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starman@programming.dev to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

XScreenSaver vs Google

www.jwz.org

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XScreenSaver vs Google

www.jwz.org

starman@programming.dev to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago
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XScreenSaver: Google Store Privacy Policy
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XScreenSaver is a collection of free screen savers for X11, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android.
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  • TecCheck@feddit.de
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    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.

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      That was meeeeeee

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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

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

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    Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never run around and desert you.

    Goddamnit

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

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      Google keeps letting us down, tho

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    Simple. Effective. Unlike Google.

  • T (they/she)@beehaw.org
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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?

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      That got me too… Webp is pretty sick actually

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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/

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      Toward the end it gets way more political and unhinged

      • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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        Common grillman L

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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

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    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

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

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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.

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      It is on f-droid lol

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

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