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I wish Firefox had a per-user location for policies, so I can just carry it around with dotfiles.

Aren't preferences stored in per-user JavaScript (text) files?

You might use it for something illegal in one country, and then leave for another country with no extradition… but you’ve lost the license to sue the software and can be sued for copyright infringement.

Lucky Italians. Can we sign up for Cloudflare to leave too?

Italy is on the side of censorship and IP blocking. Cloudflare is on the side of freedom.

In this case your priors are wrong and the parties you should cheer for are reversed.


Just because the Italian stance here is absurd won’t make me cheer for the other party. I can disagree with both of them on different terms.

> Cloudflare is on the side of freedom

Are we sure? To me, it seems like a very convenient choice, both economically and politically


Weird fun fact (as an Argentinian who went to school in England for a few years): in English-speaking countries, America is not a continent in the same way as in Spanish. In English they have two continents: South America and North America.

So the word "American" in English does not mean the same as "Americano" in Spanish.

There's really no natural word in English to refer to someone from "El continente Americano", because no such continent exists in English. That's why they use the word "American" to refer to someone from USA exclusively.


That sounded fascinating as a rather large difference in world view stemming only from using different languages.

It turns out that there are various models for the number of continents, and that is (phew) known in Spanish, too. See the Wikipedia page [1] (link to Spanish version) for instance. This is for European Spanish though, but I couldn't find a version of the page in es-AR.

[1]: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continente#Modelos_continental...


I think "the Americas" means the continent(s), and America (to some extent) can mean either but it would feel more like something used as a gotcha at a pub quiz.

You're definitely right about there not being a word for someone from that continent though.


That is weird isn't it "Asian, African, European"

"American" to refer to USA exclusively does make sense either way because USA shares the continent with at least two other countries no matter how you slice it.

You probably meant "doesn't make sense".

Correct

Frankly, the model with the single America continent doesn’t make any sense, because south and north Americas are so different in both geographical and cultural/historical sense.

Continents are about geology not culture

Well, North and South America are two different tectonic plates[1].

[1] https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/tectonic-plates-earth


They really aren't, there's no objective way to divide the world into exactly 7 continents (or 6) using geology.

America, Afro-Eurasia, Australia, Antarctica

I can count 4


Based on what?

Based on being large landmasses

Potentially any island is a continent if your cutoff is low enough


Europe says hi.

Cool idea, but where's the "sign up" button?

Trying to use any of the commands in the home page, I just see "hugo@shellbox.dev: Permission denied (publickey).". Clearly I have to register first, but there's no clue as to how.


You are missing an ssh key. Run this first:

ssh-keygen -t ed25519


There is no support for ed25519 host keys (confirmed using ssh-audit). Would be nice to have though.

As an aside, you should use ssh-audit to get recommendations for what to disable as far as less than ideal options/configs go.


If your .env file is being sourced by something like direnv, you can have it read secrets from the secret storage service and export them as env vars.

If you bind-mount the directory, the sandbox can see the commands, but executing them won’t work since it can’t access the secret service.


> These companies need to stop normalizing the sharing of personal private photos. It's literally the opposite direction from good Internet hygiene, especially for kids!

While I agree with you entirely, it's important to remember that these companies want to mis-educate the masses (and especially children) against their own interest. It's not just unfortunate that they're normalising uploading a photo just to play a videogame: it's an intentional choice to de-normalise privacy and normalise deeper and more in-grained online stalking.


Most of these companies don't even want to add age gates. They get in the way of their normal predatory marketing schemes, the little bits of extra data isn't worth it.

Stupid laws are forcing these companies to implement something. In most countries, there is no privacy-preserving way to verify that you're old enough digitally, so when these companies are forced to get something good enough going, they're going to go with the cheapest offer they can legally get away with.

Governments know this. They want certain websites to disappear entirely, and for certain platforms to just stop existing. Both sides are using weaponised incompetence to blame the other and users end up losing regardless of whose fault it is.


I’ve been using usbmuxd+ifuse to copy the photo files straight from the phone. No need to wait for an upload/download to some remote server, just a direct cable from the phone to my computer. I get the original files, and can even move (instead of copy) to clear up the phone.

This works on any iPhone? It mounts the non-privileged DCIM folder or whatever over USB to somewhere on your filesystem? With write access?



I use a lot of short-lived terminals. I have zsh+foot configured so that ctrl+shift+n opens a new terminal with the same current directory, so when using Vim, that's as fast as putting Vim in background, but I can tile both windows easily.

I never have more than a one or two dozen terminals at a time, but I definitely open hundred of short-lived ones.


Why? You've said you do but not why you do? Why not leave a terminal open?

Why would I leave it open once I'm done with the task for which I opened the terminal?

You'll enjoy "Altered Carbon", which focuses (partially) on this topic: if we get rid of death, then the worst of the aristocracy never dies.

+1000 - altered carbon season 1 is amazing. IMHO commit to watching it 3x to get everything going on - after the first watching, everyone's like "that was amazing but I'm not sure what I just watched." It's just so rich - if The Matrix is 136 mins vs 570 mins with that much more depth.

Also Greg Egan's Permutation City covers these topics in a different way.

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