It sure is convenient for law enforcement and others to have the ability to immediately get the IP addresses of all visitors to a specific URL. (They just need to circumvent the OHTTP by asking fastly and google to collude…)
I thought Fastly sounded familiar. They’re partnering with everybody these days, including Mozilla to push “private” shopping ads in their latest browser shopping feature, and Invisiv in their multi-hop VPN.
Agree, in Vivaldi was the first thing I desactivated in the settings. It’s nothing what an good ad/trackerblocker also do (uBO, or the inbuild one in Vivaldi, it also blocks the access to phising or badware pages)
I can only speak for me, not for others. I have put this information for users who use browsers where the Google “Save” Browsing API cannot be disabled and for those who use Google anyway. This way at least they know that they have one Spyware less, if this information is true (at least in the EU)
Either way, Trump’s Truth Social woes and finances might be getting a reprieve soon. The SEC approved the deal last month, which could be worth up to $10 billion. Trump, who would hold more than half the shares of the combined company, would reportedly stand to raise his net worth by some $4 billion - more than enough to handle those legal problems without Musk’s help.
Feb 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allowed Donald Trump’s media and technology company to merge with a blank-check acquisition vehicle in a deal that currently values the parent of his social media app Truth Social at as much as $10 billion.
So someone is essentially gifting Trump billions for a “merger”.
Not a bad idea actually. Just have to convince Musk that there are some Truth Social secret files that, uh, are important for, uh, that show gubment bad!
It was pretty obvious that Trump would try to scam Musk. Fortunately, given his own difficulties, Musk was unlikely to agree - we're just fortunate these bills are coming due so far in advance of the election. And also that, given Musk's foreign birth, he'll never be eligible to be president or vice president (something that I'm sure sticks in his craw).
The law allows recording of blood type among the DNA-related information that will be contained in a national database to be shared across agencies “to perform their functions and tasks.”
That sounds even worse than what the title states.
Vietnam’s future identity cards will incorporate the functions of health insurance cards, social insurance books, driver’s licenses, birth certificates, and marriage certificates, as defined by the amendment.
Imagine a single data breach eventually exposing all this information at once. What do you even do in this case, just assume a new identity?
How Paying Attention in Grade School English Class Solves Climate Change: A Modest Proposal
I’m begging people who didn’t pay any attention during English/Literature/Language class: establish your thesis early. (See what I did there?)
Hell, I’m begging internet commenters that consistently fail to write short comments and experience self-awareness about it to do so too.
Something I first noticed in video essays is that it takes them about 60% of the video to establish the thesis that the title begs. The wadsworth constant has been extended to twice its original length it seems.
That’s a great thing!
… if you want your audience to tune out/skip most of the content you spent days/months/weeks crafting. Otherwise you might want to establish why your topic is a problem your audience should care about. (See what I did there?)
But in a bold move, this article’s author takes 90% of the article beating around the bush with a history lesson that we just have to take on faith is important. Just saying “those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it” is not enough motivation to then delve into what amounts to little more than a loosely connected list of names and dates.
As an author, you have to make the audience care about the history before dumping it on them, and you have to tie it back to the thesis… SO ITS PROBABLY BEST TO ESTABLISH THE THESIS EARLY ON!!!
Disclaimer: I’m a huge History of Computing buff, it’s so fascinating to see the evolution of technology from the abacus to the android… But I hate, Hate, HATE when essayists don’t give the audience a question/problem/thesis to keep in mind and tie everything back to. It just comes off as meandering rambling.
Look, it’s okay to just write about your special interest and ramble about it at length because it sets off the dopamine receptors in your brain’s reward center; not all knowledge needs to have an immediate use to be valuable, sometimes its just fun to learn. But if you’re going to open with a claim that there’s some worldwide problem that you can solve in the largest, most eye-catching part of your essay (the title), you better fucking deliver on establishing the problem and the solution.
Otherwise you have an issue with communicating effectively, which is a much bigger problem than people not knowing which bell Dennis Thompson hurd in 1984.
For those unaware, your thesis concept is also known as BLUF: Bottom-Line Up Front. Take a moment after you’ve finished your masterpiece to summarise it at the top in one sentence, or two at most.
A tl;dr at the end of a post also works, but only for those who think to check for it. But either option works.
What an odd article. First, the author goes to great lengths to assert that “Linux IS UNIX” with pretty circumstantial evidence at best. Then, I guess to hide the fact the his point has not proved, he goes through the history of UNIX, I guess to re-enforce that Linux is just a small piece of the UNIX universe? Then, he chastises people working on Linux for not staying true to the UNIX philosophy and original design principles.
Questions like “are you sure this is a UNIX tool?” do not land with the weight he hopes as the answer os almost certainly “No. This is not a “UNIX” tool. It is not trying to be. Linux is not UNIX.”
The article seems to be mostly a complaint that Linux is not staying true enough to UNIX. The author does not really establish why that is a problem though.
There is an implication I guess that the point of POSIX and then we UNIX certification was to bring compatibility to the universe of diverging and incompatible Unices. While I agree that fragmentation works against commercial success, this is not a very strong point. Not only was the UNIX universe ( with its coherent design philosophy and open specifications ) completely dominated by Windows in the market but they were also completely displaced by Linux ( without the UNIX certification ).
Big companies found in Linux a platform that they could collaborate on. In practice, Linux is less fragmented and more ubiquitous than UNiX ever was before Linux. Critically, Linux has been able to evolve beyond the UNIX certification.
Linux does follow standards. There is POSIX of course. There is the LSB. There is freedesktop.org. There are others. There is also only one kernel.
Linux remains too fragmented on the desktop to displace Windows. To address that, a standard set of Linux standards are emerging: including Wayland, pipewire, and Flatpak.
Wayland is an evolution of the Linux desktop. It is a standard. There is a specification. There is a lot of collaboration around its evolution.
As for “other” systems, I would argue that compatibility with Linux will be more useful to them than compatibility with “UNIX”. I would expect other systems to adopt Wayland in time. It is already supported on systems like Haiku. FreeBSD is working on it as well.
This is my real problem with this (and also broadly pointing the finger to the “Unix philosophy” whenever a project like systemd or Wayland exists, ignoring that the large, complex, multifaceted, and monolithic Linux kernel itself flies in the face of that philosophy). Linux may have originally been built to be Unix-like but has become its own thing that shares a few similarities with Unix.
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