BakedCatboy

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (4 children)

The person you responded to does not mention self checkouts fyi

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Then what stops anyone from just never getting a membership?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

It should be safe, using fstab is how I do a network mount to a specific folder also so it doesn't change or anything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Gotcha in that case it sounds like you probably don't have anything to worry about. People who are weird about asking where people are from without any nuance don't seem to put that much thought into it and whether it sounds like they're assuming immigrant status based on appearance (which is where wording can be important).

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Assuming the context is appropriate I think an acceptable way to ask is "what's your heritage" - imo the important thing is not to sound like you're assuming they're a foreigner just because their ethnicity / appearance. I think asking about someone's family story or where their family is from is also a good way to ask because it's clear you're asking about their family and not assuming that it has bearing on the person's upbringing.

It also can be really confusing when you're a mixed and natural born citizen and you have no idea if "where are you from" is just smalltalk and they want to know where you grew up or if they're assuming based on your appearance that you immigrated and assuming that the answers to "where did you grow up" and "where are your ancestors from" are 1 and the same. So personally I like when people are more specific because when asked where I'm from I'm just going to ask if they mean where I grew up or where my parents are from.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Edit: of course the below only applies to chrome and possibly chrome derivatives - FF is keeping MV2

It'll make it a lot more likely that YouTube ads will get through because MV3 limits the block list size to a fraction of the size normally used by uBO and also disallows external/live updates to the block list, instead forcing the rules to be baked into the extension. Meaning an update to the blocking rules could take a week of extension review time to go through. I heard that the YouTube ad blocking rules can update multiple times a day so this would easily allow Google to update their ad code before approving updates to ad blockers, allowing them to always stay ahead.

So it might not outright break it, but some rules will have to be left off so it seems like it'll be a dice roll if you get an ad where the blocking rule had to be left off to fit Google's block list limit or the rule you have is stale because it took a couple weeks for the extension update to be approved on the extension store.

The feature of MV3 that enables these changes is that in MV3, the extension is handing over the complete blocklist to chrome, which does the blocking and gets to put limits on the blocklist. In MV2, the extension is given a direct hook to do the blocking itself, so it can have an unlimited block list size and can source the blocklist from anywhere. Think of it kind of like the difference between letting a graduation speaker speak off the cuff vs the school reviewing the speech beforehand and having their finger on the mic switch in case you wander off script. So the new system technically can be more secure and performant because the blocklist is reviewed as part of the extension and because poorly written blocker code can't slow you down (only Google's optimized logic is allowed to run) but it only works if they don't impose limits lower than what effective ad blockers need (ie updating frequently like daily and allowing a large blocklist). Plus uBo is written really well for resource usage so it's getting crippled even though it's a shining example of an effective ad blocker.

Plus there are even more limitations like certain types of advanced rules that all I understand is just needed for certain sites that are tricky., but those rules aren't supported in MV3. The uBo GitHub wiki has some information about this: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-asked-questions-(FAQ)#filtering-capabilities-which-cant-be-ported-to-mv3

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

What kind of TV service / set top box did you have at the time? I remember a lot of talk about providers pushing set top boxes both because it lets them use newer broadcast tech with customers using old TV tuners, but crucially it allows them to have their own software running on the box that you use to switch channels, which let them use out of band communication over the cable network to report what channels you watched, when, and how long, which I don't doubt gets sold and aggregated by ad targeting firms.

It's pretty common for smart TVs to do a similar thing to collect streaming app watch data when using the TVs built in apps.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm getting this too on programming.dev (https://programming.dev/post/17666208)

Really irritating because I have to constantly open the link in Firefox just to read the comments.

Threads on lemmy.world, lemmy.ca, hexbear, and even other threads on programming.dev all work fine so it seems like there's something about that specific post.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I like using bitwarden, the selfhosted vaultwarden server stores it with passwords and makes codes available in the app / browser extension. I also keep them backed up on a nas and synced off-site just in case.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

"This app won't work for your device" :(

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Yeah I had the i7 7700k which was like 7 years ago, and with like 64GB of ram because I wanted to play with large ramdisks.

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