That mass surveilance was pushed through by the EU commision against the parliament that already rejected it (twice).

Commision and the council. Especially the most recent chat control 1.0 proposal that the parliament will vote for tomorrow (July 9)

EU ambassadors agree to push a temporary revival — unprecedented, as Parliament’s rejection was considered final. Because an expired regulation cannot be extended, the Council proposes a formally new law with identical content via an expedited procedure.

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/chat-control-overview

I take notes in markdown as well and had to deal with this problem as well. There were numerous plugins that gave this functionality that the author implemented but I didn’t feel like having an extra plugin just for viewing markdown headlines (especially since I don’t use LSP’s during software development)

I ended up just using gO command. I made some extra changes so that I could make the gO buffer take up half of the height of the window with C+w+=.

There’s also [[ shortcut that will jump you to the parent heading, so you can then search inside the gO buffer for it.

I’m not completely happy with this but it will suffice for now. I will need to automate this in the future, though.

My browser clears all cookies from Reddit when I close it down. And every time I go to the new Reddit site, it auto logs me in with my Google account. In some other sites there’s the annoying “log in with google account” popup at the top; it doesn’t do anything if you don’t click to log in. But Reddit doesn’t ask. Just says: “Logging you in” and you can click cancel if you’re fast enough.

They even auto create you an account if they do this for the first time.

Awhile ago they were also experimenting forcing mobile users to use the app

And now they’re also rolling out age verification in the EU (just got an email yesterday). One of the ways to verify your age is with Persona which Discord also tried to use and got a lot of backslash.

What’s the difference between single vs double quotes?

I use bash and it did throw that error, however the find . | egrep *.py example at the end did not.

I could never get much into online gaming because it’s a full time job keeping up with the meta and if you are not highly skilled you are just cannon fodder.

Some, yes, but certainly not all of them.

I’ve been playing The Finals and it’s a great casual game. I think I average like 6 hours a week or something. The matches are short, toxicity is low and its fun. Most of its player-base are casuals, a lot of console players. And it’s designed in a way that even if you have bad teammates or lose you can still have a lot of fun since the main game-mode is 3v3v3 or 3v3v3v3, has fun movement and a completely destructible environment. Just blowing shit up is enough enjoyment on its own.

I don’t think they went through with it.

I remember reading a related article reclaimthenet

This same Home Office served Apple with a secret order, a Technical Capability Notice, demanding a backdoor into end-to-end encrypted iCloud backups, first for every human on the planet and later, after Washington threw a tantrum, for British users alone. Secret being the operative word, since the law gagged Apple from so much as admitting the order existed.

Apple’s answer was to rip its strongest encryption out of the UK entirely rather than build the thing, sniffing that it has “never built a backdoor or master key to any of our products or services,” and the fight is still grinding through the courts. That is the track record of this government, one that asks one company, in the dark, to dismantle encryption for an entire nation is not a government you hand a camera-side scanner and trust to use it gently.

I’m interested why flathub > AUR? I try to minimize AUR usage but always assumed it’s better than flathub?

Anyone know why so many in Switzerland see the US as an adversary? 25.8% while Spain is 22.5% and Denmark is 20.1%. Did they do something to piss them off in particular that I missed? It’s in “A dawning realisation” section.

Self-questionnaires

How else do you plan on tracking 34000’s peoples diet for 12 years? Lock them in a lab?

40 years ago

How else would you measure life expectancy accurately? You you must track people until a statistically significant portion of them die.

and did not check if the Adventist do continue the healthy habits

I don’t really understand how statistically this would matter. They had a large enough study group , tracked them for 12 years and isolated the variables.

each of life expectancy markers yield statistically same result 1.5-2.5 years: not smoking, medium bmi, exercise, eating nuts, being vegetarian.

Yeah and I never claimed it was only cuz of not eating meat.

I am very careful about proclaiming that meat is unhealthy in any dose, because that’s not how humans evolved for the past 300 000 years.

Why do you think natural selection optimizes humans for longevity? (living 85 years free of chronic disease). Evolution just optimizes for survival to reproductive age and successful child bearing.

Just because humans can digest meat and relied on it for survival in harsh conditions does not biologically mean a meat-heavy diet is the optimal fuel for a 90-year lifespan in a modern environment with caloric abundance.

