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  • To be honest, even this seems like a step in the right direction, as they’re direct and transparent about exactly what they use. Sure, it should be normal, and those toggle popups with a “Reject All” that does not cover everything (usually strategically leaving “legitimate interest” be) should rot in bankrupcy after a fine. Without large and sure fines, it’s the cost of doing (profitable) business.

    Hopefully, eYou will see the good aspects of not using invasive tracking tech, especially america-based black boxes.



  • Even if you do put healthcare on the hands of for-profit, it could work, what with the high demand and hospitals being big players, meaning they have scale, a big prerequisite for lowering price.

    At least for the “common” ailments.

    That being said, there’s no competition, the only true capitalist prerequisite for capitalism working.

    So basically, capitalist healthcare could work, but US healthcare is basically as late-stage as capitalism could get, so alas - no.




  • Tbh, “company policy” are magical words.

    I assume if something illegal gets labeled as “Company Policy” (even though it isn’t), the company should immediately be held accountable regardless - so terrible managers don’t get to throw those two words around as a magic shield to protect themselves from employees being cognitively indisonant, unlike their perfect selves.



  • It isn’t.

    All of us were laymen at one point.

    I still am, for one.

    What I see big apps do is treat users (both power, regular and new ones) as idiots, ruining the experience for everyone. Users should be treated reasonavly as reasonable people. This means giving them the options and opportunity to become power users, as opposed to saying “yeah, that’ll never fly with them” and then you’re the one to shoot all of them down preemptively.

    Violentmonkey is simple enough to install as an add-on, and clicking “Get a Script” requires no coding background.

    So yeah. Impossible for utter idiots.

    Which users are not.

    They’re reasonable people like you and me, and giving them the opportunity to know about Violentmonkey and what it does should be more enough for them to use.


  • Discover itself doesn’t care about security - it’s the underlying package manager(s) that do.

    Flatpak is perfectly safe IMO, as are the built-in repositories.

    Both Flatpak reviewers and Debian maintaniers do their due diligence when auditing the software they distribute.

    When using distros/repos which are less FOSS purist (such as Ubuntu), you could run primarily into privacy issues. When using smaller ones, the risk of a backdoor or voulnerability is a bit larger, as less eyes are on the code.

    That being said, the only way to be immune to untargeted cyberattacks is to be offline, which isn’t reasonable in this day and age. As long as you stick to your distro’s repo and Flatpak you should be perfectly fine, save for the “normal” voulnerability or two that unfortunately slip through every now and then. You could think of this as a kind of digital “herd immunity”.

    As long as you don’t add repos willy-nilly but think about who you trust, you should be fine.

    So yeah - you can assume Flatpaks and the Debian repos are safe. They have good security policies about adding stuff in and do do their due dilligence. Though, this might change in the future, alrhough it doesn’t seem likely. But for now - you’ll be fine.

    The only real risk is if a backdoor like the recent one in xz-utils does slip through the cracks, but then you’ll be one of millions of affected machines which, while not mitigating the vulnerabilities per se will at least mean the problem will get fixed sooner once it does get found.








  • What will likely happen is that if you try to log into your Facebook account you will get a message that says “Your Operating System is not currently supported. Your user experience will be limited to Groups labeled “Everyone”.”

    That’s basically it. Your personal user experience will be limited to “kid friendly” areas of the Internet. (Same with apps and games.)

    Well, that makes no sense because that means that using an unvetted machine is more beneficial for groomers and predators than a vetted one. Meaning they’ll be incentivized to use that, instead of some perfect system where they’d be easily trackable and held accountable.