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I never particularly cared for the Unity desktop. The first few times I tried it, there were hardware incompatibilities, slow performance, and crashing. Gnome3 is a complicated mess. I prefer to keep it simple. XFCE is fine for me.

I keep trying other distros, and then coming back to Debian unstable XFCE. Linux Mint Debian Edition is ok. At work I did lots of Enterprise Redhat, but I’m glad I don’t have to use it after I retired.

I believe that Firefox has a mechanism where millions of users all have the same fingerprint, which makes the whole concept of browser fingerprinting useless.

Great news!

My Librewolf gets strong protection from tracking and it’s fingerprint is common with millions (so not uniquely identifiable).

I could not find confirmation that biometrics are only stored on the device. In fact, I did see that iOS does at least part of the biometrics in it’s iCloud keychain.

It seems that Passkeys generally require a biometric scan of some kind. I would prefer a level of privacy where I am not providing images of my face or fingerprints to unknown agencies on the cloud.

Massive surveillance programs won’t stop crime. Instead it will be used to persecute target demographic groups.

After hearing earlier in the week that Israel was demanding the evacuation of all hospitals in Northern Gaza, it was clear that this hospital was bombed as promised. Claims that Hamas did it are clearly diversionary propaganda.

Acts of authoritarian control always claim to be done “for the children”. They don’t care about children, they want control.

Also seeing this on Firefox with latest Ublock and newest ruleset. So far, I just accept then reload without actually changing anything and it works… For now.

Why must every faction of Progressives attack each other. Bernie Sanders is the most solid progressive I know of, but Code Pink wants to attack him because his Ukraine support isn’t anti-war? I’m anti war. In particular I’m anti the war that Russia started by invading Ukraine. Anti war doesn’t mean just letting the bad guy do whatever they want. If so, then anti-war is pro tyranny, because they always let the aggressor invade.

Great article. Well worth reading.

I get out my popcorn, and hope McCarthy will push existing charges against Gaetz to have him dismissed from office.

I saw today that they have found that over 80% of the microplastics in the ocean are from automobile tires.

How about just paying food service workers a living wage, so that tipping isn’t critical for basic survival?

ChromeOS is a totally locked down distro of Linux. I prefer Debian Linux with an XFCE desktop thank you.

The article compares Photography, (which despite being “created” by nature is copyrightable), to AI art. The difference between AI art and photography is that AI art is derivative of other artists and generalized into a Model. Nature is not derivative of other photography. Derivative work has special exemptions in copyright law which prevents it from being subject to copyright.

Sure. Seems like a fine way to prepare beans.

LibreWolf should be on the list.