There have been cultures in certain blue zones like in Okinawa where people traditionally ate very little meat.

Less than 1% of their diet was fish; less than 1% of their diet was meat, and same with dairy and eggs, so it was more than 96% plant-based, and more than 90% whole food plant based—very few processed foods either. And, not just whole food plant-based, but most of their diet was vegetables, and one vegetable in particular—sweet potatoes. The Okinawan diet was centered around purple and orange sweet potatoes

Also adventist vegetarians in California:

The plant-based nature of the diet may trump the caloric restriction, though, since the one population that lives even longer than the Okinawa Japanese don’t just eat a 98% meat-free diet, they eat 100% meat-free. The Adventist vegetarians in California, with perhaps the highest life expectancy of any formally described population.

Adventist vegetarian men and women live to be about 83 and 86, comparable to Okinawan women, but better than Okinawan men. The best of the best were Adventist vegetarians who had healthy lifestyles too, like being exercising nonsmokers, 87 and nearly 90, on average. That’s like 10 to 14 years longer than the general population. Ten to 14 extra years on this Earth from simple lifestyle choices. And, this is happening now, in modern times, whereas Okinawan longevity is now a thing of the past. Okinawa now hosts more than a dozen KFCs. Their saturated fat tripled. They went from eating essentially no cholesterol to a few Big Macs’ worth, tripled their sodium, and are now just as potassium deficient as Americans, getting less than half of the recommended minimum daily intake of 4,700 mg a day. In two generations, Okinawans have gone from the leanest Japanese to the fattest

Source : https://youtu.be/mryzkO5QWWY

just 1 more lane this time it will surely do it

Shoutout to https://uruky.com/

It’s a paid private search engine.

https://theprivacydad.com/interview-with-the-engineer-of-uruky-a-private-search-engine/

Trying them out right now, so far so good!

Go to https://ecosia.org/ in a private browser window. It says “AI that answers to the planet”. Search something and the AI Overview on top is enabled by default.

For what it’s worth i’ve been using them for like a year and I clear my cookies often and never got this AI overview thingy you’re talking about. I actually have no clue how it even looks like.

I was thinking the same thing recently. It’s not the place it once was. But in general the internet has changed a lot. And it’s not just AI.

1. All sorts of paywalls especially in news sites.
2. Everything is getting centralized into a few sites and they’re usually eithe poorly indexable or not at all (Discord, facebook, X, Instagram and so on)
3. Fediverse (Lemmy, Mastodon) also struggles with search engines.
4. People trying to sell you shit, create a brand even more than before. Because of this all sorts of SEO optimization crap is done like writing BS articles nobody cares about.
5. AI slop.
6. Search engines have gotten better of getting rid of “illegal stuff”.
7. A lot of sites are just presentational bloat with no substance. Very cool looking landing pages with all sorts of cool animations but when you need to actually find the information that you need… the same UI usually gets in the way.

Oh and now we’re getting into age verification crap also yay

That’s why it’s titled “It’s a ticking time bomb for enterprise” not necessarily for AI companies.

https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/116589985138352696

A decent article about enterprise depending on AI subscriptions and a discussion on hackernews.

It can be read. But you also have to physically tap the security key to do anything. If they don’t get access to your security key the PIN alone is useless.

It’s a security key meant to replace passwords with passkeys, but it does some other things as well.

The main thing which makes them secure is no one can export, read, copy the keys that are inside it, even if the PC is infected.

I also store a GPG key to encrypt / decrypt some sensitive stuff and a SSH key.

You can also use them as OTP replacement instead of using apps like google authenticator, aegis or whatever your choice is. It also makes it more secure. Though I don’t think I will be doing that.

Main thing I bought it was for GPG and to secure my password manager. The good thing is because you have a security key your PIN can be significantly shorter than a password managers password and you don’t sacrifice security. Nitrokey, for example, allows 8 tries to enter the FIDO2 (passkey) PIN. After 8 incorrect attempts it will block it and you will need to do a reset. Also people have to physically have your security key to even enter the PIN. So I simply have a 6 digit PIN code.

It doesn’t come with a fingerprint scanner. Just have to tap to confirm the log in. Obviously , you set a PIN as well.