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  • Brendan went on in 2015 to become the founder and CEO of Brave Browser, which is promoted as a privacy browser by hiding and confusing your JavaScript fingerprints.

    Altering links to add affiliate tags, selling data.. privacy my ass.

  • A quotation circulates on the Internet, attributed to me, but it wasn't written by me.

    Here's the text that is circulating. Most of it was copied from statements I have made, but the part italicized here is not from me. It makes points that are mistaken or confused.

    I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux,” and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.

    Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

    The main error is that Linux is not strictly speaking part of the GNU system—whose kernel is GNU Hurd. The version with Linux, we call “GNU/Linux.” It is OK to call it “GNU” when you want to be really short, but it is better to call it “GNU/Linux” so as to give Torvalds some credit.

    We don't use the term “corelibs,” and I am not sure what that would mean, but GNU is much more than the specific packages we developed for it. I set out in 1983 to develop an operating system, calling it GNU, and that job required developing whichever important packages we could not find elsewhere.

    He actually added to the pasta...

  • Memes @sopuli.xyz
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    The new TwiXXer logo is fire

    Memes @sopuli.xyz
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    Choose Your Fighter

    Technology @lemmy.world
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    Video to Markdown

    Atheist Memes @lemmy.world
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    Respect

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    Just so you know, I'm a licensed professional

    And yes, I did in fact steal it.

    Atheist Memes @lemmy.world
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    Another old one dusted off

    Atheist Memes @lemmy.world
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    Literally older than the internet

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    Old Meme

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    Unbearable

    No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Personal community?

    When I was at The Bad Place I had a sub just for me to post on.. anyone could read and comment, but only I could make a post. I used it kind of like a notebook, nothing personal like a diary. A fix I made for Gratuitous Space Battles crashing, a can opener I really liked, a commentary on when Reddit hired a pedophile and tried to cover it up, etc. Basically anything I wanted to make publicly available but didn't want to find/join a sub for.

    The question is, is something like that possible in Lemmy without running my own instance? I know it's possible on a technical level, I'm asking about social and/or convention.

    It's empty now but it was db2_ if you're curious

    Memes @sopuli.xyz
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    I don't even know who you are

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    Think meat

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    Somebody's got to be lying... but who

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    Mother-

    Liftoff! @lemmy.world
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    No url associations?

    I have Jerboa installed also and links open in that from the web browser, I'd rather they opened in Liftoff since it's the one I seem to be using most.

    Technology @lemmy.ml
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    Car stereo/amp question

    I'm putting a smallish (200x2) amp in my car Real Soon Now. The factory head unit can drive the speakers well enough to sound good enough for background music or an audiobook, but when I really want to play music it sounds not awesome. Better than a clock radio from 1992 but not by much.

    The thing is I want it both ways. When I'm playing an audio book I don't need the amp and want it to play directly without the amp in the speaker circuit at all.

    This isn't something beyond my ability to solve, I could knock out a nice solution with relays and blinky lights and whatnot to do the job triggered by the antenna/amp line like the amp would be, then switch that from the dash. But if there's an existing solution that isn't stupid expensive I'd rather not reinvent the wheel.

    Has anyone done this or am I the only one who would even want it?

    One more important point: the amp will be using line level input, I'm going to install RCA lines for the future but the factory stereo has no low level

    Atheist Memes @lemmy.world
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    How it REALLY happened 👽