[-] azdle@news.idlestate.org 39 points 1 month ago

You're an Agnostic.

Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, the divine, or the supernatural is either unknowable in principle or unknown in fact.

[-] azdle@news.idlestate.org 61 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Point to point wireless network link: https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/all-wireless/products/af-24

As for what it's for, it could be anything. Possibly just for the camera that's also on that pole?

[-] azdle@news.idlestate.org 28 points 3 months ago

They may block IP addresses associated with consumer ISPs. Assuming that's the case, I would guess you're seeing that as an HSTS/TLS error because their network is trying to trick your browser into redirecting to/displaying an error page hosted by some part of their network.

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[-] azdle@news.idlestate.org 103 points 4 months ago

Definitely satire, the context from earlier:

  1. Firefox is worse than Chrome in their implementation of ad snitching, because Chrome enables it only after user consent.
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[-] azdle@news.idlestate.org 64 points 4 months ago

C was originally created as a "high-level" language, being more abstract (aka high-level) than the other languages at the time. But now it's basically considered very slightly more abstract than machine code when compared to the much higher level high-level languages we have today.

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[-] azdle@news.idlestate.org 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'll start off with a proviso, I haven't s much touched my Librem 5 in at least a year (maybe even 2?), so if they've had some massive turn around in that time I don't know about it. All of this post is just what I think I remember, if you want actual facts go dig around in the wayback machine or something.

The promise of the L5 was super grandiose. They were going to create this mobile device that could completely replace your android device. It was going to launch with a custom matrix client that would let you make voice and video calls, which no other matrix client at the time could do. It was gonna be great and it was going to be delivered in a year.

Now clearly that was never going to go off without a hitch. I don't blame them for being late nor for not delivering all their promises right at launch. But when things started getting delayed they seemed to be doing everything in their power to not communicate with backers. And anytime they would say something, they would say "well we didn't hit that deadline, but we promise we're totally super duper close now". And then they'd blow through that deadline without a word too.

I did eventually get my phone, obviously, but it wasn't anything like a usable device. The battery that it came with was smaller than advertised and it didn't have any power management so you got a few hours of battery life. The cameras just didn't exist as far as the software was concerned. The privacy switches would randomly kill power to the modem when you lightly brushed against them without the switch moving out of the 'on' position. Which was super annoying since you had to reboot the phone any time you wanted to turn the modem back on. And rebooting took ages.

Even at this point I was still rooting for them to succeed. I really want a proper Linux phone and have since 2008.

But ever since then, I really haven't seen much of anything change with the software, at least for as long as I was paying attention to it. One of the cameras got support added by a community member at some point, but the pictures it was taking were so bad it looked like some 1999 digital camera taking pictures in a dimly lit room even in full sunlight. There was no way to know if an application in their store was going to work or not, most didn't, mostly because they were meant for a larger screen & a mouse.

I pulled it out a few times on and off over the years, but the last time I did, I couldn't even figure out how to get it to update. So, I haven't really even touched it since then. (I've got it out connected to power to see what it's like now. Though, I'm not sure it's charging, is flashing green (with an occasional flicker of red) a good thing?)

Since receiving it, the only communication I've gotten from Purism has been "Investment Opportunities". I'm not sure why I'd invest in a company that still hasn't delivered what it promised me over 5 years ago.

I absolutely want them to succeed, and I hope they prove my pessimism wrong, but at this point I absolutely would not put my money on that happening.

[-] azdle@news.idlestate.org 33 points 9 months ago

We tried that in the 90s, it went poorly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_fat#History

[-] azdle@news.idlestate.org 26 points 10 months ago

The day Firefox shutters its doors is the day the internet truly dies.

*the web

The internet has so far been doing a much better job surviving as a proper decentralized system than the web.

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What is really needed, [Linus Torvalds] said, is to find ways to get away from the email patch model, which is not really working anymore. He feels that way now, even though he is "an old-school email person".

