cecilkorik

@cecilkorik@piefed.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got my first printer, what else do I need? Any tips on setup?⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Once you get the hang of the basics, the “Articulated” models of various creatures are lots of fun for kids. A lot of them have already seen them at school. Surprisingly easy to print. You may need to use a brim or raft on some of them to make sure the small contact patch on each of the segments gets enough bed adhesion, but other than that, they print-in-place with no assembly required.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe this works but I agree there should be a UI for it (preferably under the “enhanced tracking protection” shield to the left of the URL), and I have to admit I run with RFP disabled too. It’s close, but I think it still needs a little more work to be practical, for most people at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The most compartmentalized setup would be to run librewolf --ProfileManager as a command to start the profile manager, you can set up multiple profiles, and it will either prompt you at startup, or you can create shortcuts for each profile with librewolf -P <profilename>. Each one is basically a completely different instance, with different settings, different history, and different addons.

  Personally, I think that’s overkill, but it may suit you.

  The approach I’d recommend, is to leave the default settings on, and once you spend enough time setting up your exceptions and umatrix configuration for the sites you do want to be logged in at or buy stuff with, you can get the best of both worlds in one profile, but admittedly that takes a little more know-how and work, and it sometimes feels like it never ends, but it does get much better once you’ve got 95% of your typical stuff sorted out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve used both and while Waterfox is pretty good, Librewolf is superior. It’s more aggressive in its privacy settings by default, you can either tone that down or learn to work with it (I recommend the latter, which takes some effort and is a different way of doing things, treating privacy as something you have to actively opt-out of on a case by case basis, which will benefit you in the long run).

  Unlike Waterfox, Librewolf has also never had a problem where it “accidentally” sold itself to an advertising company and then changed its mind, but even despite Waterfox’s strange and concerning escapades with System1, I still think Librewolf is simply better on its own merits, nevermind its moral purity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, I am a 99% desktop user so that explains why I’ve never really heard of it. Sounds like a good option for my phone, not that I ever use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure how that’s any different than disabling anti-fingerprinting in Librewolf. It’s literally one switch.

  To me, the value is in the assurance that Librewolf is never going to follow any of these kind of stupid trends, the way it demonstrates they’re actually putting me first, not major websites nor themselves. It’s not about their features or configuration out of the box, it’s more about their demonstrated priorities and decision making process that gives me confidence.

  I’m not so familiar with IronFox, maybe I should check it out too, but I do know Waterfox has made a number of… questionable decisions in the past. It was literally owned by an advertising company (System1) for awhile, which was very alarming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So many people mentioning (inferior, in my opinion) Firefox alternatives in the comments and nobody’s mentioned Librewolf? Really? Maybe Librewolf will have to become a hard fork someday if this continues, but for now, it’s just Firefox for people who care about their data. Aside from a few justifiably aggressive default settings, I’ve never had even a hint of an issue with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are fascists subverting every location on the political spectrum, none of them are immune. We’ve been trained to think in terms of “left” or “right” but these fuckers are coming at us sideways and corrupting our whole politcal spectrum at once. Don’t fall for it, pay attention to actions, not labels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the domain name system is the tragedy of the commons. We all share it, and cybersquatters fucking it up for any of us fuck it up for all of us.

  Companies on the other hand, are just a fucking tragedy in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is always okay to punch Nazis. You don’t need a reason. (serious answer though: I have no idea what kicked it off, my comment still stands though, it’s always okay to punch Nazis.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pre-Trump47 I was in the first camp. I’m not going to lie about how long it took me to figure it out. It was always obvious that the system was broken, but I’ll admit that for a long time I was foolish enough to believe the system worked well enough that it was worth trying to fix, that the fundamentals were sound and there was enough good there to want to save it.

  Recent events have shown and continue to show me how naive I’ve been, none of this is an accident, it’s all part of the poker game and we’re all putting in most of the chips that keep it going whether we know it or not. And I have to be thankful that Russia, China, USA, Israel, Europe, and even my own country’s governments have made this all so abundantly clear that even I (and hopefully a lot of other people) can finally see it. I’m joining the resistance. Fuck the system and all the crooked people involved in it, it’s time for a cyberpunk revolution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who shops at small businesses?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Too late I already starved to death long ago. I am just a ghost in the machine, still screaming at the injustice of the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Options for remote Wake-on-lan. Or I guess wake on WAN.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just be cautious, thoughtful and sensible if you do. Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who shops at small businesses?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps I was laying it on a little thick for you, but sometimes you’ve really got to sledgehammer the point home, to ensure the people in the back can hear. My point has been made, nobody is obligated to take it personally, you are welcome to ignore it or do with it whatever you please. That said, if your instinct is to take it as a personal attack directed at you, maybe the point actually is directed at you after all. I tend to trust people’s own judgements on this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who shops at small businesses?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only buying things that are the lowest price has many consequences and not all of them are beneficial to you. Sometimes it’s just that the thing you are buying for the lowest price is crappy and poor quality. But now we are coming to realize that one of those consequences might be the destruction of the world. Figure out how to price that consequence into your economic model, and choose accordingly.

