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  1. Comment on Forgot Chrome's unusable, any recommendations? in ~tech

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    You can open the logger window and unblock what you need pretty easily from there. It's not as convenient as in uMatrix, but it does exist, and you don't have to manually write site rules

    In uBlock you can only unblock the entire domain.

    You can open the logger window and unblock what you need pretty easily from there. It's not as convenient as in uMatrix, but it does exist, and you don't have to manually write site rules

  2. Comment on Forgot Chrome's unusable, any recommendations? in ~tech

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    Can you give an example of features that uMatrix provided that uBlock's dynamic filtering mode doesn't? They seem basically the same to me, just with a slightly different UI

    Can you give an example of features that uMatrix provided that uBlock's dynamic filtering mode doesn't? They seem basically the same to me, just with a slightly different UI

    1 vote

  3. Comment on Forgot Chrome's unusable, any recommendations? in ~tech

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    Have you tried Zen? It's a fork of Firefox with some nice UI/UX improvements and extra features, I personally really enjoy it

    Have you tried Zen? It's a fork of Firefox with some nice UI/UX improvements and extra features, I personally really enjoy it

    9 votes

  4. Comment on Forgot Chrome's unusable, any recommendations? in ~tech

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    By the way, uMatrix is deprecated and there's no reason to use it because its functionality is built into uBlock now

    By the way, uMatrix is deprecated and there's no reason to use it because its functionality is built into uBlock now

    3 votes

  5. Comment on GrapheneOS is finally ready to break free from Pixels, and it may never look back in ~tech

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    Root is objectively weakening the device security. Even most people who root their device acknowledge that. It's just a matter of personal priorities. If you value extra tweaking and customization...

    root, location services

    Root is objectively weakening the device security. Even most people who root their device acknowledge that. It's just a matter of personal priorities. If you value extra tweaking and customization over security, then GrapheneOS is obviously not for you, and there are plenty of other options.

    location services

    What about them? GOS is compatible with Google's location services as well as including their own private alternative.

    kowtowing to Google at worst

    If you release an alternative OS that fully sandboxes and cuts off all invasive features of Google Services, bypasses some of it's checks and reverse engineers the APIs, I don't think you can then "please google" by including a compatibility layer for their location service

    4 votes

  6. Comment on What code editor / IDE do you use (2025)? in ~comp

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    Were you using regular Vim or Neovim? I feel like Nvim nowadays provides a pretty out of the box LSP config experience

    after decades of Vim (I switched because I got sick of messing with LSP configs and my life instantly improved

    Were you using regular Vim or Neovim? I feel like Nvim nowadays provides a pretty out of the box LSP config experience

    1 vote

  7. Comment on What code editor / IDE do you use (2025)? in ~comp

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    Ok, you asked not to suggest vim, so I'm not gonna nerd out about Neovim here (though it fits basically all of your criteria). But I still REALLY suggest that whatever editor you're using, you try...

    Ok, you asked not to suggest vim, so I'm not gonna nerd out about Neovim here (though it fits basically all of your criteria). But I still REALLY suggest that whatever editor you're using, you try vim bindings in there for a while. There is a learning curve, but once you get the hang of it it can really make your life much better.

    6 votes

  8. Comment on Some protein powders and shakes may contain high levels of lead in ~health

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    Just so you know, the "safe level" used here is California's Proposition 65 MADL levels, which are defined as 1/1000th of the level at which there are any observable reproductive or developmental...

    Just so you know, the "safe level" used here is California's Proposition 65 MADL levels, which are defined as 1/1000th of the level at which there are any observable reproductive or developmental health effects. Those are known to be extremely cautious guidelines leading to many random products having cancer warning labels in California.

    The CR article explains this, and shows how it's still an issue even by FDA's much less strict reference levels (and of course, there are no safe levels of lead exposure), but I just want to point out that while this is bad, "200% of safe daily level" sounds much scarier than it actually is.

    Consumer Reports does have a bit of a history exaggerating the danger levels of toxic chemicals found in stuff

    (I mostly wrote this for myself to save myself from a hypochondriac anxiety attack though)

    19 votes

  9. Comment on Some protein powders and shakes may contain high levels of lead in ~health

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    In my experience, a 120g protein/day diet with an extra protein shake a day usually ends up being much more balanced than trying to get 140g of protein a day from normal food

    If you are protein-deficient, it's because you aren't eating a balanced diet

    In my experience, a 120g protein/day diet with an extra protein shake a day usually ends up being much more balanced than trying to get 140g of protein a day from normal food

    14 votes

  10. Comment on LineageOS 23: Sleek sixteen, streamlined suite, future flow in ~tech

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    They're very different projects. GrapheneOS is really focused on security and privacy and implements a lot of custom features and does a lot of work for that. LineageOS is more focused on just...

    They're very different projects. GrapheneOS is really focused on security and privacy and implements a lot of custom features and does a lot of work for that. LineageOS is more focused on just having an open-source google-free OS and providing support for old devices.

