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  • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlMull & Fennec Vulnerability
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    6 days ago

    Mull at least has been fixed in the divestOS repo. I can’t speak to fennec as I don’t use it.

    The version in the f-droid main repo is behind because of Mozilla changing their repo system thus screwing with the build process and at least for now currently requiring a compiler that doesn’t meet F-Droid’s (IMO slightly ridiculous) standards for allowable software.


  • Not to retail workers. The vast majority of them are underpaid and overworked. Between the stressful nature of a job like that and the various stresses that tend to come along with being an adult working for anywhere near minimum wage they probably don’t have the mental bandwidth to care about anything beyond their ability to get by. You’re not going to change anything by being a dick to someone like that.

    Now if you happen to run into a developer or similarly paid person for a company like Meta or Google, absolutely be a dick to them. They’ve chosen to work for evil and have the means to choose otherwise. Acute social pressure could actually make them care and choose something else.


  • Except all of those things you listed would be business expenses which aren’t taxable as they would be deducted from gross profits as part of the calculation for determining net profit (which is the taxable part of profit) and if they’re also using that as a charitable contribution then they are deducting it twice which the IRS tends to frown upon. Or at least they would if they had any kind of worthwhile enforcement mechanism for dealing with corporations.

    I would assume the tax agencies of countries outside the US similarly frown upon such double deductions, possibly even with effective enforcement.


  • Eh, FOOF is so unstable that it’s very hard to make enough of it to do any real damage. It’s also just very hard to make. It’s only remotely stable at cryogenic temperatures, and is so reactive that without an inert atmosphere it will rapidly decay into something more stable. Granted, it will do so by oxidizing the molecular oxygen in the air (which is as insane as it sounds) and release a ton of energy in the process but assuming you don’t already have a bunch of it, you won’t be able to create enough of it fast enough to do any meaningful damage without a specialized laboratory and associated equipment.

    Chlorine Triflouride however, can be made in your kitchen, and is just stable enough that, assuming you’ve taken some precautions, it’s possible to accumulate enough of it to immolate yourself in one of the worst possible ways.




  • The changed the driver model and broke compatibility with any device that didn’t get updated drivers. Which created a fuck-load of ewaste and unnecessary expenditure as people had to replace otherwise functional devices.

    It also ran like absolute dog-shit even on PC’s that exceeded the recommended requirements by fairly significant margins.

    And until Vista SP2 came out, it remained a buggy, broken, mess of an OS.

    Also, given the promises Microsoft made about Project Longhorn (Vista’s cancelled predecessor) and the several years worth of delays Vista had Microsoft had no excuse for releasing an OS that was buggy, poorly optimized, and incompatible with most hardware more than two years old. Vista was supposed to release in 2003, it came out in 2007.

    Windows 7 was what Vista should have been and what Windows should have stayed.


  • A 2011 GMC Terrain. It burned oil like none other. The power steering would occasionally just not work upon starting the car, requiring me to turn it off and on again a several times. Sometimes, I’d stop at a red light, the engine would die, and when I’d restart it it’d go into limp mode. And traction control and AWD would occasionally just give out, which can be dangerous where I live due to ice and snow.

    The thing was a hazard and GMC and all associated brands can fuck right off.











  • If you go that route, and assuming you’re in the US, I’d recommend looking for a government civilian job rather than a contractor position. The pay will be slightly lower, but you’ll have pretty steady pay increases year-to-year, the benefits will almost certainly be better, and you’ll have better job security.

    The major downside will be that you’ll likely wind up working for/with a bunch of people who are just trying to keep their heads down and coast until retirement. A major upside will be that you’ll almost certainly be able to retire comfortably.


  • Personally, I don’t like the idea of any recommendation or advertising algorithm using personal information of any kind. Though I can understand why location would be needed for advertising: in order to ensure ads for regional services are not shown outside of that region.

    The kinds of data that I think should be used:
    -Recommendations:
    -Like history
    -Watch (or view) history - specifically (and only) if I click on a post or watch more than some reasonable percentage of a video that would indicate I watched the entirety of the video.

    -Advertisements:
    -Location (based solely on IP)
    -The content currently being viewed, based on a general categorization of the content. If I’m watching a video about technology I don’t need to be seeing ads for financial services.