facepalm it’s not an “ad tracking component”, it’s a test of a new API that, if adopted, will let sites opt in to a much less invasive anonymized system for evaluating the effectiveness of their ads, instead of the current crazy amount of personal data they scrape. The data is anonymized in a double blind scheme, and it’s already way less data than every ad is grabbing.

All of which can be disabled.

I’ve experienced loss of smell from covid, luckily it came back. It really sucks but I would rather be reduced to the tongue tastes than lose my hearing, both for utility and enjoyment.

I find it amusing that the article seems to imply that smell should be ranked evenly alongside sight and hearing. Like, yes, smell is obviously a valuable sense that I would hate to lose… But I’m still taking my eyes and ears over my nose if given the option.

Isn’t Kagi an AI company with a bunch of shady shit going on? I’m always extremely skeptical of these posts.

Stop using GitHub. Especially if you’re working on anything that corpo interests will frown on, but just generally, there are plenty of alternatives (both git and non-git) that aren’t owned by Microsoft.

Fedora is a great first distro! I do recommend looking at the GNOME ui, as it’s what Fedora (and vanilla Ubuntu) use; I really like GNOME but it’s not for everyone as it’s pretty opinionated and innovative. Linux Mint is another popular choice for newcomers, it uses a very simple UI that will be very familiar to any Windows user.

I still don’t see a single actual advantage of W11 over 10. The OS drains more system resources so it’s less performant, and every other “feature” I’ve seen looks like a double edged sword at best, or an anti-feature at worst.

The mobile app is great.

I literally don’t know what people who say this mean. It looks totally modern, almost identical to the chrome and edge UIs, it’s fully customizable, and there are thousands of extensions to alter the appearance in a single click, not to mention custom css styling if you want complete control.

How is the mobile app terrible? I’ve been using it for years with no issues, and it has many extensions that chrome on Android doesn’t allow like adblocking.

The tabs in FF are great, for years now FF has been much better at handing huge accounts of passive tabs, and there are tons of extensions to provide any functionality you could want.

I guarantee you if you just install a few extensions that you like and use it for a week you won’t even notice any more.

Stuff should be free. We live in an age where every one of us could be living a life of comfort and reasonable luxury with a modicum of work. In the meantime those of us who aren’t being showered by the excesses of capitalism are fully entitled to stand in the splashes.

Out of the billions of dollars that Alphabet extracts from harvesting your data and selling it to advertisers?

This concept is the “third space” – a social space other than work and home where people can congregate, socialize, and relax. Parks and libraries are some of the only remaining spaces in capitalism where people can be humans without paying for the privilege to exist by the minute.

Obfuscating the image file like that is usually completely transparent to scrapers actually, as the image URL is almost always in the HTML. You can find the direct image link yourself if you poke around in the element inspector for a bit.

It’s just to make it harder to copy and increase to amount of people that link the full site URL (with the tracking and analytics ofc) instead of the image directly.

Yeah, there were obviously many other reasons to leave but this was the final straw for me, even though I left Reddit when the paid apps got axed. Old.reddit was the only thing keeping the site usable.

You’ll need a decent GPU to decode HD video, which led me to just put together what’s basically an outdated gaming PC from old parts and a couple cheap ones I had to order. Works great as a jellyfin server.

You don’t, you look at the outstanding issues and pick one that sounds at all intelligible.

The experience of jumping into a big unfamiliar project is very much like Robert De Niro parachuting into the middle of hideously complex pipework to surgically fix a single leak in the movie Brazil. Nothing around you makes sense at first, and all you can do is look exactly where you’ve been told the problem is, and stare at it hard enough to finally see the crack in the pipe. Then as time goes on you can start checking the other pipes, and eventually you might think “Hey, why are these apartments all connected in this order? Wouldn’t it be more efficient to just have a central tank that then supplies each unit?” And then maybe you try that out, and maybe it’s a notable improvement and other engineers applaud you for your contribution… Or maybe it was a dumb idea for reasons that you hadn’t yet grasped, in which case you get to learn why.

It can be a fun process, just give yourself time to explore. One of the best things about version control is the ability to just fuck things up in experimentation without actually damaging the project.

Google voice is the first thing to get disabled on any Android phone I use. It’s like the biggest invasion of privacy you could imagine outside of agreeing to let them film you on the toilet.

Oh my God it’s such a pain in the ass. It spawns like 15 processes that don’t die when you close the browser window, and there’s no indication which is the master so you just have to kill them one by one until they all die. And the search bar that pops up on the desktop is such tacky 90s spamware… I’ve never liked Windows but since they launched 11 they’ve really become intolerable, even the w10 experience is being degraded by it.