Evkob
@Evkob@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 1 month ago:
I use Librewolf on desktop and Mull on mobile. I have a few extensions on both, which could definitely contribute to issues. When I have issues (usually government sites or financial stuff, sometimes DRM-related stuff for media) it’s easier to just use a Chromium-based browser with no extensions than try to troubleshoot specifically what’s causing the issues. I keep Falkon (desktop) and Vanadium (mobile) installed for this purpose.
I get the feeling a lot of issues people are having in Firefox might be due to extensions or settings, which gets “fixed” by using another browser (which happens to be Chromium-based because most browsers are) and they blame the issue on Firefox itself.
- Comment on A dictionary website for programmers 3 months ago:
Kubernetes can also be known as K8s
So many posts at /c/selfhosted@lemmy.world make a lot more sense to me now, thanks!
- Comment on The stats don't lie 4 months ago:
I blame Nabisco.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 6 months ago:
That’s a fair criticism, but I wouldn’t recommend Windows as a daily driver to 95% of people either. If you like/care/know about computers, use Linux, otherwise I’d recommend MacOS over Windows (unless said person uses their computer for gaming, in which case Windows’ll give you the least hassle)
- Comment on ‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood 8 months ago:
I didn’t have a phone until I was 16 despite most of my peers getting one around 12/13. I didn’t get bullied for not having a phone, in fact no one really made any comments on it other than an occasional “wow, I couldn’t live without my phone!”
Granted, this was over ten years ago, and was probably the first generation of teenagers where cell phones were near-ubiquitous. I don’t know if kids nowadays would get bullied just for not having a phone, but it would severely limit their social interactions. Riding your bike and knocking at your friends’ doors randomly, or going to the mall and expecting you’ll find some people you know there, these are from a bygone era.
- Comment on Controlling and monitoring computers (Windows, Linux) from Home Assistant? 8 months ago:
You can run commands, so
systemctl poweroffshould work to turn off your computer (on Linux, not sure how KDE Connect works on Windows, but I’d assume there’s an equivalent) - Comment on Battery Draining by Private Service App on My Phone, Why? 8 months ago:
What should I do, I tried to disable it but it again activates when I restart phone?
- Comment on Battery Draining by Private Service App on My Phone, Why? 9 months ago:
The most reliable way to remove unwanted system packages is using adb. I’m not familiar with this package though, so don’t blame me if this causes issues on your phone :P
- Comment on Self hosted open source simultaneous multiuser password safe with .deb or .rpm and an end user webui/android app 9 months ago:
A quick search led me to Passbolt which has multiple user support, native installs for both Debian and Fedora (you’ll need to add their repo manually, though) and an Android app, so it seems to fit all your criteria.
Just curious, are there any specific reasons you wish to avoid docker?
- Comment on Average French launguage learner 9 months ago:
You’re mistaken, “je croirais” exists, it’s the “conditionnel présent” (conditionnal present).
Example sentence: “Je te croirais si t’avais des preuves.” (Translation: “I would believe you if you had proof”).
- Comment on US Credit Union Service Leaks Millions of Records and Passwords in Plain Text 9 months ago:
Sounds like a bit of a chicken & egg scenario to me.
- Comment on Elon Musk Bought Twitter to Settle His Jet-Tracking Beef, New Book Claims 9 months ago:
Anyone who thinks spending 44 billion dollars on shutting up a teenager constitutes a “genius plan” is already fully on-board the Musk cult. I don’t think there’s really much reinforcement happening.
I agree we shouldn’t pretend he’s anything less than a dumb asshole who got caught with his pants down.
- Comment on Best TV box for connecting to streaming services? 9 months ago:
It seems to me like you’ve kinda made up your mind and are just waiting for someone to back you up before dropping the cash for the Vero :P
With the criteria you’ve listed, I doubt you’ll find a better solution. I say go for it (as long as you can afford it)!
- Comment on SilverBullet: the self-hosted notes app for people with a hacker mindset 9 months ago:
Did you bother opening the link? This project is clearly much more elaborate than simply synchronising notes.
- Comment on AI Launches Nukes In ‘Worrying’ War Simulation: ‘I Just Want to Have Peace in the World’ 9 months ago:
I hadn’t heard about this so I did a quick web search to read up on the topic.
Holy fuck, they named their war AI “The Gospel”??!!" That’s supervillain-in-a-crappy-movie shit. How anyone can see Israel in a positive light throughout this conflict stuns me.
- Comment on How Do I Completely Remove A Docker Container And All Dependencies? 9 months ago:
Don’t quote me on this, but I think you’d have to add
–volumes - Comment on Sudo is coming to Windows 11 9 months ago:
Hey no worries, we all have our bad days. Props for owning up to it! Apologies if I ever came off as rude as well.
Hope you feel better soon 💕
- Comment on Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown 9 months ago:
Well in any case, if you were the only one, you aren’t anymore.
- Comment on US Credit Union Service Leaks Millions of Records and Passwords in Plain Text 9 months ago:
Why in the hell are government and bank logins literally the least secure logins I have??
My bank doesn’t let you set an actual password, only a 6 digit pin, and the only 2FA available is SMS codes. I have better security on Lemmy than I do for my fuckin’ financial institution!
