[-] valaramech@fedia.io 16 points 6 days ago

We've actually discovered a few of these! Though, nothing quite so catastrophic as you might be thinking.

[-] valaramech@fedia.io 31 points 1 week ago

My expectation is that the "mass deportations" will quickly morph into "mass incarceration" will quickly morph into an enslaved workforce.

There will probably be one wave of deportations just to "show we mean business" or something and then the news will move onto the next distraction while the remaining undocumented immigrants are quietly sent back off to do the jobs they were doing only now the business don't have to pay them.

[-] valaramech@fedia.io 12 points 1 week ago

And what are the chances that the Democrats have learned their lesson and will pivot to a more progressive candidate for the next election cycle?

Exactly zero. The rich people in the DNC benefit just as much from the conservative agenda as any other rich asshole. Not being in power is completely irrelevant to their interests, as far as I can tell.

Unless and until Donnie makes good on his threats to imprison/murder his political opponents, none of them will give a single fuck that leftist didn't want to vote for them because they weren't left enough.

[-] valaramech@fedia.io 19 points 1 month ago

Protip: when you're looking for something and you find it, don't put it back where you found it. Put it in the first place you looked.

[-] valaramech@fedia.io 20 points 3 months ago

The internet is filled with Schrodinger's Asshole. How is anyone supposed to know if you meant it sarcastically originally or are just claiming it was sarcastic now that it hasn't landed?

[-] valaramech@fedia.io 35 points 3 months ago

The value of LD50 for a substance is the dose required to kill half the members of a tested population after a specified test duration

This is, effectively, how oral flee/tick medications work in animals. It basically turns the animal's blood into a mild poison. The poison is mild enough that it doesn't affect the animal but it's enough to kill small insects like flees, ticks, or mosquitoes.

[-] valaramech@fedia.io 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Canonical and Debian both target the professional server space. I've spent pretty much my entire career working on Debian-based distros.

Hell, the one company I worked for that I expected to use RHEL used Ubuntu for everything, so 🤷‍♂️.

[-] valaramech@fedia.io 11 points 4 months ago

Direct linking via a specific CDN was the problem. This is solved by bundlers, not caused by it.

The polyfill.js is a popular open source library to support older browsers. 100K+ sites embed it using the cdn.polyfill.io domain. ... However, in February this year, a Chinese company bought the domain and the Github account. Since then, this domain was caught injecting malware on mobile devices via any site that embeds cdn.polyfill.io.

[-] valaramech@fedia.io 14 points 4 months ago

I actively do this with uMatrix - granted, I only block non-first-party JavaScript. Most sites I visit only require a few domains to be enabled to function. The ones that don't are mostly ad-riddled news sites.

There are a few exceptions to this - AWS and Atlassian come to mind - but the majority of what I see on the internet does actually work more or less fine when you block non-first-party JavaScript and some even when you do that. uMatrix also has handy bundles built-in for certain things like sites that embed YouTube, for example, that make this much easier.

Blocking non-first-party like I do does actually solve this issue for the most part, since, according to the article, only bundles that come from the cdn.polyfill.io domain itself that were the problem.

[-] valaramech@fedia.io 14 points 5 months ago

Nah, that would be "socialism".

[-] valaramech@fedia.io 11 points 5 months ago

A PiHole functions has a full DNS server. You can configure it to serve any arbitrary records you like - which is basically how it overrides ad domains to prevent them from loading.

So, if you know the IP address that a particular domain is supposed to route to, you configure the PiHole to respond with that IP address for that domain. So, it doesn't matter that the major DNS servers return junk because your PiHole never asks them.

[-] valaramech@fedia.io 13 points 6 months ago

Serious question, is the president allowed to do this kind of thing unilaterally? I feel like this is an "act of Congress" kind of thing that the president likely has little control over aside from causing delays - like he's already done. Is it really fair to lay this shit as Biden's feet?

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