Rikj000

I like and been using JetBrains IDEs for years now,
and am/was happily paying for a good product.

However I feel like they’ve been going backwards in the last year or 2,
it feels less premium,
and more like your a paying beta tester,
since lately I deal with bugs in their IDEs too often to my liking.

But this news kinda scares me,
usually if something is free,
then you are the product,
paying with your data.

Which I can see happen to these IDEs now :/
Especially in this day and age where massive data collection by big tech is sadly normalized, and where coding data likely is wanted to be trained upon by AI companies with the current ongoing hype bubble and all.

If that would start to happen to JetBrains products, I fear for enshitiffication in the forms of:

• Losing your privacy
• Leaking company secrets

And further once the AI bubble pops,
which will lead to less demand for data,
since there will be less companies.

That would be an anti-virus… x)

Since it would remove spy-ware from your computer.

Imagine living in China,
where the government is able to request data of each company in their country.

Imagine that China would setup an AI/LLM, to feed all private chat data into it,
and automatically flagging opposition of the government regime.

Imagine a white van appearing in front of your house and disappearing into a concentration camp because you got flagged after expressing your opposition to the government to your mate in a private chat.

All collected data can be abused like that,
or by other means (E.g. a country at war gets hacked, which could lead to leaking critical private information on political/defensive decisions).

To me the question is not if data collected on you will be abused, but rather when will it be abused?

Just having it stored somewhere imposes risks.

Privacy should be a basic human right.
Data collection could be massively abused by oppressive governments.

Not caring about it = Not caring about your rights.

Happily been using it for a few years by now.

The enhanced privacy, extension and about:config support are great features to have.

Sure hope so.

Would be handy if they included a pre-written pdf to oppose this proposition + emails or forms to easily submit your opposition to each of the countries.

Instead it’s a general “contact your government”,
which 99% of normal people do not know how to do, me included.

= AI bubble

Never give up,
each eye you poke out is one less they can use for data collection.

It’s a slow process and they’ll grow more eyes,
but the less they have on you,
the more private you’ll be.

Suyu is the most popular + actively developed afaik.
https://suyu.dev/

They host their code on their own Forgejo instance:
https://git.suyu.dev/explore/repos

Which is more DMCA proof then Github/Gitlab.

I hope ForgeFed will go into production soon,
then we can synchronize the code in between multiple Forgejo instances in a federated fashion.
https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/59

• Forgejo: But ForgeFed, it’s federation software is still under development
• Radicle: But they have unnecessary ties with crypto stuff

There sure is:

• https://f-droid.org/packages/org.telegram.messenger/
• https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS

Hope these will help with opting out for data collection / informing yourself about it:

• https://privacy4cars.com/
• https://vehicleprivacyreport.com/
• https://optoutcode.com/
• https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categories/cars/

Wikiless?
The original project was taken down by Wikipedia, but this appears to be an active fork of it:
https://github.com/Metastem/wikiless

For me the experience has been:

• Stable
• Easy to use
• Enjoyed all the Arch niceness in the meantime.

Which imo makes it a good distro,
idiots would not make a good distro…

Sure the people behind it made some doubtful decisions in the past, but that doesn’t change the fact that using it has been a bliss.

Additionally, it’s all open source,
so if they would ever turn anti-consumer,
it can be forked into another distro.

As I mentioned earlier, stop the distro hate.
I’m not throwing acquisitions against other distros, instead I let people enjoy whatever flavor of Linux they desire…

By now I helped a fair amount of Arch and other distro users through Lemmy / AUR / Issues, and I also learned a fair amount of Arch / Manjaro and other distro users.

Linux is not the enemy here,
not a single flavor…

Why?

It has been my main distro for years now,
and I have only enjoyed the experience.

2 points you’ll likely mention which do not make it a bad distro:

• The certificate of their website expired twice
• If you use AUR packages,
  sometimes you need to wait with an update since they hold back official repo packages for a few weeks to ensure stability, which AUR packages might depend on.

Stop the distro hate,
it divides the Linux community…
Instead we should unify against M$/iFruit,
and let people use whatever distro they like.

Dear politicians,
stop assaulting our rights,
and start fighting for our rights,
unless you’d like to be yeeted out of parliament.

With kind regards,
every aware citizen.

Visit about:profiles I’d guess.

This didn’t happen to me,
likely since I use XBrowserSync:
https://www.xbrowsersync.org/

Correct:
https://hiphish.github.io/blog/2023/10/18/grayjay-is-not-open-source/

For that reason I use Tubular,
a fork of NewPipe which supports SponsorBlock + ReturnYouTubeDislike:
https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular

I am confident in not giving a damn about Winpoop or iFruit and will stick to Linux instead!