sovietknuckles

@sovietknuckles@hexbear.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helicopter carrying Iran's president Raisi makes rough landing, says state TV⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TrueAnon rules for life

  Never ride in a helicopter. (Unless you’re a door gunner, or getting MEDEVACed.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US fines man $9.9 million for thousands of disturbing robocalls⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Though they have legitimate uses, including sales, public service announcements, charity requests, and political campaigns,

  Please no

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨COVID: German man vaccinated 217 times had no side effects⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While we found no signs of SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections in HIM to date, it cannot be clarified whether this is causally related to the hypervaccination regimen.

  Found my new preventative treatment plan

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any Linux users here?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What Linux distro do you use? What do you use it for?

  Arch Linux, it’s the most maintainable way to run the last versions of the software on my machine, which is useful to me as a developer.

  What is your experience with it?

  Breakage is rare. When it does happen, though, I can easily unbreak it by downgrading whichever single package lead to the breakage and its dependencies, and adding them to a IgnorePkg directive in my /etc/pacman.conf.

  Occasionally, I need to watch out for configuration files installed as .pacnew and upgrade my existing configuration to the new version (usually, it’s only comments that have changed between the current conf version and the .pacnew one, so nothing to do).

  Besides that, it works pretty much flawlessly. Arch Linux doesn’t patronize you with a “Don’t worry about that, we’ll handle it for you” attitude like Ubuntu, Fedora, or macOS. And there is no lower-effort way than Arch Linux to run the latest version of all software you have installed.

  Why did you switch to Linux?

  As a developer, I needed a *nix environment, but my workplace only gave me Windows. Cygwin was a pain to configure, required converting between Windows paths and Cygwin paths every step of the way in order to interoperate with my Windows environment (this was before WSL), and Windows-style line endings made my terminal look weird with some frequency.

  I didn’t start with Arch right away, I started with Antergos (a now discontinued Arch installer), which set things up initially and let me work with it from there. Importantly, it didn’t involve a completely separate package manager like Manjaro. If you want to use Arch, don’t start with Manjaro, because if you do, you will probably stay on Manjaro. A list of Arch-based distros is here, if you want to take this approach (Warning: Some people use an Arch installer, which is initially easy, accidentally break everything on an upgrade, and are unable to get it working again, so only do this if you’re committed to fixing your own problems).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WHITE WHALE HOLY GRAIL⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yes-hahaha-yes-1yes-hahaha-yes-2

  speech-r sicko-orca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cave Bears⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Using artwork without compensating the artist smh my head

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the industry’s largest trade groups penned a letter to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)—the entity overseeing Fannie Mae—warning that the program would have negative consequences.
  […]
  After that, Fannie didn’t take long to abandon the program.

  This sounds like FHFA’s fault for listening, lobbyists gonna lobby

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But one of the requirements of eIDAS 2.0 is that browser makers trust government-approved Certificate Authorities (CA) and do not implement security controls beyond those specified by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).

  State-mandated backdoors seem bad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the webp vulnerability (CVE-2023-4863) affect the Bromite browser?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Does the webp vulnerability (CVE-2023-4863) affect the Bromite browser?

  Yes

  I’d love to switch to another browser but to transfer all my data would require root access, which could damage my pixel 6. So I’m kinda stuck in a jam.

  Transferring your data to Firefox does not require root access

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I block all of Hexbear from All?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Instance-wide blocking will be a new feature in Lemmy 0.19.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mario voice actor has stepped down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Charles always draws Mario in his autograph, it’s part of his signature

  Charles Martinet signature

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Golang be like⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

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