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Sure, but now the shit-taker wants a favour from the shit-reciever who is having none of it until the shit is cleaned up. So now we get to watch the shit-taker squirm and writhe while they try to figure out how to untake their shit without looking like the complete idiot that they clearly are.

I think VPN is the proper way to go about this, but another method is to do port knocking with fkwnop so your SSH port won’t respond until the host receives a magic packet.

That’s not the only point though. IIRC, they also remove telemetry, and pocket as well as some other things. I personally turn back on persistent sessions and history, but leave all the other privacy features there.

Asides from the kinda-shady crypto stuff and the other things that’ve already been mentioned, just philosophically it should be kinda evident that over-concentration on one corporate controlled rendering engine isn’t a good thing. Google wants the internet to be a walled garden with themselves as the sole decision makers so they can stuff ads down your throat.

Gecko’s web compat is bad largely because of this over-concentration.

That is the default behaviour, but it’s pretty trivial to change. Also, I’d imagine the distro maintainer could choose to change the default settings as part of a post-install script, if they wanted to.

Edit: Not sure why you’re being downvoted, as I do think it’s a valid concern.

While FF’s evil quotient has been on the rise, Brave definitely isn’t a better option. If anything, librewolf is the way to go.

It does seem like something that could be fixed with better automated tooling, but should it be?

For tagging it isn’t the post data that needs to be changed, but it’s metadata, which seems more reasonable for mods to be able to change. I’m not familiar enough with Lemmy to know if that distinction exists under the hood.

Could someone perhaps explain the major use cases or give a real life example of a time you’ve needed to use awk? I’ve been using Linux casually for quite a long time now, and although I learned the basics of the tool, I can’t recall having ever felt I had a need for it. If I want to glue a bunch of cli stuff together and need to do some text processing, it generally seems like it’d be easier to just use a simple python script.

Is it more for situations that need to be compatible with most *nix systems and you might not necessarily have access to a higher level scripting language?

While I pretty much agree, I can definitely think of a few sporadic times doing sysadmin where things have gone so significantly wrong that an enforced sanity-check on every sudo command would have been appreciated.

The problem is that performant screenshare (to multiple users) more or less requires infrastructure. That requires money, and it’s impossible to compete on price with services that have the VC-enshitification model.

You can get around this in a few ways, but they’re all tradeoffs that are in some way or other worse than discord.

• P2P - sacrifice latency, reliability
• direct multi-stream - sacrifice PC performance and/or bitrate
• paid infrastructure - sacrifice money

Edit: Oh, OP basically already said the same thing.

I think it really depends on the website and even where you are on the website. For example, if you’re on YT, the watch?v=<b64_id> is probably not something you want to throw away. If you’re on a news site like imaginarynews.com/.../the-article-title/?tracking-garbage=<...> then you probably do. It’s just a matter of having “sane” defaults that work as most people would expect.

That’d be cool. Whenever I’m sharing a YT link, I’m always a bit suspicious of what info the youtu.be URL is hiding, so I paste it into a browser to get a clean URL.

Maybe this is silly, but I’d be cool to do that automatically.

[This change] would also make candidates in elections liable to criminal prosecution for making any false statement to win votes.

While I think this is amazing and should be the standard everywhere, it’s also quite hard to prove intent beyond a reasonable doubt in this sort of scenario. It just means politicians need to maintain some amount of plausible deniability.

As much as I’d like to see corrupt politicians in jail, I have to wonder if somehow making it a civil offence rather than criminal wouldn’t be better, since it would only require proof on the balance of probabilities, rather than the higher standards of beyond reasonable doubt.

At least the criminal liability seems to also be on top of code of conduct violations which could lead to retractions or a suspension.

If by “negotiate an end…” you mean carve Ukraine up for mineral and land rights, then I suppose that’s probably accurate enough.

I can’t decide if I should block them so I don’t have to read their nonsense, or not so I can down vote their neolib propaganda.

You’ve got quite the interesting comment history. Is Lemmy your full time job, or something?

I usually dislike this sort of editorialising, but you’ve pointed it out, and I can’t say I disagree.

people detained in tented camps

If we’re calling the “tented camps” at Guantanamo concentration camps, then these definitely qualify as well.

The legacy media’s failure to call Nazi salutes and concentration camps what they are is irresponsible and dangerous.

The only thing you could further do is mention that you’ve editorialised the title in the title itself by [tagging] it.

Sure! I’ll repost someone else’s explanation:

Each comment has a score from -1 to 5 (most comments start at 1), and each user has a score from -10 to 50 (start at 0). Any account that is at least a year or two old, has a high enough score, and has a certain amount of recent activity will occasionally get a package of “mod points” that can be used for increasing or decreasing the score of a comment in any thread to which the user hasn’t already posted along with the score of the user who posted the comment. (Site administrators get unlimited mod points.)

Just to add a few minor bits: Comments that reached -1 would appear collapsed by default. When voting, you’d also choose one out of a preset list of reasons (insightful, funny, etc.), and the dominant reason would tag your comment as that.

This right here. If anything, I prefer Slashdot style mod points to upvotes/downvotes as there is an opportunity cost to voting. I find it fosters more interesting and less echo-chambery discussions.

Most of us are probably guilty of this at least on occaaion, but the down vote button isn’t intended to be a disagree button.

I use pairdrop. I don’t personally self host it, but that option is available. It’s better suited to more one-off situations, as there’s no history kept anywhere.

Selfhost: https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/pairdrop

Open instance: pairdrop.net