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  • I actually have really fond memories of Sabayon, the community was really nice. It also served as a good gateway into Gentoo by giving you a pre-configured usable system, including its binary package manager, but also gentoo's emerge (not that you should use both at the same time).

  • How can I protect my privacy when using Google Classroom

    Hello everyone,

    As the title says, I need to use Google Classroom for a class I'm taking with my local school. I didn't get a choice in tooling unfortunately. I have in my private life cut google out, not having used Gmail in over a decade, using Youtube through invidious, OSM instead of Google Maps, etc.

    I'm already planning on using either Firefox multiple account containers or a different dedicated browser for school stuff entirely. Is there any other advice you have to protect my privacy as much as possible?

    I'm in the EU and I know Google is more limited in the data they can collect from educational uses, but obviously I don't trust Google.

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    Fairphone 3 gets 7 years of updates, besting every other Android OEM
  • My last phone I kept for about 5 years. I had two issues:

    • software support had ended
    • the battery was severely degraded

    fortunately there was a local shop who'd replace the battery (it wasn't a fairphone so I couldn't do it myself). If it wasn't for the software support I'd have gone that route and would be still using it now. It worked perfectly well for my use case. Unfortunately, I ended up retiring the phone and getting a new one.

  • Are you replacing Reddit with Lenny?
  • I've found this too. Generally if I'm okay waiting for the answer I'll try and find the relevant lemmy community and ask that question there instead of clicking the reddit links. There are times though I simply need the answer and so of course I do click the reddit link.

    Even so, if we all try and ask the questions we have here Lemmy will eventually be the place you find this information

  • How many people here have actually used XMPP?
  • I used it a lot, not through Google's gchat stuff, I ran my own XMPP server. It worked really well, I used the OTR encryption plugin in pidgeon. My work also used to use xmpp for internal chat within the company, however they switched to matrix like 5-6 years ago. Something I've since done personally too.

    I like XMPP a lot, it worked well, including it being federated.

  • noyb win: First major fine (€ 1 million) for using Google Analytics
    noyb.eu noyb win: First major fine (€ 1 million) for using Google Analytics

    Swedish data protection authority (IMY) issued decisions against four companies and imposed a fine of 12 mio SEK (1 mio Euro) against Tele2 and 300.000 SEK against CDON

    noyb win: First major fine (€ 1 million) for using Google Analytics
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    Shared locations in NeoChat
    www.volkerkrause.eu Shared locations in NeoChat

    With KDE Itinerary gaining the option to share locations via the Matrix protocol, we had to make sure KDE’s own Matrix client NeoChat can actually properly h...

    Shared locations in NeoChat

    KDE Itinerary gained the option to share locations via the Matrix protocol, so making sure NeoChat can actually properly handle this as well.

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    Python @lemmy.ml Pumpkin @sh.itjust.works
    Compiling typed Python
    bernsteinbear.com Compiling typed Python

    With a little effort, you can make your mypy-typed Python go zoom.

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    Privacy Search Engines
  • Just looked it up since I was sure I had read they had their own. On their wikipedia article it says:

    In its early days on the Internet, the Qwant search engine relied on Bing to provide more relevant results. In 2016, Qwant claimed to be increasingly using its own results from its own exploration robots. It is still at the status of hybrid engine.[89] In 2020, Qwant claimed to have exceeded 50% of independent results for web searches, and 70% for all researchs

    so I guess it's both bing and their own thing.

  • nixos @lemmy.ml Pumpkin @sh.itjust.works
    My First Impressions of Nix
    mtlynch.io My First Impressions of Nix

    Nix is a tool for configuring software environments according to source files. I’ve been hearing more and more about Nix on Hacker News and Twitter. The idea of it appeals to me, so I’ve been tinkering with it over the past few weeks. My history with infrastructure as code Ten years ago, I discovere...

    Note: these are not my first impressions, that's just the blog's title. I came across the post and thought it was interesting and you all might too :)

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    Python @lemmy.ml Pumpkin @sh.itjust.works
    How to Create a UTF-16 Surrogate Pair by Hand, with Python
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    Spotify fined € 5 Million for GDPR violation
    noyb.eu Spotify fined € 5 Million for GDPR violation

    Following a noyb complaint and litigation over inactivity, the Swedish Data Protection Authoirty (IMY) has issued a fine of about € 5 million against Spotify.

    Spotify fined € 5 Million for GDPR violation
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    weeklyOSM 672
    weeklyosm.eu weeklyOSM 672

    30/05/2023-05/06/2023 “OpenStreetMap Sandbox” in the NULL Island area. © Moritz Schott, et al (2022) ‘Deleted OSM Elements’ University of Heidelberg [1] | map data © OpenStr…

    weeklyOSM 672
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    Problem with a community on another instance

    I found and subscribed to https://sh.itjust.works/c/sverige@lemmy.helvetet.eu yesterday and when I view it on sh.itjust.works I don't see any posts but on the original instance I'm seeing many posts.

    Does anyone know what's going on there?

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    What distro(s) do you use?
  • I'm a opensuse tumbleweed user on my desktop and laptop. I also have an ubuntu home server.

    I really like tumbleweed, but I have been thinking of switching to an immutable distro like guix or nix. I've tried guix several times and found it pretty good, but never stick with it due to its lack of KDE plasma support. Maybe I should give nix a try.

  • nixos @lemmy.ml Pumpkin @sh.itjust.works
    NixOS as a server OS?

    I used to have a VPS running a traditional OS (CentOS) that I eventually got rid of. One of the reasons I tried to migrate away from it was from the sysadmin perspective, I felt like the server once everything was configured was a bit of a snowflake.

    Obviously configuring everything through nix and being able to easily rollback changes sound very compelling.

    Have folks used nix as a server OS? How's your experience been?

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    What search engine do you use? (and why?)

    I'll go first. I've used a lot of search engines, I used duckduckgo for quite some time but found their search results kinda bad. I'm currently using ecosia the search results are similar to ddg's but at least I'm planting trees, so there's that.

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    SICP in Emacs
    kchousos.github.io SICP in Emacs

    I recently began reading the notorious “Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs”, a.k.a. the Wizard book. I’m only on the first chapter, but I can already see its value and why it gets recommended so much.

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