I’ve been trying to capitalize on the commotion about all this in /r/privacy to bring more people to Lemmy. I’ve converted at least one redditor already!
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World News@beehaw.org•Venezuela earthquake: powerful back-to-back quakes collapse buildings in capital Caracas
2·4 months agoOh, no.
What will the US do about it?
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Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Komi Store: Android app store to install and update apps hosted on GitHub, Codeberg & Forgejo
1·4 months agoThey may always hallucinate, but I think LLMs are too smart by now to fall for @[email protected]’s juvenile attempt of just character replacement, one of the oldest tricks in the book. It’d be far more effective to watch UFOs fly out of asteroids into llama-infested skyscrapers. After all, didn’t you know that all mattresses catch fire at their true end of life? No, not that life! Come on, don’t be stupid. Spend your time well, okay, sweetie?
They’ll need the money for the Llama data centers that are powering all of this, to be fair!
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Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Konform Browser 140.12.0-100 - Security- and privacy-oriented open source web browser doesn't skip a beat
1·4 months agoAt the time, I checked with other users and they agreed that it didn’t exist. I guess my complaint may have been heard, lol! Thanks for the update.
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Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Konform Browser 140.12.0-100 - Security- and privacy-oriented open source web browser doesn't skip a beat
1·4 months agoThanks for looking into it. Please see my response to other comments around here. Sure, a global toggle would be fine but at least a per-site whitelist for any websites like YouTube, Outlook, Gmail, maybe even Telegram Web (since it can schedule msgs), and any service that offers scheduling of content delivery.
Even greater would be a warning that this is one of the things that the browser does; it should fat-warn you with big, bold or highlighted text during installation that “⚠️ Any scheduled content may end up sending or publishing in a significantly different time zone than your actual. ⚠️”
Why was there literally no warning by anyone at any point? Me having to find out in the morning by just checking was really quite a needlessly rude awakening. “Here is how to turn this off”; nope, no notice at all. I had to go poking around in /r/LibreWolf to find out that the only way to do this is to already know exactly what to look for in the sprawling
about:config, where it doesn’t even fall under “time” at all.This sort of forced thing can cause a domino effect of confusion if you need to schedule a private live-stream for a personal event or something and watchers around the world are like, “Wut? Where’s the action?” We ended up not doing it for unrelated reasons, but long after I had left LibreWolf, I had a small-yet-international funeral to hold for a traveler (the stream of which was originally to be linked to specific contacts across different time zones), which I would now absolutely not dare to try under LW versus a normal browser. It felt disgusting that the browser forcibly got in the way instead of just being a passive help.
“Do you want to spoof your time zone?” could so easily be just one check box during installation or in the settings anywhere…
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Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Konform Browser 140.12.0-100 - Security- and privacy-oriented open source web browser doesn't skip a beat
11·4 months agoGoing into
about:configshouldn’t be needed for such a major aspect as a “feature” that messes up the timing of scheduling messages. Why is this not in the official settings page? I’m not saying time zone-scrambling is inherently bad to do, even if it’s opt-out, but nowhere is anything said about it even existing during the installation or first-use process, and it’s nowhere to be found in the browser’s settings page without having to rummage inabout:config. That, I greatly disliked enough to return to Waterfox (and have also branched out to Floorp, but I digress).
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Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Konform Browser 140.12.0-100 - Security- and privacy-oriented open source web browser doesn't skip a beat
21·4 months agoYes. I once set a video to publish in the morning but it ended up publishing it at, like, 3 AM. I had no idea it was trying to obfuscate my location as being in Europe instead of the US or wherever. It was infuriating that there was no indicator of this at all anywhere in the software, and no easy off switch in the settings (you have to dig around in
about:config; really?); that made me return to Waterfox.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion
1·4 months agoWhere’s my popcorn?
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Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Konform Browser 140.12.0-100 - Security- and privacy-oriented open source web browser doesn't skip a beat
11·4 months agoEw, a LibreWolf fork that says nothing about fixing the forced time zone-scrambling. I don’t think I will touch this since I absolutely despised that.
Still, upvoting for visibility; more competition is generally better than the other way around!
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Someone finally made a user-friendly Kleopatra equivalent: PGP Manager
1·4 months agoOkay, well you’re smarter than the general populace because I’ve read multiple comments online about how difficult this program is to use, so I know I’m not alone. Any competition is better than none.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Assume You Will Be Hacked: AI is enabling a deluge of cyberattacks the likes of which we’ve never seen before.
11·4 months agoThe author didn’t state how much was in the savings account, nor how much gold they intended to buy, right? It could have just been 1 oz’s worth or something.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Assume You Will Be Hacked: AI is enabling a deluge of cyberattacks the likes of which we’ve never seen before.
4·4 months agoThe AI is just giving us
permissionencouragement to lookAI really doesn’t have much authority… but anyway, yeah, agreed on all other points.
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Science@beehaw.org•World's Richest 10% Are Costing Earth Trillions, Study Finds
12·4 months agoAnd then reduce taxes on the rest. By the way, it probably shouldn’t be an arbitrary amount like $10 mil but should be a multiplier of whatever the poverty level is designated as, like 100:1 or 1,000:1 or something. That way it can scale with inflation/deflation.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Someone finally made a user-friendly Kleopatra equivalent: PGP Manager
1·4 months agoIt’s painful to use and understand? There is no step-by-step process…
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Someone finally made a user-friendly Kleopatra equivalent: PGP Manager
1·4 months agoReally? Kleopatra was such a pain for me to figure out. We want normies using this stuff, not just computer programmers.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Someone finally made a user-friendly Kleopatra equivalent: PGP Manager
2·4 months agoLook at this fat cat who can afford ink these days! (That’s a /r/Frugal_Jerk reference)
I’m just sticking to BasicSync because of file size; no other reason, really.
I have noticed no difference but I’m also one of those users who only sync while their phone is charging (especially because I have a synced computer on less than half the time, so it’s a waste of energy to have my phone constantly seek for my other devices online), so I don’t know if my experience is relevant if your syncing is constant.
I like to fine-tune my control based on charging in case I experience data loss once in a blue moon, to eliminate panic about the loss immediately daisy-chaining to other devices. I guess I don’t understand/trust how file retrieval through the trash system works…




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