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i can connect to my pc, pass ebooks in different formats into it and read.

Sounds like you don’t need internet usage. In that case, you can use most ebook readers, including stuff with companies shit on it, and just never connect to the internet. If privacy is the concern, they can’t track you if you never connect to the Internet. You just need to make sure that it has a way to transfer files through usb and can handle epubs.

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According to this comment, the changes Google is making will tell websites if you’re in a vm or not.

Comment text if there are linking problems:

The idea is that it would be similar to hardware attestation in Android. In fact, that’s where Google got the idea from.

Basically, this is the way it works:

  • You download a web browser or another program (possibly even one baked into the OS, e.g. working alongside/relying on the TPM stuff from the BIOS). This is the “attester”. Attesters have a private key that they sign things with. This private key is baked into the binary of the attester (so you can’t patch the binary).
  • A web page sends some data to the attester. Every request the web page sends will vary slightly, so an attestation can only be used for one request - you cannot intercept a “good” attestation and reuse it elsewhere. The ways attesters can respond may vary so you can’t just extract the encryption key and sign your own stuff - it wouldn’t work when you get a different request.
  • The attester takes that data and verifies that the device is running stuff that corresponds to the specs published by the attester - “this browser, this OS, not a VM, not Wine, is not running this program, no ad blocker, subject to these rate limits,” etc.
  • If it meets the requirements, the attester uses their private key to sign. (Remember that you can’t patch out the requirements check without changing the private key and thus invalidating everything.)
  • The signed data is sent back to the web page, alongside as much information as the attester wants to provide. This information will match the signature, and can be verified using a public key.
  • The web page looks at the data and decides whether to trust the verdict or not. If something looks sketchy, the web page has the right to refuse to send any further data.

They also say they want to err towards having fewer checks, rather than many (“low entropy”). There are concerns about this being used for fingerprinting/tracking, and high entropy would allow for that. (Note that this does explicitly contradict the point the authors made earlier, that “Including more information in the verdict will cover a wider range of use cases without locking out older devices.”)

That said - we all know where this will go. If Edge is made an attester, it will not be low entropy. Low entropy makes it harder to track, which benefits Google as they have their own ways of tracking users due to a near-monopoly over the web. Google doesn’t want to give rivals a good way to compete with user tracking, which is why they’re pushing “low-entropy” under the guise of privacy. Microsoft is incentivized to go high-entropy as it gives a better fingerprint. If the attestation server is built into Windows, we have the same thing.

One of 2023's most extreme heat waves is happening in the middle of winter (phys.org)

Temperatures in parts of Chile and northern Argentina have soared to 10°C–20°C above average over the last few days. Towns in the Andes mountains have reached 38°C or more, while Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, saw temperatures above 30°C—breaking its previous August record by more than 5°C. Temperatures peaked at...

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It’s the upvote of kbin. I don’t know much more about it as I don’t use kbin.

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Lemmy is to reddit as Mastadon is to Twitter

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Try open street maps. It’s better than Google maps in some locations and worse in others. So ymmv based on where you live.

Open Street maps has a bunch of Android frontend apps, I use organic maps which is available on fdroid. You can use street-complete (also fdroid) to contribute to open street maps if you wish to do so.

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Reddit’s new logo

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I prefer it as it actually has both things pointing

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TLDR; remember how you liked putting site:reddit.com at the end of searches for specific product recommendations because it seemed like the last place left on the internet where you can get recommendations which weren’t blatant ads? Well fuck you, we gonna use the question context when choosing ads.

Example: Looking for headphone recs and go to a reddit post? You’re gonna see a headphone ad.

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Develop the knook in the center

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Ah, so O is what the knook is called. That is what I meant, just wasn’t sure of the notation with knooks.

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Bongo cloud opening

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Siberian swipe Left side

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Try googling en passant

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F is for French after all

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“They stole it! They stole Precious!”

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Why does the article assume that everyone knows what an osaka expo is. Shouldn’t they have at least one sentence summarizing what it is?

India cuts rice exports, triggering panic-buying of food staple by some Indian expats in the US (apnews.com)

Chatter on one of Prabha Rao’s WhatsApp groups exploded last week when India announced that it was severely curtailing some rice exports to the rest of the world, triggering worry among the Indian diaspora in the United States that access to a food staple from home might soon be cut off.

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Can confirm. Idli and Sona Masoori rice are as important as water.

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Endeavour

[fixed] Bug: Comments indented in opposite order.

When viewing individual comment trees, usually by opening a comment from my own history that has replies on it, or just clicking view context: the original comment is the furthest indented, with the replies indented one less, and further replies to those less indented still until the lowest level comment appears as the oc, but...

