default dark themes make surfing less secure
Not less secure per se, but less anonymous. Default dark mode reports your preference to websites and analytics, so it ends up being something that makes you different.
Same reason privacy browsers use a default resolution and won’t let you stretch websites bigger if you have a huge monitor, keeping a border instead…
The idea is to devalue tracking attempts by making the results a big nothing burger of more of the same. A herd of clones.
I think the USSR is good to point out.
Didn’t some rich assholes buy up everything in there for cheap during all that, and become the new lords through Oligarchy?
Thats where we are heading here. With nearly every cut, there’s a remark about how the private sector could do it better. They are normalizing the idea that they, the oligarchs, the billionaires, can run government better than government can, so when the National Weather Service has it’s duties assumed by The Weather Channel(for a nominal fee of course), it will somehow be “better”, when Medicare and Medicaid are failed and private insurance companies shored up, we will be grateful for the “efficiency”. When social security “runs out due to bureaucratic mismanagenent”, the privately held 401k will be the only hope.
An excellent question. For a literature example to share, have you ever heard of Anne of Green Gables, a series of novels from the early 1900s? The title character herself would be treated for ADHD today, and there is another whose name escapes me that would be under ADD.
But they don’t have these terms, it’s the 1900s, so these characters are simply excitable, absent minded, moody, day-dreamers…
Neurodiversity has been with us probably as long as neurons, but we like to make people fit a mold, and anyone who deviates is given a funny nickname and pushed into the mold anyway, or ostracized for their “incompatibility”.
Same with autism and any others, we’re just at the point where we want to look at it medically, and use medications and therapies to get them in the mold, rather than “a good whipping and back to the school books, damn ~slur~” you’d get in the past.
I generally go with Debian, makes a good stable base. Then over SSH you can use a helper script like LinuxGSM, or use Docker containers. Or both? I’ve seen containers that use LGSM inside…
For the web aspect, you can use DockGE or Portainer as a simple interface for the docker containers, but if you want to dig into the game configs from the same panel, you might want a full grown game management program, or a system level panel like Cockpit.
One cool looking option is to set up a full out hosting panel like AMP, though admittedly it gives me weird issues often enough to think about downgrading to more basic options again. It was meant for a hosting seller environment, and behaves accordingly.
And don’t even get me started on “AI”.
As the family technical person, I can say after years of attempting to teach people to understand and solve their own problems, my support calls are down in the past year! Is it because they got smarter? No! They started using ChatGPT, CoPilot, etc and following it blindly. Do they understand the concepts of what they are changing and doing? No, but as long as the original problem is fixed, who cares if a dozen more are created, as long as they(the problems) keep quiet.
I am cursed to be in the middle, couldn’t just be given a well paying technical job like my forebears, but nobody thinks they need my technical skills anymore, so I have talents now viewed as outdated and of limited use.
To me, something like this might be a great help as the economy hits a downturn and people look to tighten purse strings. While there would be some guilt, tips are “optional”, and adjustable, so if money is tight I’m sorry but the percentage is going down. Ideally I never would have eaten out at all but if I did…
Ok, so I guess I’m also a little salty about tipping culture in general, how it has changed to a passive aggressive percentage system that now tries to push high values at the register instead of actual like, token of appreciation tips.
Listen, I can drop a bill on the table if it was good service, but now that things are so often percentage based…wether I got the burger or the steak did not change the level of service you provided, yet my expected tip has doubled with the meal price? And bringing the tip down to the value I have free is now an “insult” at “only” x percent?
I personally have taken to avoiding services that “require” tremendous tips, and the guilt that the tip makes up 90% of a persons pay rather than being a treat on top like it used to be has only emboldened that decision.
I hear the argument that tipped workers can actually walk away with much more than average wage after tips on a good night. Is this common or a happy outlier? I also hear they can get royally screwed on a bad night.
And now that we so often have the tips included in our receipts, part of digital payments instead of cash on the table, how much are they actually getting it vs the house keeping most of it or it being averaged out to the cooks and managers?
Then begets the argument, shouldn’t the cooks get a tip? They put significant labor into the food prep that the waiter delivered, but we tip the waiter only if we leave cash…
And so I hate tips and may be a little biased. I think we absolutely should be paying people wages, and tips should be token gifts granted for exceptional services or from charitable people with money to burn.
In the video game Wolfenstein, the side character Tekla goes on a wonderful rant about the continuity of consciousness.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_4oU7sB_AJ0
If you want a darker aspect, the game SOMA is all about this concept, though it is meant as a horror game, so it explores all the worst outcomes.
Gitea and therefore Forgejo also have container registry functionality, I use that for private builds.
I’ve only done my “is it even possible” research so far, but these look promising:
https://medium.com/@amandubey_6607/docker-registry-caching-a2dfefecfff5
Huh. I was just considering establishing a caching registry for other reasons. Ferb, I know what we’re going to do today!
Having a union to begin with.
Folks that stop by this post and don’t have a union, think about this. The reason you have the default concern about your job security, the reason you have inequality in the workplace and the reason “wage-slave” is a term, is because you, your peers, and your predecessors were propagandized away from unions or any form of worker solidarity.
Some of you might say, “but if I even talk about a union with co-workers, I’m fired”, or, “I read about how Walmart would rather stop having a butcher shop than let them unionize”. I say that’s exactly why you need one.
Fair, and this is why I hesitate to recommend LibreWolf as a true alternative to Firefox. It wasn’t meant to be the common man’s general browser. It was flavored with a privacy goal in mind and that’s what it does.
It’s a half-step toward recommending someone use Tor browser as a daily driver. Which wouldn’t work out very well. But it’s quite private and anonymous!
There just wasn’t a need/enough funding or drive for another “good enough” browser like Firefox, the answer for that was Firefox. Everyone else is off one deep end or another.