Yeah, I actually screwed that up a bit, the average is closer to 7.6 $/gal, and 8.9 $/gal for diesel.

Hopefully this means more trains and bike lanes, rather than switching to EVs.

EU average is about 6.5 $/gal. And I think that’s still way too fucking cheap for the amount of harm it does to the planet

The main outcome from this is that it forces the companies to not out-source the development/maintenance/support to AI. If they do, they are literally no different from just self-hosting this and asking your own LLM for help, which is going to be cheaper.

As usual, automation actually reduces the rate of profit in the long run.

This is probably the most realistic goal of the movement.

But in all seriousness, they’re still unmaintaible slop

They are definitely more user-friendly and community-maintainable than the closed-source originals.

Originals are either binaries you can’t modify, or completely black-box inaccessible software someone else runs which you only interact with.

Having some source code which does almost the same thing, even if it’s buggy, is much better than having nothing at all.

Of course AI has its own issues and the resulting software is pretty bad. It is a great starting point to be improved tho.

Specific/credible death threats put instance admins in serious legal jeopardy (a.k.a. fedposting).

That’s the main reason for it.

IIRC there were a couple of nazi instances that were instantly defederated by everyone except each other. But I’m pretty sure they are both dead now. Good.

Lemmy is like many tiny Reddits called instances. You barely realise you switch from one to another while browsing happily expect for “instance nationalism”. It is smaller but more humane. That’s about all you need to start.

This should be the text on join-lemmy.org

I measure battery capacity and electricity consumption in J/kJ/MJ, as intended. None of that kWh bullshit.

It also makes for fun comparison with energy value of foods.

Energy is energy, after all.

In Russia it’s kinda the inverse. Like 80% of the books I’ve read in middle/high school I’ve re-read as an adult, most of them were still really interesting even on the second read.

Nah, security is one front where a browser is actually slightly better than simply running natively

That said you can always just bwrap whatever you’re running for a similar level of isolation.

People out there reinventing native software from first principles

Your labor, of course.

Operator overloading is awesome in a functional language. Haskell allows for a lot of creative stuff with operators, but since they can’t have side effects, must conform to predictable types, and have specific requirements they are somewhat understandable. Idris is also very ergonomic when it comes to operators.

C++ allowing a library to override the + operator with system("rm -rf /") is a lot less awesome.

With the rate of CVEs coming up, feels like I’ll have to switch to nixpkgs staging and just compile everything myself gentoo-style for my server.

do this right instead of making up some new terminology for specific country that no one really knows what that even means

Have you seen any European international agreements? There isn’t a single god damn treaty that doesn’t have some vague country-specific exceptions.

Good thing she wasn’t a GTK girl

They could donate the food to a food bank and be completely shielded from liability by Good Samaritan Act

They don’t want to because it means that poor people can eat for free (gasp) which might slightly impact the restaurant industry and indirectly reduce their profit margin by 0.1%

Ah, interesting. I don’t think my phone does that. Then again it’s a cheapy chinese one.

If I could get 120Hz with no perceivable difference to battery life I might indeed keep that on.

all i can say is that i need to log into outlook to log into teams, because logging into teams directly is broken, but the cross site cookie work…

Thankfully I don’t even have an MS account, but I do implore you to check out the cookies and see for yourself that they will have a specific list of domains they are valid for.

Open the browser developer menu on an Outlook tab (F12), navigate to “Storage” → “Cookies” (may be named slightly differently in different browsers), and look at the “Domain” column in the table.

and reading stuff like adFection really doesn’t instill confidence in opening random websites.

The problem there is website operators selling their adspace to a literal israeli spyware company, which meant injecting adversarial javascript into their own pages. It was not a case of “user opening a random link”, rather it was the website operator themselves forwarding the user malicious JS from the “ad company”. As a user there’s generally nothing you can do to prevent this kind of attack where the website itself was compromised; besides, without another vulnerability/attack vector the impact will be limited to the website in question.

No, you generally should not be worried about that.

Generally the worst thing that a website can get from you just opening a URL is (1) whether or not you’re logged in to google/facebook/etc, (2) your advertisement profile/who you are, (3) roughly where you are. All those are privacy issues, not a security issue, hence not very related to the “cybersecurity course”, and only the first one is tangentially related to being logged in.

You should of course use various anti-tracking measures, e.g. an adblocker, “resist fingerprinting” in Librewolf, user agent faker, a good VPN, etc. That will reduce the exposure to all 3 issues above, but once again those are not security problems.

You should also never download random bullshit to your computer. Having an actual file on disk outside the browser sandbox could indeed be an issue. You could simply forget where it came from and decide to execute it one day, or there could be some bug in some app on your OS which could trigger a code execution exploit.

However, if your browser shares authentication details with random websites like what you are describing, you should stop using it immediately.