- Comment on Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever” 9 months ago:
This service is the most dystopian thing I’ve seen in a while.
“You know what’s gonna fix democracy? Reducing civic engagement to having AI generate letters based off AI-generated articles to send to our representatives, who will filter and summarize them using AI, and plug the input into the law-making AI! The downfall of democracy was humanity’s capacity for independent thought!”
- Comment on Sudo is coming to Windows 11 9 months ago:
I can definitely see this argument, but I strongly suspect the inverse will be true; finding results for MS sudo which aren’t about Linux might be difficult.
After all, sudo has existed for a long time. Also, I assume over 90% of people who use Linux uses or has used sudo, whereas a tiny fraction of Windows users will ever use MS sudo.
- Comment on Sudo is coming to Windows 11 9 months ago:
Linux subsystem for windows
If you wanted to talk about EEE regarding Linux subsystem for Windows, you probably should specify that. I share your misgivings about WSL, but this thread is about sudo for Windows which is another thing entirely.
Making it easier to stay off Linux, adding similar elements to Linux to appeal to Linux users.
I have a hard time imagining Linux users switching to Windows because of a feature Linux has had since its inception. Of course MS won’t do anything that doesn’t increase their profits, that’s what corporations do. Implementing “new” features is a way of attracting more users, sure, but I still fail to see any way in which sudo for Windows fits the EEE scheme. “Embrace, extend, extinguish” refers to specific predatory business practices, it’s not shorthand for “everything I dislike about capitalism and the tech industry” and using it as such kinda dilutes its original meaning.
- Comment on Sudo is coming to Windows 11 9 months ago:
…what?
I’m always aboard the Microsoft hate train, but I don’t see how them adding sudo fits within EEE. Here’s an excerpt from microsoft/sudo on Github:
Obviously, everything about permissions and the command line experience is different between Windows and Linux. This project is not a fork of the Linux sudo project, nor is it a port of the Linux sudo project. Instead, Sudo for Windows is a Windows-specific implementation of the sudo concept.
As the two are entirely different applications, you’ll find that certain elements of the Linux sudo experience are not present in Sudo for Windows, and vice versa.
Despite sharing a name and features, they’re for two completely separate platforms and offer no interoperability. If MS decided to release their version of sudo for Linux, maybe we could talk about EEE. For now, all they’ve done is implement a useful tool from another platform into theirs, and that’s a (rare) positive for MS, even if this feature should have existed like 30 years ago.
- Comment on Disney+ has started cracking down on password sharing in the US 9 months ago:
I totally get that the couple of bucks a month is worth saving any headache from doing tech support for family members.
However, if you want to try switching them to pirated sources, Stremio + Torrentio add-on and a Real-Debrid sub (which is paid but much cheaper than a streaming service) is great for giving you a Netflix-like interface for pirated content. It’s easy enough that I coached my dad on how to set it up via text.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Installing an emulator (and an app on that emulator) for something you can achieve more easily either with a native app or a website is already convoluted.
Doing so on a PC when the UI of the emulated app is meant for a mobile phone with touch controls and a fraction of the screen size of a desktop computer? Very convoluted.
- Comment on Police Departments Are Turning to AI to Sift Through Millions of Hours of Unreviewed Body-Cam Footage 9 months ago:
Body camera video equivalent of 25 million copies of “Barbie”
Is this a typical unit of measurement in journalism? Like what even is this? Crappy in-article advertising? Some weird SEO shit? An odd attempt to be cool and hip?
- Comment on Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 9 months ago:
I don’t self-host (…yet. I do have a couple of things I’d like to play around with eventually) but honestly, for my use case I don’t feel any need to sync RSS. I mostly read articles on my phone, and if I’m on my PC I just remember which articles I’ve read. I can see how fetching RSS locally on each device might fall apart if one follows a large number of feeds, though.
- Comment on Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 9 months ago:
Ah, my bad! I should have guessed by your username, which I assume is in reference to the now defunct reddit app.
I can’t personally vouch for it, but NetNewsWire might be a good option for iOS if you haven’t tried it. It’s also FOSS, updated as recently as June 2023, can read RSS feeds locally and has a reader view to fetch full articles. You’d have to test if it caches fetched articles though, but I don’t see why it shouldn’t.
- Comment on Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 9 months ago:
Assuming you read RSS offline on mobile, Feeder has an option to fetch full articles and stores them for offline reading. It’s FOSS and actively-maintained, having received an update just last last week.
I’ve never encountered a site I wanted to follow that didn’t have RSS, but I wholly agree it’s often needlessly complicated to find the feed links.
- Comment on Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 9 months ago:
Somebody else in this thread linked a Github repo listing “Awesome RSS Feeds”, they have categories by country and by topic.
Otherwise, this is the method I use to find RSS feeds from websites that don’t have a link/button to their feed (copy/pasted from my other comment in this thread):
You can often find RSS feeds by checking the page’s source (on Firefox: right-click and “View Page Source”) and using Ctrl+F to search, there’s usually a URL somewhere. Keywords to search for: “feed”, “RSS”, “xml”, “atom”. For example, if I go to this community’s page on lemmy.world, I can Ctrl+F “feed” on the page source to find lemmy.world/feeds/c/technology.xml