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Limonene

@ Limonene @lemmy.world

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  • Feature parity or get out

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  • Thanks, that looks a little better, but still missing things like sending keystrokes to non-active windows. (Also, I'm on Mate desktop on most my computers.)

  • Feature parity or get out

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  • I just need xdotool. ydotool is missing almost everything. I don't need programs sandboxed from each other. I don't need that multi-DPI stuff (200% scaling works fine in X). Wayland doesn't provide any features I'm missing.

  • Removed

    Something odd happened on Reddit today..

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  • The simplest explanation is that OP doesn't have good opsec, and got a few tracking cookies after deleting cookies, before setting up their proxy/VPN. Then, on the VPN, the advertiser recognized their VPN IP address, and chose to exclude that from generating location data, deferring instead to the location indicated in their existing tracking cookies.

    Privacy is hard. The system is rigged against privacy. You have to do everything perfectly, because one simple mistake could leak your IP address.

  • What's your favorite joke that doesn't translate to English very well?

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  • In the garden, there are two chickens.

  • AWS is having a bad day

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  • It would be a more meaningful discussion if the government wasn't controlled so much by large corporations and oligarchs.

  • "Is that ham processed"

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  • Or maybe God likes it. Maybe God is thinking, "I wish I had thought to make something so horrific. This is art in its terribleness."

  • Have you tried self-hosting your own email recently?

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  • I have self hosted my email since 2006. I gave up on self hosting outgoing mail in 2021, but I still keep the server up for incoming mail, and still set up throwaway accounts on there.

    The hard part of hosting email is getting Google and Microsoft to accept outgoing mail. Tons of businesses that do not have visibly outlook .com or gmail .com addresses are still hosted by those servers.

    I had SPF, DKIM, and a static datacenter IP address with no reputation problems. I still couldn't get through to Microsoft, not even in people's junk mail directory, until they manually whitelisted my address. Microsoft didn't allow them to whitelist a whole domain. Google was a little easier, but they added new demands monthly.

    In 2025, I can't get reliable delivery to gmail .com addresses even sending from a hotmail .com address in the outlook .com web interface.

  • How does streaming compare to "analog"?

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  • Yeah, true, but that's mostly fixed costs, and has a pretty low incremental cost for each video delivered. The fixed costs we have to pay regardless.

  • How does streaming compare to "analog"?

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  • Electrical engineer here. There is almost no difference.

    The cost of streaming video from a server to your computer is pretty small, basically just transferring the bytes from a hard drive to a network card. This happens in a datacenter on a big server designed to be efficient at it, and serve a ton of people at once. Your own electricity consumption on your viewing device is likely much higher than that. You can calculate your electricity consumption using a Kill-A-Watt or similar device, but here are some averages of measurements I've made on my devices:

    • PC with 27" LCD monitor: 150W
    • 50" TV: 300W
    • Laptop with internal 14" screen: 40W
    • Phone with 5" screen: 10W roughly, but it's complicated
    • Phone with screen off, speaker only: 2W (guessing here)
    • Handheld FM radio: less than 1W

    If you look at your computer's CPU usage while watching video, it's mostly idle. So most of the power consumption is the screen's backlight.

    Assuming worst-case coal power, releasing 0.4kg of carbon per kWh, and a large TV, and let's say 10% overhead for the server's energy cost, that's 0.13kg of carbon per hour. So don't worry about it.

  • Reminding my computer who owns who.

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  • I got GOG Galaxy working in Steam, through Proton, as an "Add a non-Steam Game". I'll have to try Heroic Launcher.

  • Leave it to a Bezos-owned company to confuse customers and mislead them for profit.

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  • I loaded a bunch of articles until it prompted me to pay. I got the screenshot below. In my opinion, this is an intentionally misleading fake 50c/month offer.

  • The sheer amount of websites that are completely unusable without JavaScript

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  • a slide out menu needs JavaScript

    A slide out menu can be done in pure CSS and HTML. Imho, it would look bad regardless.

    When if you said just send the parts of the page that changed, that dynamic content loading would still be JavaScript

    OP is trying to access a restaurant website that has no interactivity. It has a bunch of static information, a few download links for menu PDFs, a link to a different domain to place an order online, and an iframe (to a different domain) for making a table reservation.

    The web dev using javascript on that page is lazy, yet also creating way more work for themself.

  • The sheer amount of websites that are completely unusable without JavaScript

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  • He's also one of the inventors of Javascript as a browser feature. I feel like that would matter to OP.

  • The sheer amount of websites that are completely unusable without JavaScript

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  • Search is easier to implement without Javascript than with.

     
        
<form method="GET" action="/search">
<input name="q">
<input type=submit>
</form>

  • is there any legitimate use of blockchains?

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  • The point of the blockchain is to achieve distributed consensus of what's in the database. That way, one entity can't unilaterally change what the database says.

    If you have a public non-profit institution maintaining the database, obligated to serve all legal customers, with serious consequences for tampering with it, you can get pretty much everything blockchain can do, for a billionth of the computing power.

    But with that system, you would lose these features:

    • partially-anonymous participants
    • service of all customers, even illegal ones
    • immunity to court orders

  • Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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  • Cloudflare has IP banned me before for no reason (no proxy, no VPN, residential ISP with no bot traffic). They've switched their captcha system a few times, and some years it's easy, some years it's impossible.

  • I could show you a trick or two

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  • killall -u 1001

    I think top has a way to do it interactively.

  • Does anyone have a Faraday bag for phone that works?

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  • Aluminum foil works. At least, I can't receive calls or texts through it last I tried.

    Get the heavy duty kind. It's not any more conductive, but is more durable against tearing.

    Note that a gap in your phone's tracking data can look suspicious at times. Sometimes it's less suspicious to leave your phone at home.

  • Have you ever cried because of a video game?

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  • No video game's story has ever made me cry. But I've cried a little from games that I loved, but played to death, getting every achievement and realizing there was absolutely nothing more to experience.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    Limonene @lemmy.world

    Is Ubuntu shipping software with known security vulnerabilities?

  • linuxmemes @lemmy.world
    Limonene @lemmy.world

    Year of Linux on the Desktop