Jason2357

joined 2 years ago
[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 hours ago

They literally blew billions of dollars and years of developer time just to screw the companies that won the argument of “open internet or Microsoft protocol” back in the day. Yes, petty.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 hours ago

This. Don’t ever delete the account because someone will scoop it up and impersonate you. Just set auto reply and log out. Check the terms, you may need to log in every 6 months though. Do that a couple of times at least.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 28 points 8 hours ago

Even if you stay on GitHub, definitely mirror to another host. Git is designed to be distributed, why not make use of that capability!

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

Nothing to do with the states definition of safety, but just an excuse to do more surveillance and collect more data.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 days ago

Some Debian installs are used for 10+ years, so makes a lot of sense to do it now.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It walks you through setting up SSH with keys and then git entirely via the command line. Maybe they plan on writing more?

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

They haven’t for a while. It’s just going to get more obvious.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Ah, sorry, my search missed it. Did I also double post? Sorry, still figuring Lemmy out.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

More birds in orbit just hear more and more overlapping signals from the huge ground area they are over, and so share bandwidth. There’s a reason cell towers get lower and lower the more dense the population.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

Yeah, that was it. You could only post so many interesting updates, but a handful of people could “like” stuff all night long.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The move between seeing “your brother in law took the kids to the zoo” to “your brother in law liked this trash article” was such a jarring transition.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 days ago

I made a minimal account just to use Marketplace and then a few months later was permanently locked out of marketplace because some AI decided I was suspicious. It’s not with it.

 

The Canadian government is preparing to give away Canadians’ digital lives—to U.S. police, to the Donald Trump administration, and possibly to foreign spy agencies.

Bill C-2, the so-called Strong Borders Act, is a sprawling surveillance bill with multiple privacy-invasive provisions. But the thrust is clear: it’s a roadmap to aligning Canadian surveillance with U.S. demands…

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