• @[email protected]
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    294 months ago

    I like the Portal reference

    Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never offer you advice, as it cannot talk. In the event that XScreenSaver does talk, we ask you to ignore it’s advice. As we do with Google.

  • Lung
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    That’s so fucking funny, dude really hates Google. XScreenSaver was released in 1992 fyi, and was once considered the pride and joy of Linux, being way cooler than other OS screensavers, and had a big community of ppl trying to make new trippy ones

    • @[email protected]
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      74 months ago

      I was surprised to learn recently that people are still making new screen savers for it.

  • DuckGuy
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    104 months ago

    The last bullet point might be the most impactful. Google should know the rules by now.

    • I Cast Fist
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      Google keeps letting us down, tho

  • T (they/she)
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    inb4 jwz blocks access to his website from Lemmy

    Edit: Jokes aside:

    Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never try to make WebP a thing.

    Is WebP bad? If so, why?

      • I Cast Fist
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        It’s created and backed by Google, so that’s no doubt Jamie’s main beef.

        Also, when it first came out, most OSs didn’t have native support, so saving a webp locally, you could only open it via a browser, or you installed a non native image viewer, not unlike jpegs and gifs during Windows 95

        Side note, I personally use nomacs as my default image viewer in Win10 - https://nomacs.org/

      • T (they/she)
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        I don’t disagree with him in many aspects but I also think he’s a hypocrite in many aspects so…It just led me to stop caring about whatever he does/says

  • @[email protected]
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    44 months ago

    Whoaa I never expected to so see Xscreensaver mentioned in the privacy community. I’ve been enjoying the penrose screensaver for about five years now.

    *Spends the next thirty minutes looking at all the screensavers

  • @[email protected]
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    34 months ago

    I don’t fully trust any app, and yet I think that this trend on privacy policy in app stores is pointless.

    I just want to see (and tune) the sandbox options. Like, can I block this app from sending certain information to servers?

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    -44 months ago

    They could just publish on F-droid. However, this person is seemingly unhinged.

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        14 months ago

        I meant only F-droid. I can’t imagine Xscreensaver being that popular.

    • Gravitywell
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      It is on f-droid too. This isnt being “unhinged” its just calling out google for their hypocrisy and pointless "privacy” policies and citing lots of examples.