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by foresto 1y ago
> I think you may be overlooking some nuance related to that extension vs my solution though. Extensions like that check every page you visit whereas my approach only checks on click so there is a much greater need for privacy solutions
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by foresto 1y ago
That sends every page you check to Algolia's API, which is what jstrieb's extension is designed to avoid.
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by foresto 1y ago
Xfce was my long-term desktop until recently. I loved that it was lightweight, clean, and generally well thought-out. It has become more memory-hungry since then, losing some of its early advantage. And with the move to Gtk 3, it has adopte
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by foresto 1y ago
> KDE has a ton of bugs that I don't like, I have yet to use a desktop environment that doesn't come with annoying bugs. KDE offers so much utility and gets in my way so little, though, that fixing a couple of bugs myself has b
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by foresto 1y ago
Is it possible that you installed a non-stock task switcher (which handles Alt+Tab) back when you were using Debian 12, and it's not compatible with Plasma 6? That happened to me. The fix was simply to replace my old alternative task s
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by foresto 1y ago
Another echo here. Xfce was my beloved desktop until Gtk 3 started transforming it with design elements that hate me. Plasma is my new home, and after some tweaks, I'm pretty happy with it.
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by foresto 1y ago
I suspect overlooked and stalled pull requests are common in open-source. A small one of mine (to a popular project that is not KDE or GNOME) recently took half a year, and most of that time was spent waiting for reviewers and bikeshedding
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by foresto 1y ago
They also look like a gripper widget: a small square that can be dragged around in order to move the item on which it appears, commonly used for for positioning toolbars or re-ordering list items. Because of this, they have added a bit of c
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by foresto 1y ago
About five years ago. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin... https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin.
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by foresto 1y ago
Obligatory Tom Scott video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
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by foresto 1y ago
Consider that all those CAPTCHAs are fingerprinting your browser anyway, and probably also your biometrics (through your inputs while solving each CAPTCHA).
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by foresto 1y ago
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Radio_Service
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by foresto 1y ago
Sidney Schaefer, is that you?
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by foresto 1y ago
A little history... During development, asyncio was called tulip. A quick search turns up this talk by Guido: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aurOB4qYuFM I seem to recall that Guido was in touch with the author of Twisted a
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by foresto 1y ago
You say paranoid, I say sensible. My browsers are configured almost the same way. (I'm fine with temporarily enabling cookies, but scripts are unwelcome.) Anubis has become an annoying denial-of-service layer in front of sites that I w
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by foresto 1y ago
That copy is missing the chapters. Here they are: 00:00:00 - The NVIDIA AI GPU Black Market 00:06:06 - WE NEED YOUR HELP 00:07:41 - A BIG ADVENTURE 00:10:10 - Ignored by the US 00:11:46 - BACKGROUND: Why They're Banned 00:16:04 - TIMEL
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by foresto 1y ago
After a recent upgrade, I've been pondering how to spot test optimizations on my workstation, which is now much faster than the average target system. (Keeping a slow computer around and continually moving my code to it would be effect
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by foresto 1y ago
Or: Deterring some casual cheaters is not worth having my whole system pwned by employees of a game publisher and whomever else figures out how to exploit their code. Obviously, our personal priorities differ. That's fine, but yours do
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by foresto 1y ago
And it gets circumvented anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwzIq04vd0M It seems to me that kernel-level anti-cheat is little more than a speed bump for determined cheaters.
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by foresto 1y ago
> Honest question: do you segment your activities on your computer on different users? Yes.
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by foresto 1y ago
A market near me included the car park within their geofence, but did not include the (distant) bike racks or the route to them. Sigh... Never before has bringing a full load of groceries home been such an awkward hassle.
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by foresto 1y ago
If it collects information from someone, and they don't want it to, then it is spying. I am deeply disappointed in how often I encounter social pressure, condescending comments, license terms, dark patterns, confidentiality assurances,
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by foresto 1y ago
> Curious to get HN's take on this. I don't think there is consensus on HN regarding privacy issues. I'm with the author. I view Google as a mass surveillance operation that has grown so large and invasive that I no longer
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by foresto 1y ago
Any news on the no-script feature? I love the idea of Anubis, but in practice, it has turned more than a few sites that I visit into sites that don't work without javascript. So instead of being happy to see it, I find myself disappoin
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by foresto 1y ago
Does this count? https://docs.python.org/3/library/ast.html
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by foresto 1y ago
> Why can't reasonable people disagree here? They can, but framing this as a mere disagreement is disingenuous: One approach might slightly inconvenience someone, while the other (as was taken here) inflicts irreparable damage. >
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by foresto 1y ago
I already have systems that use net.ifnames=0. My question is about whether this new behavior can affect them.
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by foresto 1y ago
> Alas it's still not suitable as a daily driver for the average home user and probably never will be. Why not? My family members need little more than a web browser, media player, and office suite. Debian Stable is very suitable he
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by foresto 1y ago
> you can expect Debian to lag several minor versions behind. Not necessarily forever, though. Bookworm got minor Plasma updates, so I wouldn't be surprised if Trixie does as well.
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by foresto 1y ago
Do you happen to know if this change can affect people who have disabled systemd's Predictable* Network Interface Names before upgrading to Trixie? *haha

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