We didn’t have a video player, but our friends had a Looney Tunes VHS that included rabbit season / duck season, the Bugs Bunny opera, left turn at Albuquerque, and Duck Dodgers

We must have watched it over 100 times

Can we have Google Chrome?

No, we have Gogle Chome at home

I’ve been on Mint with Cinnamon for about 5 years across desktops, laptops, and home server

I had to update a machine with a version of Mint that was EoL this year, so I just upgraded through several major versions in a row with no issues

It was interesting seeing how much more polished each upgrade process was

And it keeps growing, there are another 5 that didn’t fit in the screenshot

I created a symlink to the directory the symlink is in. If I try and simply ‘delete’ the symlink in a file browser it tells me that gigs of data will be deleted

That beginners guide says to avoid creating circular symlinks. What if, entirely hypothetically, I already have a circular symlink?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp2DgRr2DGM

Linux Mint on desktop, laptop, and home server. Doesn’t hurt to have the full install on the server, and I have a monitor hooked up anyway - but makes maintenance easier with everything the same distro. Batocera on the retro gaming pc.

Android on phone, but if there was a distro for my phone I would use Linux there too. F-droid for apps where possible, but Play store for some essentials.

I wasn’t thinking in detail, just addressing an assumption I think a lot of age verification discussions include, which is that the verifier would have to be trusted to maintain some sort of account for you, retaining your data etc.

I have no idea what the legislation says, but I’d be a happier privacy-conscious user if the verification platforms were independent (i.e. not in any other data business) and regulated, with a requirement they don’t retain my personal data at all (like the liquor store example)

So the verifier gathers data from you, matches it with a request from the platform, provides confirmation that some standard has been met, and deletes almost all personal information - I acknowledge that this may not rise to the double-blind standard of the original request

Edited to add:

• you don’t have to ‘buy’ a token, the platform needs to pay verifiers as a cost of business

• some other comments are asking how you prevent the verifier knowing the platform - to my mind you don’t, instead the verifier retains a request id record from the platform, but forgets entirely who you are

A joke answer, but with the kernel of truth - IRL age verification often requires a trusted verifier (working under threat of substantial penalty) but often doesn’t require that verifier to maintain any documentation on individual verification actions

https://chinwag.au/verification/

I found the same about engagement - every post had 5000 comments but only the top 100 could generate actual conversation, everyone else might as well be talking to themselves

I browse by new, so I often see the spam advertising and bad faith garbage (Logic_&_Ethics anyone?) so I just block liberally

I literally don’t know what I’m missing

ETA: I also don’t have a language set, so if I see a foreign language community with no English posts or comments I’ll just block it

2 instances

175 users

515 communities

I thought reading The Grapes of Wrath was like watching Requiem for a Dream - I’m glad I did it once, and I will never do it again

Thanks, I was more worried that there was something completely wrong security-wise with that approach!

Genuine question from someone with a single page static site - why is Cloudflare a useless suggestion?

1. On-prem
2. Self-hosting

And I’ll argue it’s on-prem even if you don’t have the physical server in your building

It tells you right there in the log: “DRDY”

I love every ape I see, from chimpan-A to chimpanzee…

If it is powered on but blank screen, you can try terminating the user session from a terminal

https://linuxiac.com/how-to-terminate-user-session-in-linux/