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Deebster

@ Deebster @programming.dev

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New account since lemmyrs.org went down, other @Deebsters are available.

  • SolarPunk Cities: Our Last Hope? [18:34 Youtube vid]

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  • I've only just found the channel, and am currently watching the one on Biomimicry. Glad to hear the quality's consistent.

  • At least 1,300 hajj pilgrims died during extreme heat, Saudi Arabia says

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  • I can't see the numbers in future getting any better, unless big changes are made. Many pilgrims are quite old, since some need many years to save up enough for the journey, and of course the temperature's only going to be going up (even after La Niña).

    It's part of the rituals to get the timing exactly right, so it's not like it can be moved to cooler months, like has been proposed for the Summer Olympics. It is moving earlier by a week and a half each year (because of the Islamic calendar) but when you're talking 51.8C that's not really moving the needle.

    I'd heard talk of health-monitoring bracelets, which seems sensible.

  • Systemd 256.1 Addresses Complaint That 'systemd-tmpfiles' Could Unexpectedly Delete Your /home Directory

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  • Fixes catastrophic data loss, er, bug, er poorly documented feature... user error

    Gotta love the Register

  • N.Y. couple finds safe filled with over $130K while magnet fishing in lake.

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  • At first I thought it was another safe with even more money, and I was wondering if I should get a magnet.

  • Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)

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  • That performance cost seems to be negligible in uBlock Origin and other popular ad blockers that have focused on optimization [...], but there were probably other extensions not doing that well.

    The article goes out of its way to not do what you're accusing it of. I don't understand how you've managed to read the article as having the opposite slant as what it actually does.

  • Apple announced RCS with a whimper when it should have been a bang

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  • I assume you're in the US? Are you saying your iPhone customers were so prejudiced against green messages that they'd go with a different supplier/partner/whatever? Was it the friction of not having all the messaging features, or just that they thought all serious businesspeople used iPhones?

  • The Excel superstars throw down in Vegas

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  • I started but then I noticed the scrollbar and realised it's a lot longer read than I have the attention for right now - to the "read later (yeah right)" pile with you!

  • Is Science Fiction Inherently Hopeful?

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  • I think a lot of sci-fi is a warning, e.g. almost every distopian setting - I don't think that's hopeful, unless you argue that we're sensible enough to heed said warnings.

  • I made a tool to measure the battery impact of different Android web browsers - here's what I learned!

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  • I'm curious to know the impact of ad-blockers - I didn't see you it mention in your post or blog, so I'm assuming you tested with stock browsers. Also, did you clear history and data from your Android install since it sounds like you'd normally use that?

    I'm assuming that ad-blockers would be a net benefit to both battery and performance, given that in a way it's an optimisation. The boost from removing data and computation (that the user doesn't want anyway) must be far higher than the overhead of the plugin, right?

  • Firefox development is moving from Mercurial to Git

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  • So they're switching from using both Mercurial and Git to just Git... How did they end up using both? Was it just that each had its supporters so they just compromised and made everyone use both?

  • Denmark recalls South Korean Samyang noodles for being too spicy - CNA

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  • Firefox Browser Blocks Anti-Censorship Add-Ons at Russia’s Request

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  • You're forgetting about security updates, which would also be blocked. It's definitely more of a problem if the whole of Mozilla gets blocked than some plugins that have workarounds and alternatives.

  • Firefox Browser Blocks Anti-Censorship Add-Ons at Russia’s Request

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  • If Russia blocks security updates, that's worse for Russian users than having to go to GitHub to install a plugin.

  • xkcd #2944: Magnet Fishing

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    The Cloudflare Poison

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  • I know how federation works, but look at the network inspector and you'll see you're pulling a lot of images from Cloudflare-proxied sites (or you're missing a lot, if you've blacklisted them).

    Anyway, I only meant that even Lemmy, with its anti-corporate culture, is still heavily using Cloudflare. "Only" 22% is still a lot in my book.

    I'm interested as to your motives - are you doing this as a boycott, and/or to protect your privacy (or similar)? Also, are you blocking domains one-by-one, or are doing something like using firewall rules?

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    The Cloudflare Poison

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  • If you're blocking everything that's proxied via Cloudflare or hosted on Google, the internet must be a very small place for you. I think even a third of Lemmy is behind Cloudflare.

  • Ukraine says hackers abuse SyncThing tool to steal data

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  • The article uses the word modified, but it sounds like it's just talking about configuring it and using it as normal.

  • Man banned from The Las Vegas Sphere after lighting up a bong during a Phish show

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  • The ban comes after Fartz posted footage [on Instagram] in which he sparked up a bong during one of Phish's shows at the venue in April.

    The footage [...] was accompanied by the message, "First bong hit to be ever ripped in the Sphere Las Vegas, somebody called Guinness World Records", in which Fartz tagged the venue.

    So he removed all the venue's plausible deniability, then suffered the consequences. sadtrombone.com

  • xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech

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  • I'm sitting here trying to replicate what that sounds like from your description and I've only succeeding in sounding like a madman.