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Which distro are the Germans switching to?

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Pinta is a fork of an older version of paint.net: www.pinta-project.com I have no idea if it is any good. I just thought that this might solve your problem.

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Read the issues on that git and you’ll see that it only works on comments visible from your profile which has a maximum limit. It doesn’t get everything, because of that profile limit. There is a python script listed in there but it requires an API key.

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Sorry, Snapz, we’re discontinuing steaks to keep our restaurant stock value going up.

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I just want to add a caveat (while basically agreeing with frezik) that proponents of the unitary executive theory thought that Bill Barr was a total crackpot. So, it’s more like Barr was trying to rehabilitate fascism through an already existing term that makes fascism sound respectable.

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Yeah I think for fascists the opportunity for becoming a little mini-dictator over their respective area of the state is very tempting.

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Read this: www.nytimes.com/…/palantir-alex-karp.html

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In a podcast I listen to where tech people discuss security topics they finally got to something related to AI, hesitated, snickered, said “Artificial Intelligence I guess is what I have to say now instead of Machine Learning” then both the host and the guest started just belting out laughs for a while before continuing.

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Yep and for some people it’s too hard to think about extensions so just having them install Brave is a perfect recommendation (for now anyway).

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Yes. In college libraries I remember opening handbooks on critical thinking and they were as you said.

Here is one that is available online for free as an open access PDF and has all of the best and current science on many aspects of rationality from cognitive science to philosophy: direct.mit.edu/…/The-Handbook-of-Rationality

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Once I got to college and took real critical thinking classes in philosophy I was shocked at how pathetic the English classes were where we imitated the tools and concepts we would learn and apply in college. I think that people who study English do not learn critical thinking well enough in most cases and are better at teaching composition and the reading of fictional stories.

Google to weaken ad blockers on Chrome in a push for security (cybernews.com)

Starting June 2024, adblockers such as uBlock Origin and many other extensions on Chrome will no longer work as intended. Google Chrome will begin disabling extensions based on an older extension platform, called Manifest V2, as it moves to the more limited V3 version.

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Creators really need to release torrents of their libraries of content so that we can access it without having to go through platforms. Maybe release them twice a year? Four times a year? Imagine just pulling up a creator’s torrent, clicking which videos you want to download to watch, then waiting a few minutes and playing it right off of your computer. I bet that could also work with peertube?

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And remember to read the help page. You can do batch downloading IIRC with the -a flag pointed at a text file like urls.txt

Put one video per line and it will just chug away grabbing them all for you so you don’t have to type the command over and over again.

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You can even tweak how it saves the files, what format it outputs, whether it retains subtitles (if they are included in the video), and you can make it spit out a metadata file to go along with the video file which would be useful to keep track of the content or if you use some kind of video library management software that wants publishing date information, author, etc.

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It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox (www.androidpolice.com)

• Firefox offers better privacy and security than Chrome, with upcoming support for 200 new add-ons. • While Chrome dominates, Firefox gains ground with user-friendly browsing experience and open-source model. • Mozilla’s focus on user privacy and transparency challenges Google’s ad-centric approach, making Firefox a...

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Google rewrites links in Google search (not that you use it but maybe you do sometimes). So, if you want the links you click in Google search to not go through a Google referral URL and instead go to the link advertised in the search result, then Privacy Badger is useful for this purpose.

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The game is so funny if you know all of the Y2K era stuff that it’s a satire of.

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I tested it in Firefox InPrivate, Edge, Brave, and Chrome and all are identical for me. I think they just fucked up YouTube. 😂

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Which phone do you use?

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I just discovered this on a relative’s computer. Any trick to removing the VPN service?

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…brave.com/…/4409406835469-What-is-the-Web-Discov…

If you opt in, you’ll contribute some anonymous data about searches and web page visits made within the Brave Browser (including pages arrived at via some, but not all, other search engines). This data helps build the Brave Search independent index, and ensure we show results relevant to your search queries. By “data” we mean search queries, search result clicks, the URLs of pages visited in the browser, time spent on those pages, and some metadata about the pages themselves.

My emphasis.

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My reply was purely to get to the accurate information versus your reply which says that they are “collecting data from their search engine not the browser” as it’s important that people reading know what’s actually going on.

I’m not here to argue about whether they should or should not do that and I’m not going to (and when I used Brave I consciously went into the menu to opt into this to improve their search engine so we could have a competitor).

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If you use Firefox you can turn on the thing that they just enabled in Germany by going to about:config and setting these options:

  • cookiebanners.service.mode 2
  • cookiebanners.service.mode.privateBrowsing 2

They are both set to ‘0’ right now.

They are testing this setting, so if something goes wrong then change it back.

More information here: …mozilla.org/…/firefox-cookie-banner-handling/

Caveat: I just learned this on Lemmy in some other thread I can’t find again.

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I think they’re saying the opposite: millennials as “boomers” so-to-speak.

Gov. Evers says ‘Neo-Nazis, antisemitism, and white supremacy have no home in Wisconsin' after demonstration on state Capitol grounds (www.jsonline.com)

A group of nearly two dozen people waving swastika flags and chanting antisemitic rhetoric marched on the Wisconsin state Capitol grounds Saturday afternoon, performing a salute originally used by Nazis at political rallies, often called the "Hitler salute."

