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Meanwhile, my totally legit probably-not-a-front-for-Chinese-spies current VPN is now blocked by citizenlab.ca. Had to use tor to get there.

Yep. It sends me to fsf.org. If the link goes here or anywhere else and such things bother you, fix your “referer” settings.

They’ve been warning us about the dangers of a Cyber Pearl Harbor since 1991 but I’m not too worried: Computer systems have become much more flaky and unreliable than they were then, so we’re much better prepared for none of them working.

I was a user for a while. Never did figure out if they were just a small team of well-meaning people who didn’t know how to run a business properly, or a front for something. Good prices though, and reliable service for the time I was there. Their web page seems to indicate they got acquired by Malwarebytes, I’m not sure if that makes them less trustworthy, or more.

Taler does use crypto, aka cryptography, to make sending payments securely anonymous. That is the main point of it.

Target audience: People who want to pay for stuff anonymously through the Internet. It’s a large and underserved market.

It’s a big part of why people got so excited about bitcoin, and why it was so disappointing when it spectacularly failed to be any good at that application.

I think you’ll find most phones come with a web browser. But I can confirm that I do use Vim to edit the list.

Apache and nginx are two of the better-known grocery list servers. Just put a text file in /var/www/html.

There are many slightly different options I suppose, but personally I’d start with the simple and obvious approach suggested by the principle of least surprise: Check the expiry date on the extension signing cert only when an extension is installed. On subsequent startups, attempt to check for revocations.

Software should not self-destruct if it can’t reach the mothership.

Signing certs should be expected to expire. Already-installed browser extensions signed by them should not, when the user doesn’t want them to.

Doing it the right way would prevent, for one thing, any possible repeat of the problem they had a couple years ago when they simply forgot to renew the cert and one day everyone’s browsers unexpectedly stopped working with no way to fix them short of making a new build. The debate was had then, you can go back and read what was said. A thorough review was promised. Presumably Mozilla came came to the wrong conclusion and decided it would be best not to publicise it much.

Have they fixed the problem properly yet, or is there a future expiration date coming for the new version as well?

approx $6.84USD

Huh. So definitely not worth it then. Just buy a space heater instead. When I did it a few years ago I got $500 out of it, but it cost me a $350 video card which died soon after.

In most parts of the fediverse, if you see more talk about Ladybird than Servo it means you’re following the wrong people.

Firefox (with good settings, or Librewolf) + uBlock Origin + Decentraleyes + NoScript (with default permissions removed) is probably > 80%.

Since you’re already on btrfs it’s probably better to actually use the features it has to expand your existing filesystem to cover both drives.

But if you just want to mount it somewhere and not worry about figuring out anything complicated, what I did is mount my big new cheap disk at /home/bigdisk and then have symlinks pointing to it such as ~/Videos -> /home/bigdisk/Videos.

Mine’s more of a databivouac.

Personally I’d put a higher priority on stamping out that use of “porn”.

I’m willing to entertain the possibility that the linux world may be lacking in some things, but I’m pretty sure “configuration tools for sysadmins” is not one of them.

Apparently I have fewer problems with it than some. It’s snap. Maybe I could come up with some other minor complaints, but nothing big really. It’s mostly just snap. That is what prevents me using or recommending Ubuntu any more.

On my system that consistently gets results around 10s and 5s so the difference is sort of interesting. Mine’s a Ryzen 3600, maybe newer CPU features are of substantial benefit to xz.