Isn't it /mæn/ and /mɛn/, /ˈwʊm ən/ and /ˈwɪm ɪn/? Can be a bit hard to differenciate in the first case, but the second pair is very different.

That's what private communities are for. Calling people names while perfectly aware of it leaking into the public feed is a provocation. And it worked.

The problem is, in my opinion, that they post memes that are clerly provoking non-vegan people for discussion.

It's weird to jump under a "here are my 15 ways of cooking asparagus" post with anti-vegan content. But "look at these carnovorous clowns" memes are clearly offensive.

As some people poined out, I was talking about VK. A Russian social network that ended up in the claws of Russian government, which in turn ended up in massive political repressions of it's userbase for posting "wrong" things.

He then made Telegram and used Russian government's attempts to block it as a PR campaign. I guess that's what made it so appealing at first, but now French government stepped in and we are going all over again.

The guy has a history of making something that looks good and then selling it to governments. I'm surprised people took the bait for the second time.

That's some good data! I'm mostly interested in filtering by Linux support and latency/accuracy measurements. Some of them are very helpful, thank you!

People who promote crypto are usually scammers (they also usually promote their own currency), but in general it's a very useful tool. Considering you have to give up an arm and a leg to use SWIFT nowadays, crypto offers a fast and cheap way to pay someone across the border. The price is that you need to know a thing or two about the technology, else you'll pay the same or even more than with traditional methods.

I meant a pretty well-known case, not hashing in general. Thought that was obvious.

It's not really about something specific. There are just a lot of examples of Apple doing weird shit with your data and only stopping when they got caught. Most people conserned with privacy just don't trust Apple in general.

I mean, they where hashing any lauched programs and sending the hashes unencryped to their servers to compare against their database. So, they literally knew every program you launched, when you did it, but also your ISP knew it and anyone smart enough to MITM your connection. Sounds like a privacy violation to me.

Apple isn't any good for privacy. Just as Google, it's a single big company that gets full control over your device. There are many examples of them exploiting it, by hashing your launched apps on Mac to check for malware, for example. Their systems are also known for being a lot more locked down than the rest, meaning getting rid of telemetry is not an easy task. Big companies are not interested in your privacy, they are interested in profit. And the profit they can get by building your profile is a lot more valuable for them than you as a user. That being said, the guy is right, but he is out of line.

Some people have to use their stuff for a variety of reasons, don't be a dick about it.

They are probably just using your IP address to determine the location. That will show the location of your ISP, not your location. That's not much more info than any other server gets when you are connecting to it. Also does not require Mozilla to send any geolocation data.

You can add mpv to FreeTube as an external player. With yt-dlp, it supports playing YouTube videos directly and in any quality. It also has a plugin for SponsorBlock integration.

Nah, too much work for a text/picture/video that does not need JS to be displayed anyway. If admins are not interested in implementing proper fallbacks, I'm not interested in visiting their site, sorry.

That page does not work without JS.

Well, jokes aside, people who install Arch usually want maximum flexibility out of their system (I have no idea why you would torture yourself like that otherwise). And after some time spent with Manjaro, I can confidently say that it greatly sacrifices your ability to tinker with the system in the name of user friendliness. A great distro to start with, but if you still like it after a couple of months, you probably didn't need Arch in the first place.

Nah, Manjaro is Arch for toddlers.

I'm using Freetube, too. While it fails to play 2160p reliably, you can always use a button to send the video to an external player like MPV. And MPV works without any issues.

Try Thunder.

Oh. Maybe you are right. All I saw was "ffprobe missing", just spat out a fix for that without reading thoroughly.

Using a specialized tool for the task is the way to go, in my opinion. I use OpenStreetMaps when I need to look at the map. If I'm looking for some famous(ish) place, I look it up on Wikipedia and jump to OSM from there.

ffprobe is a part of FFmpeg. Install it properly.

A lot of instances did not upgrade yet because of the awkwardly implemented tagging feature.

https://programming.dev/comment/11433091

A switch to per minute, per megabyte plan made me a lot more concious about spending money on my phone. If I want something to watch/listen to during a trip, I download it beforehand. I almost never use any minutes, only communicating via the mobile data. With autodownloading of pictures disabled in all my chat apps, it runs about 50 MB per month, which charges me less than 50 cents.

Yea, I know. Fucked up my wording a bit while trying to explain why I'm using the app.

Offline capabilities is the killer feature for me. I don't have much bandwidth on my mobile data plan, being able to access maps without internet connection is incredibly good.

You can just share links to maps, OpenStreetMaps has a bunch of different mobile apps, for example, Organic Maps is a good one. Links to OSM look like this: https://osm.org/go/zrfyVQn8--?node=164979149

Because it's based on OSM that anyone can commit changes to, it sometimes has areas mapped that Google maps don't. On my last skiing trip made everyone install it, because Google maps just didn't have a proper map of the resort we were staying in. Also works offline, very convenient when you only have broadband internet in the hotel.

Usually the methods are not shared because streaming services would go out of their way to break them. Just like Youtube breaks yt-dlp every now and then. But Youtube is too big to implement any serious protection, so, downloaders usually win. I heard Crunchyroll is ripped via their mobile app, albeit modified. But specifics are better left in the dark.

"Convenience" as in there is no need to host anything? May be, but, yet again, I would like to know the exact physical location of my passwords, otherwise I'm not saving them there. Apart from that, I don't think there are any more "benefits".

KeePass or something similar. Self-hosting your passwords is the only way, anything that uses servers that are not controlled by you is a no-go, in my opinion, no matter how secure your client is.

Use FreeTube with VPN. But you'll have to find a VPN provider you trust, of course. Should be a bit easier.

I don't believe the first code sample is a valid C# code. Switch-case statements expect constants for case conditions and runtime types are not constants, obviously. What you can do is something like this:

void MyMethod(object arg)
{
    if (arg.GetType() == typeof(int))
        MyTypedMethod((int)arg);
    else if (arg.GetType() == typeof(int?))
        MyTypedMethod((int?)arg);
    else if (arg.GetType() == typeof(long))
        MyTypedMethod((long)arg);
}

This will work, but the problem here is that inheritance will fuck you up. All the types we check in this example are sealed and we don't really have to worry about it in this case, but generally this code is... just bad.

And yes, the correct way of implementing something like this is by using generic types. Starting from C# 7.0 we have this cool structure:

void MyMethod<T>(T arg)
{
    switch (arg)
    {
        case null:
            // Do something with null
            break;
        case int intArg:
            // Do something with intArg
            break;
        case long longArg:
            // Do something with longArg
            break;
    }
}

You'll have to check for null separately, as you can't use Nullable<> there, but overall, it looks much cleaner and handles inheritance properly for you.

This is called pattern matching, you can read more about it here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/patterns

You can use any redirecting extension, if it does not support FreeTube directly, just make it open freetube://<youtube link>.

It's just a domain name, it has nothing to do with sites being safe. Just as any other site, they may be malicious, may be not, depends on who runs the site.

Well, it's easy enough if you only use precompiled packages. Beyond that you should probably have a better understanding of what you are doing.

Arch with extra steps, AKA CachyOS.

I like to be a bit more explicit than necessary.

paru -Syu, you don't want to forget your AUR packages, right?