You can try playing with Arkenfox, installing uBlock Origin, fiddling with about:config, and giving yourself an aneurysm…

…or you could try Mullvad Browser. It’s a fork of Firefox, co-developed by Mullvad and The Tor Project, with impressive fingerprinting resistance (according to Cover Your Tracks). It’s like Tor Browser without Tor.

Also, install NoScript. It helps a lot.

Looks like it is. I had noticed a few Mastodon and Misskey instances blocking poa.st, but I didn’t realise it was the same as poast.org.

Good thing there are other instances now!

My HP’s hinge broke, too. I had to pack the entire back of the case with putty in order to fix it, and it’s still not quite right.

I know. I’ve worked with it myself, and I once accidentally inhaled a small volume of it.

A-Level chemistry, innit.

HCl‽ Jaysus…

Well, I often just do a bank transfer or card payment. I’ve tried to use Monero, but I’ve had trouble getting ahold of any crypto without selling my soul to Guardarian.

The letter arrived yesterday.

I like the Gormanian and Holocene calendars; but I use the Gregorian for compatibility with the rest of humanity.

Also, as I live in Britain, I use an unholy mixture of metric, imperial, and archaic measurements.

Length of an object? Centimetres. Height of a human? Feet and inches. Mass of flour? Grams. Mass of a human? Stones, pounds, and ounces. Distance by car? Miles. Distance on foot? Kilometres. Volume of a soft drink? Litres or millilitres. Volume of beer or milk? Pints. Volume of non-dairy milk? Also litres and millilitres.

Honestly no

Europe/London, BST, UTC+01:00

Do you use a different calendar system, by any chance?

Yes, but one would assume I meant the 19th of the current month of the current year.

Also “They said the 19th June 2024” doesn’t work so great as a title.

It was two days ago.

19th June

(This is from cohost)

I have a few machines, which run:

• Raspbian Bookworm (arm64) with IceWM - Raspbian is the only desktop RPi distro that works out-of-the-box. I chose IceWM because it’s fast, light, customisable, and I can make it look like it’s 2004.
• openSUSE Tumbleweed with Xfce+Bspwm - I keep going back to openSUSE. It just works. As for the desktop, I wanted Xfce but with tiling.
• Mageia 9 with LXQt - I just needed something lighter than Fedora Xfce, as this machine only has 4GB of RAM.
• FreeBSD with i3 - Thought I’d give BSD a try. I was pleasantly surprised.
• Gentoo (WIP) - I’m just throwing random distros at my MacBook until something sticks. Gentoo is fast and can control the fan without me having to git clone and compile the drivers (ironically).
• crunchbang++ (i386) with Openbox - This is a mid-2000s MacBook, running one of the few Linux distros that actually boots on it.

Some distros I tried but did not like were Pop!_OS, Slackware, Zenwalk, Freespire, Redcore, Fedora Atomic, ArchBang, and antiX.

Sone distros I’d like to try are Qubes OS, Clear Linux, CRUX, Kwort, Paldo, Exherbo, NuTyX, T2, Chimera, Adélie, Frugalware (no new ISOs since 2016, but the packages are still updated), Dragora, Parabola, Hyperbola, PLD, KANOTIX, Calculate, ALT, ROSA, and AUSTRUMI.

The reasons I have not yet tried these are mostly down to my limited hardware and the complexity of some of the distros. With others, it’s often down to WiFi drivers not existing for my proprietary cards. And then there are also a couple of distros from Russia, which I feel I can’t trust at the moment.

Last I heard, the CCP did a bit of social engineering and got a load of TikTokkers to post videos in juggalo makeup in order to retrain their facial recognition software.

I don’t recall if it was successful, but it happened.

That’s far too good for AI. It has to be photoshopped.

It’s an old program that converts between .deb (Debian), .rpm (RedHat), .tgz (Slackware), .slp (Stampede), .pkg (Solaris), and LSB packages.

I don’t use it much, but it can be handy in a pinch for installing software that isn’t packaged for your distribution. Just don’t use it for anything low-level or that’s already packaged natively, or you’ll break stuff.

You could try running the .deb through alien(1p), although it can be hit-and-miss if the package has a lot of scripts or dependencies.

Is that LinkedIn?