I'd rather not fall for the false dichotomy at all, and instead have the algorithm ensure that I won't end up in any sort of hole whatsoever, by choice or otherwise.
When I first heard of it I thought it was some kind of a joke on the current state of desktop software, and a rather tasteless one at that. Then it was recommended to me where I was studying...
I will very quickly stop using a given website if it doesn't provide a good, on-site search. If I'm looking for information that I know exists on a particular website, I see no reason to involve a third-party search engine in the equation at all.
Granted, a lot of sites out there that provide a search function do not necessarily need one, and would instead benefit from an organized, hierarchial index. With these types of websites, using the search function only adds unnecessary friction.
I've always been under the impression that -03, -0fast and related "performance" tweaks are not recommended, and shouldn't be used unless the software in question is specifically written with them in mind.
I think it's sad whenever I see people that are very proud of just how tech illiterate they are and just how little they understand computers. It's like teenagers who brag about how badly they scored on on their exam. In many aspects it's the same exact situation, change for the better wouldn't require much work, and this sort of behaviour only discourages others from even trying.
>If the binary is allowed to run as superuser by sudo, it does not drop the elevated privileges and may be used to access the file system, escalate or maintain privileged access.
Wat. If you add someone to wheel, they may abuse those privileges. Is this really something that needs pointing out?
There are many other useful tidbits that you may not necessarily know but this one struck me as a bit odd.
"Banana republic" implies more than what the dictionary definition is. If you look at the wealth distribution in any example "banana republic", you'll find a few very wealthy people/warlords and many dirt poor with close to nothing in between
I applaud for having the balls to post zerohedge here. I only skim the headlines most of the time but now and again, they post a really good article with in-depth information if you have the patience to see past the heavily opinionated commentary. If you're into finance and can handle it, it should be on your reading list. Variety is the spice of life.
I have never had problems with sleep because of blue light from my monitors, nor can I say wether or not it's "dangerous," but in my experience it definitely does cause temporary eye strain. In a dark room, using a blue light filter makes a world's difference when it comes to how "dry" my eyes feel, how much I need to squint, and the eventually developing head ache. Granted my methods for testing this aren't very scientific, but it does help me, even if it doesn't make a difference in the long run.
Only tangentially related, I know, but I see google maps quite differently.
First and foremost I want to admit that I have no good comeback to the public transport schedules, that is a good feature.
But regarding mapping and navigation, google maps does not treat you like a human being. It's essentially a catalogue of advertisements, much like google search. It's optimized to guide you to the "nearest pizza place" or what have you, and at least in my area, if you're not looking for a vaguely defined place to spend money and already know your destination you're screwed, quite ironically. Everyone I've talked to around here struggles with it and has developed the strangest procedures to trick gmaps into showing the route they want to see.
I personally use OpenStreetMap and it works very reliably, admittedly after I reconstructed some roads and added some labels to places I visit. Luckily there are many active editors around here, so even when I'm going to visit a new area 99% of the time I get where I want without issue.
The author, as I see it based entirely on this one article, likely wasn't trying to "hurt their business," unless (lol) their business is unhealthy addiction. Building on your example, imagine your store was of the liquor variety, and someone placed a flier for the local AA meeting on the bulletin board. I doubt you would remove it.
This same old comment seems to show up in these threads like clockwork. Surely no one in this world is truly obligated to do anything at all, but kicking out users based on vague reasoning detriments their value as a social network.
I wouldn't use the word nihilism. I'm quite the deep-eco hardliner and in the brightest future I can realisticially dream of, power isn't reliably available to anyone anywhere they wish. Reducing energy consumption is key, not just how it's produced.
The least discussed, biggest elephant in the room, holiest of all cows in the environmental discourse are the lifestyle changes required. Everyone's all green, unless it personally impacts my daily life in any perceivable way whatsoever.
I don't want to make any wild guesses, but something about this particular whistleblower case makes my spidey-sense tingle. Something is amiss. I suppose time will tell.
That is a part of it. Some organizations were better than others, but for certain publications/channels, it felt like their sole purpose was to coax the american public into endorsing another war, using whatever rationalizations necessary.
As a non-american, my picture of the american media started shattering with the Iraq war, and especially the events preceding it. It's only been down-hill since then.
It's sad to see Mozilla go down this road, one time after another.
