Balinares

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[–] Balinares@pawb.social 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Thanks -- that's an announcement about policy updates. I already read it and it says nothing about fingerprinting. The only change to underlying technologies it mentions is the use of e.g. trusted execution environments (the doc for which, per a further link, is in fact on github). Those seem to claim that they let announcers run ad campaigns through Google ads while keeping their campaign data provably locked away from Google. So, basically, all these links are about purported "privacy-enhancing" techs, and you'd be forgiven for taking that with an enormous grain of salt, but either way, nothing in there about fingerprinting.

The Guardian article basically paraphrases the Tuta one -- or it's the other way around, maybe -- but does also not provide actual sources.

I just want a source on what fingerprinting Tuta is claiming Google will start using. I feel like the details of the purported fingerprinting techniques should be front and center to this discussion and I'm frustrated that the article entirely fails to provide that info.

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I'm aware of fingerprinting techniques, thank you. The article is claiming that Google will start using some of those and I'm looking for the source for that claim, hopefully with specifics about which techniques are involved. Confusingly, the article does not appear to provide such a source.

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 10 points 5 months ago (6 children)

You'd THINK the article would link to a source about the fingerprinting in question instead of 90% filler slop and ads for their own service... Anyone got a link?

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 7 points 5 months ago

Chat, I don't feel this guy gets it.

(❤️)

(By which I mean, of course you could, same as you could replace any pronoun with one or several nouns, that being the entire deal with pro-nouns. We could but pronouns save us from having to do that.)

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 4 points 5 months ago

Or the Dodgy. I'm partial to that one.

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 15 points 5 months ago (3 children)

My fav neopronoun by far:

Chat.

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 3 points 6 months ago

That, now, is indeed a genuine issue. Trump has stated that his end game is annexation, and experience has shown that when he sounds like he's got a bee in his bonnet about something, however bonkers, he's actually serious about it. So I'm not seeing him stop the aggression on Canada.

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 32 points 6 months ago (2 children)

which I’m sure we did somehow

Trudeau sold him measures that Canada had already voted on. See this post from the end of last year. https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/news/2024/12/the-government-of-canadas-border-plan-significant-investments-to-strengthen-border-security-and-our-immigration-system.html

Trudeau "caved" by giving Trump essentially zilch, apparently assuming -- perhaps not incorrectly -- that Trump would be that easily swindled.

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

UGears! \o/ Love their stuff. The designs are super clever, the models usually gorgeous, and surprisingly inexpensive too.

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 30 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Nope? They (Colombia) got exactly what they wanted as far as In understand. Trump caved, the flights will have to follow the conditions dictated by Colombia. It's telling that the press is selling this as a Trump win.

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

For doing actual music production, yeah, switching to Windows is an option you need to consider, annoyingly.

Reaper is powerful, but getting it set up right can be an adventure. I've had better luck with Bitwig. Bitwig also happens to support Pipewire out of the box. This will relieve you from having to deal with JACK.

If you're going to be dealing with JACK, then you may want to look into Cadence from the KXStudio project. It will help you set up JACK in such a way that, for instance, PulseAudio (if you have not switched to Pipewire yet) will route its output through JACK, allowing you to hear YouTube as expected.

In all cases, I would very much avoid using ALSA directly for sound input/output. (Using it for MIDI is sometimes fine.)

So, in short, I'd start with installing Pipewire and checking out the Bitwig demo, and if that doesn't work for you, install Cadence and use it to manage JACK.

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 17 points 7 months ago

I had missed that. Wild.

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