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Somewhat related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome

Although impostor syndrome is usually talked about in the context of the workplace, not being a 'foreigner' in another city.

> Firefox, OBS Studio and many applications built with Electron and Flutter take advantage of Wayland automatically, for smoother graphics and better fractional scaling.

I think it's great that Firefox is bundled with Ubuntu, but I have to manually update Firefox each time a new release comes out because the version that's installed is a canonical-controlled version that stays 'stuck' on a old version and doesn't have an auto-update mechanism.

Other than that, I love the OS. I use it as my daily driver since it has a good community around it, and if you're having trouble, there is a good community-powered Q&A site for it.

There's more proposals here:

https://github.com/Crissov/unicode-proposals/issues/

There's a rather whimsical one proposed called the Priest Emoji!

https://github.com/Crissov/unicode-proposals/issues/425

Instead of having proposals, why not just implement every thing/subject/object/symbol we can think of?

Sorry, I skipped that part where you meant the developing world. I'm referring to how I spend my money in the EU. Revolut has all these 'neobank' features of limiting contactless spend, creating a virtual disposable card for e-commerce purchases, and also being able to send money to others, etc.

In layman's terms:

Bitcoin's borderline-fraudulent use of energy will be able to /fix/ the energy that was spent in mining new coins, and the dirty deed can be forgotten.

Except you can't so easily forget damage to the environment!!

> People commonly withdraw thousands of dollars and then disappear from online banking or bank-card use

In fairness, using contactless payments is super convenient and although it leaves a data trail, the sheer convenience of being able to buy a beer without fumbling around in my pockets is great. It's the old privacy versus convenience argument. But then, here in the EU you can compartment your card use with things like Revolut, and you can even secure your card by setting a limit on how much you can spend with contactless (no affiliation with Revolut, I just enjoy their app).

Of course in an ideal world, there would be no such (transparent) data trail and you would pay for everything with Monero, over Tor lol

It took me forever to realize that it's the process, not the outcome that matters. There's a saying: 'Enjoy the journey, not the destination'. Because the destination is fleeting, but the journey takes longer and you should revel in it.

I suffer from what you suffer from It's called Analysis Paralysis[0] or overthinking. You should go all chips in on what sets your soul on fire and focus on that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis

This is a form of blue team hacking, and instead of doing offense, you are doing defense. It's worth remembering how it can all come crumbling down due to bad OPSEC. Read this for more information: https://blogsofwar.com/hacker-opsec-with-the-grugq/

The covert lifestyle can be mentally taxing, and you will make mistakes (if you're not consistently careful). Here's a good quote from that Grugq article:

    As I phrased it in my “The Ten Hack Commandments” — be proactively paranoid, it doesn’t work retroactively.

> PDF forms now support JavaScript

I thought they always required JS to be enabled. I have JS disabled by default in uBlock Origin, and the inbuilt Firefox PDF viewer doesn't work unless I whitelist and enable JS temporarily for the page. Only then can I read my PDF.

I Googled it and I found these two articles that touch on it briefly:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Network-level-DNS-Finger...

https://securitytrails.com/blog/cybersecurity-fingerprinting

Is this the kind of tactic you mean?

> when you can do network level fingerprinting

Which can be addressed with a VPN. By insulating an IP away from other IPs you can stop IP correlation.

Another compelling reason to have JS disabled by default. If you need to browse those sites listed on the page, consider having a dedicated laptop that would have a specific fingerprint separate from the machine you would do most of your daily browsing on, and compartment away those sites that are known to track you across the web.

I actually rarely have to enable JS on pages now. Most JS-only sites can be find in places like https://news.ycombinator.com/show where people showcase JS-only sites / apps. Most are innocuous enough and are not trying to track you though, so I sometimes turn on JS just to test them out. I have a dedicated laptop for Youtube, Reddit etc. I'm well aware that sites like Reddit track you via JS, so I compartment / silo sites like that with a dedicated machine.

> Anything interesting in particular you'd recommend diving into?

Hackernews itself is a nice portal into the indie-web, or the small pocket of indie bloggers and webmasters who share their wild and 'magic' ideas. Yes, HN is mostly geared towards programming and STEM subject matter, but now and then you see sites that are not about that.

You can also get lost in here: https://pinboard.in/recent my favorite rabbithole. If you don't mind the deluge of Twitter bookmarks and borderline-spam on that page, you may just find something 'magic' as you call it.

You can get jaded about anything. The Internet is addictive at first, but quickly everything becomes a trope and you start to see patterns, and it gets boring that way. The dark web however is like the original Internet and it's not some money making exercise (apart from all the Bitcoin scams and darknet drug markets). There's a strange Geocities feel to it.

