeplinks.js – Simple deep links to selections of text on your website
I would suggest reading the lengthy discussion that was had regarding this feature in Firefox[1] before brazenly claiming it's an obsolete browser.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/194

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