sovietknuckles

sovietknuckles, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Besides having their community migrate to Lemmy, the thing moderators can do that impacts reddit the most is making their sub NSFW, because

1. Reddit gets no ad revenue from NSFW subs, and
2. NSFW subs will be excluded from their new $60m/year AI training deal.

sovietknuckles, 2 months ago

The developments come one year after tensions between the U.S. and China ratcheted to new heights after a Chinese balloon carrying sophisticated spying equipment flew over the continental U.S. for several days.

Even a year later, they haven’t abandoned the narrative that it was designed to intercept valuable US intel, such as the weather

sovietknuckles, 2 months ago

All of the password managers they listed store your passwords on their servers, and you’re supposed to hope that their encryption is good enough that the hackers won’t decrypt your password the next time they get hacked (like LastPass, for example).

KeePassXC doesn’t store passwords in any “cloud”, it’s on your computer/phone only and nowhere else. It’s also FOSS

sovietknuckles, 2 months ago

4th most upvoted comment in a thread of 843 comments:

Jan 6th made him the worst, say what you want about Buchanan or Jackson but at least they did their atrocities within the system they were elected to uphold.

“Say what you want about genocides, at least they weren’t Jan 6”

sovietknuckles, 2 months ago

Announcing when the enemy’s king is in danger is a mistake. We should stop telling people when they’re in check, shouldn’t correct each other if they put their king into check, and you win by taking their king

sovietknuckles, 2 months ago

I would but i don’t have an account and you need an account to open issues. All other social media seems to have this function.

Is anything keeping you from making an account?

sovietknuckles, 2 months ago

Is a cancer vaccine even possible as a concept?

Yes. A recently-found example of cancer resistance is wolves in Chernobyl.

Would it even be classified as a vaccine since cancer isn’t a virus?

Yes, and some oncovaccines are already approved.

sovietknuckles, 3 months ago

I just SSH

sovietknuckles, 3 months ago

Nitter still works somewhat if you only use instances that are listed as healthy at https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances#public.

Alternatively, if you use the LibRedirect Firefox addon, you can simply go to the Twitter section, click Ping instances, and only add instances that come back as healthy as favorite instances.

sovietknuckles, 3 months ago

It’s times like these that we need to remember what AyyyyyOC-big told us, that the cages aren’t as fancy under Trump

sovietknuckles, 3 months ago

I dont block this instance bc of the number of c on it, for now,

Might as well unblock Threads for the same reason

sovietknuckles, 3 months ago

Cancelled student debts of 20M poorest Americans

Cool, so their debt went away?

sovietknuckles, 3 months ago

Edit: Nvm, figured it out

sovietknuckles, 4 months ago

The author seems to be upset that a Google accessory doesn’t work with a non-Google phone, because they expect Android to just mean Android. If you don’t want to be locked into Google hardware, buy an Android phone from literally anyone except Google

sovietknuckles, 4 months ago

a US ‘sanctions enforcement’ operation

Is that just code for “We’re stealing this shit”?

sovietknuckles, 4 months ago

Mayo Pete

The CIA has a strong track record of being politically active in AES countries, I don’t see what could go wrong

sovietknuckles, 4 months ago

Papa John’s would prolong the occupation by feeding the occupiers.

I forgot about that

january 6 hot dog stand

sovietknuckles, 4 months ago

It’s something to do with lib relatives during their national-mourning-period a few days from now

sovietknuckles, 4 months ago

Firefox Beta is for anyone who wants to use a version 1 month ahead of the latest stable Firefox version, and AFAIK it doesn’t have more telemetry than stable Firefox versions.

Regardless, you can disable telemetry and studies by setting some preferences in about:config (or a user.js file):

Preferences to setSource: github.com/arkenfox/user.js/blob/…/user.js#L131-L…Preference | value – | – datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionEnabled | false``datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled | false``toolkit.telemetry.unified | false``toolkit.telemetry.enabled | false``toolkit.telemetry.server | data:,``toolkit.telemetry.archive.enabled | false``toolkit.telemetry.newProfilePing.enabled | false``toolkit.telemetry.shutdownPingSender.enabled | false``toolkit.telemetry.updatePing.enabled | false``toolkit.telemetry.bhrPing.enabled | false``toolkit.telemetry.firstShutdownPing.enabled | false``toolkit.telemetry.coverage.opt-out | true``toolkit.coverage.opt-out | true``toolkit.coverage.endpoint.base | ``browser.ping-centre.telemetry | false``browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.telemetry | false``browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.telemetry | false``app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled | false``app.normandy.enabled | false``app.normandy.api_url |

sovietknuckles, 4 months ago

Is he going to list the same goals for 2024? His campaign site only asks for money, it doesn’t mention his platform

Edit: Switched to an archive link

sovietknuckles, 4 months ago

What Linux distro do you use? What do you use it for?

Arch Linux, it’s the most maintainable way to run the last versions of the software on my machine, which is useful to me as a developer.

What is your experience with it?

Breakage is rare. When it does happen, though, I can easily unbreak it by downgrading whichever single package lead to the breakage and its dependencies, and adding them to a IgnorePkg directive in my /etc/pacman.conf.

Occasionally, I need to watch out for configuration files installed as .pacnew and upgrade my existing configuration to the new version (usually, it’s only comments that have changed between the current conf version and the .pacnew one, so nothing to do).

Besides that, it works pretty much flawlessly. Arch Linux doesn’t patronize you with a “Don’t worry about that, we’ll handle it for you” attitude like Ubuntu, Fedora, or macOS. And there is no lower-effort way than Arch Linux to run the latest version of all software you have installed.

Why did you switch to Linux?

As a developer, I needed a *nix environment, but my workplace only gave me Windows. Cygwin was a pain to configure, required converting between Windows paths and Cygwin paths every step of the way in order to interoperate with my Windows environment (this was before WSL), and Windows-style line endings made my terminal look weird with some frequency.

I didn’t start with Arch right away, I started with Antergos (a now discontinued Arch installer), which set things up initially and let me work with it from there. Importantly, it didn’t involve a completely separate package manager like Manjaro. If you want to use Arch, don’t start with Manjaro, because if you do, you will probably stay on Manjaro. A list of Arch-based distros is here, if you want to take this approach (Warning: Some people use an Arch installer, which is initially easy, accidentally break everything on an upgrade, and are unable to get it working again, so only do this if you’re committed to fixing your own problems).

sovietknuckles, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

However, since Kurtaj has autism and was deemed unfit to stand trial, the jury was asked to determine whether he committed the acts in question, not whether he did so with criminal intent.

If you can’t get a conviction based on what happened, simply ignore what happened

sovietknuckles, 4 months ago

Disabled people who are still shielding from Covid have far less trust in the government than the general public and are far more likely to believe it handled the pandemic very badly, a survey has found.

Are we in the middle of a counter-terrorism operation that gives the whole country COVID in an attempt to wipe out all those dangerous, disabled insurgents?

sovietknuckles, 4 months ago

I have a desktop with Fedora

IMO snaps aren’t bad enough to choose IBM instead

sovietknuckles, 5 months ago

wtf I love cartels now