Ryan Daniels @ryandaniels@linuxrocks.online

title text: This data is actually going into improving our self-driving car project, so hurry up--it's almost at the minefield.

(https://xkcd.com/2496)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2496
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Small devices use two-prong USB-AC, but there's also a three-prong version with a USB-B plug as the ground.

The #SteamDeck is a sinister plan by Valve to turn all gamers into Arch users

Here's a little thing that may not be obvious to many people....

When you install an open-source app from Google Play or the Apple app store, there is no guarantee that what you install actually matches the public code.

@fdroidorg are doing a great service. They independently build the public source code for apps from scratch, review for common issues, and publish their builds. Thanks to "reproducible builds" it's possible to verify they do not tamper with the code.

https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Security_Model/

Tip: instead of pressing the "Accept All Cookies" button, press the *other* button, and then press "Confirm".

It's just 2 clicks instead of 1, no need to fiddle settings (they have to make them privacy-respecting by default) and you make the world a little less dystopian!

Windows 95 - Add/Remove Programs

WhatsApp will progressively kill features until users accept new privacy policy

https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/05/07/whatsapp-chickens-out-on-its-privacy-policy-deadline/

Hello, good afternoon, yes, sorry for the bother, but...

Someone needs to make this, please? So that I might give them all the money.

WTF ... Mozilla had always running JavaScript inside PDFs disabled by default.

But now with FF 88 this option is ENABLED by default. Which means, if a PDF file contains JS it will run without any user interaction. What can possibly go wrong?

To disable this:

about:config
pdfjs.enableScripting --> false

# FF 78.10 ESR doesn't include this option and still blocks JS in PDFs by default. Just tested.

Upcoming Instagram changes warn users to accept activity tracking to "Help keep Instagram free of charge" 🙄 #deleteInstagram

Last time I didn't finish this great book - "The Linux Command Line", and then I went offline for more than half a year.

It turns out that the second edition came out and has already been translated into Russian!

I'm definitely going to finish this book this time.

If English is your native language (or a good level to read technical literature) - you are in luck, you can download this book for free:

http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php

#Linux #commandLine #book #bash

When you setup Kubernetes to host your personal blog

Remember, as you gaze up at the beautiful night sky, that you are not beneath the stars. You are among them.

Linux distributions in a nutshell

@aral found this #smalltech exemplar via HN where it is described as:

"I'm struggling to put my shock into words. I've been around. There's engineering. There's academia. But this falls into straight-up wizardry."

"Everything she does has this level of jaw-dropping amazingness."

Redbean - single-file distributable web server

https://justine.lol/redbean/index.html

"redbean can serve 1 million+ gzip encoded responses per second on a cheap personal computer."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26271117