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/e/ OS does a little trolling and sends all your Text to Voice data to OpenAI for processing and Speech generation. (community.e.foundation)

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First of all, to anyone downvoting my Comments about /e/ being a piece of shit, because...

they advertise themselves as degoogled, but instead let you connect to Google/Microsoft/etc services
replace all the propriatery not at all Secure Services from Google, with.... Drumroll please.... Propriatery and not at all Secure Services from themselves and actively encourage it.
They are For-profit
and being MORE out of date then even Fairphones stock roms.

... I told you so. Dm your Instance admin, pay them to send the DB entries of your Downvotes on a Thumb drive (or anything else from SSD to 3.5 inchHDD, depending on your preferences), and shove it up your rectum.

But a TL;DR:

/E/ is not Private. They just switch one bad comany to another one.

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[-] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 7 points 1 month ago

Remember the Github dev who got blocked by Microsoft

It's funny, I do remember the story, but I can't find it across multiple search engines (obviously Bing are going to block it so DDG can't find it, but I also tried startpage, searx, ecosia as well)

Can you point me to any links or give me a few more search terms to help finding it ?

[-] pirat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm not the one you replied to, but my preferred searx instance lead me to this article on medium as the top result when searching for "github dev blocked banned". It's about a case from 2020. Could it be that one?

[-] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 6 points 1 month ago

Good find although not the article I was thinking OP was referring to. It was more recent, within the last 12 months I think.

My best recollection was that the person had a hotmail or outlook account which was suddenly terminated following criticism of microsoft (possibly their failure to address a security issue). That account was their login/access path to a high profile foss tool. I don't think the tool itself got taken down in this case.

Not sure how accurate the above is, it's my vague recollection.

[-] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

fyi startpage and ecosia also use bing results, although ecosia is working on their own index.

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