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  • Once you do get everything set up and working, all you'd need to federate is to start subscribing to some communities. If you're not "listening", you won't "hear" anything.

  • That probably counts as a privileged page, as in something uBlock Origin can't access or modify.

    Mozilla has probably been running another "experiment", meaning not every user is affected. In the past they claimed it's not advertisements because they are "continually looking for more ways to say thanks for using Firefox". (Bullshit.) If you go to Settings > Home, you disable anything you don't want to see, or just set your home page to a blank page, period.

  • Apologies, I don't understand. Is any modern Linux distro lacking "general usability" or applications? Anyway, for Bazzite, there's a bunch of ways to install software. (Though I haven't used it myself.) I'm also not sure what you're looking for when you're saying "support". Good documentation? A helpful community? Continued active development?

    Just because there's a strong focus on gaming doesn't mean the distro would suddenly do bad at everything else, especially.. general home/office use. Linux is good with that across the board. I hope I didn't misunderstand. Please explain.

  • Can you link to a source that confirms this information can be collected with JavaScript (with browser comparison, ideally)? That seems outrageous if it was actually possible.

  • What is meant by "sensitive information" here? Browsers can't just willy-nilly access your local files or something like that. The one thing I can think of is using JavaScript to collect information that can be used to identify you. (Is that "sensitive"? I'd put that in "identifying information".) My honest suggestion is to keep using NoScript and just allow as few domains as possible. The next best option is to stop using websites that break without JavaScript when there's no reason why they'd need it.

    I can imagine there being a plugin that spoofs some common ways that allow sites to identify you cross-sessions / browser / websites without your consent, but blocking JavaScript (by default) is likely one of the best ways to reduce the amount of information collected about you. When you do find such a plugin, check out one of the "browser fingerprint" testing sites to see how unique your fingerprint is.

    (That is, if I even understood the request properly in regards to the "sensitive information" bit.)

  • There is something called "local storage" that allows applications to store more information than just a cookie. Cookies are sent to the server, while local storage, as the name implies, stays local. (That doesn't mean that this data can't be sent to the server via JavaScript.) But local storage makes it possible to make 100% offline applications if the whole webpage is cached / downloaded (assuming no online functionality is required).

    edit: As for deleting this, if I click on the lock icon in the address bar in Firefox, I have an option to clear cookies and site data for the current site. I assume the "site data" is the local storage I mentioned. If you're using a Chrome based browser, you can probably google how to do the same thing.

  • I haven't streamed using only the Steam Deck, but I've used it as a streaming computer running both OBS and my VTubing software, since my laptop is much too weak for it. I used OBS NDI (now DistroAV) to push the video to the Steam Deck. That experience was pretty fluid, though setting it up might've been a bit involved. (Flatpak for it exists now.)

  • A lot of the C# ecosystem is open source (thank goodness), but the official debugger isn't, hence it only being available in the proprietary version of VSCode.

  • From what I read online, Matrix is not very good with its federated moderation tools. Apparently, a quirk of it can cause the state of a federated channel to reset in time, thus also undoing removing of messages. Here is a blog post criticizing Matrix.

  • Sweeeeet! Can they be embedded into the article?

  • The videos aren't from their channel and they probably won't be able to get the rights to rehost them all.

  • That's probably the "just one step above" part. You do have the option to inspect the script you're executing before you do so with curl | sh too, if you know what you're doing. If you don't, then you'd be pretty likely to just skip the prompt from yay as well. (Automatic diffs are nice tho.) Note: I use paru instead so I don't know what yay does.

  • To be fair, that's why they said

    in terms of security.

  • Flat earth also started out as satire.

    It's innocent fun until it isn't anymore.

    I'm unsure about how I'd personally act on this? Donald really was a joke (until he wasn't). Flat earth "conspiracy" was funny (until people took it seriously). Nazis, ...?! Kinda not funny? Maybe if it's just "shit nazis say" type stuff? Admittedly I've not looked at the community in question yet, not in the mood for it. So my input is just based on vibes. I originally just wanted to add the flat earth part.

  • edit: Sorry, it seems like I completely misread your message. Yeah that's pretty damning if true.

  • Boundary pushing in what way?

  • Is that enough proof? Claiming that simply using someone's pronouns is playing into their sexual fantasies and they somehow get a kick out of that is, in my opinion, pretty far fetched. It's also entirely possible "drag" is chosen simply because it's a shortened version of "dragonrider" or "dragonfucker", rather than drag being a "sex pest" and "predator". I feel like a community full of diverse folk and minorities will have the experience needed to identify such a person when they become a problem and remove them. Drag is not that.

    I also feel like it's not far away from a transphobe claiming they "don't consent" to respecting trans people because "they don't want men in woman's spaces" and "it's just a kink".

  • That implies that you have absolute, undeniable proof of drag's "sexual appetites", and in extension that calling drag by drag's preferred pronouns is somehow playing into their sexual fantasies, otherwise your appeal to consent doesn't really matter. Do you have such proof?

  • That would be absurd and gross.

    But, hypothetically, if a trans woman were to call herself that, would you then misgender her?

  • trucy is wondering why in the OOP it says

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  • Blahaj Lemmy Meta @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Blocking individual users on Alexandrite frontend