(not me downvoting)

I understand the concern with locally made software. However, I’d rather see something open-source come from the US than something closed source come from my own country.

Speaking of Konqueror, what about Falkon? It is the newer option by KDE team, and works on a more modern engine. And, it works on Windows.

Of course I mean pure ungoogled Chromium, without bloat on top.

Not only browser code consists of millions of lines, it is also audited by thousands of people, and, importantly, changes can be highlighted, which doesn’t allow for them to go unnoticed.

Successful mass attacks with OSS typically require much more skill and resources as you need for you malicious code to be written in a way that stays unnoticed (and eventually, rather soon, it will be discovered, with all consequences).

With closed source programs, integrating malicious code is easy, and this code can stay there unnoticed for ages, so they are 100% “trust me bro, I don’t do anything bad”.

So, yes, OSS is more secure.

Firefox is open source, and while it takes some shady practices to fund it (it sure isn’t cheap to run your own damn engine alongside everything on top), I take it as a more tenable compromise. It’s not about free as in beer freedom, it’s about basic security.

You can also have degoogled Chromium which is open-source if you’re into it.

Kinda, but I would like to tailor my experience a bit more than “all or nothing”.

IceCat is directly a GNU project, so it’s highly ideological - which is important and respectable in a way, but then it gets adoption to near-zero because most sites just don’t work out of the box, and to make it work properly means completely removing all safeguards that make IceCat make sense. There’s little in between.

I’d rather have something like LibreWolf, but without phone-home functionality, or at least a switch to turn it off. Out of all Firefox forks I know, only IceCat respects user privacy in this way - 0 connections on startup, and then only connection to actual site and whatever it requires.

Opt-in telemetry (ideally - leveled) and manual bug information sending are totally fine, though.

Nothing in the browser should be proprietary. Any proprietary part is a possibility of malice, and browsers are mission critical.

Huh, I was under the impression the total coal capacity is still growing, not the speed at which new coal plants are built. Thanks for that piece!

Brave? Hard no. Vivaldi? Also no.

Also, where are qutebrowser and Zen?

qutebrowser and IceCat are real top of the game when it comes to privacy. But then, they break some of the sites functionality, especially IceCat who seems to be going under the “if your site doesn’t work, it’s your site’s problem” motto.

ShaggySnacks had a good laugh

True, but the positive dynamics is there.

The country needs a lot of energy, and it does good job making a lot of it renewable/hydro. The coal industry growth is slowing down, while solar roars up

5 years ago, they had one-third of the current solar capacity.

Phishing attacks?

Yep. There was a type of attack that utilized wireless headphone merging as an attack vector. With wired headphones, you can simply turn Bluetooth off.

I know of DACs (been through audiophile phase myself), and sure, a typical integrated mobile one doesn’t deliver THAT big of a quality. Still, wired headphones are not bottlenecking much just by the means of connection. And they are generally cheaper for the same audio quality, because you don’t need to put batteries etc.

Agree with your counterpoints. On the cable - I much prefer detachable options, so you can replace the cable easily. but the connector has to be strong enough - I’m a bit tired to see my Moondrop Chu disconnecting and shaking somewhere in my pocket.

1.Wired headphones deliver better audio quality 2.Wired headphones are harder to lose 3.Wired headphones don’t need batteries, so: a)less e-waste b)no need to check if they are charged 4.Wired headphones are more secure, connection cannot be intercepted and phishing attacks with BT are not possible 5.While wired headphones are plugged, no one can take your phone without you noticing

That one’s fair

That one’s fair

For one, it’s closed source, which is a hard “no” for something that you use to access all sorts of data.

It also claims to take on corporations, while being in private hands itself.

Around Lemmy, your kind is quite rare.

This place naturally accumulates privacy advocates that are indeed bothered by this.

Does it matter that much in the context?

I once purchased a Lenovo A6000 as it’s community supported, but my unit seems to be unsupported revision and I just bricked it so hard on so many levels it’s now impossible to rescue it without directly connecting to the board, which might be more costly than getting another one.

The point here is that in many jurisdictions doing charity exempts you from certain taxes, and it is possible to shuffle money around under the disguise of philanthropy while still getting all the financial benefits like an actual charity

“We do not provide bulk information to any government”

So, only on the most important politicians and nuclear scientists?

I kinda see that they want to cover their asses a bit, but arbitration waivers as a whole should never be legal to begin with.

One should always be able to exercise their legal rights.