you can still use a yubikey or even a password manager like keepassxc with passkeys, no need for any google/apple or even secure enclave.

it was always free for me but i think i was early enough of an adopter to be grandfathered in on some old setup

Hello open source dev here (though no very popular projects), even relatively small donations are morale boosts (e.g, $5, $10), which is kind of sad but yeah. If you can’t do that, at least put effort into bug reports and use good manners.

Just because you can’t stop all the leaks in your plumbing doesn’t mean you shouldn’t fix the ones you can.

Unfortunately, its not clear if masks actually stop facial recognition. I think it helps, but not probably not as well as it did before covid.

Yes and no. decentralization is great for a lot of reasons but it does come with downsides. I don’t know about you, but i convinced my family and friends to use and keep Signal for years now and i don’t think i would have had such luck with Matrix/Element, let alone a p2p app.

I’m glad decentralized options exist and think they deserve more funding and love, however.

Two generals problem handled poorly by lemmy. User probably saw an error of some sort when trying to post, but it was actually posting correctly.

Depending on what you’re doing, Local LLM can help a bit. Like if i want a recipe for an apple pie i could use LLaMA-2 to find out even without an internet connection.

Not saying its a replacement for a search engine, i just think its worth mentioning.

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On one hand they are incentivized to not f-over their users. On the other hand, because you need a paid account it wouldn’t be as private as SearXNG-over-Tor or whatever.