Is keypassXC problematic?
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"I want to use a web browser that isn't deep-throating AI"
Well, your choices are lynx and that's basically it.
Chrome and by proxy all of its derivatives always make me feel super fucking gross, because the browser wants you to fucking log in to your google or microsoft account. The browser wants you to log in.
What in the goddamn fuck.
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there's no clear-cut "good" choice out there.
everything does seem to come with compromises, tradeoffs, collateral damage.
it's been a rough year or three. much harder to keep optimistic compared to 25+ years ago.
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fellas, I'm gonna level with you. I'm starting to feel like computing in general is a series of trade-offs on how far you're willing to compromise on your morals.
@da_667 Computing is a lot like American politics, always has been. You just hold your nose and pick the least bad of choices and hope it will get better. Then every so often a genuinely good choice comes along and we nitpick it to death.
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Chrome and by proxy all of its derivatives always make me feel super fucking gross, because the browser wants you to fucking log in to your google or microsoft account. The browser wants you to log in.
What in the goddamn fuck.
But then you're like "Firefox sounds okay" and then you see how hard Mozilla is deep-throating AI, and cutting their developer staff, trying desperately to be hip and relevant to shitheads who think hacker news comment section is the equivalent of greek philosophical debate
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But then you're like "Firefox sounds okay" and then you see how hard Mozilla is deep-throating AI, and cutting their developer staff, trying desperately to be hip and relevant to shitheads who think hacker news comment section is the equivalent of greek philosophical debate
and this is just one example. Both of the major choices are there, and each of them is like "Which curse do I want to take to be able to use functional software?"
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everything does seem to come with compromises, tradeoffs, collateral damage.
it's been a rough year or three. much harder to keep optimistic compared to 25+ years ago.
@paul_ipv6 @da_667 i have to assume after every boom you had the previous guard that was fired/purged having similar conversations, im not that naive to think we’re wholly unique
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But then you're like "Firefox sounds okay" and then you see how hard Mozilla is deep-throating AI, and cutting their developer staff, trying desperately to be hip and relevant to shitheads who think hacker news comment section is the equivalent of greek philosophical debate
@da_667 Ancient Greek debates had perverts, drugs, and overconfident white dudes so...
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@da_667 Ancient Greek debates had perverts, drugs, and overconfident white dudes so...
@cR0w fair point
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@cR0w fair point
@cR0w but also, occasionally involved drinking hemlock so, I would really like seeing more techbros doing that.
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@da_667 Goats and potatoes and mountains and trees is the only good choice.
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and this is just one example. Both of the major choices are there, and each of them is like "Which curse do I want to take to be able to use functional software?"
@da_667 opening firefox
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@da_667 opening firefox
@0x00string take 1d6 psionic damage.
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Chrome and by proxy all of its derivatives always make me feel super fucking gross, because the browser wants you to fucking log in to your google or microsoft account. The browser wants you to log in.
What in the goddamn fuck.
@da_667 fun fact, if you log in to a website on chrome using a google login it will sometimes cause the browser to just automatically become logged into your google account without your consent
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@0x00string take 1d6 psionic damage.
@da_667 6
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@cR0w but also, occasionally involved drinking hemlock so, I would really like seeing more techbros doing that.
@da_667 I have a fucking hemlock story but the cops got involved so it's not for online.
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and this is just one example. Both of the major choices are there, and each of them is like "Which curse do I want to take to be able to use functional software?"
Use linux. Accept the curse of the automatroid: most major distros are accepting AI commits. Accept that systemd has been a cancer for a very long time.
Use macOS. Accept the curse of the Walled garden: You may run only what we tell you to run, when we tell you to run it. The rules change with every major OS update. You will accept them or you will go elsewhere.
Use Windows. Accept the curse of the hunted: You are being watched. You cannot slip your pursuer, you cannot obfuscate yourself. Even if you think you've hidden yourself, because of how convoluted Windows is, you can't really be 100% sure that you are not being watched. And even if you aren't you won't know whether or not a critical update re-enables the watcher in the walls.
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Use linux. Accept the curse of the automatroid: most major distros are accepting AI commits. Accept that systemd has been a cancer for a very long time.
Use macOS. Accept the curse of the Walled garden: You may run only what we tell you to run, when we tell you to run it. The rules change with every major OS update. You will accept them or you will go elsewhere.
Use Windows. Accept the curse of the hunted: You are being watched. You cannot slip your pursuer, you cannot obfuscate yourself. Even if you think you've hidden yourself, because of how convoluted Windows is, you can't really be 100% sure that you are not being watched. And even if you aren't you won't know whether or not a critical update re-enables the watcher in the walls.
@da_667 Use BSD. Never be heard from again.
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@da_667 Use BSD. Never be heard from again.
@cR0w Use BSD. Accept the curse of "The Burden of Knowledge." BSD just works. Except when it doesn't. And when it doesn't just work, its because you aren't good enough to run BSD. There are no tutorials. There are no blog posts. There is no guidance, aside from an IRC channel where the entire channel is idle. forever.
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@cR0w Use BSD. Accept the curse of "The Burden of Knowledge." BSD just works. Except when it doesn't. And when it doesn't just work, its because you aren't good enough to run BSD. There are no tutorials. There are no blog posts. There is no guidance, aside from an IRC channel where the entire channel is idle. forever.
@cR0w Your curse is trial and error.
