Security that is impossible to defeat is literally logically impossible

try to not go deaf by 40 after suppressor bans challenge [impossible]

don’t let the US military know that you don’t like desert camos. they’ll get real mad

i installed nobara and while everything was simple to set up, the nobara installer doesn’t recognize the ssd i flashed it on. going great

HDDs are your best option for long-term storage. Every storage mechanism fails eventually but HDDs are convenient, last long, and have excellent data recovery.

Okay then, I’ll ask you this. What can you demonstrate that you have prevented extremely large corporations or the government from doing with your information by replacing some of your services with “privacy-focused” services? Do you really think that, say, the NSA and Amazon don’t know you better than you know yourself regardless of your efforts? What do you think is prevented by using some isolated services while you still, no doubt, have most of your data being collected and used by other things?

Could you prove that your life would be any different if, for example, every single piece of information Meta has about you that you don’t know they have were wiped off of their servers? Or that anyone here’s life would be different?

The only thing I could imagine you could demonstrate is that targetted ads could be “worse”. Which is a non-answer, many peoples’ ads are completely inaccurate regardless, and ads aren’t such a good metric to base the government’s or Nvidia’s or whoever’s access to your data off of.

Fact of the matter is is that, unless you’re mega-Amish, your efforts to prevent powerful entities from collecting your data are meaningless, they don’t work well, and without strong privacy laws it will forever be that way unless everyone suddenly agrees to only use FOSS user-friendly products and all the ISPs are replaced by good guys. I guess some people here have spent thousands of dollars and hours in an attempt to keep their privacy in their own hands in spite of that, so they have to convince themselves it does work… I don’t blame them, government corruption & corporatism has made me desparate before too.

Much of the obsession internet people have over ““privacy”” is just a feel-good-about-themselves thing, rather than actually protecting themselves from their data being collected and used. If you’re posting on the internet, yes that includes Lemmy, there’s almost no doubt that any government and world-destroying corporation would have easy access to everything about you in an instant, even if you go out of your way to try to use services “focused on privacy”. You aren’t protecting yourself from anything by not using Google/Microsoft/etc. products.

There is no “chipping away bit-by-bit” when it comes to this, it’s pretty much meaningless unless you’re nearly completely off the grid, to the point where you don’t even use modern technology. The worst you’re gonna do otherwise is fuck up targetted ads, but that’s not very hard to do considering Google apparently thought I was a pregnant woman looking for leather boots and beauty products when I still had ads on YouTube.

I wish people would admit it’s really not about their privacy. Say it’s because FOSS services are better (because they are), say it’s so you don’t get spam from shitty sites you gave your email to, say it’s so you can fit in in your niche online communities, whatever. But 99.99% of people in “privacy” communities haven’t even put a dent in the data being collected from them by large entities, hell most people in these communities think VPNs will protect them from anything at all other than their parents or boss not noticing them being on porn sites (VPNs can help with privacy, but only under specific conditions that most people aren’t meeting)…

other ““french”” species are inferior and don’t deserve mention

That and the software the hardware uses itself is proprietary

Larger file size means significantly larger cost when you’re working with lots of data… especially when transferring data over the internet

Ye AFAIK Slovenian is considered a very different language by most and Macedonian is significantly more grammatically similar to Bulgarian. I’m not very sure about Macedonian tho.

A majority of linguists consider Serbocroatian to be one language, there are many distinct dialects (with different countries having different standards). The writing system is irrelevant, the writing system isn’t the language (this can be seen in Mongolian, Tibetan, Hindustani, Persian, Kazakh, previously Azerbaijani, and contemporary Chinese languages as well). Also you can write Serbian in Latin script (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Serbian)

They are no less mutually intelligible than what are considered different dialects of other languages. In fact as someone who can read Russian & Polish I can understand a good amount of written Serbocroatian with trouble (it’s a lot harder than reading something like Ukrainian due to linguistic distance), it’s significantly closer between Serbian & Croatian varieties. Often people on media/politics pretend not to understand the other though due to mutual hatred from nationalism.

I would like to spend a lot of time on the language one day, I haven’t done much besides read some from grammar books on it. I like it a lot.

i can’t tell if this is serbocroatian or slovenian or something else but i’m too afraid to ask

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