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In 2015 we started migrating repositories from SVN to GitHub
I feel compelled to point out, for the benefit of anyone who might be reading this without knowing about such things, that Git is not the same thing as Github. You can (and should, especially if you're a big-time tech company with the resources to host your own repo and some respect for free software) choose to have all the convenient features of Git without going anywhere near Microsoft-owned Github.
To be fair, this was not so obvious a choice in 2015 as it is now.
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This airport tried to be cutesy and put up a sign limiting "hug time" instead of a more generic time limit. Have you ever heard of a "full English breakfast"? We'll tell you all about it. There's a café in Tokyo which discourages socializing. Find out why! People in China have pets. Isn't that cute! Here's a great tourist attraction in Turkey! Not into that? How about a video game museum in Kyoto instead? Or a theme park in Orlando? But why stop there? Here are some other links to random news tidbits.
It's like one of those daytime TV talk shows in text form.
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The various image hosting sites that people choose being down or otherwise dysfunctional seems more common than you'd think. One that's quite popular lately just flatly blocks all VPN and Tor users, leading to many broken images for some of us.
It's too bad that the image cache you have stores things permanently. Having them expire after six hours or something would seem like a better option. Maybe somehow route it through a normal caching proxy instead of the built-in lemmy one?
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Athena, goddess of wisdom, olives, and weaving.
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At this point all that remains to be said on the topic is: Don't feed the trolls. Not even if have recognizable names like Drew Devault.
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It's find -L if you want it to follow symlinks.
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When it's apartheid and genocide (something on the order of 10% of the people of Gaza have been killed so far including reasonable estimates of deaths from starvation and disease) I'm not really too concerned about whether or not they call it "colonialism."
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Too long to read? I get it. Here’s the summary. Download Firefox.
Yes. One option is to download it from here: https://librewolf.net/
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I had that problem when I used whatsapp five years ago. Amazing that they still haven't fixed it.
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cat `find /sys -name pp_power_profile_mode`
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Non-google android is the way to go unless you're looking to be even more adventurous. Which phone you should look for depends which of the OS options you prefer. No pixel means no grapheneOS. LineageOS is the one I chose, runs on quite a few mostly older phones. There are many others.
kbal
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If by "advanced mode" you mean the "expert" installer, it's not in graphics mode so you wouldn't need the ctrl key.
Edit: Actually there is also a "graphical expert install" apparently, but anyway you may be in text mode. You could instead pick rescue mode from the menu as well.
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The "you'd have to prove to someone that you're an adult" is where we disagree. I was talking about parents setting a "user is a child" flag on the devices they let their kids use. They already know who their children are, no proof is necessary. The device can then send an http header to websites for example indicating that it's a child user. That part could be mandated and standardized by law. It's 99% of the problems solved (in legal theory; obviously not every website and app in the world will choose to participate in any of these schemes) with 1% of the dangers.
So long as they don't go overboard with misguided efforts to make it impossible for children to defeat the thing, it seems fine. It's dismaying that all the proposals end up with all these ridiculously dysfunctional ideas instead.
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When I hear about "device-based verification" what comes to mind is a device that can be put into some kind of child safety mode, by parents who want to give their children phones or whatever. The device then "knows" whether or not its user is a child without any kind of biometrics or identification.
It has some problems and could case a lot of harm if it's badly designed, but it's the only method that seems close to workable in any conceivable form. Why is it never even talked about in these discussions?
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Did an AI write that, or are you a human with an uncanny ability to imitate their style?
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One half of Britons support increasing tax on the other half.
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True, I was ignoring the distinction between the supply of shitty web pages and the supply of attribution-recording advertising opportunities provided through them. Not quite the same thing even if they do seem likely, as you proposed, to be closely correlated in the scenario where Mozilla's product somehow ends up surviving to become a hugely influential new ad platform.
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I assumed that PPA was the new game in town.
It kinda feels like you didn't read what I wrote. That very assumption is what I was calling optimistic. Unrealistically so, I think.
Things they should teach in primary school: 1. Never give your phone number to a web site.
@WEATHERISHAPPENING@weatherishappening.network @ZLabe@fediscience.org Contrasting approaches to weather risk communications on the fedi
Yesterday I saw the CNN version of Have I Got News For You. It's... not bad? Closer to getting it right than many previous American attempts at panel shows. The main weird American thing they do is that the panelists seem inexplicably eager to give correct answers, as if they're quite proud of themselves for having watched the news this week in advance of going on TV to talk about it.
michellerempelgarner.substack.com
> > > As opposed to Bill C-63, which pushes [age verification bullshit] far into the future and behind closed doors through an opaque regulatory process, our new Conservative legislation will directly legislate [age verification bullshit] that online operators must adhere to. > >
If you routinely start [#steam](https://fedia.io/tag/steam) in offline mode and it suddenly stopped working in the past few days (first time I ever saw such a thing), you may be able to fix it by temporarily taking it out of offline mode as described on github.
