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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They should be pretty on it for security updates. Librewolf is also hardened compared to upstream Firefox so if security is a concern, you’re probably better off using the fork anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s so easy to “use wrong” then it’s badly designed software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody’s saying it’s mandatory. People don’t want their web browsers to be full of bloated AI slop. Why should there be the AI components of Firefox on my hard drive if I’m never going to use them? Why should my web browser be full of low quality features I’ll never use? It’s enshittification. Not to mention the very quote you’re pasting specifies that it’s opt-out, not opt-in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It increases the workload for fork devs the more crap they have to remove from upstream and the more the fork deviates from upstream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what websites you’re using, but default uBlock Origin works completely fine with all the websites I visit, and it doesn’t use AI. It just uses blocking rules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨at what point in life it's too late to go back to school?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been through surgically induced menopause and I’m fine? It’s a bit baffling and honestly misogynistic to suggest that basically any woman from middle age onwards is incapable of doing a degree. I don’t think menopause made me stupider.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨at what point in life it's too late to go back to school?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this question greatly depends on where you live. Is uni free where you live? I’m guessing not from you mentioning the cost of a degree and debt. Then how does the debt work? In some countries, the government issues student loans that are repaid much less stringently than most loans, and it’s not a big deal.

  Depending on how the system works where you are, I’d weigh up the financial cost of going back to school vs what you would gain from it. What are you looking to get? Education for the sake of education? A better job, such that the financial cost of the degree will repay itself? The uni experience you missed out on? Something else? How much do you value that thing compared to how much it will cost you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there so many Christmas songs, yet hardly any New Year's ones?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Jingle bells and sleigh ride reference modern christmas traditions (Santa)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there so many Christmas songs, yet hardly any New Year's ones?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  New Year’s is celebrated by everyone

  I mean, for a lot of people the lunar new year is more significant than the solar new year.

  In any case, I guess it’s twofold—the proximity of xmas and solar new year mean that a lot of christmas songs double as new years songs, and also that there’s more culture and tradition associated with christmas than with the solar new year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does everyone put celery in soup stock?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s interesting… I like getting chunks of carrot and celery in my soups. I deliberately cut them large, about as large as you can get whilst fitting on a spoon, for that reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are skin readings a thing when it comes to psychics?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It does, but people of any gender can be abusers etc. It is a real problem that lesbian survivors of abuse from a female partner find it difficult to escape their partner because their partners are e.g. allowed into women’s shelters. It’s also not hard to understand that the environment of homophobia and misogyny leads to many women and girls getting into toxic relationships with each other where abuse can develop. I say this as a lesbian who was in some unhealthy relationships in my teen years. A lot of lesbians have similar experiences. I’m not saying that lesbians are predatory on a level comparable with straight men, but I am saying that narratives around abuse and violence completely ignore the violence that LGBT people may experience in their own relationships. Judging by OP’s profile picture they are also a young lesbian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what happens when you cut something?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In most cases cutting causes a physical change not a chemical change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are skin readings a thing when it comes to psychics?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lesbians exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wasn’t talking about any laws. I was talking about one specific cybersquatter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re not talking about an individual, we’re talking about Lamborghini. I think cybersquatting Lamborghini is fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For personal use? To automate tasks you do or solve a problem you have?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are people with High functioning autism allowed to become police officers?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t become a cop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosted alternatives to Discord with screensharing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I find Matrix janky but still usable. What homeserver implementation and what client are you using? I use tuwunel and nheko. tuwunel works great for me and I think it’s probably a disservice to the Matrix protocol that the “canonical” homeserver implementation is written in Python. Nheko is somewhat janky for me but I like it more than Element, and I think most of the jankiness is because of the Matrix protocol rather than the client.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosted alternatives to Discord with screensharing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use self-hosted Jitsi for screen share, although this is just video conference software without the IM aspect of Discord. (Jitsi does have IM to be clear, but it’s a chat tied to a particular meeting, not like a persistent groupchat.) You could just use Signal chats as you have already been doing and send Jitsi links when you want to call. Jitsi has E2EE although I’m not up to date on the details of how it works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people who have bad relationship with their parents care about "insults" like "I fucked your mom last night"? Or do you just not care?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well those insults are usually not very serious. If they are intended genuinely then no I don’t care if you insult my parents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you update software on your servers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Automatic updated for system packages. Automatic container updates with docker. I normally have things pinned to a reasonable major or minor release, so I do manual upgrades for new OS release branches and usually pin to a major version for Docker containers but depends on the container.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2025 Self-Host User Survey: Open for Submissions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There was one question where it wouldn’t let me do this. I think the media streaming question I had to click “Other”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those who don't use dashboards, how are you managing your services?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Never used a dashboard… I just manage my services on the cli with plain docker commands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to manage docker compose apps?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Watchtower for automated updates. For containers that don’t have a latest tag to track, editing the version number manually and then docker compose pull && docker compose up -d is simple enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for Note taking app with simple needs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, if you use the “task list” block. You can also have checkbox bullet points but I don’t use them, not really sure what the use-case for those are when you can just use the task list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for Note taking app with simple needs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I self-host Notesnook and found it easy to set up. Been using it as my main note-taking app for years now and I’m really happy with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone who’s in the business of stealing computers would just stick it in a faraday bag. I guess for an entire server you’d need a sizeable cage though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk about Immich but Vaultwarden is just a Cargo project no? Cargo statically links crates by default but I think can be configured to do dynamic linking too. The Rust ecosystem seems to favour static linking in general just by convention.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is only because Microsoft’s employees have been relentless in their pressure on their bosses. They’ve been doing occupations of Microsoft buildings, office crashes, etc. They fire the employees who take part but then there are more employees who crop up in their place; there are just too many to fire them all. And Microsoft still provides a lot of support to Israel, so don’t be fooled into thinking that things are over.