Emotet

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[–] Emotet@slrpnk.net 102 points 2 months ago (6 children)

15-20 years ago, I'd have agreed with you. But apart from a select few news sites and exceedingly rare static sites, what percentage of websites most users use day to day actually function even minimally without JavaScript?

I'm convinced that in practice, most users would be conditioned to whitelist pretty much every site they visit due to all the breakage. Still a privacy and security improvement, but a massive one? I'm not sure.

Very happy to be convinced otherwise.

[–] Emotet@slrpnk.net -1 points 2 months ago

I wrote a simple, locally running Webapp some time ago, that targets the Lemmy Import-/Export-API and supports transferring only specific userdata between accounts, as demonstrated in this corresponding Wiki Entry.

The import functionality in Lemmy is additive in nature, meaning anything you import gets added on top of existing settings instead of replacing it.

Does the same thing as these manual instructions for this usecase, may be helpful to some.

[–] Emotet@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Ehhh.

Yeah, compared to a few years ago, it's very much improved and a lot of games, especially those on Steam, run pretty good and in rare cases even better than on their native platform, Windows.

But the pretty much broken state of VR support combined with some annoying bugs that are very hard to troubleshoot even for advanced users, the decision by most AAA and even some smaller studios to actively block Linux clients in multiplayer games via anti-cheat measures and the usual Linux fuckery of HDR, VRR (which hopefully will get better now that Wayland is getting there) and some NVIDIA fuckery (which is also getting better) leads to the following conclusions for me:

  1. Linux Gaming is improving.
  2. If all you play are some indie titles and/or single-player titles, you may be good.
  3. If you want to play in VR, most popular multiplayer titles and rely on features such as HDR and VRR, you'll still need to dual boot into Windows.

I'm very much looking forward to the day when I can fully banish Windows, at least from my private machines. I'm very tolerant towards debugging and living on the bleeding edge, if that is needed. But I don't see the need for Windows for PC gaming to go away anytime soon for most users and, frankly, writing love letters to Linux Gaming without mentioning even some hurdles can, has and will take new Linux users by surprise and turn them off. Communicating transparently, so the user can make their own informed decisions, is a better strategy.

[–] Emotet@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

if you've flown for 12 hours with all that entails to go to the US (for a reason) and are presented with the choice of unlocking your phone or be denied entry, you will cooperate. Especially if you moved all your sensitive info beforehand.

[–] Emotet@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago

I'd appreciate it very much!

[–] Emotet@slrpnk.net 0 points 3 months ago

Great suggestion to secure the backups themselfes, but I'm more concerned about the impact an attacker on my network might have on the external network and vice versa.

[–] Emotet@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That'd be the gold standard. Unfortunately, the external network utilizes infrastructure that doesn't support specifying firewall rules on the existing separate VLAN, so all rules would have to be applied on the Pi itself or on yet another device between, which is something I'd like to avoid. Great general advice, though!

[–] Emotet@slrpnk.net 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Emotet@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 months ago

Even skipping the point of travelling between star systems in the future, as that is highly doubtful at best, that's not a principle I subscribe to.

It's usually way more economical to go for scale rather than individualism, let's look at some examples.

Travelling by bus or train is way cheaper and more efficient than travelling by car. Travelling by cruise ship/ferry is way cheaper and more efficient than getting your own boat. Travelling by passenger plane is way cheaper and more efficient than travelling by business jet which in turn is more efficient than getting your own little plane, which might not even be able to get you where you want to go.

Generally, especially when involving long distances and the material needs associated with it, having a big enough vessel to share the costs and limit the need to restock (en route) to a minimum.

Bar safety, logistical and cost concerns, we could already cram a nuclear reactor in a car or a bus. We don't because it simply doesn't make sense.

I see no reason why that logic wouldn't apply to some magical device that would enable interstellar travel, even if it would be able to instantly teleport you to your location without having enormous energy requirements.

[–] Emotet@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 months ago

Yikes. Thanks for putting in the works and sharing your findings to you and @Nothing4You@programming.dev.

[–] Emotet@slrpnk.net 37 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Ah. So Lemmy with version 0.19.4+ allows users to set a custom thumbnail URL for a post, which can be set to pretty much anything resembling a valid link, especially a link to another image in the local pictrs db and trigger a deletion of both when a minimum age check is passed.

Also this:

Except that the field allows some funny URLs e.g. https://t.t/;';'%22;...[:%3C%3E?]%27;%20yaba%20daba%20doo, if this is an issue too is not confirmed

Relevant XKCD

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