That’s not the computer doing it, that’s the services you use going out of their way to gather one by combining data which has other legitimate purposes. Not so much being “sent” as it is being “abused”.

Unless we want to count Microsoft’s “advertiser ID”.

Your computer has, on a hardware level, sent unique identifiers to ISPs and websites since Pentium IIIs.

Source?

He feels threatened because people are explicitly threatening him.

Death threats.

Also, basically anything the Trump administration has done.

Not specifically putting bots on Reddit though, based on the headline of that article.

I see the rationale, dead internet theory and all. The problem is that if this happened, I 100% believe Reddit would form a partnership with the US government or oil companies to put bots on their platform and spread misinformation.

You can’t put license conditions on LGPL code. Surprised you got 49 upvotes with nobody explaining that.

The fact you’re being downvoted so heavily, when you’re completely correct, really makes me question the quality of the lemmy “community”. I’m Australian though so it’s not like I have other options.

The word antisemitism has been thrown around so much that it’s lost all meaning, but what you just said, comparing the holocaust to age indication on the internet, is holocaust minimization which is near universally agreed to be antisemitic.

I have two red lines.

• Retaining my personal information.
• Giving it to Peter Thiel.

If I had to give my photo ID to Mullvad to access a VPN, I would do it. I trust they wouldn’t retain it nor give it to Peter Thiel.

Finally a sane take.

To take things further this whole outrage reads as a Karen screaming at a starbucks cashier and threatening to boycott the store because they asked for her name. It’s an overreaction to a minor issue, by someone who overestimate their power, directed at someone who has no real power, while the Palantir surveillance system runs on the cameras behind them.

He’s adding age verification for the internet, not sending people to gas chambers. You really need to touch grass, urgently, because clearly your dependence on the internet is not healthy.

As an open-source volunteer, you work for the community, right?

1. They don’t work for anyone.
2. Even if they did, it sure as hell wouldn’t be for you.
3. Even if they did work for you, they are under no obligation to even think about breaking the law for you.

Any criticism should be directed primarily at the laws, not the person who suggested adding a birthdate field to the user.json.

Open source is dependent on volunteers contributing their time. The developers at SystemD have been receiving death threats over this. This article includes his name, face, workplace. I know that information is publicly available but the Geoguessr experts aren’t the people we need to worry about.

Please stop with the personal attacks on open source maintainers.

Time-limited.

The recent changes to how the digital world operates are not conducive to open operating systems and I imagine this trend will accelerate.

GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone around the world without requiring personal information, identification or an account.

If GrapheneOS devices can’t be sold in a region due to their regulations, so be it.

Is that not a contradiction.

Who in your group didn’t know what charol tablets were and looked them up?

Various criticisms of the browsers you listed:

• Trivalent and Brave have a chromium base, forgivable but putting aside the chromium monopoly there are various issues with that base. It doesn’t let you easily create duplicate bookmarks, has no equivalent of about:config, and pretend I thought of a third thing because just listing two is weird.
• Brave has a built-in AI chatbot that you can’t remove AFAIK.
• Mullvad … probably better to use Noscript and Ublock Origin on Firefox ESR. It’ll get faster security updates that way.

Is this AI generated?

It has an m-dash and uses the phrase “hard facts”.