skaffi

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[–] skaffi 2 points 10 hours ago

Men ellers, hvis dét man går og sukker efter, når det kommer til søgemaskiner, er en Google-søgemaskine, men bare uden Google, så bør man i hvert fald tjekke Startpage ud, da det i meget bogstavelig forstand faktisk er præcis hvad de er!

[–] skaffi 1 points 10 hours ago

I så fald vil DuckDuckGo måske være et godt bud til dig. Ud over at de slår sig op på deres tilgang til privatliv, så er deres anden ting nemlig at de prøver at gøre meget ud af at være featureful, fra diverse små, praktiske funktioner, til også at tilbyde forskellige supplerende tjenester.

Der er mange af de andre søgemaskinealternativer der tilbyder en bundsolid hjemmesidesøgning, men så også kun dét, og ikke så.meget mere - hvilket selvfølgelig også har sin berettigelse, afhængig af ens smag, og use case. Men dér går DuckDuckGo omvendt efter at kunne tilbyde en "komplet pakke". Deres "kronjuvel" af enormt brugbare features må næsten være dét de kalder "Bangs", så jeg ville i hvert fald tjekke dem ud, hvis du på et tidspunkt giver DuckDuckGo et go.

Hah, jeg håber ikke at jeg lyder som en anden astroturfer, eller noget! Jeg har bare været glad for dem i snart mange år nu. Men den gode nyhed er at der efterhånden er rigtig mange gode alternativer, hvad angår søgemaskiner der ikke er en del af Big Tech.

[–] skaffi 6 points 3 days ago

As am I, but little difference does that make. They used to never show any ads to paying customers, but that seems to have changed a while ago, and its been ramping up ever since. I think most of their products have been patched to show them by now. They're always ads like AMAZING DEAL! GET BROTON ULTRA POLY DELUXE TRIO FOR BIGAMISTS AND SAVE UP TO ¥3,50 WHEN PURCHASING A SUBSCRIPTION FOR 3 OR MORE YEARS AT A TIIIME - FOR A LIMITED.TIME ONLY (UNTIL WE REPEAT THE EXACT SAME DEAL AT THE NEXT UPCOMING HOLIDAY)!

Only a little bit of hyperbole, but you know what I mean. Fuck, I hate ads so much. I've spent considerable efforts to make my life as free of ads as about possible, and then Proton serves me this shit, completely unprompted, and with no way of turning them off. And they're (in-app) pop-up ads, literally getting in my way and having to be dismissed. The nerve! I don't care if they're ads for Proton services, for scuba diving lessons, or messages from a Nigerian prince - they're all equally unwelcome and in my way.

[–] skaffi 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Many, many places. It's so strongly regulated here, I think they even have to call it goat drink, too! The cow lobby is bullish, I tell you.

[–] skaffi 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He's a player, after all. 101010 (I assume that's binary for 80085).

[–] skaffi 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

What manner of machine is that? I feel like it would only look that much more fitting with walker legs instead of wheels.

In fact, this whole picture gives me some real Simon Stålenhag vibes, if only you and your car had been in frame as well.

[–] skaffi 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I swore to that series of mice. I had both a blue and a red MX500, and later the grey, "dented" MX518. I feel like there was an MX510 at some point, too, but I don't remember it. When my final MX518 finally broke, about a decade ago, I needed to find as close a replacement as possible. I landed on the G402, which I feel comes very close. The shape of the shell is very close, as is the feel of the mouse in your hands. I've had no complaints with the sensors. It has the same buttons as the MX518, but the DPI buttons have been shifted a bit, with one of them now being thumb-accessible, and the repositioning is actually a great improvement. I feel like the biggest change is just one of looks, with a pretty big shift in style - but not in feel. A decade on, and I'm still using that mouse, so durability has held up - although, the wheel has started to become slightly unreliable at times, missing a scroll tick now and then. Oh, there's one other issue I can think of: the stupid built-in "RGB" (in quotes because there's no RG, only B), can't actually be turned all the way off - only lowered to a very, very low setting. You probably wont spot that it's not off in daylight, and in the dark the light is still so dim that you don't notice it out the corner of your eye, thankfully. Still, should be able to turn it OFF.

Would I recommend it? I've been really happy with it overall, and it saved my MX5xx-addicted ass from having to go cold turkey. But don't go paying some kind of overprice for it - it's a really solid, MX518-alike older model mouse, but not a literal miracle. I used to swear by Logitech, but reality is that there are other brands that could be just as good fits. The last mouse and keyboard my wife got were from Corsair, and I gotta say, they have been an absolute pleasure to use. Enough so that, even after 25 years of exclusively using Logitech mice and keyboards, if my peripherals broke down today, and I had to get new ones, then I would probably be liable to go for Corsair, and at least consider a variety of options from different brands.

[–] skaffi 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, that's actually one of the new features of Plasma 6.6, which is releasing this month. You might have to wait a while on Kubuntu, but if you're on something like Fedora, then you should see it probably before the end of the month. :)

[–] skaffi 1 points 2 months ago

On the one hand, I am anything but surprised by such a development. But at the same time, this also sounds like typical disinformation.

Is there someone in the US with an iPhone, who's willing to verify? Or, with a Android phone, who's willing to test if a similar thing is the case on that platform, too?

[–] skaffi 2 points 2 months ago

I had that problem, so then I started using https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ - it works well.

[–] skaffi 2 points 2 months ago

I bought my secondhand OnePlus 6T only last year. Installed Linux on it, and I love it. I'm using it as my daily driver.

Sent from my OnePlus 6T and from my bed

[–] skaffi 14 points 2 months ago

Try taking a break from this post for the rest of today. Come back tomorrow, and read your own comments while genuinely pretending they were written by someone else. Take stock of the impression you end up with.

Try to honestly ask yourself, if you were a random person passing by, Linux user or otherwise, with as busy a life as anyone, would you feel particularly encouraged to engage with this commenter?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by skaffi to c/infosecpub
 

Hey @jerry@infosec.pub and everyone else,

Would it be possible to have mlmym installed for Infosec.Pub?
It's a front-end that perfectly replicates the classic, old.reddit.com interface.

Besides the familiarity being nice for many, as well as it being more compact than even the compact-style themes we currently have available, I think the most important feature is that, unlike most other offerings, including the default that we're using, mlmym works perfectly without javascript enabled.

A bunch of other instances already have it installed. If you want to try it out, SDF is one such instance.

I don't know how big of a hassle it is to install, but I know I would appreciate it a lot!

 

The pact is a declaration of intent to block any Meta-governed instances that try to federate. There are some useful stats here about which, and how many instances have already committed to the pact. All types of Fediverse instances have signed, including some Lemmy instances, though it seems to be especially Mastodon instances that have signed it.

Is this something you have an opinion on, or already made a decision about, @jerry@infosec.pub? Is it something we should discuss as a community?

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