I have a Google Alert set up, so I get notified in case my name pops up on the web. A month after I joined a new company, I got an alert - turned out that their internal directory page was exposed to the public web. I was pretty livid - all this time I was proud of maintaining good anonymity, looking up my name never returned anything meaningful on Google. So I complained to my boss about this, and he said it was actually a bug/misconfiguration - which they were already aware of, but didn’t bother fixing it because no one complained. I was super pissed and made it very clear that it was a violation of my privacy and I wanted it taken down ASAP. Thankfully my boss was understanding and got it fixed. Then I had to report the page to Google. It took a while, but it was finally gone from the search results.

… for now. They’ve already replaced the old Notepad with a bloated UWP version, so it probably won’t be long before it starts sending telemetry as well.

Nice! Loved the manga, can’t wait to see it animated.

Well, if you’re using Mullvad’s malware/ad filters etc there’s really no need for a PiHole in the first place (unless you’re doing some funky custom filtering).

Mullvad’s DNS. It’s available for non-subscribers as well, and their privacy policy explicitly claims they do not log DNS requests in any way. https://mullvad.net/en/help/no-logging-data-policy/

They support both DoT and DoH, and also have various servers for blocking ads, trackers etc (if you wish to use them): https://github.com/mullvad/dns-blocklists

I that case, check out Fedora CoreOS.

https://www.talos.dev/

It runs entirely in RAM, administration is super simple, no ssh, easy to update/and upgrade, immutable, minimal distro designed specifically for secure container usage.

How about Gogs? The whole thing is < 30 MB, and is lightweight enough to run on a Raspberry Pi. You can even get a native binary package if you want to run it without the overhead of Docker.

The enshittification actually began several years ago, back when FB bought WhatsApp. That was the moment you gave up on privacy, the moment that was a clear sign that it was all going to go downhill from there. If y’all didn’t quit WhatsApp at that time, then you bought it upon yourselves. The truth is, you’ve been using a shitty service for a long time and whoring your data to Meta and making Zuckerberg richer, so this latest feature bloat or w/e isn’t the least bit interesting.

#Roombas, roll out!

That was a hilarious read. Thanks for sharing!

Here’s my take:

May need a bit of tweaking though to suit your tastes, especially light mode. The current color options are a bit limited.

{
  "monet_override_light_secondary_text_color": "#93A1A1",
  "monet_override_light_primary_text_color": "#657B83",
  "monet_override_light_link_color": "#073642",
  "monet_boost_light_color": false,
  "monet_override_dark_secondary_text_color": "#657B83",
  "monet_override_dark_primary_text_color": "#93A1A1",
  "monet_override_dark_link_color": "#B58900",
  "monet_boost_dark_color": true,
  "monet_color_intensity": 0.6,
  "monet_manual_theme_color": "#002B36",
  "monet_system": false
}

{
  "monet_override_light_secondary_text_color": "#93A1A1",
  "monet_override_light_primary_text_color": "#657B83",
  "monet_override_light_link_color": "#073642",
  "monet_boost_light_color": false,
  "monet_override_dark_secondary_text_color": "#657B83",
  "monet_override_dark_primary_text_color": "#93A1A1",
  "monet_override_dark_link_color": "#B58900",
  "monet_boost_dark_color": true,
  "monet_color_intensity": 0.6,
  "monet_manual_theme_color": "#002B36",
  "monet_system": false
} 

In both cases though, there is a legal requirement to prove that you’re above legal age to buy/consume alcohol. However, there’s is no legal requirement to provide such information to a social media platform.

AudioEncoder (bug 1749046) doesn’t really have any dependencies or blockers, as far as I can tell. If there are, then you (or whoever has access) should update Bugzilla and add the dependency there.

Because Firefox is like a democracy, they prioritize work based on number of votes on issues/feature requests. The AudioEncoder API has literally just one vote, and the overall WebCodecs API that it’s a part of only has five votes. This shows that there’s very little demand for it, meaning very few sites actually use this (that or the vast majority of Firefox users don’t use/need this feature). Why bother focusing your efforts on implementing something that most users don’t care about? The higher priority things that most Firefox users care about is stuff like performance, and Mozilla have been making some good progress too on that front.

FTFY

Microsoft now has implemented “compare with Microsoft Bing Chat™, an AI search engine powered by OpenAI GPT-4™” button when you visit Alphabet’s Google Bard™ in Microsoft Edge™©®

In addition to what others wrote, here’s a practical example:

I wanted to insert an old photo in a comment, from my Google Photos. The photo doesn’t exist on my device, since it was taken from an old phone. I located the photo in Goolge Photos and downloaded it to my device. Then I went to pick the photo in Sync, but it was neither visible under “recent”, nor in any of the albums. So I had no choice but to scroll thru hundreds of photos to manually look for it, and found it under the original date the photo was taken - which makes sense, but in the previous gallery, my recently downloaded photos would appear at the top.

I’ve only got a few hundreds of photos so this isn’t a big issue for me, but I can imagine it’ll be a dealbreaker for people with thousands of photos on their device.

realmd and sambafor AD, and smbclient can be used to map network printers.

As for how Maya OS looks, it’s going to be used for their defence systems, so it’s highly unlikely we’ll get to see it. But it’s supposedly based on Ubuntu and has a “familiar” interface, so I imagine it might look something like Zorin OS.

Did your app just get updated as well? :)

I know. I just thought it was a bit ironic seeing such a strongly worded response from it.