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arve

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Twitterflyktning. Technerd. Programmeringsnerd. Webnerd. Løpenerd. Politisk venstrelent. Opptatt av å ikke drepe planeten.

Twitter refugee. Tech nerd. Programming nerd. Web nerd. Running nerd. Left leaning and wants to keep this planet alive.

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gael, to random French
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Nothing to add.

arve,
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@gael it won’t. Surveillance capitalists are going to find a way to block you from getting anything done running this. What is needed is competent and vigilant government

arve,
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@gael Oh, I applaud people who try, and people who work toward this goal. I'm just incredibly cynical after having watched Google subvert the internet into something that makes me depressed rather than hopeful for the future of humanity

jonhicks, to random
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I do wish Apple Music would chill out. If I pop out in the car and play some tunes, I get these messages to welcome me back.

arve,
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@jonhicks yeah. I’m seeing these even when I don’t have anything playing but with the app open, and in a paused state

arve, to random
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@Vivaldi dunno if this is something Youtube changed, or something that went wrong in the last update, but I'm gettingplayback errors on some videos on MacOS - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXPCNJBQGwo - this plays fine in Chrome and Safari

Version: 6.7.3329.21 (Stable channel) (arm64)

arve,
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@Vivaldi I found a thread from another user on the forums, and added what I could to that thread. It resolved with a reboot and hasn’t returned since. Up until then, it affected specific videos on YT, and consistently on nrk.no. (And yes, tried with a clean profile with all tracking protection enabled and disabled).

arve,
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@Vivaldi thread in question: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/97402/v-6-7-videos-not-playing-on-mac-after-update/6

arve, to random Norwegian Bokmål
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Det er sjelden jeg synes noe er så imponerende dumt at jeg får lyst til å sende mail til Randall Munroe

https://www.nrk.no/tromsogfinnmark/tiltakssonen-krever-egen-tidssone-med-26-timer-i-dognet-1.16840132

arve, to random
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While I love @Vivaldi very much, and have made it my favorite browser, there is one thing, that's probably a feature, that seriously annoys me:

The first dropdown suggestion.

If I blindly type "Youtu" and press Return, I get some seemingly random youtube video instead of youtube.com. Neither the youtube vid, nor the random link is in my bookmarks. As much as I like Margaret Berger, I don't want her to be my default Youtube experience

timbray, to random
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Hey, I like to interact with people here, replying to others’ posts and especially to replies to my own.

But… if you have an opaque handle, no links in your profile, no introduction post, and no avatar, I probably won’t.

arve,
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@timbray While I get "Opaque Handle", "No Introduction Post" and "No Avatar", I don't entirely get "No Links". I've given up on maintaining my own sites, and don't want to link other properties for privacy reasons.

(Or is this an either/or?)

arve, to amiga
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There's some real #amiga sample goodness in this tune by Waveshaper & @lukhash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsOQ9ajvwcY

arve, to random
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So, my TV turns itself on from standby, asking me if it should go into standby mode. I don't know if this is an Android TV problem, or related to my particular brand (TCL).

Not that it makes much of a difference, because the only other choice these days seems to be LG/WebOS, and while it doesn't turn on randomly to turn itself off, the UI is a disaster area.

I wish someone competent UI dev would create a TV, or that manufacturers just went back to creating dumb TV's

arve, to random
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Have to say I'm impressed by the Collective Cognitive Dysfunction of Meta and their executives.

EU/Norway: Your surveillance of users is illegal.

Meta: We'll switch to an extortion model instead, in the vain hope that there's some legal loophole that makes it legal.

jonhicks, to random
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PLEASE. Does anyone know how to stop Logi Options app showing this annoying red mute icon on top of all windows?

At the moment I'm just quitting the process in Activity Monitor to stop it (but it keeps relaunching). I’ve even changed the F9 key to not be mute/unmute, but it does it even when I'm not near my keyboard.

Going mad! 🫠

arve,
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@jonhicks For things like button customization on a mouse, I would suggest BetterTouchTool - cheap, unobtrusive, and offers a whole lot more than Logi Options

arve,
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@jonhicks I'd love to hear what you eventually land on from your recommendations

arve, to random
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On browsers: I have railed against Chrome, and I will likely continue to do so in the future because Google is actively trying to destroy user privacy.

On a more positive note: @Vivaldi after the 6.2 update is by far the snappiest browser I've used. It's also, by no small margin the most responsive React UI I've ever seen.

Gotta love a browser that aims to preserve my privacy and that provides the best user experience, bar none.

arve, to random
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As if there was any doubt, has revealed its skin as being full-on Google

arve,
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Opting out of Chrome's spyware forces a second modal dialog on you:, about further privacy features. This dialog is also a dark pattern, and this one I believe may be in violation of the .

arve,
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@veronica Because they have made spying on users their sole business model.

They are creeps.

tanepiper, to reddit
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Well fuck - they have just undeleted posts I made years ago that I'd removed when I did a purge a couple of years back.

So Reddit didn't actually delete the data - also these videos are no longer on YT so the thumb is cached

They are so fucked

https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/110553743836119207

arve,
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@tanepiper Are you in the EU/EEA? One word:

GDPR

arve, to internet
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Reddit was always my go to. There was Twitter, del.icio.us, Digg, HN, or Facebook/Instagram.

Despite flaws, Reddit drama, the occasional death threat, earlier protests/blackouts, there was always something to come back to. Small, truly helpful communities. Discourse you could visit and revisit, on any topic.

This last piece of drama feels different. It feels like this is it.

It's the end of Reddit as we know, and I feel fine.

arve,
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Reddit's strength, since users could create subreddits was always the volunteers. They managed to create, and mostly maintain order and civility.

Thing is, we're now over 17000 moderators that are closing the doors for our subreddits, covering over 1.5 billion subscribers. Some may open if Reddit backtracks. Some may opt to keep them shut. Some may just leave forever.

If the last happens in any scale, Reddit can never recover, as it will become a horrifying cesspool.

arve, to random
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I need to watch some of the more dystopian Black Mirror episodes again to lighten my mood and wash that Apple presentation off my mind.

The projected face, the 3d FaceTime-replica, and wanting to disconnect from those around you while still "interacting" with them, creeps me out to no end.

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