tux0r

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tux0r,

Here are the things that get you banned:

  • authoritarian behavior
tux0r,

Not being shot, at least.

tux0r,

Enforcing your preferred kind of politics with guns sounds like a bad idea. I’m German, we did that a few times in our history.

tux0r,

The street fights in 1932 did not do much to prevent fascism, to say the least.

tux0r,

Probably.

tux0r,

Because my country has seen what happens when political disagreements are fought out in months of street battles.

tux0r,

1933 would like to ask a question or two about that.

tux0r,

Why would it matter if he is Leonardo DiCaprio?

tux0r,

Religion was a bad idea.

tux0r,

Religion is the sole reason why Israel even exists and why Muslims hate the Jews.

tux0r,

Go right back to the time of the Crusades, in the Rhineland massacres Christians were killing Jewish people and looting their homes.

Around the year 800, many Saxons were killed, tortured or forcibly baptised on the orders of Charlemagne, which German paganism could hardly cope with. Every religion has its violent phase.

tux0r,

Indeed, it is - and it looks even more awesome outside!

tux0r,

It is. 1981 F XT with a stripe of paper that I forgot to shred before I took the photo.

tux0r,

Thank you. :-)

tux0r,

Sure is! I was afraid it’s somewhat on the large side, but it fits like a glove and it doesn’t hang over my wrist. :-)

tux0r,

Actually, more like $550.

tux0r,

It works just well as a present and as a time keeper, even for me who doesn’t wear jewelry. But indeed, it needed a well-thought decision.

tux0r,

Good mechanical movements - and I consider the ETA C07.811 to be one - are not that bad at keeping the time, and the need to let someone “service” a perfectly functional watch is a myth in my opinion. One could also argue that not requiring any battery is an absolute necessity, given that humanity mostly agrees that we should harm the environment as little as possible these days. (Which is a major advantage over quartz, “smart”, eco-something, … watches.)

But I do agree that a mechanical watch requires special care while being used, and it feels good to have a shiny gadget where others have nothing or a touchscreen or something. :-)

tux0r,

Thank you. :-)

tux0r,

Good legibility. How much was it?

tux0r,

Sounds great, especially as I’m a German anyway. Thank you!

tux0r,

I read several watch forums and blogs and I occasionally chat on the Watches Discord server (although I find Discord annoying most of the time).

tux0r,

Is it even legal to try and validate a gender?

tux0r,

F

tux0r,

ah the art of copy paste coding

tux0r,

Too late! Everyone has seen it!

tux0r,

Not only jokes.

TIL that there's a FOSS Tomb Raider engine that can run on a web browser (lemmy.world)

The name is OpenLara (github.com/XProger/OpenLara ) and you can try out the WebGL build directly on your web browser on: xproger.info/projects/OpenLara/ . The web version works amazingly well on my Pixel 7a with touch controls (you have to click on the “go fullscreen” button) using Firefox as a browser.

tux0r, (edited )

Yet, it is a very not-really-good idea to run stuff on a web browser. Web browsers are a notoriously insecure, slow platform with controls (“Back”, “Reload”, …) which are not optimized to run applications.

edit: I did not expect that the “modern web” crowd would now come here to berate (and downvote) me for the sacrilege of not unconditionally considering web browsers to be the very best piece of software for every purpose. My fault, sorry. I’m out of here, this is pointless.

tux0r,

When exactly has “large companies do that” become a good reason instead of a warning?

tux0r,

Exposing your hardware over JavaScript sounds dangerous to me, to be honest. But well, I’m sure that nothing bad could ever happen.

we are far away from the slow platforms with limited controls of the ol’ days.

Web browsers are still much slower than your kernel.

tux0r,

If there’s one thing that everyone could have learned from the Snowden papers, that one thing is that you aren’t “paranoid”.

tux0r,

“PWAs” are still less efficient than native apps. There are many disadvantages - and one advantage (“it’s easy to make one”).

tux0r,

Yes, because browser sandboxes will NEVER be as secure as kernel sandboxes.

tux0r,

Compared to native platforms.

tux0r,

I don’t think that “fun” should be the only relevant aspect, especially not with network-facing applications managing personal data.

tux0r,

Are you advocating for some form of isolation? If so, what?

Kernel sandboxing. I mean, breaking out of browser “sandboxes” is a game these days.

Any site you browse to – including those not labeled as such – could well expose you to that vulnerability.

Which is why using the web without JavaScript is a security measurement which I strongly recommend to enable. Sure, many sites will be “less interactive” then, but I’m afraid that it is the only solution. For the usually: rather small number of websites which you absolutely need to use with JavaScript enabled (do you, really?), a separate browser inside a container (or VM) would be a good option. I admit that this is not the most comfortable setup, but I really prefer to be safe than sorry. YMMV, but you asked.

tux0r,

Virtually every website out there today uses Javascript.

Most of those work without it.

Lemmy uses Javascript.

Lemmy is one of several ActivityPub-capable applications. You do not need to use Lemmy inside a web browser in order to participate here. In fact, you don’t even need to use a web browser.

The Web generally does not function without Javascript today.

I disagree. Some websites (with lazy developers) work less well without JavaScript. You’ll gain less annoyances (no JS = no pop-ups and no sophisticated anti-adblock techniques), more speed, less energy consumption, less potential security risks. You’ll lose… not really much. “Web applications” (usually worse, slower and less reliable than installed software), a couple of websites which are very focused on providing effects over contents - sounds like a fair deal to me, but again, YMMV.

Yes, there will never be absolute security. If it runs on a computer, it most likely has security flaws.

tux0r,

Touché.

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