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  • How am I supposed to judge that? How are you? Closed source software released by an evil company can't be trusted, full stop. If you choose to offer it limited trust, that's on you and you should understand the limitations of that trust if that's what you plan on doing.

    You might have better luck blocking it at the network level. The downside of that is, depending on what is being sent over the network and why, it may no longer work. If you have to punch holes in it for server access, for example, now you no longer have any guarantee that the server port will not start collecting and sending telemetry that way. You also have no guarantee any server you connect to isn't also gathering and sending telemetry if it has network access to that port.

    This is a slippery slope into a bottomless pit. Either cling to the side of it at your own peril, or give up and leap into the void. If you accept them getting some telemetry on you and you're happy just sandboxing it as much as you can, reducing the potential value of the telemetry as much a you can, and making it as difficult for them as possible, that's one thing. Go ahead and mod it with mods like this, put whatever limits you want on it, and hope they hold up over the long term against an evil corporation with billions of dollars to burn should they feel like it. You're counting on the fact that they won't feel like it, and that's probably fine.

    Just understand what you're up against. There's no silver bullet for killing this monster. If you don't want any telemetry, that's what open source and trustworthy privacy-respecting maintainers are for. Minecraft has neither. If you're going to make a deal with the devil, you can do your best to make sure it's a good deal, but they're probably not going to follow it anyway.

  • So we're getting it from all the drug dealers we're killing? Great! Is there a polymarket bet for how long it will be before I can buy the gold extracted from the fillings of people dying in the concentration camps? I'm so happy to be living in the time of the Fourth Reich. /s

  • To ensure zero telemetry? Luanti, unless you need actual Microsoft Minecraft for something. Remember that it's a Microsoft product. "zero telemetry" is both difficult, temporary, and never absolutely guaranteed. You can probably easily block most of it and foil their most egregious data gathering practices, but you can never be completely sure. It will be a constant effort to avoid Microsoft's relentless and creative methods for enshittification. Reduced, minimal telemetry is possible and if you've got specific requirements that's fine, but then you're pinned to that version and configuration permanently. Zero telemetry Minecraft is like walking around with a loaded gun, it may never go off, but it's a lot more likely than if you weren't carrying a loaded gun.

  • Wholeheartedly agreed.

  • It's supposed to be progressive in the sense that it (sort of) supports people better than is typical, but it's also a nanny state where the supports and protections they offer are more about taking your freedom away than actual support and genuine progress. And vice versa, the conservative libertarian ideologies that are available on the other side of the ballot, emphasize personal freedoms but they are actually more about the rich getting richer while using personal freedoms as window dressing to distract you from the fact that they are making everyone else so much poorer that you won't have the money to access those freedoms anyway.

    Neither side is genuinely progressive. They just wear their freedom and generosity like superhero capes and then use them like a matador does to distract the charging bull of public opinion and make you blame the cape for it while they poke even more sharp things into your sides.

    Meanwhile we are bleeding to death.

  • So enlighten me then, save me from my terrible hack that is working fine for me and tell me what it DOES have to do with. I thought S3 was a remote filesystem you can use, essentially Amazon's proprietary version of webdav where you get a http bucket you can only access with aws proprietary tools. What's the attraction? Clearly it seems like people love it, and I am getting dunked on for asking an honest question, which feels a bit unhealthy and unpleasant for the self-hosting community.

    Am I supposed to be familiar with AWS infrastructure as a prerequisite for being here?

  • If this comes true, it's because nobody will be watching movies at all anymore, because all aspects of them will be terrible AI slop by that point.

  • Many if not most humans love working. Just not working on things they don't care about for people they don't care about, because by definition they don't care about them. Working is the word we use for things you have to be paid to work on. Hobbies are the word we use for things you are willing to pay for privilege of being able to work on. If people didn't need to work to survive, eat food, and have somewhere to live, they would mostly be working on hobbies.

  • Yes that's exactly what he said, all the worst of humanity. (partial sarcasm. maybe.)

  • S3 compatibility is nice I guess if you need S3 compatibility but also... why would you need that?

    sshfs does everything I need and compatibility is almost native.

  • It can't? Why not? Lots of other cities do. Granted, Athens could probably do it differently, or better, and that's their call. If they want less tourism, that's certainly their right to decide. But tourism is also pretty damn lucrative, and for a country like Greece that last I heard was still pretty cash-strapped, cracking down on tourism seems like an odd choice.

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    Are websites like Character.ai useless when bots based on copyrighted characters are banned?

    Jump
  • No, you will just be able to talk to Mlario, the legally-distinct sicilian plumber who fights tortoises instead. /s

  • i took over monochrome on December 17th, 2025. at that time, monochrome was sent to hiatus by edideaur, but i loved monochrome and i was looking for a real, full-fledged app as i was still learning web development at the time.

    me & the other devs have been extremely tired & burnt out from monochrome for months now.

    well that escalated quickly.

    to the people who have donated: your support to monochrome and us personally is so much more appreciated then you can ever imagine. you helped monochrome stay alive for when it needed expenses, and you helped us personally when we urgently needed the money (rent these days…). i genuinely hope you make your money back 100x, to anyone who donated

    wat? how are donators supposed to make their money back? this sound super sketchy.

  • The bull will have to be proud from the afterlife, since killing them is the whole point of the performance. But you're right, he absolutely should be proud, good aim. And since he's taken down the supposed "finest bullfighter ever", we can recognize and remember this bull as the now undisputed champion of bullfighting, and the actual finest bullfighter ever. Let him be an inspiration to all future bulls fighting in this deplorable sport. Even though the bulls never win, I will celebrate their efforts to make as many humans lose as possible.

  • And now it will also be used for state-sponsored holocaust against innocents presumed guilty of unspecified and unverified crimes. It's multi-purpose!

  • Damn dude, you don’t have to get so defensive.

    Wow, I guess I could say the same to you, huh? I'm not going to bother trying to explain the myriad ways you've misread and misunderstood my comment, go ahead and keep believing whatever it is you're believing right now, it doesn't bother me a bit.

  • Who says we need or are entitled to a decentralized replacement for the modern internet? Communication can be accomplished with much less, and necessity is the mother of invention. We managed to communicate quite effectively by having computers intermittently screeching at each other through a phone line for several decades. This discussion is about the modern internet being cut off while they try to identify and root out persecuted populations and dissidents against the regime. Nobody said it was going to be fun and you will still be able to freely watch all the youtube your bored brain can handle while streaming video games on another screen. If that's your expectation, you might as well go sign up for the brownshirts right now.

  • He's also talked publicly about sprinkling people he disagrees with (financial analysts IIRC) with fentanyl and urine from drones.

    He's sick in the head. Absolutely unhinged.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world

    Federated 3d printing design hub like Thingiverse?

  • Build a PC @lemmy.ca

    Recommend me a high end case (mid/full tower) with practical features, no tempered glass and minimal decoration