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    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/21851456

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    [–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Where can I get the privacy nightmare AI application for Linux? I want it to take screenshots of my computer (in case I want to search it), never really use it, but store the data on my PC unencrypted, thus able to be hacked.

    [–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

    I wonder if they'll add this to WSL...

    [–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Someone made that, sort of. Unfortunately, the privacy nightmare is slightly reduced compared to the original one.

    https://github.com/openrecall/openrecall

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

    The security nightmare is reduced by a lot, thanks to Linux being a lot more safe system. Of course the occasional very old security issues get found, but those are only old if some swifty hacker found out and didn't disclose it publicly, or had to wait for years to be solved.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

    I tried it to do some research recalls, like set it up for doing very specific things and I found it filled my hard drive pretty fast with screenshots. It's probably a good idea if you can turn it on and off like this one and be careful, but it likely still needs polishing. That was when it was first out.

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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    If this was actually an open source app with strong privacy settings that you could opt into it might be useful.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    When I first heard of the MS feature, my first thought was that there's gotta be a more efficient way to do this than taking screen shots and analyzing the image. The window manager has all of that information plus more context (like knowing that these pixels are part of a non-standard window that uses transparency to act like a non-rectangular shape, while this thing that looks like a window is actually an image because the user was looking at someone else's screenshot).

    Even better would be integration with the applications themselves; they have even more contextual information than the window manager has.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

    If it required waiting for apps to provide this integration you would be waiting 10 years for it to mature. There would logically be some benefit to looking at the window before compositing + saving text from none visible windows and avoiding recapturing content which hadn't changed.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

    Backups are important, especially passwords stored on images which is leagues more secure than plain text

    [–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Distro: "Ubuntu with Bing"

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    I downloaded free cracked linux version, plz help me how to disable this watermark.

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Jesus, people, IF YOU LIKE A PIECE OF SOFTWARE, JUST BUY IT!

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    [–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    I can get you a Mint CD key for 15€ or Arch for 2€. DM me.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

    I get you a LFS one for free, I even pay a camera team do document your process of liberation

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

    bro careful especially if you're in EU, the CEO of the Linux company himself warned they will go after and bring people into court for using pirated copies

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

    You have to go to settings and activate linux

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    You just have to add „All hail Tux“ to the end of every comment and it should go away in 2-3 business days

    Tap for spoilerAll hail Tux

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

    I heard if you say "Tux" three times while staring into a mirror your daily driver turns up dual booted.

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    [–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago

    Just Red Hat things

    [–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)
    [–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

    I love that it's also got build instructions for Windows and macOS

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

    I totally need to manually add that Fedora repo, layer it, reboot just to see if it works on KDE Wayland

    Exciting!

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Time to activate Linux with sketchy activation scripts

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    Linux_activation_keygen_v0.1.2.4.exe

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    The good old 2000s when you could host and successfully distribute any virus disguised as something popular by slapping a _full, _HD or .rar/zip (or any combination) at the end of the file name.

    I used to look up lard bread and there was a hit for lard bread_full.rar on the first page.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

    I didn't know what lard bread is, so I looked it up.

    I discovered it was bread with prosciutto baked in. I thought it sounded unappealing.

    Then I thought of "making bacon pancakes" and thought I should open my mind.

    edit: added a missing word.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    So the thing is, English is not my first language and I used the wrong word. I guess it's more like greasy bread. Just plain pig fat spread on a slice of bread. But what you just described actually sounds awesome.

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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

    it took three days but i finally got it on kazaa

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Just a one-liner as root, and you're done.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Root account unavailable, you have not activated the premium account for this Linux installation, please activate by purchasing it for a $5 monthly subscription

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Oh it's subscription based, ok. I have a flash drive for that. Helps me erase the OS and put a whole new one in.

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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

    Don't worry, Linux doesn't even mind at this point. ;)

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    [–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Shout out to my buddy who has been using an un-activated copy of Win10 for over 5 years despite being called out anytime he shares his screen.

    And yes we told him how to but "It doesn't bother him"

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    You mean, you told him the free and easy github script?

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Ah yes, the Red Hat experience!

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Without RedHat, we wouldnt have Linux in the US governments, no SELinux, no Android security.

    I think there is worse than companies selling Linux

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    I generally agree with you, but wasn't SELinux primarily the NSA and Tresys? I know it's a primarily Red Hat thing now, but I think it would have existed in some form without them.

    It is entirely possible I'm misinformed.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    It was made by the NSA to secure the already existing RHEL systems. Without RHEL there wouldnt be SELinux, I guess.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

    Fair enough.

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