I would get 12mm screws of the same thread pitch (M2 is common) and file 0.5mm off the ends.

If you don’t want to file them by hand, you could ask someone with access to a grinder for help. They could probably do it in a few seconds if the screws are not stainless steel. Your local bicycle shop might have one, since this is a fairly common operation on spokes.

This article mentions using Global Privacy Control as a replacement for Do Not Track, but doesn’t bother to explain what GPC does. Its adjacent article incorrectly claims that GPC uses the DNT: 1 header field, fails to explain further, and links to a Mozilla page that doesn’t explain it, either.

Even the GPC web site fails here, offering several pages of vague, abstract fluff about their intentions and a useless document full of marketing industry acronyms, without anything substantial about how it works. The single mention of a spec fails to state where to find it. The closest it comes is a tangential sentence containing a broken github.io link.

Finally, and only because I happen to know github.io’s URL format, I was able to guess my way to an organization page, and from there to a project page, which has a README file containing a footnote linking to the proposed spec:

https://w3c.github.io/gpc/

Geez… it’s as though the people involved don’t want anyone to know how this proposed safeguard is supposed to work.

After reading it, it looks like these are the main differences in Global Privacy Control vs. Do Not Track:

• Replaces the DNT: 1 header field with Sec-GPC: 1.
• Adds a javascript property to indicate the same thing.
• Does not honor preference changes after the first navigation to a site. (Having changes respected apparently requires clearing site data from the browser and reloading. A helpful browser might prompt the user to do this.)
• Defines a way for sites to indicate that they are aware of GPC (but does not require them to honor it).
• Expresses a wish that your data not be shared, but says nothing about it being collected.
• May be considered legally binding in some jurisdictions. It’s not clear whether the few that currently recognize it will enforce it in any meaningful way.

I would like to know the answer to this:

It’s unclear what will happen to users who have DNT enabled when they upgrade to the affected Firefox version. They may see a message stating that “Firefox no longer supports Do Not Track,” or the signal may still be sent to websites. We have asked Mozilla to clarify this and will provide an update when we receive a response.

I thought this would be appropriate since I see 404media’s articles linked from lemmy often.

Given the incoming administration and the importance of independent journalism, I think this story would be worthwhile even if 404 Media wasn’t the target.

“The only information and viewpoints that should be available to people in the US are those given by the rich and powerful.”

That wouldn’t be you making levels, though, would it?

You might find Edward Bernays and his impact on advertising interesting.

One of the numerous problems for America’s magnates was the consumption of the average citizen. Many only purchased what they really needed, a behaviour which moguls wanted to change. The Wall Street banker Paul Mazur summarised this in a particularly straightforward manner: ‘We must shift America from a needs to a desires culture’, he wrote in 1927 in the Harvard Business Review. ‘People must be trained to desire, to want new things even before the old have been entirely consumed.’

https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/original-influencer

https://www.npr.org/2005/04/22/4612464/freuds-nephew-and-the-origins-of-public-relations

https://theconversation.com/the-manipulation-of-the-american-mind-edward-bernays-and-the-birth-of-public-relations-44393

Thanks for this. Are you planning to take more measurements during a warm season? It would be interesting to see how close the electric system comes to petrol in more favourable conditions/climates.

Let’s not let our guard down. They might make superficial changes, but they will keep pushing this dangerous and invasive nonsense, and they only have to win once.

IIRC, it’s also where Léon first appears, later to be a main character the titular 1994 film that was released in the US as The Professional.

Not just individuals; entire countries view it as a public health issue. I like to think the Netherlands is a good example.

So most software packages are at least a little out of date because they only put the most stable and tested versions of software in their default repos.

And for many people, this is a good thing. By favoring reliability, Debian Stable provides the most low-maintenance experience of any distro I’ve ever used. (And I’ve been using them for a long time.)

The packaged software is generally up to date when a new Debian release lands. It’s a year or two between releases, but that’s fine, because the vast majority of software already had the features I needed, and I’m not addicted to watching version numbers rise or fiddling about with UI changes that some developers like to make every month. Security updates do come between releases, and the two or three packages that sometimes warrant a faster update cycle are easy enough to add if needed.

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This is unsurprising, but nevertheless interesting, because it seems to disprove a naïve assumption that I’ve seen repeated over the years: that Tencent doesn’t influence the game companies it invests in.

Please don’t post business marketing here.

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Mostly useless trailer, but after finding articles about the game, it looks like it could be fun.

https://www.pcgamesn.com/spacecraft/revealed

https://www.gematsu.com/2024/12/online-space-exploration-and-building-game-spacecraft-announced-for-pc

Neither isolates everything. Both have some isolation features. The features enabled by default vary from package to package, so you would have to look at the permissions on each package to find out.

For a bit more isolation than a flatpak/snap, I suggest creating a separate user account for running chromium (or any other moderately nosy software). Note that linux lets you log in to two accounts at the same time, each with its own desktop, and switch between them. Check out your desktop environment’s “switch user” function.

For even more isolation, you could run chromium in a hypervisor-based virtual machine.

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I use Matrix for private messages. If you found a server that suits you, it might be worthwhile to try it with a different client.

• Drops messages if they’re not picked up within (by default) 21 days.
• Can’t use one account on multiple independent devices.
• Adding contacts requires copy/paste of a large link or QR code; can’t just tell them a short address over the phone.
• No group calls.
• Venture capital funding makes its future uncertain.

Last time I investigated it was a few months ago; it’s possible that it might have made some improvements since then.