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I’m noticing the same thing.

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In many rural areas, no. Even midsized us cities have some neighborhoods you can’t leave by walking. These neighborhoods usually have only one or two exits and the exits are things like highways or other high speed limit, no sidewalk roads.

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Tweets

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Omedetou

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I want whatever this guy is on to see a women in that mountain

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And they fail because the bottom one looks hotter to me (person, not car. I concede that the top car looks better.)

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They mostly seem to be on the lemmynsfw instance, so you can sort by local there and have over 90% of the nsfw communities.

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Lmao, you really pulled the uno reverse card on them.

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Works fine for me on jerboa

Unpacking Google’s new “dangerous” Web-Environment-Integrity specification (vivaldi.com)

Will accessibility tools that rely on automating input to the browser cause it to become untrusted? Will it affect extensions? The spec does currently specify a carveout for browser modifications and extensions, but those can make automating interactions with a website trivial. So, either the spec is useless or restrictions will...

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Harder for scammers/hackers iirc.

But this also makes it harder for devs to run tests.

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Saw some Google bootlicker on GitHub issues talking about how the policy will prevent a lot of automated stuff including bots and many hacker tools.

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Blocking communities works fine for me. It doesn’t immediately block when I hit the block button, but when I refresh the feed, it does work.

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Iirc, it has some crypto and nft stuff built in which many ppl hate.

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fr fr

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Bihar, India apparently

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You mean do not fuck?

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Because it is legal in the US to bribe politicians and this company has a lot of money

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It’s not a direct quote, but the whole show is about piracy, freedom, and rebellion from dystopian governments.

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That’s why I dual boot. My windows is only for games with anti-cheats which don’t run on Linux. My Linux is for everything else.

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I use firefox/librewolf for everything and keep a chromium based browser around for those rare websites that don’t work well on Firefox (fuck you google drive, ik you’re doing it on purpose).

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Firefox nightly (the beta version of firefox) has been testing a native cookie denier. So we will probably get it soon.

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Yeah, don’t trust them kiwis.

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btrfs is great for system stability because of snapshots. You can set it up to automatically make snapshots at a timed interval or every time you run pacman.

If something breaks, you can just revert to a previous snapshot. You can even do this from grub. It’s a bit hard to set up, so if you want, you could use an arch based distro which automatically sets it up like GarudaOS.

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No, just defederate

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Stormlight archives fits everything except protagonist. It has multiple protagonists, not just one. Some of the protagonists are indeed male and around that age.

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exploding-heads.com

They have a bunch of communities and users, but they are all incel/transphobia themed. They have communities like !realmen (andrew tate rhetoric) and !dankmemes (transphobia). Block them if you value your sanity.

School shootings are not a gun problem

For those who argue that school shootings are a gun problem, it’s worth considering that in the aftermath of World War I, countless individuals had access to guns without experiencing these widespread, senseless acts of violence for no reason. Therefore, it’s clear that your argument has inherent shortcomings. Moreover, I...

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East asian countries have really high suicide rates, but no mass shooting problems. Their suicide rates show that they have mental health problems, but since it is hard to get a gun, they don’t do mass shootings in their suicide attempts.

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Let’s imagine you’re a suicidal person.

Option A: you live in the US

You try to purchase a gun. You google gun show, here’s the first result. You can go through it yourself to see how many gun shows there are near you. You go to one, find a private dealer, and now you can purchase a gun without any background checks.

You can now kill yourself using the gun. If you resent the world in general or hate a religion/race/ethnicity/etc in particular, you can kill a bunch of them in a public area before you suicide.

Option B: you live in any other developed country

You try to purchase a gun. The only way is to go through background checks or do it illegally.

You google how to do it illegally. No criminal ever publishes this because the cops would find them if they did. Do you know any criminals who have guns? Probably not. On the off chance that you do, they would sell it for a really high price since it’s illegal and thus harder to obtain. Most suicidal people would find this method to be too much effort and choose a different suicide method.

You try to steal a gun from a licensed gun owner. If there are very few licensed gun holders, this is hard to do. If there are a lot, you might be able to get a small hand gun, but you will still have difficulties getting semi automatic or automatic rifles which could result in larger mass shootings. Also you could get caught while stealing, or if the owner notices their gun is missing, they can report it to the police. Security cameras might catch you stealing it. All these are ways law enforcement can catch you before you actually do the shooting.

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Karl, Rock, Stone, Roll, Bone, Heart, Molly

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For op

You can skip the parts which just explain how rgb works.

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