netvor @ netvor @lemmy.world

Posts

12

Comments

276

Joined

2 yr. ago

I've realized this true randomness is something that current Web does not offer, all the algorithms are so optimized to keep bringing "what interests you" or "what interests lot of people".

The randomness is so addictive, and perhaps even a bit dangerous.

I've checked https://voidlinux.org/, looks nice but there is no screenshot! How can I decide without screenshot?

/s

Given secrets of that type don’t often stay secret, it amounts to something like: “God made all life and the creator is in all living creatures” (handwaving).

Imagine being a pope when alienz arrive and with shaky hands, opening that "sealed scroll" and going, "sigh, it's all that same GODDAMN crap again..."

from the plugin description

In most cases, it just blocks or hides cookie related pop-ups. When it's needed for the website to work properly, it will automatically accept the cookie policy for you (sometimes it will accept all and sometimes only necessary cookie categories, depending on what's easier to do). It doesn't delete cookies.

...not sure about that. In my heart of hearts, I always want to help out fellow developers with the performance/diag data. I guess I also almost always want "functionality".

The only thing I never want (and that "preference" is often worth leaving the site entirely if it's not easy to express that) is the marketing/social scam. So I'd prefer the plugin to choose this for me.

I understand it's not technically easy to do so, unless there is some standardized way -- at which point we probably would not need plugin for that.

My take: there's many more user preferences (and always have been), that have effect on accessibility, usability and privacy. Cookie usage is just one of them, others are language, geolocation, dark/light theming, etc.

Judging from user perspective, level of implementation of these preferences has historically been a holy mess. For example, for one of the oldest preferences, Language, sites would commonly just take them as nice-to-have, if not ignore it completely. Geolocation is a different story, it looks like the way things are set up, site just has to ask your browser for help so it's harder to ignore it. Dark/light theming---I don't actually know where we are but is seems it's slowly getting better.

Technically, I don't see why data usage consent (cookies or not) could not be just another item in this list---in theory there must be better ways to deal with it than adding HTML dialogs.

I don't know if there's some standardization process going on somewhere, but it looks like we need it. These things take massive amount of collaboration, which just won't happen until the Mozilla's and Google's of the world are "forced" to.

So I appreciate government bodies stepping into this in terms of simply mandating that (but not how) service providers must respect user preferences. Telling them how to do it on a technical level is another question and I can't imagine anyone, let alone average regulatory body do this right on the first attempt.

that's some serious good-ass news good ass-news

what.. I've had uBlock Origin enabled all the time, just never went to settings.. :-D

IDK but if, say, Motörhead came to a 50 seat library in some small town it would be kinda cute and would make the library famous, and it would make all other libraries envy them in a good way.

Edit: just learned that Lemmy died 8 years ago. Just imagine I said Imagine Dragons or something...

... brought to you by @q3k@hackerspace.pl

shouldn't that be be on yesyesyesno ?

We don't.

Submerged

-ness

😵‍💫 can't 😵‍💫 not 😵‍💫 upvote 😵‍💫

Reminds me of Technology Connections but with Linux and I love it.

Intriguing...

[goes to watch the video]

Indeed! Not a copycat or anything like that, but really similar good-spirited style of presentation. And very good content!

subbed..

where Linux has not completely crushed all of its competition

...yet.

But the time is coming! in 90000000000000003, 90000000000000002, 90000000000000001...

Linus Torvalds said somewhere, that in a weird irony, the reason why he made Linux in the first place was to use it on his desktop computer, yet desktop is the only market where Linux has not completely crushed all of its competition.

One of the best things that came from me using only Linux for last 10 years.

That I really don't know how to fix problems on Windows. (Heck, I don't even know how to fix problems on Linux, just no-one cares!)

I thought I wanted that, but learned my lesson.

I'm so good at fixing computers that if I had a car repair shop, I would "fix" every car until it became a bike, because I believe, and refuse to negotiate, that bikes are better.

[OT] I just googled "de-chonk" and now I with that someone named their gym "Human Dechonking Centre".

Which part of

By the way, that’s nothing against the author’s decision to go “flatpak first”, I fully support whatever choice they make as long as the project is F/LOSS

is whiny?

oh, you mean this part

I’m not likely to use flatpak untill I absolutely have to

OK, maybe a little bit. I did not mean to sound like that :)