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  1. Comment on Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show in ~tech

  2. Comment on Tilderinos in ~talk

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    TL;DR: The.chosen ones. Everyone on this website was chosen by someone else to be here, there is no doubt about that. Thanks, @OBLIVIATER

    TL;DR: The.chosen ones. Everyone on this website was chosen by someone else to be here, there is no doubt about that.

    Thanks, @OBLIVIATER

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  3. Comment on Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show in ~tech

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    It's a bit about how we use the internet on personal level. I keep buying my wife nice underwear and the ads I see the most are young beautiful women posing in nice underwear. And I click on those...

    It's a bit about how we use the internet on personal level.

    I keep buying my wife nice underwear and the ads I see the most are young beautiful women posing in nice underwear. And I click on those and I list through all the underwear and occassionally buy some (not from clickthrough, though).

    I don't visit Youtube.com anymore. Ads there are not "a little bit too much", they already went "full on, we don't care about user experience unless the user pays us". I use Grayjay on mobile and also on desktop (the desktop one is a bit behind current Youtube defemse against it, so it doesn't work sometimes for a day or two). Sure, creators are not paid by ads if I watch their content this way, but as Linus Sebastian once said in one of their videos (paraphrasing here) "Buy one merch item from us and you will give us more money than you ever would from ads". What I want to say is there are other and more direct ways to support them.

    I have my own policy on ads - if there are to many of them, I stop visiting the site. If the site is somewhat reasonable, I'm ok with ads. Meta osn't reasonable at all...

    5 votes

  4. Comment on Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show in ~tech

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    I reckon there are automatic processes behind that. And they suck ass, clearly. As I said, every half-decent person see it through - it is blatant scam. Yet there is no person who would sit there...

    I reckon there are automatic processes behind that. And they suck ass, clearly. As I said, every half-decent person see it through - it is blatant scam. Yet there is no person who would sit there and review it and remove the scam from ad-roller. I understand why there is no such peraon employed by Meta - this person's job costs them money and this person in quiestion would remove ads which would lose them money, for Meta this is defeat-defeat scwnario, they would lose money twice in one way. This practically means that they absolutely shit down on their users and do it publicly by allowing these scam ada to exist.

    And I'm nit even talking about all the AI gwnerated shitposts which many times contain just wrong information (ie. how to connect mains in you socjet where it generated unrealistic insides of the socket with wires connected anywhere including live on earth...). It's strange no one sued Facebook for such thing in the US (where some people tend to sue anyone for anything). It is also strange EU didn't take some stance on it already.

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  5. Comment on Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show in ~tech

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    I'm using just Facebook because my employment needs me to. I report absolutely clear scam ads every day and Facebook always tells me it will let me know how it resolved it. I never heard back from...

    I'm using just Facebook because my employment needs me to. I report absolutely clear scam ads every day and Facebook always tells me it will let me know how it resolved it. I never heard back from them. And the ads keep coming back, many times the same ads with the same picture and just a little bit changed web addrress. They try to look like news websites copying their logos, styles and trying to have somewhat similar web address. Sometimea not even trying. And I guess people click the scam because the picture seems legit.

    This wouldn't happen if there was ONE person (EDIT: for my country) involved who would look over the ads and accept them manually, like QA process for taking ads.

    7 votes

  6. Comment on US Federal Aviation Administration reducing air traffic by 10% across forty ‘high-volume’ markets during government shutdown in ~transport

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    That would be collosal move from him. He already showed how he thinks (or rather don't), this would just add up to that.

    That would be collosal move from him. He already showed how he thinks (or rather don't), this would just add up to that.

    2 votes

  7. Comment on US Federal Aviation Administration reducing air traffic by 10% across forty ‘high-volume’ markets during government shutdown in ~transport

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    I still wonder why ATCs even come to their workplace. If they ain't getting paid, they should have stayed at home. No ATC = no flights = hell of a pressure to resolve the situation. If there were...

    I still wonder why ATCs even come to their workplace. If they ain't getting paid, they should have stayed at home. No ATC = no flights = hell of a pressure to resolve the situation. If there were no flight the next day, it will be resolved that very same day.

