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@ Muehe @lemmy.ml

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  • What is the lowest score you have achieved on EFF Cover Your Tracks?

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  • Well if anything breaks I suspect my add/script blockers first and in like 9/10 cases that's correct. Had turned fingerprinting resistance on since making that comment three weeks ago, and so far I didn't run into any problems beyond theming. Although I admittedly only frequent a small set of websites.

  • What is the lowest score you have achieved on EFF Cover Your Tracks?

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  • I found this in about:config, defaults to true apparently: privacy.resistFingerprinting.randomDataOnCanvasExtract

    But you have to enable privacy.resistFingerprinting for it to work first. I enabled that and now the EFF test says "randomized" for the hashes but also Lemmy went from dark to light theme somehow.

  • If landlords didn’t exist anymore, how would shared flats work?

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  • I moved into one recently and the the process was pretty much like any other flat I rented before. You apply, get invited to visit the flat, you say yes or no, they say yes or no, done. The only difference was that instead of a deposit I was paying for shares of the cooperative. Maybe it's different in smaller towns though, this was in a university town.

  • FreeCAD 1.0 released

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  • At what point does a war become a world war?

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  • Of course, Alabama school, it’s entirely possible that the lesson was complete nonsense.

    Nah, from a solely US perspective it's correct. There were ~1.6 million military casualties in the civil war, and ~1.07 million in WW2. But there were a few more parties involved in WW2, so it's kind of weird to frame it as less bloody. If you include civilians, estimates range from 70 to 85 million dead worldwide (not including the >20 million wounded soldiers and unknown number of wounded civilians).

  • At what point does a war become a world war?

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  • Ohhh, that's what they meant. Thanks for clearing that up, I was really confused by that unexpected US defaultism.

  • At what point does a war become a world war?

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  • The US Civil War eclipsed both in the number of casualties.

    Uhh what? Wikipedia says ~1.6 million casualties (including wounded, ~650k dead) in the civil war, while WW2 has 24 million military deaths alone.

  • Native German speakers: Are Hitler's speeches particularly compelling?

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  • Indeed. We shall find out it seems.

  • Native German speakers: Are Hitler's speeches particularly compelling?

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  • Well for lack of a better comparison, it's kind of like a Trump rally. Not quite, of course, the style Trump applies is tailored to the current American sensibilities, with his silly little dances and whatnot. But the way he wields anger and hate and "patriotism" to get a rise out of the crowd seems very much alike. And yeah, it's sadly undeniable that Hitler had a talent for this. Greater one than Trump maybe.

  • More than funding: Sovereign Tech Fund to become an agency

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  • can’t see how this can possibly be a good thing, you know it will mean funding with conditions.

    Well, the things they are funding will get funded? How is that a bad thing?!

    The conditions range from very broad, like "fix bugs" (curl), over somewhat specific like "improve cross-platform compatibility and the Linux RNG" (Wireguard), to very specific like "create a test-suite and drive development on the Fediverse account migration functionality" (ActivityPub).

    You can see more for yourself at https://www.sovereign.tech/tech

    All of these seem to be rather tame conditions that are just there to ensure the funds get used in the way they were intended to be used. And I don't really see how that gives the STF any sort of direct control over these projects, while it gives those projects resources to achieve more than they might have otherwise. There are no long-term funding models that would enable implicit control over these projects.

  • ZDNET: 20 years later, real-time Linux makes it to the kernel - really

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  • android auto

    First I heard of this, but since it seems to be just some software that runs on the hardware of car manufacturers it seems rather unlikely. But very theoretically possible, if the car manufacturer was using default process scheduling in a CPU constrained machine and now switches to real-time scheduling in an update. But that was possible for years before this news, the code has just been mainlined to the default kernel now. If the car manufacturer cared about that they would probably have done it already with a patched kernel.

  • So this guy believes in Nick Cannon, who has 12 children with six women

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  • You thought it was AI, but she just has ulnar polydactyly. How do I know this is ulnar instead of radial or central polydactyly? The wedding ring, it's on the ring finger.

    (/s of course, this is obviously AI. But yeah people with extra fingers do in fact exist. They or the parents often cut away the extra finger for cosmetic reasons.)

  • AI Rule

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  • I'll have you know that this is famous sci-fi author Charles David George Stross posting an excerpt from his seminal novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus. The warning is right in the title, I'm sure nobody will be dumb enough to ignore it!

  • How are there so many of them

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  • [...] a public institution is really not a great example of the general population [...]

    Which I touched upon in my disclaimer, but in some ways it is a great example. Public institutions are defined by the general population, indirectly through their representatives creating the rules that govern them, and directly through contact with the public at large. Now if all our institutions still use this very outdated technology, and you can have trouble convincing them - during a global pandemic mind you - that using email is just as safe as using fax (so not safe at all basically), then that speaks to a larger mindset in the general population.

    Many in the general public are also a lot quicker, some might even say careless, with adopting new technology of course. But as a society we are rather slow, and there are surprisingly many individuals who are hesitant or entirely resistant to adopting new technology. The fediverse usage is a bubble in a bubble here.

    The internet infrastructure is another good example for this on the societal level, as there were plans in the 1980ies [!] to lay out a glass fibre network between every publicly used building in the country, which would have gotten us a good part of the way towards adopting this new material at scale. But in the end it was deemed unnecessary and too expensive and the project got canned (mixed in with rumours of "close friendship" between the chancellor and a major copper producer). Instead now we have people running around thirty years later and collecting signatures at the door for last-mile fibre network projects that seldom make quorum and thus almost never materialise public funding.

  • How are there so many of them

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    1. [...] But also how are Germans technologically behind regarding common personal life?

    I bet you wherever in Germany you are, if you go to the website of your local city government right now they will have a still active fax number in their contact information. I guarantee it. Well if they have a website that is.

    Which is a bit silly as an example but highlights the central problem, which is that adoption of new technology happens at a glacial pace, especially in public institutions. There are many reasons for that of course, some good, like the aforementioned inclination towards privacy, some bad like whatever allows fax machines to still be around.

    And don't get me started on internet infrastructure... In an international comparison we certainly aren't leading the field regarding adoption of new technologies.

  • Rule

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  • Depends on the kind of colour blindness you have I guess. I think I have the congenital red-green blindness common among men, and saturate Just Works™ for me. Plus I don't have to fiddle with setting a rotation degree there.

  • [Solved] Can't connect to host after enabling WireGuard tunnel

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  • Oh yeah, can't use the same IP range as your LAN, that will lead to problems. :D Glad it's fixed.

    Out of curiosity, does forwarding work now without the output (-o) command in PostUp?

  • Rule

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  • PSA for my fellow colour blind people, you can use inspect element option of your browser to add a filter: saturate(100); rule to the element for this kind of image:

  • [Solved] Can't connect to host after enabling WireGuard tunnel

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  • Like I said in another thread on this post, I'm pretty sure that's because they are forwarding input but not output in the PostUp rules. Setting a /32 in AllowedIPs works fine for me.