Deebster

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[–] Deebster@programming.dev 19 points 5 months ago

"Commentator posts hot take, demonstrating a massive lack of empathy to people doing a stressful and important job."

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

I guess some people might go with f-s-tayb, but I wouldn't necessary recognise what they were saying.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

True, most updates I don't actually care about. I haven't had any updates cause problems yet, but I like that I could choose to not enable updates on anything with a bad history (or critical stuff where I don't want to run the risk).

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I still have it showing up in Windows/Android, and phone numbers show their cost per minute.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I have a load of credit on there still (got tricked by them deactivating my credit and topped up unnecessarily). I still use it for international calls at least once a month, I hope this news story is overblown.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 25 points 5 months ago

This is one of my favourites, despite the lack of Hobbes.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

autoupdate is something I wouldn’t use

Yup, I expect lots of people feel like that, maybe most (I'd be interested to see some stats). I value security over availability, but you can choose per-container, of course.

network

You can set Internal=true, which I use whenever possible, which means access is only to anything on same network (for me that's itself and Caddy) - no outgoing connections at all. Podman uses PASTA by default for rootless.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

The docs say what they do and don't do - and they don't do that. Just actually read through them for yourself, you don't have to be a lawyer.

This is just a bit of corporate box-ticking, but the pitchfork brigade has read 2 + 2 and is now screaming about 5s.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

In the advertising bit they say what data they use and it's all broad stuff like device type and location, as well as aggregate data on how many people click on the ads. Of course, you can just disable this, which surely most people do - tbh I forgot there was even this "sponsored content" there at all (it was added a while ago I think).

They don't say that your browsing habits, interactions or communications are used for anything besides doing what's required to actually do what you asked.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 12 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Yes, Mozilla does some AI, like the in-browser, privacy-respecting language translation. If you use the same feature in Chrome, the text is submitted to a Google server, but in Firefox it never leaves your browser. I don't see how this could be spun to count against Firefox/Mozilla.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

My pleasure! Answering your question is a good motivation to actually document my setup.

Also, if you're moving configs over, you might find podlet useful.

 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/4478496

Veteran film collector John Franklin believes the answer is for the BBC to announce an immediate general amnesty on missing film footage.

This would reassure British amateur collectors that their private archives will not be confiscated if they come forward and that they will be safe from prosecution for having stored stolen BBC property, something several fear.

“Some of these collectors are terrified,” said Franklin, who knows the location of the two missing Doctor Who episodes, along with several other newly discovered TV treasures, including an episode of the The Basil Brush Show, the second to be unearthed this autumn. “We now need to catalogue and save the significant television shows that are out there. If we are not careful they will eventually be dumped again in house clearances, because a lot of the owners of these important collections are now in their 80s and are very wary,” he added.

Discarded TV film was secretly salvaged from bins and skips by staff and contractors who worked at the BBC between 1967 and 1978, when the corporation had a policy of throwing out old reels. And Hartnell’s Doctor Who episodes were far from the only ones to go. Many popular shows were lost and other Doctor Who adventures starring Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee were either jettisoned or erased. A missing early episode of the long-running sitcom Sykes, starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques, has also been rediscovered in private hands in the last few weeks.

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The BBC said it was ready to talk to anyone with lost episodes. “We welcome members of the public contacting us regarding programmes they believe are lost archive recordings, and are happy to work with them to restore lost or missing programmes to the BBC archives,” it said.

Whether this will be enough to prompt nervous collectors to come forward is doubtful. While collectors are in no real danger, the infamous arrest of comedian Bob Monkhouse in 1978 has not been forgotten, Franklin suspects: “Monkhouse was a private collector and was accused of pirating videos. He even had some of his archive seized. Sadly people still believe they could have their films confiscated.”

 

For those outside the UK they did a premier on YouTube and here's the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTGGZ7ifOHM

Let us discuss tasks and contestants.

Expect spoilers in the comments.

 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/5338695

If it's a buzzword bingo, then where are all the insects and their noises?

 

I've made a Last.fm API key but at the point of adding it to Navidrome I wondered why I was bothering; is this option only there because of backwards compatibility or is there a tangible benefit?

 

Credit: vanesagarkova

 

I've been holding off upgrading since I'd heard bad things, but I can't actually remember what those bad things were.

Is it worth the upgrade? The only thing I don't like is that Foobar seems to only save tabs ("playlists") when it closes, which means if my machine crashes/hard resets then it reverts to an old set.

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