    They don't even have to be afraid of losing their jobs over this, as I reckon this is very specialized job that needs real experts and there are not hundreds of such people waiting to jump in and run at 100% capacity on day one...

    This whole shutdown situation seems absolutely surreal for me (European).

    1 vote

  8. Comment on November 2025 Backlog Burner: Week 1 Discussion in ~games

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    You can replay it in the CGA. The game offers various resolutions fot various quests and also various playstyles, it is worth replaying. But if Fallout is worth replaying, what about Fallout 2? It...

    You can replay it in the CGA. The game offers various resolutions fot various quests and also various playstyles, it is worth replaying.

    But if Fallout is worth replaying, what about Fallout 2? It is even bigger, more things to do, more ways to do them, again various playstyles and it's overall much better. You should play Fallout 1 before that though.

    Save regularly.

    1 vote

  9. Comment on Paid e-mail providers - your experiences, how you use them and how I would use it in ~tech

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    That wouldn't be a problem, since the people that I want to access the calendar are "trusted" (they are family members, who should be trusted more than them?). Although in case of device...

    That wouldn't be a problem, since the people that I want to access the calendar are "trusted" (they are family members, who should be trusted more than them?). Although in case of device loss/unauthorized access, there could be damage done to the calendar. But hey, it's just a calendar, worlds isn't standing on top of that, is it? I could delete it and make a new one...

    Thanks for checking it out.

  10. Comment on Paid e-mail providers - your experiences, how you use them and how I would use it in ~tech

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    This is the first time I hear about Radicale (I haven't really searched for something like that, though). I could probably run this on my own hardware, it could lower the requirements for the...

    This is the first time I hear about Radicale (I haven't really searched for something like that, though). I could probably run this on my own hardware, it could lower the requirements for the e-mail provider if I did.

    I'm not entirely sure if I want to run another service myself, though. Especially if many e-mail providers already provide this as well and I'm gonna be paying for it no matter what.

    2 votes

  11. Comment on Paid e-mail providers - your experiences, how you use them and how I would use it in ~tech

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    Thanks for the reply. What I meant with sharing the calendar: Family calendar where everyone can see, add and remove events. In Google calendar I created one on my own account and added other...

    Thanks for the reply. What I meant with sharing the calendar: Family calendar where everyone can see, add and remove events.

    In Google calendar I created one on my own account and added other people (accounts) as editors - I don't remember how it went on technical side, but that is the state it is in now. I would like to have this functionality on the paid service as well - people could access and edit selected calendar on my account from their own accounts.

    I don't mean invites to events I plan, ie. for friends to come to have a party night, or read-only sharing of my calendar. But it is good to know I can send such invites.

  12. Comment on The day my smart vacuum turned against me in ~tech

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    We've had Electrolux Pure i9.2 robot vacuum, it cost us around 500€ at the time. It was working well, I didn't even try to look at the traffic and was just happy to use it. It started to behave...

    We've had Electrolux Pure i9.2 robot vacuum, it cost us around 500€ at the time. It was working well, I didn't even try to look at the traffic and was just happy to use it.

    It started to behave weird after say 10-12 months - it forgot to clean some rooms when I set it up just for a few rooms cleaning and not the whole house. I kept using it in that state until one day my patience ran out. That day I did reset and started over. The bloody thing couldn't vacuum the whole house to make a new map! It did a room or a few and then was happy with the result. I had to restart the mapping a few times until it got the whole house. Then I made rooms once again in their app to no avail - the vacuum did the same poor job forgetting a room here and a room there... One day it didn't even finish the living room! After doing half of it, it just thought "I'm done here" and happily went back to the dock. I did reset it once again and didn't bother learning the house again, using it just as is - vacuum the whole house. And it didn't do even just that, once again randomly ending the vacuuming as it decided...

    I sent it for repairs, it was under warranty (EU 24 months warranty, thanks for that!). I included A4 letter that explained my thoughts (which I will shorten a lot here) - vacuum was great from the start, then likely got some automatic update that I didn't even know about and the service could probably see in their system if that is the case and since then it did poor job. I also mentioned that I wanted it back fixed and I would accept older firmware with inability for remote control (as connecting to wifi will download new firmware, of course). I also added my email address for additional communication if needed. I was really surprised when they returned the 500€ - no questions asked.

