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Why should I trust 'MrChromebox' firmware? I trust Google more than some rando side project on GitHub.
Correct. Infinite Growth being the north star here, but it's not sustainable indefinitely.
I have some browser profiles for testing out extensions which have broad permissions and I don't really trust them. I don't have them on my main surfing profile for security & privacy reasons. If some of them are malicious, they get very little data.
Only on a rare occasion does surfing with no JS actually hamper my surfing. If a site needs JS, I make a rare exception and whitelist it temporarily with uBlock Origin. I have a dedicated browser profile for sites which require JS and I need to be logged in, like Amazon, Gmail, Reddit, etc
Quick question: in the desktop web app for 1Password I am asked for a 'secret key' (aswell as my master passphrase) and have to manually copy and paste it each time. How do you cope with this?
And marketers. Remember: marketers ruin everything. They early adopt every up-and-coming platform and fill it with grifty posts.
I like the term 'tinkerer' or someone pushing the envelope of different mediums to make them do things in unexpected ways.
My guess is the decisions are deliberately stochastic to stop human bias entering the chat. So we get sketchy apps slipping through the cracks, whilst developers who spent a lot of love and care polishing a fine app getting rejected.
I tried coding on my iPad on a beanbag, but found I was 10x more productive with a workstation with chair, mouse, etc. I think I have bad dexterity. I've seen others happily coding away on beanbags in the office and don't know how they do it.
Attacks against RAM are as old as time. The beauty of RAM is everything gets wiped when you power off, so secrets don't persist.
Abrowser seems to only get updated with each major release of Trisquel, which means people are stuck on an old and potentially vulnerable Firefox (which Abrowser is based on). I much prefer mainline official Firefox which gets frequent updates.
There's opportunities for big and small. AI democratizes itself to everyone, it's very egalitarian and equal opportunity.
If taste is subjective, then why bother forcing your taste on others, trying to convince others to like a certain work-of-art?
It took me years to break out of rigid thought processes and patterns and get out of my comfort zone. If I feel like I'm leaning into rigid thinking, I deliberately break out of that.
That could be anything from learning a new programming language, or trying out a new Linux distro (I have learned a lot just by trying out different distros).
In terms of TODOs, I batch tasks into 'marathons' and 'sprints'. If something is going to need small iterative steps spanning a whole year, then I organize my TODO to suit that. If something needs speed and sprinting, again, I organize my life around that. Too many are doing sprints for what should be a marathon, and doing marathons for what should be sprints.
I think people self-host with their ISP to get away from centralized choke-points such as Cloudflare. Unless you're fine with having Cloudflare have yet-another-datapoint.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought AWS' free tier only lasts a year. Then you have to tear everything down and spawn a new account and re-upload and re-configure everything, which is burdensome?