forums.online-go.com
> > > Not only did Ichiriki win the finals, he won it 3-0! I love it that a Japanese top player was finally able to win the most prestigious international go title (for the first time actually), after decades of Japanese pros having a reputation of not really being a match anymore for Korean and Chinese pros. I enjoyed watching this review Michael Chen 1p AGA made about all the games in the match: That video is more than 2 hours long, but it’s not boring at all ... > >
https://github.com/Abev08/VolumeControlExtension That's two longstanding items on my firefox wishlist taken care of by an extension: Actual working volume controls on the built-in media player, and a volume control for other crappy web players that don't have them. #firefox
High T alpha males always walk down the street in this pose. Everyone else sees the look in their eyes and knows to get out of the way.
phase 1: Don't care about diet. phase 2: Try to lose weight. phase 3: Don't care at all about diet. phase 4: Ascetic diet of mostly rice and peanuts. phase 5: Vitamin A deficiency. phase 6 (current): Carefully fine-tuned diet designed with nutrition calculator. I can't explain it, that's just how it went.
Apropos of nothing, I wonder for the thousandth time what it is that drives otherwise sane people to produce web pages with light grey text on an off-white background.
Went to see what my fedi feed thinks of [latest bad news]. Saw ridiculous cat video instead. Feel better.
You know you're done with Microsoft when you see a screen shot of MS-DOS and think "Oh yeah, I remember when we used to address drives with letters like C:. That was weird."
Act 1: It started with some fun little quests to introduce you to the narrative style. The fights were too hard, so I improved my character stats until I could handle them. It's not easy to know when there's no choice but to go along with whatever is suggested, and when you can do something else, but I guess I got it more or less right. Act 2: A nice meaty dungeon crawl. My efforts to make my character stronger paid off, the difficulty was just right. Act 3: Holy shit it's too hard suddenly. One does not level up quickly in my version of Skyrim, maybe that's why. At one point there's an option that suggests you can skip the whole thing, but I didn't take it and would guess it probably isn't so easy. I had to resort to stealth archery and I didn't bring a lot of arrows. Some horror game stuff of a kind I don't normally enjoy, but it was well-executed. It was a pretty long slog. Act 4: Okay we're in Dark Souls now. Except the boss fights are even longer. I had a legendary weapon, shiny superhero armour, lots of magic resistance, a good healing spell, all the equipment a skyrim paladin could want, and yet even some of the non-boss fights took a lot of time and effort. Hit, dodge, run, heal, repeat. Forever. To be fair I do have the difficulty settings turned up pretty high. I wandered around lost for a very long time. Some of the battles were epic. There was only one area I had a really hard time with: There doesn't seem to be any resisting the tentacle attacks so they were pretty much instant death. The ending was quite good and made it all seem worthwhile.
Today is the 97th anniversary of the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti.
If anyone has a debian/windows dual-boot laptop and has been waiting until Microsoft's secureboot surprise is defused before booting into Windows, and you don't want to wait any longer, what you need is shim-signed_1.39+15.7-1_amd64.deb from bookworm-proposed-updates.
Congratulations to https://niagaranow.com/ for having the one obvious advertisement that's got through my ad-blocker setup so far this year. It's an actual jpeg banner ad that's hosted directly at their own website. Such wholesome web design for 2024. If I ever want to get my chimney repaired in Niagara Falls I'll know where to go.
> The problems on this site were created using neural nets to automatically extract positions for each rank from high-level games where the neural net thought the next move would be instinctive for a pro but might be educational or non-obvious for players of that rank. Trying to get back into the game a little, and I've just noticed that https://neuralnetgoproblems.com/ is still online! Whole-board positions from real games, asks you to predict the next move. It's really good if you enjoy that sort of thing.
> "Sony claims that the values that its programs write to your device's RAM chips are copyrighted works that it has created, and that altering that copyrighted work makes an unauthorized derivative work, which infringes its copyright." Sometimes one of my crude attempts at parody will be mistaken for sincere. Shamefully unworthy as my attempts at humour may be, at least they're never so distasteful as this prank from Sony which apparently is being taken seriously by the European Court of Justice. Very funny guys, you can knock it off now.
@protonprivacy@mastodon.social My respect for #Proton is diminished little by the addition of a cryptocurrency wallet, much more by the fact that it supports only one of the worst of those currencies. A ton of CO₂ emissions per three transactions is not acceptable.
I asked a big LLM to name some of today's prominent public intellectuals. It put Henry Kissinger, Francis Fukuyama, and Neil deGrasse Tyson near the top of the list. It mentioned several economists who looked pretty boring at first glance (Yanis Varoufakis did not make the list), and a couple of cheesy pop science writers, before finally getting around to Slavoj Žižek. Immediately after that it descended into pure gibberish.