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  • What could be the best way to introduce the world of computers to a kid, let's say of 6 years old, so that he learns to handle it like a toy and stops dreading it like some esoteric, arcane and

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  • I’m ancient,

    Amiga at around age 6.

    lol

    You're not ancient, friend.

  • The Trillion Dollar Scam - How Google Really Makes Money

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  • How?

  • Why do some people fork repos but make no changes to them?

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  • When looking for activity, are you only checking for the number of commits ahead/behind, or are you also checking for new branches?

    A common workflow is to fork a project, clone it locally, add some work on a new branch, push it to your fork, and then create a pull request from the new branch. None of that will add commits to the default branch.

  • Something that sounds cool for Californians: an easy way to send delete requests to 500+ data brokers all at once — for free.

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  • You will be asked to provide information about yourself: your name, date of birth, phone number, and email address. DROP even lets you add your device identifiers such as Mobile Advertising IDs (MAIDs) that data brokers may use to track you. The amount of information you provide about yourself is entirely your choice. Keep in mind though that the more you include, the more likely a data broker can find you within their system and delete your data.

    So deciding which details to disclose will be a key consideration. Keep them minimal to avoid leaking details that companies didn't already have? Or disclose everything so companies can't claim ambiguity as an excuse to keep using your data?

    DROP is built to keep your information private and secure. The personal information you give to DROP is protected and stored in a secure format that no one else can read. This way, even if someone else saw it, they wouldn’t be able to read it.

    Sigh... These assurances mean nothing without specifics. They should state what measures are taken, and they should cover not just how data is stored, but also how, when, and to whom it is transferred.

  • TIL THE FLINTSTONES did Cigarette Commercials.

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  • See also: The Land of Gorch

  • Best Tool and Layout for Learning Touch Typing on Linux?

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  • Have you or someone close to you converted to Linux recently (with Windows 10's end of support)?

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  • I prefer KDE Plasma, too. Fortunately, just about every desktop distro has it available even if GNOME or something else is the default. Find out what package to install. (On Debian-based distros, it's probably kde-plasma-desktop.) Install it, log out, and look for a session selector on the login screen. Change it to Plasma before logging in again.

    If the same game problems reappear when you're on a different distro, you might want to describe them in detail on a Linux gaming forum. Someone there might be familiar with how to fix them.

    !linux_gaming@lemmy.world

    Welcome to the neighborhood!

  • Debian Technical Committee overrides systemd change

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  • there no longer is an overarching standards body who makes the decision

    The creators of the FHS were never an overarching standards body. Despite its name, the FHS is more a set of conventions than a standard.

    The closest standard that comes to mind is POSIX.

    https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/

  • ZorinOS 18 has had 300K downloads in just one week!

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  • As far as I can tell, advertising.

  • Trump Posts AI Video in Which He Drops Feces on No Kings Protesters

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  • Yes. I posted the link because some of us won't visit that site, but are curious about the video.

  • Trump Posts AI Video in Which He Drops Feces on No Kings Protesters

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  • Zorin OS Review – The BEST Linux Switch from Windows

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  • BEST most strongly marketed

    I'm willing to assume Zorin is a solid distro, and I suppose some Windows expats might enjoy a Gtk-based desktop, but experience has shown that some are more at home with KDE Plasma.

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  • Wikipedia says its community edition is AGPL licensed.

  • TIL some traffic lights in Denmark are Viking men

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  • The color of mead, which awaits you at the drinking hall!

  • TIL that if you search "Password generator, [x] characters, [y] strength" at DuckDuckGo, it will generate a password for you.

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  • You are not overthinking it. Exploiting this would be a bit more complex than capturing a packet on the wire, but it is possible.

    If you intend to use a passphrase for anything important, it's best to generate it locally.

  • Linux Mint Showcases a Redesigned Menu

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  • I wonder why the Favorites section is positioned away from the button that opens the menu. Seems inconvenient.

  • on 3 billion devices

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  • I can't use archive.today anymore, since they introduced a third-party CAPTCHA (from Google, I think). It's a man-in-the-middle that monitors every archived article I visit and every Lemmy post that links me to one. Obviously, this is terrible for privacy.

    The CAPTCHA also demands permission to run mystery code on my machine before it will show me the article. Again, no thanks.

    So I'm back to archive.org's Wayback Machine. I'll have to give ghostarchive a look, too.

  • I_fucking_hate_them_now

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  • the operating system does not interpret it in anyway.

    *in any_way. ;)