Now a Samsung Galaxy tablet can be converted to a Netbook by simply adding a keyboard which mounts to the device. The closest thing to a netbook you can buy today is a Chromebook.

> "I'll never make anything again in my life that reaches 70M people" must take a while to sink in.

There's people that have turned single serving sites[0] into a sport and probably enjoy even wilder success than the stuck ship site. There's a tonne of sites like this here: https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/

It's not hard to get something going viral anyway. Just make the topic related to something recent in the news, cobble together some basic HTML, purchase a domain, then get 'influencer' type accounts on Twitter to retweet your link and ask a few journos to write an article about it and you're off.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-serving_site

I would much rather buy a pre-made rig. I tried building my own gaming PC once and was astonished at how much nuance there is to it. You also have to wade through long Youtube tutorials to understand how to do it all too, which I loathe doing. The phrase 'Money buys convenience' is doubly true when it comes to gaming rigs.

> The routine update, it turns out, is no longer so routine

Is there the rare case that we shouldn't update because the update could contain a malicious payload? If the update gets served over plaintext HTTP I would treat it as suspicious and may even block it from connecting at all. I run the risk of having outdated software, but that can be addressed by storing the software in a machine that's not connected to The Internet in any way, so it can't really do anything/talk to a C2 server (if someone does decide to execute an 0day with the software or inject malicious code via a rogue update).

Thanks for pointing that out. But my point still stands!

Does anyone know why the Ultimate version found here: https://zorinos.com/ultimate/ is on version 15 and not the new 16 version? Because I want Zorin to take my money for building such a great OS

> 1. Can I embed images and more specifically can I embed animated GIF files?

This would use a lot of resources and quickly burden Standards Notes' servers. If it means we can't add images and Standard Notes is free because of that, that's a price I'm willing to pay.

> 3. They don't allow any form of account recovery. Which sounds really epic on paper but once you forget your password, you lose all your data.

I actually like this. It's not a misfeature, but a feature. Too often email is a single point of failure and it's how the bulk of account takeover attacks happen. Compromise an email account, and you compromise every account attached to that email. Just don't forget your password to Standard Notes. Can't be hard right?

> If my guess is correct, how the actual fuck is this not illegal?

Because Google has effectively embedded and interwoven itself so tightly into the fabric of the web, that simply having no association with them is impossible. Vint Cerf is their evangelist. The creator of The Internet is an evangelist for Google! Read more:

https://research.google/people/author32412/

> Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He contributes to global policy development and continued spread of the Internet.

They could be back, but maybe in a different form. It will be interesting to see where the energy of WBB will go.

> The Staff & many members are hoping that the Domain name being retained by the owner is a hopeful sign there may be a chance for a http://Warez-BB.org resurrection in the future. But until that day comes best wishes to all of you & we promise to post any good news we may hear

Naval Ravikant has a small post about this here: https://nav.al/kelly-criterion

I first heard about it from him. He summarizes it as follows:

> Naval: The Kelly criterion is a popularized mathematical formulation of a simple concept. The simple concept is: Don’t risk everything. Stay out of jail. Don’t bet everything on one big gamble. Be careful how much you bet each time, so you don’t lose the whole kitty.

Thanks for the share. Great list that.

That's a great site. Thanks for the share.

Someone needs to compile a list of all this fringe tech that I see popping up in my feeds, almost daily now. I know there are techpress blogs that pump out articles like this, but there doesn't seem to be an authoritative compendium of such tech anywhere on the net. I could curate this by hand with 3 hours of free time and some Red Bull I suppose.

The reason I want this is because we seem to be swimming in innovation, but nobody to aggregate and make sense of it all, and `join-the-dots` of all this tech so we can make even bigger leaps with it. Also: A lot of these articles are great, but too quickly shoved into people's bookmarks and forgotten about, without any real action taken on them. Put simply: we are addicted to innovation, but with little action taken on this innovation!!

'Robust' assumes the system doesn't need to bounce back from failure, since it's strong enough. But most systems these days are not so strong that they can deal with anything. We have to resort to hacks and mitigation strategies like snapshotting (in the case of VMs) or using fault tolerant filesystems like ZFS or RAID if you operate a datacenter.

VMs are fine for basic games like Minecraft (that isn't resource intensive). It falls apart when you play anything that is resource intensive. Even if you have, say, 32GB of RAM and a good CPU+Graphics, the fact you have to emulate anything at all means it gets noticeably laggier. You can laud the fact that the GPU gets passed to the VM, but since we are emulating, you will notice that.