  Apparently not destroying the world is more valuable to some people than others. Personally, I would pay at least 1000% more to not destroy the world, because not destroying the world is really important to me. Maybe it’s not as important to other people, I don’t know. The wonderful thing about the world we are destroying is that everyone gets to make their own decisions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is some very black or white, us or them, red team vs blue team thinking. It’s very interesting that you immediately jump to that conclusion when I am not even from the US at all. The answer to your question is absolutely not, and the fact that it’s a “world economy” doesn’t and shouldn’t mean any people are obligated to do business with and accept the controlling interest of literal monsters fueled by oil and oil money. Ethics must also be allowed to control the economy, not just money. The world’s financial systems have consequences beyond just the economy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s definitely not new, but it’s time to start thinking about how strange it is, and start pulling these assholes off their money-merry-go-round.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"GullyCricketApp" based on a reduced cricket game + 2 Business Ideas+ 1 Network Diagnostic's Tool by SATYABRATA SARKAR⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahahahaha it is $150, on sale. I think only Elon Musk would understand and enjoy this game. It is too much for me. True geniuses only.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks very nicely built I would be pleased to have one of these in my home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anubis is awesome and I want to talk aout it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  if you are a creator and you’d prefer to not make use of JS (there’s dozens of us) then forcing people to go through a JS “security check” feels kind of shit. The alternative is to just take the hammering, and that feels just as bad.

  I’m with you here. I come from an older time on the Internet. I’m not much of a creator, but I do have websites, and unlike many self-hosters I think, in the spirit of the internet, they should be open to the public as a matter of principle, not cowering away for my own private use behind some encrypted VPN. I want it to be shared. Sometimes that means taking a hammering. It’s fine. It’s nothing that’s going to end the world if it goes down or goes away, and I try not to make a habit of being so irritating that anyone would have much legitimate reason to target me.

  I don’t like any of these sort of protections that put the burden onto legitimate users. I get that’s the reality we live in, but I reject that reality, and substitute my own. I understand that some people need to be able to block that sort of traffic to be able to limit and justify the very real costs of providing services for free on the Internet and Anubis does its job for that. But I’m not one of those people. It has yet to cost me a cent above what I have already decided to pay, and until it does, I have the freedom to adhere to my principles on this.

  To paraphrase another great movie: Why should any legitimate user be inconvenienced when the bots are the ones who suck. I refuse to punish the wrong party.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waymo Forced to Halt Overnight Operations As Punishment for Causing Nonstop Ruckus⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The executives should not have any immunity to prosecution, we need to start holding them accountable. The technology is never the problem, technology just provides us with tools, like any tools sometimes they can be dangerous and deserve immense respect, but it’s the people using them and deciding how they are used who are making those tools and technologies actually hurt and kill people, not the technology. A tool is not inherently good or bad, it does not have intentions or motivations. People do. Let the technology be a technology, and hold the people accountable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[beta] Scatola Magica⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They both have their place. WebDav is an established standard, by implementing it you are collaborating with all the other implementations that already use and are compatible with WebDav in some way. You join a growing ecosystem of many choices and people can easily plug your software into their architecture and plug their architecture into your software with an absolute minimum of work on their part, potentially allowing it to become widely used. This is good.

  Having a socket and API allows anyone who wants to, to collaborate with your software specifically, allowing them to be able to do things highly specific to your software, but requiring more specialized work to implement. These kind of implementations can deliver great functionality but they’re likely going to be few and far between because they are more work to develop and maintain. These are very different situations, being sought by different people with different goals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People just like it better. You’re probably overthinking these things. The point of federation is so that these decisions don’t matter as much. (Almost) all the instances are connected and sharing the same community and content. There is no magic “best” place to be, and if there is, it won’t be because it’s “popular” it will be because it’s “the right one for you”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make Amazon Pay⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And you can buy exactly the same Chinese crap direct from China much, much cheaper. Slower, yes, but Amazon’s getting to be a real expensive middleman and that speed is rarely worth it. Patience pays dividends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starbound Fans: New Dedicated Server Open to Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  PVP? Strictly yes, strictly no, or opt-in?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people with epilepsy triggered by flashing lights, drive past trees that are backlit by the sun?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have epilepsy, but I do get migraines, and what you described is a perfect trigger for me.

  Best way to avoid it is don’t drive when the sun is low in the sky or on roads lined with very tall trees. If for some reason I was trapped in such a situation, which is not really likely since it’s very predictable if it’s something you’re interested in avoiding, I would probably slow down, find somewhere to pull over, and just wait it out. But yeah, it is bad. I don’t do it if I can at all help it, because I avoid getting into that situation like the plague.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Beta Starbound was the shit. Release was just shit, with no “the”. They took a great game of endless discovery and procedural generation with a gameplay loop that just worked out of beta and filled it with completely predictable set pieces and juvenile hard-coded nonsense. They literally added a poop emoji monster FFS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Refrigerator ads are finally here!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that you need updates for a phone is a symptom of the same sort of problem though. These companies are holding us digitally hostage, they tie more ropes around us every day, and the only way to escape is to get out of their reach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Refrigerator ads are finally here!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your sentiment is understandable but I have some concerns. Children are usually pretty innocent, and worse, they’re often very quick, and surprisingly resilient so even if you do hit them you might not even succeed at causing major injury.

  I recommend reconsidering your strategy and backing over a senior citizen instead, it’s almost as effective at creating public outrage, much more reliable, and ideally you might even be able to find a particular senior citizen who, for example, worked as a venture capitalist who funded this sort of technology or something else that implies some measure of responsibility, making multiple contributions to the cause at once and providing some form of karmic justice to the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Refrigerator ads are finally here!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone with a shred of sanity they are still clinging to is, we’re just too beaten down by the world around us and not galvanized by supportive communities of like-minded individuals with enough anger to take action, yet. It’ll happen eventually. Especially if AI leads to the sort of job losses everyone’s expecting.

  People with lots of time on their hands and nothing to lose start to become real interesting people that do real interesting things.