Ryan Daniels @ryandaniels@linuxrocks.online

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

Sometimes the mere process of writing out a cw is enough to make me go "huh. Maybe this joke doesn't need telling."

Relatedly, here's an easy bookmarklet to help you dodge paywalls:

javascript:location.href='https ://web.archive.org/web/*/'+location.href;

Create a new bookmark on your browser toolbar, and paste that as the url. remove space after https.

Friday fun at work:

Boss: I didn't know you'd been a heavy mechanic?
Me: Huh?
Boss: This line in your bio, "Familiar with the undercarriages of most large passenger vehicles"
Me: That's code for "I'm used to being thrown under the bus."

Wasn't expecting him to laugh.

I wonder how many new users Signal will get after today

#whatsapp is ending the opt out and making data sharing with #facebook mandatory

#privacy

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/whatsapp-users-must-share-their-data-with-facebook-or-stop-using-the-app/

Happy copyright notice updating!

Stop using "Zoom" as a general term for video conferencing.
Stop using "Google" as a general term for searching the web.