[-] azdle@news.idlestate.org 27 points 11 months ago

I keep thinking about installing this, but the required permissions seem a bit excessive:

This add-on needs to:

  • Input data to the clipboard
  • Access your data for all websites

Anyone know if the 'All Access' permission is really required for what this is doing? It just feels wrong. There isn't some sort of "Control Navigation for These Domains" that it could request for each enabled site or something is there?

[-] azdle@news.idlestate.org 29 points 1 year ago

If you have any straight straws, you might want to hold them up to the light. They get pretty grody on the inside.

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So long limited edition OLED deck.

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Calandra shared more information on Discord, revealing that the "entire video team" has resigned in response.

This includes Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, who created the video review series Zero Punctuation.

Confirmation from Yahtzee: https://nitter.net/YahtzeeCroshaw/status/1721687212541280425

Today, I formally resigned from The Escapist and Gamurs. I don't have the rights to Zero Punctuation, but whatever happens you'll be hearing my voice again soon, in a new place. Join this discord for updates in the coming days: discord.gg/uFNQKKh6Jq

From the linked Discord:

nickjcal24 — Yesterday at 5:47 PM @everyone since things are happening fast, the entire Escapist video team has either been fired or resigned as of tonight / tomorrow.

This Discord will become the place for what's coming next.

More news tomorrow.

nickjcal24 — Yesterday at 6:22 PM Resignations and firings pinned here:

https://twitter.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1721683973506568532
https://twitter.com/TheOtherFrost/status/1721683636410261846
https://twitter.com/DesignDelve/status/1721677391368425571
https://twitter.com/nickjcal/status/1721640314203464045
https://twitter.com/YahtzeeCroshaw/status/1721687212541280425
https://twitter.com/JanjoZone/status/1721697403097542874
https://twitter.com/RexiconJesse/status/1721719792007090444
https://twitter.com/_mattjlaughlin/status/1721714880859042098
https://twitter.com/willcblogs/status/1721704228182274123
https://twitter.com/SigmaGears9/status/1721695395376415162
https://twitter.com/ParkesHarman/status/1721692595166794023
https://twitter.com/sassqueenamy/status/1721693823729066025
https://twitter.com/McBiggitty/status/1721922759368872016
https://twitter.com/Harlack/status/1721906693620273233

nickjcal24 — Yesterday at 8:28 PM @everyone we're going to set the Discord to read-only for the rest of tonight so we can get other work done that we need to do.

Tomorrow you will know more about what our plans are for the future, along with a livestream on Wednesday at 11 AM CT.

We'll share the links to where all that will be tomorrow afternoon.

Thank you SO MUCH for the support. It means a lot to the whole team and we're excited for what we're cooking up next.

Please be good to one another and keep the positivity up. What happened happened and if you've been with the new version of The Escapist since 2019, you know we just keep moving forward.

We're excited and you should be too.

[-] azdle@news.idlestate.org 31 points 1 year ago

If your distro offers it, rootless podman + podman system service is the best setup, IMO. That will give you a docker command that is 1-to-1 compatible with docker and lets you use tools like docker-compose that expect a docker service socket. Then you can just follow tutorials that only explain things for docker.

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I'm curious to see what information I'm blasting out to the various services I depend on for internet (ISP, DNS, probably Cloudflare, etc.).

Are there any easy to setup, entirely self-hosted tools I can run on my home network that would allow me to snoop on my own traffic.

I want more than just DNS, so I'm not just looking for pihole and its ilk. I want to see things like SNI and any non-protected traffic that any of the devices on my network might be sending that I just don't know about.

Ideally, it would be something I could leave on without affecting my speed/latency, but something to turn on occasionally and spot check would be better than nothing.

My router runs VyOS, so I should have quite a bit of flexibility in what I do with my traffic, though I never have figured out if/how to deploy custom software to it...

[-] azdle@news.idlestate.org 23 points 1 year ago

Direct links:

Deck: https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck

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Dock: https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeckdock

  • ~~$89.00~~ -20% $71.20
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I count 13 generic manufacturers: search lisdexamfetamine on https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/ob/search_product.cfm

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