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pmc , 20 days ago to technology in Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created

I use LibreJS with few exceptions. If I need to use a site that requires non-free JavaScript, I’ll use a private browsing window or (preferably) Tor Browser.

pmc , 20 days ago to science_memes in Becoming et al.

This is the citation format that makes the most sense to me, especially now that you can just click [5] and be brought straight to the bibliography.

pmc , 20 days ago to linux in DankPods just switched to Linux!!!

It would be cool to pay a monthly subscription, that’s then distributed among the software I use or have installed. That could be integrated into a package manager even. I don’t know if any Linux distro does something like it.

I’ve been thinking the same thing lately. It would be cool if at least there were some sort of metadata maintainers could include on packages saying, “if you want to donate money, upstream accepts donations at this link: <…>”. Then I (or someone else) could put together a tool that helps you track what upstream projects you’re donating to.

I understand that isn’t nearly as easy as just a subscription though. The issue I see with that is legal - you’d need a legal entity specifically for accepting payments and disbursing each upstream project’s share, plus all the accounting and such that goes along with it. I don’t see why it couldn’t be shared across multiple distributions though. Upstream packages could create an account with the funding service, then distro maintainers could include some sort of Funding-Service-ID: gnu/coreutils metadata and a way to upload a list of Funding-Service-IDs to the funding service’s servers.

I think that would be doable, but it would require buy-in from distributions, upstream maintainers, and someone who could operate such an organization. Not to mention users.

pmc , 21 days ago to linux in TIL Debian releases are named after Toy Story characters

Which came later, Windows XP, ME, or Vista? Sure, you probably have that memorized, but if you didn’t it wouldn’t be immediately obvious. That’s just a problem with using codenames instead of numbers, nothing to do with unserious names. At least Debian releases have reasonable version numbers alongside the codenames, unlike some other operating systems!

pmc , 22 days ago to technology in Amazon Sells Fake, Dead Toshiba Hard Drives as New: Detailed Inspection &amp; Proof of Their Scam

Sadly yep. Micro Center is just about the only PC component supplier I’ll buy from nowadays, but I have to drive like 4 hours to get to my nearest one

pmc , 23 days ago to linux in Companies that use desktop Linux

I work for a major network infrastructure company. We can choose from Windows, macOS, or Ubuntu for work laptops. I chose macOS, but I’m probably going to switch to Ubuntu with my next laptop refresh since a lot of our internal tooling works better on Linux.

pmc , 23 days ago to technology in Microsoft will try the data-scraping Windows Recall feature again in October | Initial Recall preview was lambasted for obvious privacy and security failures

Can’t get me this time! Between last time and this time, I successfully removed Windows from all PCs in my life.

pmc , 24 days ago to linux in anyone who uses Linux on apple silicon or another arm device

You aren’t stuck to Fedora with Asahi, I’m running Debian on my M1 Pro MBP

pmc , 24 days ago to linux in Latest KDE on debian 12

It’s technically possible to install the KDE 6 packages from experimental onto bookworm, but it is far from ready and will probably (eventually) break your system.

Debian 12 “bookworm” will never get KDE 6. KDE 6 will be first added in Debian 13 “trixie”.

pmc , 26 days ago to linuxmemes in My impression of github since switching to Linux

When I’m confused like that, I check packages.debian.org and open the file list for the package. That way I know what binaries are installed.

pmc , 1 month ago to technology in We need to nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon. Here’s why

They also don’t need a warrant to browse data that companies just give them freely. The government can often easily get your data without a warrant if it’s stored by a megacorporation.