Always more we need to stop believing that humans are intelligent.

(Worse that there don’t exist any front-end viable for Facebook/Meta)

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Yes, there are several privacy-focused alternative TikTok frontends:

ProxiTok is the main open-source alternative frontend for TikTok^[1]. It allows you to:

• Watch TikTok videos without connecting to TikTok servers
• Create following lists to track specific users
• Access RSS feeds for users and trending content
• Browse without ads or tracking

StickTock is another privacy frontend that lets you watch TikTok content by replacing “tiktok.com” with “sticktock.com” in any video URL^[2]. It offers both clearnet and Tor onion addresses.

Offtiktok provides similar functionality by adding “off” before “tiktok” in URLs^[3]. It includes a minimalist feed for watching recommended videos without ads or geo-restrictions.

All these frontends are:

• Free and open-source
• Self-hostable
• Privacy-focused (requests go through their servers instead of directly to TikTok)
• Ad-free

I use still a two finger keyboard.

Replacing batteries in waterproof Phones isn’t a great challenge by an tech service. Repairable don’t necessarly mean DIY for the user. Most repair in phones need anyway an tech service. iPhone store certainly don’t repat it, the want to sell a new Phone, but this don’t mean that a tech service isn’t capable to do it, there are infinite examples of repaired iPhones (changing a broken scree, battery, plugs and more). The only problem is to obtain replacement pieces from the brand, but this is what the EU will force, that the brand also sell this pieces, which Apple not always do.

Not a Hoax, but pretty shamefull for M$ to fall in this scam.

Scammed the scammer 🤣

But brain matter can create electric impulses. A similar developement was to connect brain cells with chips.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/11/1084926/human-brain-cells-chip-organoid-speech-recognition/

I don’t know, maybe they think it’s fake, I also thought it first, but it isn’t, but somewhat creepy, I contrasted it in several sources. Anyway there are always people here in Lemmy which downvote everything, because of this I don’t give a fuck on downvotes.

Certainly also nazis upload their trash there, same as in all other platforms, seen include in Mastodon instances, also in YT. That cant be avoided in public accesible platformas.

The best alternatives for creators to obtain revenue are Bandcamp and Odysee, they have an fair business modell. Certainly when YT said selfhosting is harmfull, it’s only for their business modell, but if creators create their own pages with their work, it’s not really a solution, it will be interesting only for direct fans.

The main reason of humanoid robots isn’t that the people think that it is a person, it’s because our environment is made for humans and because of this the design to best fit in this environment with several different tasks. The little bot in the article never be apable to wash your dishes, climb stairs or serve you an beer from the fridge. Robots made for one specific task, certainly can have a design specific for it, there isn’t needed an humanoid design.

https://humanoidroboticstechnology.com/articles/the-ultimate-generalist-why-humanoid-robots-make-sense/

The Windows 11 UI is terrible, but you can fix it with Windhawk (FOSS)

My W11 24H2 Desktop and Startmenu

It’s not so easy to answer if piracy is ethical, depends of the context. It’s not the same soft from a shady company and from a small dev team or startup. Anyway, due to the overhelming amount of free alternatives, piracy in most of the cases isn’t necessary. I’m using an PC since almost 30 years now and never had the need to piracy an soft or pay for it. There are tons of free and OpenSource soft and services out ther, often better as the commercial ones, giveaway campaigns in games (Steam, Itch.io, DigiPen and others are full of good free games) and soft, free music (Bandcamp, Pixelfed, FMA,), etc. only needs to search a little.

I remember times where the charge of the Phone battery last more than a week

I don’t know what scares me more, that the AI itself blackmail to avoid desconnection or it is trained to do it.

Mastodon (Lemmy, Raddle (sometimes)) is what I use, I mentioned MeWe as better alternative to BS, because it exists since many years ago, it is private, doble encryption and decentralized, without scandals and rare things (nowadays). Ad free, it makes money with premium features, like collaboration tools and video chats.

What about MeWe? Also decentralized

https://citizenside.com/technology/what-is-mewe-and-how-is-it-different/

It was a matter of time until BS (I prefer to use this abbreviation) reveals its true face, tragically after it permits the connection with instances in the Fediverse. It must be blocked immediately from Mastodon and others.

Nice, that means in the future only browsing with webcam on and ID card possible.

Compatibility says nothing, eveb Kinux distros not always compatible with each other. Android is an (not so heavy) modified distro, but in it’s stock version full of Google APIs and tracking crap. Android as such is FOSS and forkeable, in rooted phones it can be changed to de.googled Android and also to some dedicated Linux distros (Ubuntu, Linage and some others).