I grew to positively *detest* the site after some really high-handed behaviour by one particularly sanctimonious "moderator". At one point it tipped the scales for me; I canceled my account and deleted as much of my contributions as I could.
So it feels really good to read this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I stopped reading dilbert back in 2017 or so when I realised he is a Trump supporter. Not that it makes a difference to anyone, but in my mind it does make a difference to me.
The reversal will almost certainly happen. The reasons behind it will not be "provable" in the "100%" sense, but these groups have deep pockets. Just wait...
...a reversal to the plan
I don't have an FB account, so this is not me defending a platform I use. I have no love for FB.
But that does not mean someone else cannot be worse.
Facebook buying your data from elsewhere is still far less of a problem compared to putting malware **on** your phone, which is apparently what these guys have done.
The NSO's victims usually don't even know they're victims until the Stasi come after them, and they've done *nothing* to make think something is wrong.
FB's victims wilfully supply the data that may be used against them (even if only in a "you're the product" sense), and despite increasing awareness (e.g., Cambridge Analytica, Trump, Brexit, etc) don't seem to care.
I am getting the same feeling of joy and elation I got when Matt Honan got royally screwed because he trusted a service that had the power to reach back over the internet and delete stuff on his *local* hard disk.
People who rely on Apple so much, deserve all this and more.
(I know there are lots of nuances in the actual incident, but the starting point is "Apple Pay").
don't know about Europe, but in India most transfers do take less than 8 seconds. It's called NEFT and has been around since 2005. A variant that works outside working hours, IMPS, has been around since 2011. This one is not run by the RBI (RBI == India's "Fed") but by a corporation that is owned by a consortium of banks, and promoted by the RBI.
My bank imposes a 30-minute wait to add a new payee, but once the payee is added, any number of payments to the payee can be done instantly, any number of times, from then on. (Subject to some monthly limit on total such transfers, a limit which I have no hope of hitting so I don't really remember what it is).
They're all hedging, "just in case". The purchase is tied to the current price of BTC, and they cash it in almost immediately.
So yeah, I wouldn't say "no one legit", but I'd guess that 90% of BTC use is criminal activity of some kind or other.
If you are able to do it from a proper computer (or rather, using a browser), NEFT has been around since 2005, so instant transfers during bank working hours have been around since then.
Instant transfers outside bank working hours is IMPS, which has been around since 2011 or so.
very apropos, from Bunny himself (if you have not heard of him, you should not be making comments about USB and stuff like that anyway): https://people.kernel.org/bleu...
It's not clear what the reason for a backup browser is, despite looking at several replies.
I use only firefox, but on 2 different userids.
I have a "scratch" userid (I call it ff, for firefox) where I do all my normal browsing. This is run from within firejail, and Ctrl-Shift-Delete is applied regularly. JS is disabled using "Disable Javascript" extension, which has the nice feature that you can enable JS *by tab* -- very convenient when a site will get JS from arbitrary places and you still want it to work.
On the same userid, using different firejail settings, I run firefox -- effectively from a temporary and completely different $HOME -- for sites where I have to login, but I don't consider them critical. Slashdot, reddit,
I have another, medium security, userid, from which I run firejailed firefox, which is used *only* for sites where I have to authenticate myself *and* the site is important. Anything to do with money for instance. Or gmail (on the rare occasions when I have to do something that cannot be done from Thunderbird), etc. Note this is a completely different Linux userid, for additional separation.
No passwords are saved anywhere; I use a small shell script that gets stuff out of Jason Donenfeld's "pass" program (i.e., GPG protected password file).
mpv is just a player; if you really want to use youtube from a terminal install something called "mps-youtube" ("pip3 install --user mps-youtube" should do it).
This is much more of a youtube interface. It in turn can use vlc (what I use) or, I seem to recall, mpv, as the actual player.
You can search for videos, sort them by various criteria, download them via its builtin downloader or anything else you have... it's a very nice tool!
+1 from me too.
As someone who has tried (and failed) several times to learn Haskell, I cannot describe how much I am in awe of someone like Audrey Tang and her sheer brain power.
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"It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them." -- Alfred Adler
