Nope, I’m looking for a reason to keep using it when I hate closed-source software! It’s the exact opposite!

US Corporations that receive secret court orders are required by law to violate their privacy policies. A US-based privacy policy and closed source software doesn’t really tell anyone much if the government is sliding into authoritarianism. There are lots of queries in LM Studio and small packages that get updated and data is sent and received during that, there is no proof that data about the user is not sent if the data is encrypted. That is the core of my stupid question: is the data to their servers encrypted?

Thank you! That’s what I’m saying. I don’t have the technical skill to check this out myself. Should I just delete LM Studio for now? It’s such a great program, but I think it may not be worth the risk.

Students that graduates with a liberal arts degree from an anti-speech state like Florida should be viewed as having the equivalent of a high school education.

Unless someone intends to stay in-state and thinks some mark of stupidity will help them with other stupid people, why not transfer at this point? What a waste of time and money for impacted students.

What’s next? Will the white trash jesus states demand Biblically correct flat earth astronomy textbooks and pass poorly written laws demanding that too?

Australia is always the testing ground for what they do later. Austalians will accept almost any horrible surveillance, so if they beta test there and Austalians won’t comply, they slow the roll out.

I don’t care if there is a package called gnome-age-verification distributed in my linux distro and would prefer it if it means fewer sites with facial biometric tests. If I have concerns about the age verification, then I should be able to type:

sudo dnf remove gnome-age-verification

California probably wants it in linux distros so that linux can’t be a justification for big tech still demanding Orwellian stuff in every website (ie “but what about the children who use linux? we need to protect them with Persona too!”)

But where would it stop? The hell version of this would be kernel-level-approved-AI-agent-checks, with an OS required to have an approved AI agent with a validated third party key that reports to the government with required telemetry and the kernel makes sure the OS won’t run without the approved AI and then makes illegal any scripts for unapproved kernel code modification. And post-Tornado cash, we know code is unfortunately not protected US speech.

Are there are any worthy online newspapers specifically investigating this?

So use plausible.io. There are alternatives and there’s no excuse for this level of tech ignorance unless the non-profit is actively willing to fuck over potential users who don’t end up using the product.

Aren’t there analytics like plausible.io (i do not work for them or have any financial connection) that won’t sell financial data of interested users to data brokers?

Your Socratic questioning has led me to realize the futility of it all.

I edited this in response to your post. You are completely right!

i want to be your friend. can i run away to canada and do canadian thing with you? i’m not sure what people do in canada… but i want to learn…

the people who vote facist light may be perfectly willing to vote harder left if the overton window were shifted… but it’s not shifting… because of many many assholes… and since there are so many assholes, why have sympathy without context?

why should that person be having empathy for some conservative pos who voted to defund healthcare specifically so he could vote against LGBT rights and against women’s rights? this guy could be a cool dude, but he may not be. I need not have sympathy for my enemies.

No, it absolutely does matter. I am tired of these “we owned the libs” idiots giving each other high fives when a transwoman can’t compete in swimming and then suddenly crying bitter tears after they have no healthcare coverage.

Completely terrifying. Is anyone, like immigration activists, following up on this? Or is everyone just sort of shrugging and moving on?

How is it possible that 1300+ people have disappeared and there’s not more awareness? Are the news channels not covering it or investigating it?

There are a lot of Windows viruses and I’m not sure of the default permissions for wine and how much wine puts things in a container. Would it be easy for a Windows virus to escape WINE?

Why do you think it’s a psyop?

Some of this is vague. Is there a reason you aren’t sharing the name of the DLL or the software involved? I can’t tell if you downloaded a program that was infected and used the program in WINE or if you are saying WINE itself was infected.

Is this an account that’s an alt account and you’re normally a poster or are you a lurker? It’s really unusual to have only 1 post on lemmy.

If this is real, can you please post the name of the DLL? I am also surprised you aren’t spending more time trying to get your data back. Unless they wiped it many times, data is often recoverable, and sometimes even if it’s wiped several times. That’s what I’d be prioritizing getting back. Do you not have any other backups of your files anywhere?