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submitted 2 weeks ago by corvus@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21430107

I'm having trouble to find a bluetooth dongle at least 3.0 that needs no propietary firmware. It's easy to find dongles advertised as linux compatible or users that claim that an specific brand works fine in linux, but the problem is that many of them are using propietary firmware without their users being aware because their distributions have already installed propietary drivers or firmwares, or ask users to install them and they just do it. I use debian main repository (without non-free software) in which I failed to make work a couple of linux compatible advertised dongles because debian ask me to install a propietary firmware. So if anyone knows for certain that some brand that needs no such a software in linux I'll apreciate your help.

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submitted 2 weeks ago by corvus@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I'm having trouble to find a bluetooth dongle at least 3.0 that needs no propietary firmware. It's easy to find dongles advertised as linux compatible or users that claim that an specific brand works fine in linux, but the problem is that many of them are using propietary firmware without their users being aware because their distributions have already installed propietary drivers or firmwares, or ask users to install them and they just do it. I use debian main repository (without non-free software) in which I failed to make work a couple of linux compatible advertised dongles because debian ask me to install a propietary firmware. So if anyone knows for certain that some brand that needs no such a software in linux I'll apreciate your help.

[-] corvus@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 months ago

No daily anxiety at all, just being aware of the dangers. When I drive and see a red light I just stop, there is no anxiety involved, I'm just aware of the dangers of crossing. If you are not aware of the dangers of the excessive digital exposure and surveillance you should subscribe to this community and read what's going on in China and in an increasing number of western countries in relation to this.

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submitted 2 months ago by corvus@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

During the past few years I was avoiding the increasing number of products or services that required biometric verification, specially face recognition (FR). But the things are getting harder are harder in my country:

  • The largest e-commerce platform in latin america and the most used in my country requires FR to use it. It was possible to use cash if you buy from its website but since a couple of weeks it's requesting me to identify using it's app.
  • The telecoms demands FR from now on if you want a new SIM card in case you lost your phone or it's been stolen.
  • The bank is now pressing me to use their app with FR as a 2fa when using homebanking from its website, something that wasn't necessary up to some weeks ago.
  • The government is in the same direction as it's moving to digitalizing many burocratic procedures and also requires FR.

and the list is increasing quickly.

I've never used any private social networks and I've degoogled many years ago, the only non free software that I use is Whatsapp because in some countries in latin america is almost imposible not to use it, you need it even to call to the car towing service.

Anybody that is well informed knows the dangers of allowing such an amount of private information now tied to our face be available for hackers now equiped with AI, but frankly it seems a lost cause to fight against something that 99.9% of people dont worry about and give consent to do so to corporations (that sell all your data to whoever wants it) and governments (who use it as a tool of control).

I don't know, may be I'm also worring to much and it's not that serious, after all if tens of millions of people do the same the chances of being targeted by hackers is not different of being robbed in the street (at least in latin america) and with the obiquitous surveillance cameras plus the almost unavoidable need of a phone, the government probably know exactly where you are and how you look, so the information may be already available. Perhaps it's time to give up and adapt to the world we now live in.

[-] corvus@lemmy.ml 39 points 2 months ago

How many years until they run out of characters?

[-] corvus@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago

Debian is the first choice if you look for stability and the last choice if you are looking for the latest versions of the software.

[-] corvus@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago

"If a word it's regularly used by a certain amount of people..."

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[-] corvus@lemmy.ml 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's about time it's also the title of one of the best introductory books on relativity by David Mermin. Specially for those who aren't good at math but want to understand it beyond popular science books.

[-] corvus@lemmy.ml 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yes, It is MRI... Man Roughly Incinerated.

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[-] corvus@lemmy.ml 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It refers to the ability to locate the source of a sound. It supposes that the localization is achieved only by the difference of the time of arrival of the sound to both ears. That's why the curve is a hyperbola, which is the set of points which distances to the foci (ears) have the same difference, so you couldn't differentiate which of all the points in the hyperbola is the actual source (confusion). But this is too simplistic, the auditory system is much more sophisticated and the source can be localized by other means.

Sound Localization

[-] corvus@lemmy.ml 32 points 8 months ago

It's totally doable because they are real people.

[-] corvus@lemmy.ml 49 points 8 months ago

Unbeatable running multiple threads

[-] corvus@lemmy.ml 12 points 9 months ago

Amazing but more usual that one might think, it's the same anger you can see in people that identity themselves with some other fictions like religion, nationalism, football teams, ideology, race, etc. When watching a movie you kind of temporarily turn off your disbelief to experience joy, sadness, anxiety etc but when the movie is over the healthy behavior is the recognition that everything was an acting. But with the fictions that I just described somehow the disbelief is never turned on, the critical thinking is canceled.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by corvus@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

A cool software for degooglers that makes a little noise every time your computer sends a packet to a tracker or Google service.

EDIT: There is also a Firefox add-on for web browsing.

[-] corvus@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The coins are on the blockchain, what you save in a wallet are the keys to access them.

Contrary to the common believe you don't need a hardware wallet to keep your keys safe, what you really need is a air gapped or cold storage and you can achieve this in many ways. I found that one of the best ways to do it is grabbing an old phone and following this guide

https://medium.com/@fbonomi/a-bitcoin-cold-wallet-based-on-qr-codes-e8c130b3181f

Tldr: install the wallet and never connect the phone to the internet again and use QR codes to sign transactions using the camera. Super practical, cheap, truly air gapped and doesn't attract attention like a hardware wallet. Additionally I would disable the wallet app when you don't use it, so the wallet will not be visible in case someone else grabs the phone (you can do this by installing the app as a system app using adb). And don't forget to save the seeds of the wallet in safe place and always use fully FOSS wallets like electrum.

[-] corvus@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

You should try lemmy, it's almost everything what you describe you are missing. Jokes aside, I think that what you refer is mainstream internet, which like music is usually shitty if it's mainstream, to find the good stuff you have to take your time to dig deeper. Internet is an incredible tool and it's being used both to enslave and to free people.

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submitted 1 year ago by corvus@lemmy.ml to c/documentaries@lemmy.ml

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2075327

Another good DW documentary showing us that the catastrophe is already upon us and it's just the begining.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by corvus@lemmy.ml to c/collapse@lemmy.ml

Another good DW documentary showing us that the catastrophe is already upon us and it's just the begining.

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