NFC payments that require my unlocked phone to use are a lot more secure than a physical card that can be stolen.

No access to google pay is a non-starter for me, I use it constantly to pay for lots of things.

Japan has been requiring fingerprints AND photographs for all incoming visitors for the better part of two decades now.

If a foreign national who is required to be fingerprinted and photographed refuses to comply with this requirement, he/she will be denied entry to Japan.

https://www.mm.emb-japan.go.jp/profile/PDF file/newime.pdf

Open Technology Fund

Which is funded by US Congress, and they also funded Signal.

For those do not wish to use privacy-related projects funded by a world government, what is a good (in your opinion) alternative? Both with and without Tor involvement (since US govt funded that too).

licenses are only as useful as your ability to enforce them in court

it’s not really “open source” anymore per OSI, specifically #6: https://opensource.org/osd

He claims to have gotten permission from the contributors… not sure where you heard that they didn’t.

for some reason a lot of emudevs are very hostile to the whole idea of forking. mame also famously hates retroarch for it, as well as inolen from redream and skmp from reicast/nullcast, probably more.

this isn’t even the first project that an emudev has directly relicensed or even shut down their entire emulator for over a retroarch fork, which is usually done in the first place due to maintenance problems with the original emudev.

as others have said, the whole scene just seems to attract the kind of genius that too often steps over that fine line. out of the probably couple dozen emudevs I know, the vast majority have explicitly stated themselves that they suffer from severe mental health issues.

https://retroarchleaks.wordpress.com/

also almost every /vg/emugen thread is full of “danny drama”

technically correct, the best kind of correct

For good privacy (from fingerprinting) it is undoubtedly a bad choice.

I have. You just don’t hang out in the “right” places

Nobody mentioned number of speakers though

I think you answered your own question :)

Alternate plot line for the movie Contact

I’m really surprised servers have not started by default limiting and/or vetting who can federate with them. I know many Lemmy instances block many other instances from federating with them, but only after learning about what a lot of their content is. To me this practice kinda creates a very fragmented “which wind would you like to piss into” problem.

People don’t know about what they don’t hear about

Some people take the initiative to learn things on their own though. I suppose we’re not their target audience however.

It was already on github 10 months and 3 months ago.

Everyone has a different opinion on what that means, some people get really angry when you don’t use their (or some other group’s) explicit definition of the term “open source” that nobody actually owns. If they want it to mean something really specific, they should use a registered trade name with a defined meaning. But that usually implies some kind of capitalism at work, which most FOSS zealots are very much against.

In the end, nobody wins…

I tried OpenSnitch but it would always randomly crash while interacting with the GUI, and it would reset all my tcp connections every time you start it back up.