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on Framawork Data Breach · c/framework · 3 pts · 29d

Metabase isn't AI, here Business Intelligence means BI tools, basically things that query a lot of data to get fancy charts, mostly for managers and bean counters.

Like sales over time, or support requests by country.

Last time I checked the Snap Store was proprietary. While you could modify the Snap client, you can't host your own store and you're at the whims of Canonical for which apps you can get.

Meanwhile, both the Flatpak client and server are open, and you could (and some distros do) host your own repo. For example, Fedora has its own repo for Fedora-packaged Flatpak apps alongside Flathub.

on Ironic · c/politicalmemes · 2 pts · 145d

Maybe a very minor amount. I feel like the Vance supporters overlap with the diehard Orbán supporters anyways, so whoever Vance could have swayed didn't need to be swayed.

The only thing it could have contributed to is our records turnout.

on Ironic · c/politicalmemes · 43 pts · 146d

While he definitely didn't help Orbán, I wouldn't give him this much credit. News have been crazy over here last week, including stories, like 3 whistleblowers confirming that the intelligence agency was used to try to secure the victory by leaking data from the then opposition (now victorious) party. To me (as a Hungarian) that's a far bigger story than the pathetic dipshit flying over.

That's true. I think the only political (if we can call it that) heritage of the Turkish occupation is that the Turkish generally think of Hungarians as friends, probably since it's a celebrated part of their history.

As for the Soviet era, I'm confident it still has its effects. Of course, it didn't help economically, but also, I think that's where our rampant corruption stems from (in most Soviet countries corruption was the norm, and I think it became normalised somewhat, as in "oh yeah, they are corrupt, but that's nothing compared to what we had before!").

I think our dependance on Russian gas also started back then (but I don't have the receipts for that).

Also, there are plenty of people who look at the Soviet era through rose-tinted glasses and romanticise the past. I have relatives that have the attitude of "yes, but if you didn't rebel, you could have a stable job and live an honest life; nowadays you have to worry about so much", which doesn't make sense.

Also out of those 7 countries, Slovenia, Slovakia and Hungary were not under Russian or Turkish influence.

Where did you get that from?

As a Hungarian, I can easily tell you that that's not the case. Hungary was under Turkish rule for more than 100 years between 1526-1699. It has left deep marks on both our language and culture (sometimes good ones, like having a lot of Turkish bathhouses, but mostly just set us back quite some years).

As for Russia, Hungary was a Soviet puppet state between 1944-1989. We have a national holiday on October 23 that is a remembrance day for a failed revolution against the Soviet Union, that was shot down in a bloodbath. The current ruling party started as one of the anti-Russian parties, Orbán (our current president) literally held a speech where he was chanting "Ruszkik haza!" ("Russians go home!")... It's unfortunate that he has completely flipped since then and is now welcoming Russian influence back.

I can only assume something similar for our neighbours, but I'm happy to look it up for you.

EDIT: Also, before anyone says it, I'm not contesting that the countries in the list were under Austrian (or Austro-Hungarian) rule too. The lines are messy with whose side of the story you're reading, but as for Hungary the easy way to summarise it from the Turkish invasion is:

  • Turkish rule
  • Gets liberated by the Habsburgs, leading to
  • Austrian rule
  • Revolution, leading to getting some representation (sadly, just Hungary, not the other countries in the empire), leading to
  • Austria-Hungary, leading to
  • WW1
  • Loads of failed governments, the great depression hits hard, leading to
  • WW2, leading to
  • Soviet occupation, leading to
  • Failed revolutions
  • Soviet Union falls, leading to
  • Independent Hungarian republic, heavy anti-Russian sentiment, leading to
  • Hungary tries to warm up to western powers, leading to
  • Hungary joins the EU
  • And now, with corruption and foreign influence going strong worldwide, Russian influence is rising again
on *Permanently Deleted* · c/technology · 32 pts · 305d

Holy shit, this article is garbage... the base premise that Play Services can access anything is true, but so many bad claims.

Google Play Services is a system app on phones that ship with Google services, and is the case on the author's phone too, since he could only disable the app, not delete it. System apps can still be updated separately from the system, if their signature matches the updated version's signature.

Also, I don't think they dedicate enough time to describe just how much data Google gets through your device, like how it logs your location for Google Maps' business popular times indicators and traffic metrics, or how they use all of your data to give you hyper-targeted advertising.

As for microG, it also runs with elevated permissions on most custom ROMs, and for some features (eg. integrity checks) it downloads & runs Google-made programs (eg. DroidGuard) with strong privileges. DivestOS (now discontinued) used to run microG in a sandbox.

There are ways to run Play Services as a normal app if the custom ROM has a compatibility layer for it, like GrapheneOS, where you can selectively enable permissions for Play Services. Of course, if you refuse some permissions, some features will break (eg. refuse SMS/call access and RCS will break), but it's a mostly usable situation.

If I were you, I'd wait until Aug 20, when the new Pixels get announched; they might have one with 512GB and you should be able to install GrapheneOS a bit after launch.

No one is using Cursor for the IDE feel; Cursor is just a VSCode without MS language servers and with extra AI. It's an objectively worse experience to use Cursor over VSCode, except if you vibe code.

Strange that google is the only option for the only "secure" operating system.

The have their reasons: https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices

Hey, do you know what is Ring Level minus One ?

I know you're only trolling here and I'm feeding into it, but you nerd sniped me just right to explain why your question is stupid on multiple fronts.

First of all, "Ring -1" is the hypervisor, at least on virtualization-capable devices (which modern Pixels are), and the hypervisor will be Linux's KVM in this case, which is open source and compiled by the Graphene team as part of the kernel from source.

Secondly, Arm (which is the architecture basically all phone chips use, including Pixels) has a slightly different model of security, where apps are Exception Level 0, the OS is EL1, the hypervisor is EL2, and the "secure monitor" (or management firmware) is EL3 (and is probably what you were trying to refer to).

So yeah, I don't think you know what "Ring -1" is. At least not enough to warrant a snarky comment.

On Pixel 8 and above, you can plug in external displays, but it will only mirror your phone screen. Supposedly, Android 16 will allow you to "extend" the screen, ie. treat it as a separate screen. Also, the GUI stuff for the Linux Terminal will only drop in Android 16, so yeah, I'm stoked for that release.