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Salix

@ Salix @sh.itjust.works

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  • Leaked Documents Reveal How Google Search Gatekeeps the Internet

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  • It's a paid service, so it'd be a bad default for a web browser. Not saying it's a bad search engine; saying that it's a bad search engine default for the every day folk who just installed a web browser.

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  • I don't think California would be able to handle the influx of people moving to California if they do pass universal healthcare. As a State, they don't have as much funding as a Federal program would have.

  • What you wish had an active community here on the lemmyverse?

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  • Would love it if there is actually an active Tea community on Lemmy. The ones on Lemmy are pretty much dead. The Reddit one is super active.

    Also, Lemmy doesn't have active communities for individual games like Reddit does. They are useful to obtain information, get help, talk about builds, etc

  • Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good | Ars Technica

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  • There’s no AI on DDG

    Uh.. The settings for AI Chat and DuckAssist are both on by default when you use DuckDuckGo. You can see them in Settings -> AI Features

  • New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC

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  • If Microsoft announces that this is going to be forcibly installed on all versions of Windows, then we can grab our pitchforks. Ideally this would end up being an opt-in feature. If it's an opt-out when they release, again, pitchforks.

    Well, per Microsoft's website:

    On devices that are not powered by a Snapdragon® X Series processor, installation of a Windows update will be required to run Recall.

    So it sounds like everyone on Windows 11 will get it via Windows Update eventually

  • Raw-milk fans plan to drink up as experts warn of high levels of H5N1 virus

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  • How to sync Akregator across devices?

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  • Self host FreshRSS, use the GReader or Fever API link that's built into FreshRSS to sync to other apps on your local network. If you want to access the sync remotely, use Tailscale or setup Wireguard. I personally just run Wireguard in OpenWrt

    There is no need to expose FreshRSS to the internet

  • Why does a state like California that has supermajorities in both houses of the legislature not have a livable wage, housing guarantees, universal healthcare, and other very progressive policies?

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  • it is liberal, aka generally right-of-center

    A lot of people don't seem to know this in the US. If you look at most Liberal Parties, they are centre or centre right. Though some are centre left as well. That's not a full list in that link.

    Japan's Liberal Democratic Party is the major right wing conservative party of Japan.

    Do note that the US' centre starts farther to the right than many other developed countries.

  • The real magic word

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  • Someone did a ELI3 explanation for this a couple days ago. The ELI5 explanation was more complicated so someone asked for ELI3 lol

    ELI3

    Pouring a cup of juice is something an adult needs to be involved with.

    sudo is when you ask for permission to pour your own cup of juice. You ask an adult, they give you the cup and the juice, and then you’re responsible for pouring it. If the adult isn’t paying attention they may leave the fridge open for you to go back for more juice or another beverage, but otherwise you’re limited to the amount of juice the adult has given you.

    run0 is when the adult just gets you a cup of juice. You tell them what you want, they go and pour the juice, and just give you the cup with the juice in it. You never enter the kitchen, so you don’t have access to the fridge, just your cup of juice.

    ELI5

    Basically, the SUID bit makes a program get the permissions of the owner when executed. If you set /bin/bash as SUID, suddenly every bash shell would be a root shell, kind of. Processes on Linux have a real user ID, an effective user ID, and also a saved user ID that can be used to temporarily drop privileges and gain them back again later.

    So tools like sudo and doas use this mechanism to temporarily become root, then run checks to make sure you’re allowed to use sudo, then run your command. But that process is still in your user’s session and process group, and you’re still its real user ID. If anything goes wrong between sudo being root and checking permissions, that can lead to a root shell when you weren’t supposed to, and you have a root exploit. Sudo is entirely responsible for cleaning the environment before launching the child process so that it’s safe.

    Run0/systemd-run acts more like an API client. The client, running as your user, asks systemd to create a process and give you its inputs and outputs, which then creates it on your behalf on a clean process tree completely separate from your user session’s process tree and group. The client never ever gets permissions, never has to check for the permissions, it’s systemd that does over D-Bus through PolKit which are both isolated and unprivileged services. So there’s no dangerous code running anywhere to exploit to gain privileges. And it makes run0 very non-special and boring in the process, it really does practically nothing. Want to make your own in Python? You can, safely and quite easily. Any app can easily integrate sudo functionnality fairly safely, and it’ll even trigger the DE’s elevated permission prompt, which is a separate process so you can grant sudo access to an app without it being able to know about your password.

    Run0 takes care of interpreting what you want to do, D-Bus passes the message around, PolKit adds its stamp of approval to it, systemd takes care of spawning of the process and only the spawning of the process. Every bit does its job in isolation from the others so it’s hard to exploit.

  • what lemmy web app do you use and why?

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  • Isn't Jerboa an Android native app? I don't think they have a web app like how Alexandrite or Photon are.

  • After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year

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  • Just looked into these. It doesn't look like any of these have official Linux apps :(

  • Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause

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  • I live near multiple regional hubs. I have no subscription myself. It takes them 4-7 days to get my package to me.

    My friends who live on the same block as me gets them in 1-2 days with their prime memberships

    This includes if we both order the same exact things.

    So yeah, YMMV

  • Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause

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  • Wait... I already now get annoying ads in the middle of watching a show. Now they want to add more ads to Prime Video? That's absolutely ridiculous.

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  • I personally like AirVPN. Pretty good speeds depending on the server. You can port forward and have up to 5 devices connected simultaneously. Make sure you're using the Wireguard protocol.

    Only issue is that Eddie (their GUI) kinda sucks. Works okay on Linux, and probably same on Windows. The Android one just really sucks.

    I personally just download the wireguard configs to use.

  • How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money

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  • Report finds Nestlé adds sugars to baby food in low-income countries

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  • I guess looking at their official 2023 report, it does look like they make a lot in the North American Zone (Canada, US, Mexico) compared to other zones.

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  • If you don't need port forwarding, Mullvad is my pick. Since they got rid of port forwarding, I've moved to AirVPN and am happy with them. I just dislike AirVPNs' GUI app, Eddie. I mainly use Wireguard directly for their servers.

  • Report finds Nestlé adds sugars to baby food in low-income countries

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  • I am confused why you're talking about USA. The article doesn't mention USA, and Nestle is a Swiss company.

    I mean, better regulations in the US would be great though

  • STEAM starting to issue refunds for players over the 2h playtime limit due to PSN on Helldivers 2

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