good god

The statistics back up his unease. Buy-now-pay-later services have exploded to 91.5 million users in the United States

with the rapidly checked population number I found (340.1m), that’s 26.9%

…, with 25% using the services to finance their groceries as of earlier this year

perfectly normal, I’m sure nothing can go wrong here. and this won’t be tied in with just the recent SNAP shit, either

what’s the german word for “the feeling you get when you know the bolts on the rollercoaster are shaking loose incrementally and you can see the Unscheduled Rapid Disassembly Event coming up”?

what’s the u?

ah, and they’ve got a community feedback forum post, where it isn’t going the way they might have expected: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/building-ai-the-firefox-way-shaping-what-s-next-together/td-p/109922

a whole new Firefox!

a whole new “AI” “Firefox”, that is

via this toot, which summed up their continued action about as concisely as possible

…huh, Posting Improvement Plans probably do need to be a thing the internet has

+1 to letsencrypt for https. certbot can even auto-configure your webserver for you, taking it from http base to https-with-redirect, no terrible advice from shitty exist-for-volume blogs required

superquick tldr:

1. install certbot and the applicable plugin package for your webserver; if you don’t know the name use p.d.o (or your distro’s own) to find the package name
2. run certbot; there’s extra flags you can pass if you want to automate, but ootb it’ll ask you questions and start the process for cert + config (iirc - I mostly run it automated and non-interactive)

“the concept of “a piece of cloth,”” will just forever live in my brain now, I suspect

this is a more perfect description than any I could’ve come up! my thesis was largely on what a boon it would prove to thieves (although I recognize that flavour of thief probably varies by country and not all have them)

(some others know but posting it here for everyone else to see:)

I’d been attempting to avoid responding to blue’s posts for a while now (probably can guess why), but, yeah. I apologize for going that far with those posts, it was definitely too snippy

(edit: advance warning that clicking these links might cause eyestrain and trigger rage)

so for a while now sheer outrageous ludicrous nonsense of the trumpist-era USA politics has been making a bit of an impact on the local ZA racists (and, weirdly, not only the white nationalists but also the black nationalists - some of it has shone through in EFF and BFLF propaganda strains), and I knew that with the orange godawful-king ascension to his hoped-throne it was only a matter of time before shit here escalated

anyway, it’s happened. the same organisation also put up some ads along the main highway ahead of the G20 summit

(upside: some of those have already been pulled down. downside: the org put up some more. don’t know what’s happened with the latest yet)

fuck these people

oh, I had to find that with quoted twitter search - didn’t see it linked on javi’s post

looks like you’re in the ballpark, sept 14

helpful post, ty - I’ve also been halfheartedly looking at bitwarden (possibly with vaultwarden server) and I haven’t pulled the trigger yet because extra yaks. so knowing some of the other happenings there… oof

(including pulling the trigger I’d want to have it hosted on an island instead of directly exposed, which adds other requirements and steps)

the only other option is (gnu) pass, but it sucks pretty majorly ito clients. it really isn’t a good time in password managers :|

that keepassxc thing continues going wild. there’s an account on fedi that’s been stubbornly defending their choice the last few hours. see here

to the latter part of my comment: both my own and also other peoples’ criticisms just turn into a dead avenue. the applicable poster just ghosts that subthread while happily posting elsewhere

guess there’s no desire to do better!

what a baffling way to describe it

this is a recurring problem with them/their posts; if you look across history you can see a continual pattern of “de jour grumpword a la $somecommunity” leak forth

I have on occasion asked them to try to make better posts. they don’t seem to give a fuck to do so tho

Given that this is the person who composed the ode with the hook “we appreciate power”, let’s just say that my take re their opinion in this post is rather minimal

me, a ZAian, while waking up (with only ~6h after a 2.5 day awake stretch): “huh? perfectly normal for them to drive on the left side? …oh wait, right. elsewhere.”

also

wasn’t common crawl the one that pulled a similar trick to goog’s “if you label a thing as $x we won’t include you”[0]? I could swear I heard their name in association with some derpshit intake management stuff above and beyond the typical fundamental “free/open scraper set” problems

[0] - a tactic google first pulled with Streetview cars pulling in a pile of wifi beacons and tying it to location - “if you don’t want it just rename your AP to ‘{prefix} - {apname}’”. a reply that was just dumb and aggravating but also it fucking sucks that basically no standards have taken this problem to heart in the ~15y hence