GigglyBobble

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GigglyBobble,

Weil's geht.

GigglyBobble,

gegaslightet

Warum nicht einfach "verarscht"?

GigglyBobble,

Schon, nur beschreibt Gaslighting eine Form von Manipulation of persönlicher Ebene. Das passt in dem Kontext überhaupt nicht, weil da ein Politiker nur einfach wieder Blödsinn faselt. Niemand fühlt sich dabei in seiner Realitätswahrnehmung beeinträchtigt.

Black Friday (files.mastodon.online)

alt textthree rows with a barbecue on the left and William Wallace in Braveheart on the right. In the first row, captioned Wednesday, the barbecue is labelled “$899.99” and Wallace says “hold”. The second row, captioned Thursday, depicts the same. In the third row, captioned Black Friday, the there is a label with...

GigglyBobble,

This year especially it feels, prices actually went up for Black Friday. They don't even care anymore.

GigglyBobble,

You can be goddamn polite and still swear without automatically becoming a fucking asshole.

GigglyBobble,

And you can greatly boost learning by applying Cunningham's Law.

GigglyBobble,

It usually is. The movie is too old.

GigglyBobble,

There are many countries where WhatsApp has become the defacto messaging standard. It's really hard and isolating to refuse to use it there.

I made it to Linux! What is your must-have FOSS or Free Software for linux?

Thank you so much, comrades! I am feeling pretty comfortable with linux mint, and now would like some suggestions for some absolutely necessary FOSS or free license software for the OS. So far I have the standard, Firefox, ThunderBird, LibreOffice, yada yada. Thank you again to everyone on the linux comm! sankara-salute

GigglyBobble,

It's mandatory for online boasting.

Facebook Puts a Price on Privacy in EU, EEA and Switzerland: It’s 9.99€ a Month + 6€ for Each Extra Account (www.wired.com)

Ad free Facebook and Instagram is officially on. I’m trying to stay open minded but honestly it’s too expensive especially with this sneaky account center rule unless you’re in an unfortunate position where you need to spend a lot of time on these platforms....

GigglyBobble,

Problem is they still track and profile you via websites using their libs and people sharing their contact list. I don't believe they'd stop even for those paying accounts.

GigglyBobble,

Right, because hunting and gathering isn't work. People just got food into their mouths doing nothing - like wild animals.

GigglyBobble,

However, data privacy should not be overlooked.

Yeah, well, you're driving around with your mobile tracking device phone anyway, so there's not much more privacy invasion by coupling it to your car.

GigglyBobble,

it’s cheaper to buy a new phone once it stops getting updates.

Just wait a couple more years...

GigglyBobble,

So you're considering the threat to privacy by "smart" cars worse than phones? How so? The latter are as bad as it gets.

GigglyBobble,

So, friendly fire incoming?

GigglyBobble,

Beacuse me?

GigglyBobble,

What kind of support are you missing? I run Linux exclusively with an Nvidia card and see regular driver updates (not as frequently as the kernel, for example, but still).

GigglyBobble,

Well, it got worse again, like basically every Windows except for 7. The real issue is that arbitrarily chose not to support certain "old" hardware.

GigglyBobble,

I hope they don't have your master password either. The decryption key sounds like just a longer password or salt with extra steps. What if the generation algo is cracked?

Also, you can go multi-factor with every password manager I know.

GigglyBobble,

I just hope they stunned the animals before slaughter since there's always controversy about that. Halal slaughtering seems unnecessarily archaic.

GigglyBobble,

Can't even imagine. I've got fed up by the short time I had to configure Maven in plain xml...

GigglyBobble, (edited )

I can support this claim. Ever since I've installed Linux on my wife's pc we haven't had any additional kids (nor sex for that matter).

GigglyBobble,

I had to read it repeatedly and check if it really said "syntax error". What will those people do if they encounter their first race condition?

GigglyBobble,

The practice is sometimes used as a form of anti-environmental protest.

Sometimes? What are the more common reasons?

GigglyBobble,

Many obviously don't know that "nazi" is an abbreviation.

GigglyBobble,

Ich z. B. mag kein Bier. Höchstens mal ein Radler. Bin ich deswegen kein Deutscher?

