mox

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What is the most appropriate way of tracking web traffic?

I have my personal blog, made with Hugo and hosted on GitHub pages. Initially I did not turn on any kind of web tracking / web analytics, because I do not like tracking at all. But I want to make my blog better and to achieve it, I need a feedback loop about traffic. For example, what are the most popular publications, or how...

mox, (edited )

The right way to do this is to self-host your analytics.

I don’t know which tools are popular for this nowadays, but something like Matomo On-Premise might be worth a look. I expect you can find more with a web search. Keywords: open-source self-hosted web analytics.

mox, (edited )

GOG has the benefit of being completely DRM-free and not requiring their application to download, install, or run games. (They have a storefront app, but you can also buy games and download stand-alone installers with a web browser.)

Steam has the benefit of contributing a lot to gaming on Linux, to the point where ditching Windows is now very much viable in most cases. (Games with certain specific anti-cheat systems are the main exception.)

I’m happy to spend money with either of them, for different reasons.

mox,

It looks pretty cool, but I don’t buy Denuvo games. I wonder if they’ll publish a version without it.

North Carolina bill to curb mask-wearing in protests could make it illegal for medical reasons too (apnews.com)

People wearing a mask during protests in North Carolina could face extra penalties if arrested, under proposed legislation that critics say could make it illegal to wear a mask in public as a way to protect against COVID-19 or for other health reasons....

mox,

Whatever the real motivations might be, this is deeply irresponsible. I hope it turns out to violate the state constitution or some similarly strong law, and gets rejected.

mox,

Neat. Where does the name come from? What does it mean?

Firefox 126: New Search Data Telemetry, Improved Copy Without Site Tracking, Security Fixes, and More (www.mozilla.org)

Telemetry was added to create an aggregate count of searches by category to broadly inform search feature development. These categories are based on 20 high-level content types, such as "sports,” “business,” and “travel”. This data will not be associated with specific users and will be collected using OHTTP to remove...

mox,

To know what features people are using, how fast it’s running, know what hardware and where it’s being used, and to try to investigate crashing issues?

None of those things are what’s being discussed here, or what GP asked about. As stated in the article, this is about categorizing people’s searches.

mox,

Which algorithm are you referring to exactly?

In general, people are wise to use ciphers and protocols that have been examined by the global cryptography community and have held up to that scrutiny.

mox,

There is also Matrix, which has advantages over both of them.

mox,

Signal is fully open source! You can run it on-premises, if you know your business!

Why are we not talking about it?

Unless something has drastically changed recently, the official Signal service won’t interoperate with anyone else’s instance. That makes its source code practically useless for general-purpose messaging, which might explain why few are talking about it.

mox, (edited )

Heavily subsidized, which is equivalent in this context.

How China Rose to Lead the World in Cars and Solar Panels

(paywall-free version)

China Vies to Be World’s Leader in Electric Cars

(paywall-free version)

Finding these articles took about ten seconds in a web search.

mox,

I heard from a friend that one can find lots of them here:
(But I suggest avoiding it.)


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mox,

Is there a good reason for people who have played the sequel to then play the original? I’ve only played RDR for a dozen or so hours. I liked that the NPCs weren’t hyper-aggro like many are in RDR2, and the UI was less annoying, but the world and gameplay felt kind of lackluster and repetitive. Maybe getting the earlier part of the story makes it worthwhile?

mox,

I won’t defend the US auto industry, but there are issues in play here that might not be obvious. For example:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance

mox, (edited )

Those are just excuses

They might be used as excuses by a complacent industry, but they are not just excuses. They are also valid reasons for concern, and would still be so even if not used as talking points for Detroit lobbyists.

US auto industry is enjoying significant protectionism right now

Regardless of that, China’s government has spent more than a few years subsidizing products and services in order to make their exports dirt cheap abroad, eventually making other nations dependent on them. (See also: the Belt and Road Initiative.) This fits the same pattern, and would still be a problem even if US auto industry protectionism didn’t exist.

US auto industry and especially EVs are horrible with surveillance right now.

Agreed, but once again, that doesn’t invalidate the problem that I mentioned. A foreign adversary having deep, real-time access to the nation’s infrastructure, traffic patterns, sensitive information revealed through conversations and cameras, etc. is a larger problem than the personal privacy issues that already exist domestically.

Chinese surveillance devices aren’t doing anything different from anyone else: they’re all violating our privacy and we have no protection.

The difference lies in where the collected information goes. That might not matter to some people on a personal level, but on a national scale, handing all that info to an adversary nation is cause for concern.

mox,

everyone’s suffering so much from inflation that they’ll go ahead

That, along with a bloated auto industry and terribly underdeveloped public transit. Here’s hoping this turn of events will lead to real progress in fixing these problems.

mox,

As opposed to them buying it from data brokers?

That would also be a cause for concern. Both should be addressed.

mox,

I’d recommend using a markdown editor, then either export it through a template,

This is what a static site generator does.

staticgen.com

(I don’t know why jamstack has taken over that site, but the list itself seems to be intact.)

mox,

I just started it and am having a similar experience, right down to getting hit by cars. At least, I assume they were all cars. Last time I was suddenly knocked off my feet was on the sidewalk, and when I finally regained control of my character, there was no vehicle driving away from me. It could have been a goat fitted with optical camo for all I know.

mox,

For something interesting, I suggest Qubes OS.

For a reliable workhorse, I would suggest Debian.

mox,

Not to be confused with Macrovision. :)

mox,

On the other hand, many of the things packaged in plastic also degrade, and might be fine for their safe shelf life in either biodegradable plastic or a container with that type of lining. Other liquids could be packaged in glass.

mox, (edited )

Any recommendations for reliable storage?

Recommendations are difficult, because reliability varies from model to model (even within the same brand) and there is no useful data until a model is more than a few years old. What we can do is follow the data available from an independent source with large sample sizes:

www.backblaze.com/blog/…/hard-drive-stats/

My personal experience over the most recent 15 years:

  • WD mechanical drives generally offer the best balance of longevity, price, and noise among the brands I’ve tried.
  • Hitachi drives do well on reliability (perhaps better than WD) but can be too loud for a home environment.
  • Seagate drives fail so often that I won’t use them any more, unless they’re free, second-hand, and given only disposable data.
  • I have no recent experience with Toshiba.
mox, (edited )

It uses a dbus service definition to make it re-launch when that service is called.

mox,

I suspect @mox is confused somehow

Then you are mistaken.

Read the bug report, and look at /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.kde.kdeconnect.service . I have observed the same behavior described there.

mox, (edited )

That’s not a systemd service definition, it’s a dbus one

It’s both. They can work together to accomplish the the launch.

dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-daemon.1.html#sessi…

There are cases where systemd doesn’t take part, but that’s irrelevant to the point I made. (Nevertheless, my follow-up comment did mention dbus.)

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