I don't mind it if they need the money (they don't, look into their finances and come tell me with a straight face that this non-profit isn't making the ends meet), it's comparable to default search engine placement and search suggestions, can be turned off etc.
What I have a problem with is the dark-pattern-esque language, like "relevant suggestions" and "trusted partners." I'm used to seeing that kind of messaging from the FAANG boogeymen, not Mozilla who's supposed to be the last fortress of the open internet. After years of conditioning it very strongly implies untrustworthiness to me, makes me immediately suspicious of some nefarious scheme.
I would vote with my feet but there are no options left, any other choice would mean betraying my values even further. I am being held hostage.
Bit off-topic maybe but regarding tab unloading, I have established a pretty solid workflow that lets me keep my thousands of tabs ready at hand, while not bogging down my entire system and keeping me focused on whatever is relevant at the moment.
I use the Sidebery addon for Firefox, set auto-fold to off and unload folded tabs to on. When I'm working on something, I keep all the branches that I need open, and when I'm done with that particular topic, I fold the branch, the tabs get unloaded, and I have a pretty list of squished branches that I can expand and get back to if I so wish. And if I'm really done with one, I can easily bookmark it and put it do "deep storage." It took 15 years of using Firefox but I finally have a tab management system that I'm happy with.
Words can not express the relief it is to see a completely new web browser rendering engine being developed. It's heartbreaking that it's proprietary, my initial wish was that they'd open up after it matured a bit. Still hopeful though, the browser landscape needs diversity and preferably in the form of something that isn't carrying 3 decades worth of baggage.
Invidious is awesome, I use it for all of my youtube guilty-pleasure needs. I really wanted to help with the project when the original developer gave up and development stalled a little bit, but crystal is kind of an esoteric choice, while interesting in it's own right. Syntax looks simple enough but I didn't really "get" all the features and tooling based on the documentation available. I guess it doesn't help that messing with youtube is rather complicated when you can't use the API.
I'm interested in the SSH test, but I use a non-standard port for SSH. I've been lead to believe this is a common practice, is there an option hidden somewhere? From what I can tell it just automatically tries 22 and fails.
In my experience, Nix and Guix are nice toys, but I'm just not ready for the kind of lifestyle change they require to actually use them for anything. For me, "pinning" a package to a specific version means not downloading and building a newer version.
We also have something like this in my home country, but I don't think it really abstracts away "emotion", nor that it even could in theory. The questionnaires are obviously written by someone, projected through the lens of the respective views and, well, emotions. Also many "hot topics" in politics are by their nature very emotionally loaded. People are emotional creatures and in a lot of situations think more with their heart than their head, and while that quality is often vulnerable to exploitation especially in politics, I don't think trying to deny it does anything good at all.
These tools are rather handy for extracting actual opinions from candidates though, which they usually are pretty successful in hiding among all the PR-esque claptrap that they spew out in speech and writing.
In my experience of +15 years of hosting my own email server, being successful at delivering and receiving mail is a matter of luck rather than knowledge or correctness of execution. Obviously you have to configure DMARC and such or there will be nothing but trouble, but even if you do every little thing by the book, or alternatively use one of these kitchen-sink solutions, there's still a good chance you will have problems sooner or later. Bad IP, bad IP range, changing IP, bad domain/registrar (!?!?!) or some kind of weird automated flagging system can and often will get in your way, and gmail/outlook will not reply to your support ticket or investigate the matter at all whatsoever. Look forward to changing VPS providers and domains until it works, and then stick to that setup like your life depended on it.
Privateinternetaccess was the first VPN service I ever purchased, out of necessity when the internet piracy scene first began showing signs of the predatory mess it is today. They happened to sponsor/fund some things in my sphere of interest and were relatively reputable between my circle of acquaintances. But I am sure if you've been paying attention, you know how that ended.
Since then I have been a customer of Mullvad's and honestly, no affiliation, they're on another level entirely. Being able to pay in cash and have an account with zero information attached to it brings a peace of mind, even though it's totally unnecessary, at least in my humble use case. Being able to use wireguard directly with no weird app in between fits my needs perfectly as well, goodbye borderline-unsupported custom OpenVPN configurations. This is how an online "service" business should be run imo. My only fear is that they'll meet the same end as PIA at some point, or get themselves into trouble with data-hungry law enforcement.