Das ist mal mindestens gleichwertig dazu, keinen Pass zu haben...

GigglyBobble, (edited )

2^0 isn't multiplying by zero. Considering this law: 2^a / 2^b = 2^(a-b)
it's obvious why 2^0 = 1
If a=b you're dividing by the same number resulting in 1.

Unfortunately, I cannot explain/prove the first law though.

GigglyBobble,

Yes. Keep it simple and stupid.

GigglyBobble,

I can't shake the feeling this is China testing the waters for cyber warfare...

Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple (www.theverge.com)

Samsung has released a new video in support of Google’s #GetTheMessage campaign which calls for Apple to adopt RCS or “Rich Communication Services,” the cross-platform protocol pitched as a successor to SMS that adopts many of the features found in modern messaging apps… like Apple’s own iMessage.

GigglyBobble,

iMessage works

Among the 20% of all phones globally, it does. Outside the US it's hardly usable.

GigglyBobble,

skilled enough to switch away from Whatsapp

Wat? If they managed to register with WhatsApp, they can do so with literally any other messaging service.

GigglyBobble,

Unfortunately, that's the actual reason in my experience. I got most friends and family to run Signal next to WhatsApp though.

GigglyBobble,

I think nuclear terrorism would have been the more realistic future in that case.

GigglyBobble,

Thanks for showing us who missed it this jewel of internet culture.

GigglyBobble,

In this way, your account will be identified by this name and your phone number will not be visible to other users

That's not the problem, Meta. I don't want to give my phone number to you.

GigglyBobble, (edited )

I hope you keep your win 7 isolated from the internet since it has been out of maintenence for quite a while now.

You always have to consider that probably at least 80% of the Windows code base is the same across versions. So when a current release gets a patch for a new security flaw that's a hint to the malware devs the old release is likely vulnerable too. As soon as a version gets out of maintenance its likelihood for infection rises steeply.

GigglyBobble,

If ET had been an android-phone he had been long called home before the intro started

That's a good one! But to be fair, Apple calls home just as much. They just don't sell that data (yet).

GigglyBobble, (edited )

Canonical Ubuntu does or at least did though. Caused a shitstorm years ago despite it being opt-in back then. I don't know how they do it nowadays.

KDE also has opt-in usage tracking but I trust that project enough to believe it's really only for improving the software.

GigglyBobble,

They may not have an advertising network, yet

That's what I meant. Of course they use that data and don't let it sit on their servers not knowing what to do with it...

GigglyBobble,

Windows telemetry started with Windows 10. Windows 7 was the most stable Windows ever and hardware configurations were just as plentiful. Sure, the data helps but it's hardly mandatory.

GigglyBobble,

I'm an engineer myself and hate working with people like that. In my experience, people playing that responsibility game are usually just lazy.

GigglyBobble,

Apparently, you're the only one who gets it. I guess the others either aren't engineers (yet) or only work in huge corporations where there's a department for everything.

I'm in a small company, too. Those cannot survive if people aren't flexible in their tasks and in my opinion that's far more interesting work than being a cubicle drone.

GigglyBobble,

Judging by this decade I don't estimate in decades anymore.

GigglyBobble,

I have been using it exclusively for years. Does its job most of the time and when it doesn't and I include Google results (via bang !g) Google doesn't really find it either.

However, I've opted out of most Google services in parallel, so their model of me probably isn't the best anymore. If in their bubble, their results may still be better (creeps me out though, so I live with non-perfect search).

GigglyBobble,

118.0.1 was first released on Sept 28 too, so this isn't exactly breaking news.

GigglyBobble,

LTS just means staying on the same release and guaranteed support for that time which is important for businesses. As a consumer you can always just do a release upgrade.

Since most businesses rely on Windows anyway, that's pretty much irrelevant for this discussion. They cannot use Chromebooks either.

GigglyBobble,

Why do you compare patches for major software releases with updates for hardware? Those are completely different topics.

GigglyBobble,

But contrary to Linux or even Windows (unless they pull some hardware requirement shit again) you need to switch to another OS and not simply do a release upgrade.

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