icydefiance

@icydefiance@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yeah, they’re just blocking known fingerprinting services. If you use a tool that they don’t recognize, it’ll still work.

  The only alternative is probably to disable WebGL entirely, which isn’t a reasonable thing to do by default.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My personal favourite: "Oh, fuck me. CHRIST."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just use git blame-someone-else.

  github.com/jayphelps/git-blame-someone-else

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I manage the infrastructure for almost 150 WordPress sites, and I moved them all to ARM servers a while ago, because they’re 10% or 20% cheaper on AWS.

  Websites are rarely bottlenecked by the CPU, so that power efficiency is very significant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dotnet developer⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why the fuck aren’t more people pressuring him with questions like this?

  Because they’ll never get another interview with him, or most other Republican politicians. It’s a pathetic reason, but that’s all it takes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2867: DateTime⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When a leap second happens, unix time jumps back by a second. See the section about leap seconds here: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘People have no idea’: How smart devices spy on us and reveal information about our homes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I know that a car pollutes…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only thing getting developed is a headache⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think so, but you can always write the file somewhere else and then sudo mv it back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only thing getting developed is a headache⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  :w !sudo tee %

  Of course that’s impossible to remember, but you can just google “vim sudo save” or something like that to find it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Blargerer is probably saying that because the Mastodon post OP linked to says “In 2016 the EU Commission confirmed in writing that adblock detection requires consent.”

  That, in turn, is probably referring to a letter received from the European Commission by the same person, which you can see here: twitter.com/alexanderhanff/…/722861362607747072

  It’s not exactly a “ruling”, but it’s still pretty convincing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could play one game for the first time all over again, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you haven’t already, try some modpacks. For extra difficulty, the packs based on GregTech are pretty amazing, like GregTech: New Horizons or Nomifactory. They make it so complicated to produce items that you’re kind of forced to automate things, and then you keep expanding what your automation can do.

  GTNH takes like 2 years to build a pair of star gates if you’re playing alone, and they keep making it harder. It’s a massive amount of content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hell freezes over, MS Paint adds support for layers and PNG transparency⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly what they are. Apparently they can optionally use compression and even transparency, but last time I used paint it didn’t do any of that, which is why the files were so massive.