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EbNaron A ChatGPT Pro subscription costs 38.6 months of income in low-income countries

Luckily, a ChatGPT Pro subscription is not mandatory. It's not like one can't live without it.

"Incognito", on ANY browser, is not meant for that. Is meant to not leave traces on your PC, so your son/daughter/wife/husband can't see you've been watching porn (for instance). You're still tracked by the sites you visit, unless you use some kind of blocker (and, even then, you may still be tracked server-side).

EbNaron Debian switches to 64-bit time for everything

Orbit around... what, exactly?

EbNaron How to Firefox

All of them, I guess. I don't/won't use FF anyway, so...

EbNaron How to Firefox

https://arewefastyet.com/win11/benchmarks/overview?numDays=6...

This is from Mozilla themselves.

EbNaron How to Firefox

> it just doesn’t feel as smooth as Chrome

Because it isn't.

https://arewefastyet.com/win11/benchmarks/overview?numDays=6...

EbNaron Where's Firefox going next?

Pretty much.

EbNaron Where's Firefox going next?

I think you don't understand the difference between an extension (for which manifest version matters) and an intrinsic feature (for which the manifest means nothing). It's either that, or you want to convince people that FF the only way. No, it isn't. Deal with it.

EbNaron Where's Firefox going next?

Ok, now I'm pretty sure you're trolling. Bye.

EbNaron Where's Firefox going next?

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=EbNar#44578751

Besides, using that together with a DNS blocker does a wonderful job, whether you believe it or not.

EbNaron Where's Firefox going next?

There are quite a few Chromium browsers with an inbuilt adblocker. Mine is one of these. My world isn't going to end with UBo.

EbNaron Where's Firefox going next?

I don't need any MV2 extension, so I don't really care.

EbNaron Where's Firefox going next?

Well, I dont see ads in my non-FF browser. Don't know what else I could say. And, to be precise, FF doesn't block anything by itself. It just relies on an the job of unpaid volunteers to block ads.

EbNaron Where's Firefox going next?

There are quite a few browser that don't ever need extensions to block ads. There's thus no reason for me to use Firefox (and I don't want to, until it's managed by Mozilla).

EbNaron Why English doesn't use accents

Italian here... Are you from the south of Italy, by any chance? Because I'm from there and it's exactly how you describe it.

EbNaron LLM code generation may lead to an erosion of trust

I'll surely care that a stranger on the internet judges me about the tools I use kor I don't).

EbNaron WhatsApp introduces ads in its app

I actually love and use Telegram (even if it's slowly enshittifying as well) and most of my IM is done on Telegram. Like it or not, UX is way ahead of Signal.

But I have a bunch of close (to hearth) and very far (geographically) friends who arent techies and who couldn't care less about ads or privacy related stuff. So, Whatsapp is unfortunately still needed.

EbNaron WhatsApp introduces ads in its app

I did. It was something on the like of 1 €/year. I'm usually cheap as fuck, but I'd gladly pay for something useful not to enshittify.

EbNaron WhatsApp introduces ads in its app

I'd literally PAY for a mod taking away the "updates" tab. I don't care about stories nor I want channels shoved in my face. I just need to message someone, from time to time.

EbNaron The History of the Word "Ciao"

As an Italian, I find the origin of the word somewhat amusing.

However, the following excerpt:

<<Although the connotation even among Venetians was more akin to “I’m at your service,” or “holler if you need me,” that old phrase eventually morphed into the word still used in Italian for “slave” – schiavo (pronounced sk|YA|vo).

Because of this history, Italians – even those who aren’t Venetian and can’t speak or understand the Venetian dialect – seem to instinctively know that ciao isn’t an innocuous greeting to be thrown around to anyone you meet. They’ve been brought up thinking it’s incredibly informal – too informal – and not to be used in polite company. You’ll find this to be especially true with older generations.>>

is quite a stretch. I've never experienced anyone be offended by that 4 letter word for the reason mentioned above. Someone may just consider "ciao" (a very informal greeting) a bit rude if coming from someone who they doesn't know very well (in which case, "salve" is more appropriate, being a tiny bit more formal).

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I'm pretty sure praying is the least useful thing to do in your list. Completely useless, I'd say.

If we assume that some decent God exists, (s)he's surely aware of what is going on. What's more, it could entirely be her/his will. I'd be very upset if someone tries to convince me to undo what I have decided to do for reasons only known to me. Thus, praying may actually have the opposite effect.

EbNaron Why not use DNS over HTTPS (DoH)?

It works fine on my end, checked a lot of times with https://dnscheck.tools.

Plus, the last comment on that thread says that "It works fine in incognito or a fresh profile". I suspect that some kind of caching is at play here.

EbNaron Why not use DNS over HTTPS (DoH)?

How is that? It's just a switch, as in any other Chromium browser.

EbNaron Being fat is a trap

Agreed. I lost about 10 kg back to ~60 kg of the teen myself (now I'm 50). It took quite a lot of exercise but that was the easy part. The most difficult part was avoiding eating off hours apart from avoiding alcohol and sugar altogether. Now. Maintenance is surely easier.

On a side note, I keep exercising at least 2-3 hours per week and honestly I feel physically much better than I used to feel in my 30s.

EbNaron Apple Challenges EU Order to Increase Compatibility with Rivals' Products

Just fine them until they comply or they leave. Easy.

EbNaron "We would be less confidential than Google" Proton threatens to quit Switzerland

Why do you say so? Genuinely asking.

I'm not into Proton, as their offer is both too costly for me and overkill for my needs. Still, in which way do you think they're scamming people?

EbNaron The cryptography behind passkeys

By "complexity" I meant that they are "opaque" to me and somewhat not tied to and identity (be it email or username). Maybe it's me being inept, but I used them once or twice just for fun in Bitwarden and now I can't find them anywhere in my vault.

https://community.bitwarden.com/t/special-vault-search-keywo...

Maybe it's just a Bitwarden issue.

The 2FA issue isn't such for me. As I explained in a different comment, 2FA pins are copied automatically and are thus just a "ctrl+v" away.

EbNaron The cryptography behind passkeys

With Bitwarden the 2FA codes are copied automatically to the clipboard, being thus just a "ctrl+v" away.

EbNaron The cryptography behind passkeys

> What I hate much more is sites that don’t have passwords and require you to log in via email every time. It drives me NUTS.

This is crazy and should be outlawed. Honestly, it's so annoying...

EbNaron The cryptography behind passkeys

At the moment, I'm going to avoid them as long as I can. It's not that I don't like the concept, but I think that a strong password + 2FA is already "enough" and I don't need to add complexity to my setup. No, I don't really fear phishing.