    I bought heavily used Roborock S5 for 80€ and when it got home I flashed Valetudo on it right away, didn't even bother with Roborock app or whatever. This vacuum was 4 years old at the time, it did over 50000 square meters already before I bought it and was a bit battered - well, it was used for 4 years. But it does the whole house on one battery charge with 30-40% remaining, something the Electrolux Pure i9.2 couldn't do (and we had the highest battery option). This Roborock S5 with Valetudo is also easily integrated into Home Assistant which is what I use to set the vacuum up for cleaning. I still can't believe the luck chain of events - got 500€ back, bought used vacuum for 80€, flashed with Valtude, integrated to Home Assistant and it works perfectly fine!

    I raise my middle finger to all corporations that are greedy and unable to make something that is actually good.

    31 votes

  13. Paid e-mail providers - your experiences, how you use them and how I would use it

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    I decided to spin off this topic based on the discussion in the Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking. Since I kinda by chance got rid of my dependency on Google...

    I decided to spin off this topic based on the discussion in the Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking.

    Since I kinda by chance got rid of my dependency on Google Photos (as I installed Immich on my server which does the same but on my own hardware) I decided I want to try and de-Google my life more.

    I was thinking about using my own domain to send e-mail from, but since I don't run e-mail server myself and I don't even want to - because of security reasons from multiple directions - I would like to use some paid e-mail service provider that would host the e-mail for me and I would append my domain to it.

    I probably know technicalities on how to do that - through setting DNS MX record on my domain provider and pointing it to my e-mail provider. But I don't know which provider to choose.

    I would like to sync my contacts (not through import/export feature via .vcf file, rather automatic synchronization like Google/Microsoft/Apple accounts do), I would like to sync calendar and have the ability to share it with other people (can be another account on the service if not outsiders) and of course e-mail, preferably one that doesn't rely on their own app so I can use ie. Thunderbird.

    I would like to kindly ask anyone here in audience to share their experience with their providers, if you use some. It would be great if you used the service as I would do or if you could try my proposed usage on your account.

    Thank you all who respond to me. I may have questions if you do :-)

    I know about Fastmail which is appealing for not being US (things are kinda unsettling there right now), for having contacts, calendar and plenty space, but isn't exactly cheap - not expensive though. I know about Tuta, which is cheaper for 1-3 accounts but not for 4 and above, it has less space (still enough) but I don't know about contacts there at the moment. I found this Wikipedia comparison page and had a look there, but I would like to hear personal experiences and thoughts.

    37 votes

  14. Comment on Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking in ~tech

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    It looks nice. The price is great, actually. And even with two people, the price is lower than Fastmail, that was mentioned already. I also like them being stationed in Germany, I believe in EU...

    It looks nice. The price is great, actually. And even with two people, the price is lower than Fastmail, that was mentioned already. I also like them being stationed in Germany, I believe in EU laws more than US ones (Fastmail is Australian, I know, but servers are placed in US).

    I do have question, actually. Can you sync contacts between your Tuta and your phone so they show up in your contacts app? Better yet, do they sync automatically? With images, birthdays, mail addresses (geographical, like street and town), multiple phnes and e-mails?

    I ask because when I finally go for it, I want to sync up everything - e-mail, calendar and contacts.

  15. Comment on Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking in ~tech

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    I'm not that much technically advanced in the "how to" as well, but if I understand ut right then: you register domain (and pay for it) you find some e-mail provider (it can even be free one if...

    I'm not that much technically advanced in the "how to" as well, but if I understand ut right then:

    • you register domain (and pay for it)
    • you find some e-mail provider (it can even be free one if you they do this stuff and you are ok with their licence/conditions; to my limited knowledge it can be even Google), in this case say FastMail
    • you find and follow the provider's guide on how to "attach" your domain to their service
    • the above step will probably include going back to where you bought your domain and set up DNS MX record so that incoming e-mail knows that it should go to your e-mail provider

    You can still run your own server in your garage and have it act as ie. webserver or VPN server (to access your home LAN) or whatever and the MX record will still point e-mail to your provider, not to your server.

