Not all websites need Javascript to be beautiful and usable. This is a showcase of the Javascript-less web.
There's a new "experimental feature" being tested in Firefox 83: sponsored sites in the URL bar.
"Mozilla works with advertising partners to place sponsored tiles on the Firefox home page (or New Tab) that would be useful to Firefox users. Mozilla is paid when users click on sponsored tiles."
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sponsor-privacy
You can disable this by setting `browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites` to `false`.
Found via https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/jybx2w/uh_why_is_firefox_showing_me_sponsored_links_in/
Global Socket allows two users behind NAT/Firewall to establish a TCP connection with each other. Securely.
SR: dobar sajt za pracenje FOSS konferencija
EN: good website to follow for foss conferences
Seems this was fixed a week ago, feel free to update on 5.9 kernel with nvidia drivers.
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/68312
Peticija protiv biometrijiskog snimanja na teritoriji Republike Srbije:
https://hiljade.kamera.rs/sr/vesti/ne-snimaj-mi-lice/
Ne znam dal ce pomoci ista ali ne steti da se skupi sto vise potpisa.
Faculty is using some platform for lectures which has ability to automatically remove videos of lectures after some specific time, usually a week. Their reason for using that platform is "copyright", but platform is using embedded videos from YouTube and links of those videos are so easy to acquire and download with youtube-dl. I'm thinking now what could be best possible solution for them to preserve copyright, any ideas?
LetsEncrypt recently reiterated the need for setting TLSA records for all of their certificates, including backup ones, not just the current X3. Here you can find convenient cheat-sheet with ready-to-use DNS records and appropriate hashes:
uBlock Origin Suggested Settings
https://12bytes.org/articles/tech/firefox/ublock-origin-suggested-settings/
Proprietary nvidia driver isn't supported by kernel 5.9, you'll have to wait mid-november for nvidia to make it usable.
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-driver-not-yet-supported-for-linux-kernel-5-9/157263
I've learned in Snowdens "Permanent Record" that CIA and other intelligence agencies are hosted by Amazon AWS and Snowden makes a point that decision by US government is not a very good one. I think its one of the reasons why Amazon got in position to pay 0$ in taxes, they litteraly own US inteligence IT infrastructure and they have power to get away with it.
Yikes. Nano Adblocker / Defender has been bought for an undisclosed amount and under new ownership. The privacy policies for the Chromium versions have been removed.
https://github.com/NanoAdblocker/NanoCore/issues/362#issuecomment-704278531
One great game on 90% sale (now costs 4e) that natively runs on Linux.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/285190/Warhammer_40000_Dawn_of_War_III/
Structural engineer looking for some fediverse socializing. Bad English and typos will most likely happen.
#engineering #python #linux #privacy