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by pferde 3y ago
I prefer to use separate docker containers for that, with some trivial shell wrappers to make creating new persistent "browser profiles" easy. But for non-techies, I guess the Firefox addon is the next best thing.
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Pressure Altitude – Day-to-Day Variability at the South Pole(brr.fyi)
2 points by pferde 3y ago|0 comments
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by pferde 3y ago
A lot of tech media outlets are not much more than extension of tech companies' PR departments. This has been very obvious especially in videogame "journalism" for a while (refusal to cover negative stories and more important
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by pferde 3y ago
Ding ding ding, that is the correct endgame the governments want. And it would have been achieved a long time ago if the FOSS movement did not appear. Unfortunately, all it did was postpone the inevitable, because most people prefer comfort
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by pferde 3y ago
Color me surprised, after having used firefox on linux exclusively for last twenty or so years. I think it's fast enough.
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by pferde 3y ago
I mean, noise from /dev/urandom by any other name would smell just as rank.
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by pferde 3y ago
I've seen theories about Saudis paying for this in order to prevent the next Arab Spring, in which Twitter played a key role for the protesters to organize themselves. Seems a bit far-fetched, but these days, who knows?
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by pferde 3y ago
One of the motivations was explicitly Twitter being unavailable: "Another, unrelated, example of the shift in thinking in the Dutch government is about an unanimously adopted motion in the House of Representatives. Last week saw a majo
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Dutch government officially launches Mastodon server(fediversereport.com)
3 points by pferde 3y ago|2 comments
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by pferde 3y ago
Nonsense. As with any and all "social media", block early, block often. It's your time, your attention, so you should get to choose what you see. Of course, you run the risk of enclosing yourself into an echo chamber, but tha
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by pferde 3y ago
Really? In my social network on Mastodon, several folks could not get rid of them even for free - nobody wanted them.
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by pferde 3y ago
Apparently, (at least some) content creators like it better than Mastodon already. See https://drewdevault.com/2023/06/30/Social-and-parasocial-med...
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by pferde 3y ago
Arguably, Mastodon does not even want that shot. They've been perfectly happy even without last year's big influx of ex-twits.
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by pferde 3y ago
Or greed.
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by pferde 3y ago
Matrix tries to solve this with matrix.to ( https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix.to ), which will eventually hopefully segue into a separate matrix:// protocol in URIs.
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by pferde 3y ago
It's been a long time since I spent my time on that, so I do not remember anything specific. But it was difficult figuring out reliably if a post in a given feed matched an already existing (locally cached) post, whether it was an upda
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by pferde 3y ago
While RSS is, as you say, quite messy, Atom has also brought lots of headaches to this poor feed aggregator developer over the years. Its specification is a lot tighter than RSS', but there is still enough wiggle room for feed generato
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by pferde 3y ago
I have installed it while they still maintained an APT repository (which is now also empty). I have some older versions of the .deb files stashed away locally, from the time when teams still ran inside a docker container, but I would like t
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by pferde 3y ago
Indeed, see https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/... , an article from March this year.
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by pferde 3y ago
I am in central europe, and it doesn't work at all, so perhaps it's just pure luck (or pure bad luck?) when it works for you.
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by pferde 3y ago
I was wondering whether they finally cut off their abandoned-but-still-working Linux client, but no, it is legitimately all down. I hope it burns with fiery hot flames.
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by pferde 3y ago
If that is what you meant in your original post, then you presented it in a very manipulative, dishonest way. You alluded to Debian only offering decades old software versions and nothing newer, while the truth is that by default, users get
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by pferde 3y ago
> Debian has decades old versions of packages that they'll backport security fixes into till pretty much the end of time I don't know what filthy corner of the internet you get this misinformation from, but it is completely wro
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by pferde 3y ago
IIRC, Ansible had this exact variable precedence long before they were acquired by RH. I get that hating RH is in vogue currently, but let's keep it grounded in reality please. EDIT: And for the record, these Ansible precedence rules a
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by pferde 3y ago
What's unhinged about it? It's the same principle, the only difference is severity of the violation. Of course being raped is miles ahead of the weak form of mind control attempt that is advertising, but it's the same damn sc
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by pferde 3y ago
Indeed, I think the poster was referring to a metaphorical railroad. The term comes from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad
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by pferde 3y ago
The best thing would be to split web pages and web apps . Webpages can keep using HTML with some minimalistic, gracefully degrading javascript, while webapps need something better than hacks upon hacks upon hacks upon ... on top of technol
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by pferde 3y ago
As someone who ran Gentoo on several boxes, including my main desktop PC, for about 15 years, and still keeps one last server on Gentoo partly because of nostalgia, the upgrading is fine only if you update everything regularly and frequentl
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by pferde 3y ago
Break that into interoperable silos , and they can be just as compelling. "Protocols, not platforms."
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by pferde 3y ago
FWIW, there are some - maybe one or two - alternate implementations of Mastodon server brewing out there. Not of a generic ActivePub server, but specifically a server with an intention to be fully compatible with Mastodon. So in the future,

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