    I did this once over the phone with one of my not-that-technical friend and we made it work. From thix experience I believe everyone can do it, maybe with a little bit of help from somebody who knows or at least can do technical stuff to some extent.

    I will likely look a bit into FastMail a try it out. I'm not sure I will jump into it, as every such service is a step into unknown - Are they trustworthy? Are they gonna be around 10/years from now?/Can i download all my data from them if I want to stop using them? Are there gonna be problems with sending/receiving e-mails (ie. are they trustworthy for other e-mail providers so that e-mails from their servers won't end in spam)?

    There are many questions to be asked and hopefully replied to (probably by yourself after your own research) before making decisions.

    As I said, I will look into FastMail and probably try it out somehow. Probably with my own domain, if applicable. I can report back after that, but it will take time (dedication). Likely not this year, sorry.

    1 vote

  16. Comment on Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking in ~tech

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    I took the first step already, even though I didn't know it at the time. I installed Immich on my server as I wanted to backup photos from my phone. And I was very surprised to find out that it is...

    I took the first step already, even though I didn't know it at the time. I installed Immich on my server as I wanted to backup photos from my phone. And I was very surprised to find out that it is basically Google Photos but on your own hardware - it does automatic upload to the server which in turn runs machine learning to find people and objects on the photos so you can run search on them. It works great and runs on your own hardware.

    There may be problems with syncing from outside of your LAN and you can't use search when you are not connected to the server, but these are just minor things for me as I run my.own OpenVPN server and can connect via that.

    I'm moving away from Google Photos, that I know for sure. I also want to move from Gmail, that would be the hardest one as I used it for last 20 years and I have it integrated too much. The main problem is that I don't know where to move. I have my own domain and I want to utilize it, but I don't want to self-host this particular service.

    1 vote

  17. Comment on Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking in ~tech

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    I recently bought used Pixel 6a with number one thing in mind - GrapheneOS. And after checking the phone actually physically works I flashed the GrapheneOS on it right away. I'm also deep into...

    I recently bought used Pixel 6a with number one thing in mind - GrapheneOS. And after checking the phone actually physically works I flashed the GrapheneOS on it right away.

    I'm also deep into Google ecosystem, hence why I installed Google Play and through it some Google apps and many other that are available via Play. I also installed F-Droid and where applicable, I run apps from F-Droid.

    The OS itself is just Android as you likely know it. You could try going without Google Play, but you may need your banking app, sync contacts, calendar and whatnot from Google, install that app you paid for etc.

    Until I set up my own calDAV (or whatever) server for my contacts and calendar and until I find some reasonable (even paid) e-mail provider (I have my domain), I won't uninstall all the Google crap.

    Why I went Graphene then? Well, I'm a masochist, I try to do things the harder way... After inial setup (mainly the right permissions for all the Google crap) it runs just fine and I'm not flashing factor original image back into my Pixel 6a.

    5 votes

  18. Comment on November 2025 Backlog Burner: Week 1 Discussion in ~games

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    Wow, it's nice to see original Fallout mentioned! It is very different game to what we are used to now, it plays slow, it doesn't track the prpgress of ypur quests (like if you had a journal to...

    Wow, it's nice to see original Fallout mentioned!

    It is very different game to what we are used to now, it plays slow, it doesn't track the prpgress of ypur quests (like if you had a journal to look into as remainder) and is quite hard and unforgiving.

    It is great game!

    But you have quite a lot of great games in that list.

    4 votes

  19. Comment on Timasomo 2025: Final Updates in ~creative.timasomo

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    Is the showcase also on tuesday/wednesday? I need more time :-D

    Is the showcase also on tuesday/wednesday? I need more time :-D

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  20. Comment on Josef Průša awarded Medal for Merit by president of Czech Republic in ~tech

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    That's just how internet is today. It is sad. At least (thanks to EU I think) we know how many "partners" there are and we can opt-out.

    That's just how internet is today. It is sad. At least (thanks to EU I think) we know how many "partners" there are and we can opt-out.

    2 votes