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Leraje Jul 15, 2023

The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training

https://lemmy.world/post/1520219

The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training - Lemmy.world

From the article: "I know for a fact that Wikipedia operates under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license, which explicitly states that if you’re going to use the data, you must give attribution. As far as search engines go, they can get away with it because linking back to a Wikipedia article on the same page as the search results is considered attribution. But in the case of Brave, not only are they disregarding the license - they’re also charging money for the data and then giving third parties “rights” to that data."

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Xæris Jul 15, 2023

TIL; stay away from Brave.

Not only because of this article, but merely an hour ago I have read also this post (numerous links provided in the post) about the dubious Brendan Eich.

What are some of your favorite Linux FOSS replacements for WIndows software? - Lemmy.world

Hi everyone! So I’ve recently switched to Linux and I’m having a lot of fun downloading software and replacing my old stuff with it. I’m wondering what you all use? My switched softwares: Obsidian -> Logseq - Obsidian is great and all but I think Logseq is also competent in its own way even without plugins. I am currently exploring templates to create my own daily journal/habit tracker like I did in Obsidian. Word/Notepad -> LibreOffice - Seems to have a lot of options. Currently using the writer software for quick notes. Canva -> Inkscape - I am aware that Canva is a website/android app, but I decided to switch from it to Inkscape by utilizing open source illustrations such as Undraw for graphics needs. I still need to look up tutorials on how to use it properly, though! Clip Studio Paint -> Krita - I actually made this switch a month or two ago, but I’m really enjoying Krita a lot more than I ever did Clip Studio Paint. Less things to get distracted by, giving you more chances to learn how to utilize the essentials. Things I’d like to explore in more detail: - Thunderbird as a calendar/email/task software - Whether or not I should stick with Calibre for book management - Kdenlive as a video creating program. I haven’t created videos before, but it seems fun. How about you? What do you enjoy?

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Monologue Jul 15, 2023

i don’t get why people choose to use brave, firefox is great and if you really need that chromium base ungoogled chromium exists

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dngray

ungoogled chromium exists

The reason is they have proper build infrastructure managed by the Brave. With Ungoogled Chromium the binaries are produced by third parties, vary in version etc. People claim they would only use “open source software” but they do download binary versions nevertheless and don’t compile that code themselves. This increases the risk of a supply chain attack, where a malicious binary is submitted and nobody has really knows until it is too late. The other issue is they disable CRLSets because of “google hate” which we think actually increases the likelihood of a MiTM attack occurring because rogue certificates are not detected and invalidated as quickly as they could have been.

This article describes a few other things qua3k.github.io/ungoogled/

GitHub - ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium: Google Chromium, sans integration with Google

Google Chromium, sans integration with Google. Contribute to ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium development by creating an account on GitHub.

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