Notices by :copyleft: Kiri :tux: (kiri@fosstodon.org), page 2

It is weird, isn't it, that the one case in which homeopathic theories of "like cures like" and dilution actually work, which is vaccination, is the one thing many naturopathic folk are dead set against.

Go figure.

Game manager Lutris just had a huge update with D9VK, Discord Rich Presence and more

Need something to manage all your games from different places? Lutris is pretty handy and it just had a huge upgrade.

Read more: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/game-manager-lutris-just-had-a-huge-update-with-d9vk-discord-rich-presence-and-more.14931

Intellectual Property is when you dress up a peanut in a top hat and a monocle and get a lawyer to make sure no one else ever does this

so there’s a new search engine for the fediverse: https://search.social.

most people probably don’t expect their public posts to be searchable, especially if they use mastodon, so here’s how to opt out (for mastodon): open your settings and go to Preferences > Other, then check “Opt out of search engine indexing”.

if you’re an instance admin, you can opt your entire instance through robots.txt. you can set this up in nginx: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1090823/how-do-i-configure-nginx-to-redirect-to-a-url-for-robots-txt-sitemap-xml#3746344

Firefox 69.0 :firefox: available:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/69.0/releasenotes/

– Enhanced Tracking Protection will be turned on by default; default standard setting for this feature now blocks third-party tracking cookies and cryptominers
– support for the Web Authentication HmacSecret extension via Windows Hello
– various security fixes

#firefox #mozilla #firefox69 #tracking #etp #webauthn #infosec #security #cybersecurity

I finally realized FE means frontend, not elemental iron!

Conclusion: All frontend devs are ironman!

Reminder why switching.social does NOT recommend using Brave:

-Brave is a for-profit ad sales and cryptocurrency promotion company, funded by venture capital firms. Its primary purpose is to make money, not protect privacy.

-Top of the list of Brave's VC owners is Founders Fund, which is Peter Thiel's company ( https://web.archive.org/web/20190831163230/https://basicattentiontoken.org/ )

-Peter Thiel is also the head of Palantir, which makes its money by spying on the general public ( https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel/ )

#Brave #PeterThiel #Palantir

https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1167433945899835393

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly

i am not going to name who this person is.

there is this person here who does these incredible motivational introductions to people who have just joined the fediverse.

each person who adds this person gets an incredible personalised greeting and introduction to mastodon.

they aren't paid, there's no selfishness in it...

NOTHING like this exists on facebook

they're kind of like if morpheus from the matrix was your grandad

By the way, the reason I chose Liberapay over other alternatives like Patreon is because Liberapay is FOSS (source: https://github.com/liberapay/liberapay.com), non-profit and respects creators. You can support them there as well: https://liberapay.com/Liberapay/donate #liberapay

It's funny how the tiniest details are those that anchor us to reality. Using myself as an example: I can watch a movie with magic, superpowers, and the like and be perfectly immersed; but if some person sticks a USB in right the first time, that's absolutely unbelievable to me and the immersion is broken.

The weather is #crazy