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  • Google is already pushing Web Environment Integrity into Chromium

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  • https://andisearch.com looks like it might be a better option - thank you so much for posting. I'm mostly using duck-duck-go which is tolerable but by this point we should have come up with a more useful way to index relevant information. Google would rather we see ads than any relevant content, which wasn't the case when they first launched google in the late 1990s. Google was refreshing at the time because of its cleaner interface than yahoo and uncluttered results, amusingly enough - it's a far cry from what it once was.

  • Google is already pushing Web Environment Integrity into Chromium

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  • Right - that's a good approach, however if you're looking for a quick answer to an immediate question by searching using a common search engine, the garbage SEO pages are the most irritating, even with adblocking.

  • Google is already pushing Web Environment Integrity into Chromium

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  • Yes, it is a nightmare. The insane volume of ads and clickbait injected into web pages is killing the internet as an information source. Most of the searchable stuff is unusable. Which explains why ChatGPT was so enthusiastically embraced - it's really just synthesizing content into a readable form that doesn't require navigating around a jungle of animated gifs and flashing ads. That's also I think why Lemmy and Mastodon are so refreshing to use, and hopefully will stay that way - although money seems to find a way to ruin everything. Lemmy right now feels a lot like the internet used to be before the big money came along and ruined it with advertising and platform lock-ins.

  • Computer chip with built-in human brain tissue gets military funding

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  • "Toot" is a silly word invented to make Mastodon seem like Twitter. However "tweet" is equally ridiculous.

    We already have a word - "comment" - which is universally understood. Also has the added benefit of not being conceived by some Silicon Valley marketing genius.

  • Hands on Raspberry PI Zero 2 W: Every Beginner Will Love this Computer

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  • the site added an ad-block wall - sorry about that.

    The pi zero 2 w is much more costly right now than suggested there - most retailers seem to be sold out, but seems like a good lightweight option.

  • Lemmy enjoys growth as developers pivot from Reddit amid API charging controversy

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  • 60,000 People Died from Blistering European Heat Waves, New Analysis Finds

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  • https://unusualplaces.org/the-underground-town-of-coober-pedy/

    A standard three-bedroom cave home with living room, kitchen, and bathroom can be excavated out of the rock in the hillside for a similar price to building a house on the surface. However, dugouts remain at a constant temperature, while surface buildings need expensive air-conditioning.

  • Twitter traffic is 'tanking' as Meta's Threads hits 100 million users

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  • It exists to provide the illusion of competition.

  • Elon Musk goes low against Zuckerberg as Twitter-Threads spat intensifies

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  • it's not an assumption at this point. They are just a pair of losers who got lucky. They are the best argument imaginable for restoration of a 90% tax rate and inheritance taxes.

  • How secure are old computers/laptops?

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  • If you're installing a fresh checksummed Linux download and formatting the entire drive during install you shouldn't have any worries. Go for it.

  • Does a Lemmy instance require a domain name?

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  • yes, there had to be catch, although the guy in this letsencrypt support thread is a senior Letsencrypt engineer and he seems to be saying it is possible - although letsencrypt doesn't support it. I do think you'd have to show a bit more to the issuer to prove ownership than an http acme challenge though.

  • Suboptimal ways to respond to a public security incident

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  • checks all the boxes - authoritative (authenticated user accounts), central location, not on fediverse, already relatively well-known by lemmy users and provides visibility to remediation. It's a good idea.

  • Does a Lemmy instance require a domain name?

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  • Well, I just learned something, but what does "control" the IP mean? If they are only validating a single address via http then presumably you could just use an Amazon elastic IP as long as it resolves. I doubt that letsencrypt will support that but I would be interested to know. If they do then yeah, you could presumably set up the instance using the IP as the name, but I don't know why you would want to. Apart from the fact that it would be hard to remember, could change at some point, screwing things up, it might work. I suggest OP do the necessary and report back accordingly.

  • Does a Lemmy instance require a domain name?

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  • any good github copilot alternatives?

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  • thanks - that looks like full independence and would be good to try. I've been using codeium, which was suggested here and it seems as good, if not better than github copilot and it's free for solo developers.

    I appreciate you taking the time to make the suggestion - I've learned quite a lot about open source software options in a few weeks here on Lemmy and find it's been an excellent resource for technical info and suggestions.

  • Suboptimal ways to respond to a public security incident

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  • Right, but Lemmy.ml is really just one of a thousand plus instances. We need something instance independent or a way to propagate info that doesn't rely on any single failure points, or Lemmy as the communication channel. What happens when lemmy.ml is down, or if no instances are able to post due to concerted DoS?

    It's impossible to stop anyone randomly posting stuff on Lemmy. Attackers can post misinformation as well, especially if they compromise admin accounts. Who are we gonna trust in the midst of the next incident? The account posting most prolifically about the UI exploit in progress was using a burner account that had just been created to post about it. I'm sure there were good reasons for wanting to be anonymous when discussing the work of unknown malicious actors, but it made me think twice about what was being posted at the time.

  • Suboptimal ways to respond to a public security incident

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  • whilst I differ somewhat on sharing information on the exploit - knowing something about what was going on allowed some instance admins to take evasive steps - I agree with you completely that there could be a better channel for coordinating communication - I imagine a lot of the discussion went on via Matrix - under the circumstances the response wasn't so bad given the complete lack of formal organization but yes, it definitely could be improved - you sound quite well-versed in how to handle security/critical incidents. Maybe consider contacting the devs and offering them some help in this area?

  • Biden Defends Decision to Send Cluster Bombs to Ukraine

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  • Speaking to CNN‘s Fareed Zakaria on Friday, President Biden said he needed to send cluster bombs because Ukraine and the US are running out of ammunition. “This is a war relating to munitions. And they’re running out of that ammunition, and we’re low on it,” he said.

    the FY2023 presidential budget request was $842 billion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States

    not enough for ammo, apparently.

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  • Great work. Thanks for all the effort and info.

  • How to de-radicalize my mom's youtube algorithm?

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  • Yes, I agree - there have always been malevolent forces at work within the media - but before facebook started algorithmically whipping up old folks for clicks, cable TV news wasn't quite as savage. The early days of hate-talk radio was really just Limbaugh ranting into the AM ether. Now, it's saturated. Social media isn't the root cause of political hatred but it gave it a bullhorn and a leg up to apparent legitimacy.