ReversalHatchery

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

that sounds interesting, but in this idea would those people have to pay for the expenses of the eldely? in my understanding the problem is not that the elderly wouldn't be able to take care for themselves generally, but that they wouldn't be able to pay for things they need or want.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

since this is most likely not a very popular add-on, any browser with it would stand out considerably more relative to not having it.

websites cannot look at the list of your addons. they have to detect the presence of each, which is mostly possible when the addon makes changes to the page content, or replaces browser APIs in certain ways.

Typically its common for browsers that want to reduce fingerprinting (tor, mullvad etc) recommend not installing new addons as then you stand out from crowd.

because if an addon does something that a website can detect, that'll make you stand out

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (6 children)

as I see both fewer and more is bad. more is bad because of overpopulation, but fewer is also bad because of how the pension system works at most places

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

how did you pass through the gpu if it's not visible on that list?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I wanted to ask you how does such an extension make your browser more fingerprintable.

I'm still interested in an answer, but after looking at the code there's a (actually not so) surprising turn: this thing sinply cannot live without remotely loaded google fonts (at addon startup) for some fucking reason.

that technically shouldn't make you more fingerprintable, but the extension makes sure google is notified that you opened your browser.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

ship of theseus

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

They call it a polyfill because it polyfills your disk

nah, but storage is cheap bro, you really should just buy another hard drive! don't even think about going below 4 TB, of course!

/s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I don't have any recommendations, but if you download the table of hardware spreadsheet, you can use libreoffice to filter devices by column. like there's a column with the device type, but be careful (and open in a sense) because the classification is not always right. you may also want to reorder the columns, because the default ordering is not that convenient

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

atomic has had a meaning for a very long time in IT, don't pretend that it's something made up bullshit. with this thinking we could just throw out the word mutable/immutable too, what is it my computer is radioactive and I'll get cancer from it? of course not, because it has a different meaning with computers, and people in the know (not even just professionals because I'm not one) know it.

atomic means that if multiple things would change, they will either change at once, or if the task failed none of it will change.
sometimes these are called transactions, suse calls it transactional updates. but is that any better? now the complaint will be that suse must have transacted away all the money from your bank account!

and distros are obviously not immutable, that's just plainly misleading. we update them, someone does that daily. updating requires it to be mutable, to be modifiable.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

what's the benefit of packaging drivers that way? surely not permission separation

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

thanks for the reminder! recently I keep the warrior down because my amount of ram started to be a bottleneck to me, but certainly manageable when there's urgent need.

why don't they switch the "current project" selection to it, though? It's on telegram now. it would receive more help because that's the automatic choice

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I think I have found something interesting, check my reply to the other reply

 

Recently there was a post where the OP pitched an idea for a service related to this community. I don't want to go into details but the post's text has shown that maybe there's some misunderstanding around the technology, and a considerable amount of us also thought that it's not a good idea.
The post was removed (noticed because I couldn't reply to someone) probably because the OP felt shame for their "failed" idea, but I think we shouldn't delete posts for reasons like this.

The post created an interesting discussion around the idea with useful info. It's useful to have things like these for future reference, for similar discussions in the future.
This is an anonymous forum, so there's no shame in recommending things, when you do that politely like it was done in that case.

 

Introduction of the first Managing Director

 

I have just installed the tmuxinator 3.0.5 ruby gem with gem 3.2.5 and the --user-install parameter, and to my surprise the gem was installed to ~/.gem/ruby/2.7.0/bin/.

Is this a misconfiguration? Will it bite me in the future? I had a quick look at the environment and haven't found a variable that could have done this. Or did I just misunderstand something? I assume that the version of gem goes in tandem with the version of ruby, at least regarding the major version number, but I might be wrong, as I'm not familiar with it.

I have checked the version of gem by running gem --version. This is on a Debian Bullseye based distribution.

 

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If you like it and you are worried, please show it to others.
If you are not the kind to post on forums, adding it to your Bio on Lemmy and other sites, in your messaging app, or in your email/forum signature may also be a way to raise awareness.

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