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I think they are starting to write this way, because there’s huge numbers of Americans who do not even know what the Holocaust is and that it happened let alone the basic facts about it. It’s shocking when you read the recent polls which demonstrate the levels of ignorance we are dealing with around this.

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I’m surprised that people don’t know about the ignorance of the Holocaust. Here is some reading for our collective edification.

It might seem unbelievable to see how ignorant people are of the Holocaust, but what you and I find common sense and basic facts of history which we all know are unfortunately not generally known to be basic facts of history and we do not all know these facts. Less and less of us know these facts.

It’s alarming and it’s good that publishers are writing to state basic facts for an ignorant readership. Because of this we shouldn’t see this style of informative writing as a fault but rather as a boon to ignorant readership.

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I remember this system. I had to apply to do it after my account was old enough, then they’d give me a little bit to rate at first. Then IIRC they gave me more to rate after it was clear I wasn’t abusing it.

They had a guideline page I had to read before I started to rate comments and I don’t think those attributes were optional. So, comments got a primary attribute associated with their rating.

I wasn’t able to rate comments that I saw as I browsed but rather it was a collective rating system where volunteers were served comments (with expandable context) to curb the tendency to downvote just because you disagree with something.

At the height of Slashdot the discussions on there were incredibly educational and thoughtful and that rating system worked very well.

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Most people meet partners through mutual friends and at work.

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I think Marlinspike’s weird crypto turn is what got him pushed out so we now have the wonderful Meredith the first tech company leader I’ve ever looked up to.

Hopefully they remove that crypto thing from it.

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There’s so much FUD about Signal it’s ridiculous. I’m starting to believe those glowie memes are true it’s just the “lol like I’d ever trust Signal!!!” folks who I think might be the glowies. 🫣🫣🫣

spoiler(No I don’t actually believe they’re glowies lol).

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He’s on Kbin.

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Every time I went to sign up for their site they required that I list my Twitter account. But, I’ve never had consistent interconnected social media profiles.

A survey on user experience in fediverse (Lemmy, Mastodon, etc.) (cryptpad.fr)

I would greatly appreciate if anyone could participate in the survey I created for my research about fediverse . it won’t take much time and it is hosted on privacy friendly service, cryptpad . all responses are anonymized. You don’t have to answer all questions. Fill as much you can and submit when you had enough....

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Survey research is hard – especially when you are a student learning to do it.

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To people who say the link won’t work: I opened a private window in Firefox and it worked for me.

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2019.www.torproject.org/about/torusers.html.en

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That’s an old site though. So, you can find more information with another search.

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It’s not a blog. These are the strongest of the tech journalists from Vice News’s Motherboard (tech section) who started their own separate venture independent of Motherboard.

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There’s a bot that goes through and identifies link rot so editors have a backlog queue of them to go through.

Linux Newbie here, can I have some advice on dual booting my windows laptop

I’ve used Windows my whole life, except for a 2006 Mac OS X I got when I was a kid, and I never thought about switching away from it. However, in recent times, I’ve grown to care more about FOSS and customizability, and I’m also a bit more tech-savvy than the average person, I’d say. As such, I’ve of course heard of...

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Thirded.

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Speaking of this, what parts of the fediverse have added the option to block training generative AI to their respective robots.txt?

blog.google/…/an-update-on-web-publisher-controls…developers.google.com/…/overview-google-crawlerstechcrunch.com/…/medium-hints-at-a-nascent-media-…

It looks like there’s a handful of these lines you’d have to add to robots.txt

Is there anywhere that keeps a comprehensive list of these?

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Someone should make a github just to make it easier for people to find them all in one place with sources and update the list as we get new ones.

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What it was really dropped? 😱

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even then it’s grim how many aren’t available to stream, or even buy legally.

At that point you should honestly just pirate it so that a copy continues to exist.

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The cost of cable where I can choose what I want to watch when I want to watch it. Whereas before I had to hope that the programming directors for the different channels picked something somewhere worth watching when I turned on the tube.

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Yes that’s true too. It’s still better than cable. I had access to even less content back then compared to now.

I use this to find what I want to watch when I have something specific that I’m looking for: www.justwatch.com

I also think people should be pirates.

But streaming, at the same cost as cable, is much better than the decades of cable I remember before streaming actually became a real competitor.

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I’ve blocked maybe eight people in thirty minutes who are implicitly demanding that corporations create the law.

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And let’s be honest about who this is paying: Alphabet’s 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

Adversarial tech, like adblockers, is good. We should use it. If people want users to not want to use it, they should change the product so that we don’t want to use it.

It’s not illegal for me to use an ad blocker and it should never become illegal.

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It’s “consent” from the POV of the law and the corporation, but I say fuck 'em. Do you really consent to everything? Did you read their ToS and Privacy Policy every time it’s amended? In the plain everyday use of the word “consent” I mean. Not in the legal constructions we’ve created.

Thus, since I do not consent to everything in any ToS or Privacy Policy, I use adversarial tech. My use of adversarial tech is how I enforce my lack of consent to everything these platforms expect from me.

If they don’t want us to use adversarial tech anymore, they can change their platforms so it’s no longer necessary.

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