wonderingwanderer

If you install the GUI it literally won’t let you open it unless you agree to their telemetry…

Good on you

Mention unions and get fired

I quadruple check and then I still don’t run it because I’m too nervous so I go and do something else instead and the item remains buried on my to-do list indefinitely.

He listed a second bathroom

Needs more trinkets on the shelves

Are you Calvin?

sponsoring anti-communist posts on Lemmy and Reddit

They don’t need to. Tankies already make the rest of us socialists look bad enough…

Sorry, I don’t think I’m in your state :( I’ll still try it though

Psh, that’s high-balling it. If the dealer gets anything more than breaking even in this situation, the buyer messed up.

The dealer dismissed an offer of 2 grand off the first time. You need to show him that next time you won’t be so generous. Teach those snakes to be open to bargaining again, or they’ll only continue to raise prices year after year.

And they’re more desperate to sell

Honestly, if someone’s gotta control the world, I’d much prefer if it’s a social worker…

You can’t escape!

I’d just be happy if that meant the conversation was over…

Thank you! It seems pretty clear to me, modularity is supposed to be the modern standard for quality code, so why are we normalizing websites that use scripts with more arms than Cthulhu harvesting uniquely identifiable data from our personal devices by running arbitrary code locally? It seems insane to me…

“One tool for one job.” It’s pretty basic Unix philosophy. So why do we now have “One script for several hundred different fingerprint variables, oh and also the website’s basic functionality”?

If you don’t pull it off well then you might make the other person kinda grumpy

You should offer them something even lower when they do

I don’t view basic consumer rights as “regulatory overreach.”

to adhere to the rules set by the equivalent of the HDMI Forum, but controlled by the likes of Microsoft and Facebook.

No and no. I never said it should be corporations setting the standard. That’s the FCC’s job, and comparable agencies in other countries. The FCC already regulates many things about the internet. Some things they don’t regulate enough. Were you one of those people who viewed Net Neutrality as “regulatory overreach” too?

Sure, the current admin is corrupt and the current FCC can’t be trusted, but that won’t be forever.

Also, there’s such thing as the IEEE. Standards for web development are not unheard of, and they’re not categorically wrong. There need to be rules governing the rules that govern web development to ensure those rules aren’t abused. But setting no rules or standards would be insane.

If they’re honest, you’ll get a dozen legitimate answers that can’t be solved without locally running code.

That’s not honesty. That’s deflection and dissembling. Sure, you can think of a dozen different reasons why scripts need to be run locally. But that doesn’t excuse using those scripts as a trojan horse for malicious data mining practices. Permissions can be atomized.

If a web developer can’t compartmentalize the part of the script that loads an image on their website from the part of the script that harvests sensitive fingerprinting data that the website has no legitimate need for, then they’re either a really bad developer who’s never heard of modularity, or they’re doing it deliberately and maliciously because they know they can get away with it and are choosing to make their website break for anyone who doesn’t let them basically peep under their device’s skirt.

That’s the problem though, why is it standard for websites to be built in such a way that their basic functionality depends on allowing such arbitrary scripts? Shouldn’t there be some regulatory body that tells them that’s against the rules or something?

I was hoping Tux would have a persona more like Dr. Cox, sweeping in nonchalantly to save the patient while badgering the interns for being incompetent