    There used to be a great fork of LineageOS called DivestOS which ported a bunch of GrapheneOS features to it, but unfortunately it got shutdown a few years back

    I agree that Daniel Micay is sometimes a bit paranoid, but the dude is developing a high-security OS and he's literally been swatted multiple times in the past few years, so I don't really blame him. In general having interacted with him and the rest of the dev team on the GrapheneOS Matrix I can say that they're all pretty nice people outside of the drama with other projects.

    11 votes

  11. Comment on ‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder in ~tech

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    I think it's pretty clear he was looking for hook ups/one night stands, since he judged the success of his tactic by the fact that he got "a lot more dates", and I really doubt that he means "a...

    I think it's pretty clear he was looking for hook ups/one night stands, since he judged the success of his tactic by the fact that he got "a lot more dates", and I really doubt that he means "a lot more long term partner candidates" by that.

    Which is totally fine, I think it's ok for people to look for casual sex, and many of the dating apps even optimize for that in some way. But it's fine to have casual sex with people who are also looking for it, instead of tricking people looking for a relationship by pretending to be looking for one yourself, only to cut ties after sleeping with them.

    I'm sure there's enough hot people on dating apps looking for a one night stand, and getting in bed with those is definitely much easier than having to mislead people in some way. But I guess if you treat all your partners like trophies, tricking an unwilling party into having a hook up would just seem like a challenge to you.

    10 votes

  12. Comment on ‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder in ~tech

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    So this guy thinks the whole "love languages" thing is bullshit, but then still pretends to be interested in it and generates fake questions and replies about the topic with ChatGPT just to sleep...

    Jamil, 25, from Leicester, admits he’s a prolific Chatfisher but argues that AI is simply a workaround for what he sees as the coded jargon of modern dating. “Like, what do you mean ‘What’s my attachment style?’” he balks. “Every girl on the apps has this thing about ‘love languages’ – it’s just gibberish, but if you don’t talk about it, people are like, ‘Oh you’re a red flag.’”

    So this guy thinks the whole "love languages" thing is bullshit, but then still pretends to be interested in it and generates fake questions and replies about the topic with ChatGPT just to sleep with someone? Yean, definitely no red flags here.

    “So, for instance, someone said that if you start a chat with a girl by asking her a list of questions – favourite film, dream holiday, that kind of thing – then paste her answers into ChatGPT, it would craft replies that would make you sound like her perfect match.” It proved effective. “It got me a lot more dates than I was getting before.”

    This is by the same guy. Wow. Alright, Mr. green flag.

    Honestly, this article makes me much more upset about people like this existing than about the AI problem it's talking about. Some of the people in the article clearly used AI to help with some situations in which they didn't feel comfortable in their social skills, and then maybe got a bit too used to it. But this guy basically just straight up admits "yeah, I manipulate women for hook ups".

    Manipulative relationships have obviously existed for a very long time, and it seems like LLMs just made those manipulations much easier.

    36 votes

  13. Comment on Gimp Tutorial for Idiot? in ~comp

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    I use Krita or Inskape these days. Don't really like GIMP. It will finally get a proper shape tool in version 4 though... The issue is that version 4 has been in alpha for a long time and was...

    I use Krita or Inskape these days. Don't really like GIMP.

    It will finally get a proper shape tool in version 4 though... The issue is that version 4 has been in alpha for a long time and was supposed to be released like a year ago but they're really behind the schedule with it. But one day it will be out, and then you'll be able to draw a rectangle.

    5 votes

  14. Comment on Meta: A Human-Friendly Programming Language in ~comp

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    To be fair, that's just a matter of having an extensive standard library, not really much to do with the language itself. Wolfram Mathematica lets you publicly host a website for running quantum...

    Here is a single-line program that opens a graphical user interface for sending an email written in 130 characters

    To be fair, that's just a matter of having an extensive standard library, not really much to do with the language itself.

    Wolfram Mathematica lets you publicly host a website for running quantum computer simulations on temperatures in different countries and plotting them on a map, all in like one or two lines of code. It's impressive, but also, doesn't mean that much when it's stdlib is 10 GiB.

    7 votes

  15. Comment on Fitness Weekly Discussion in ~health

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    Since starting to go to the gym on my own about 2 months ago, every single week I realize more and more how incompetent my personal trainer was. I've made more progress in those 2 months doing...

    Since starting to go to the gym on my own about 2 months ago, every single week I realize more and more how incompetent my personal trainer was. I've made more progress in those 2 months doing 5/3/1 than I have in 2 years with a trainer.

    6 votes

  16. Comment on I am angry at Google and wanted to share (rant) in ~tech

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    Are you sure it's loaded correctly in your browser? For me I can open your link just fine and the image seems to have even higher quality than the version on imgur. I can certainly read the text...

    compressed the image to the point you can't read the text

    Are you sure it's loaded correctly in your browser? For me I can open your link just fine and the image seems to have even higher quality than the version on imgur. I can certainly read the text just fine.

    But as other options, FMHY also suggests PixVid and Catbox (and a bunch more, but those two along with imgbb are the top recommendations)

    4 votes

  17. Comment on Help choosing a new linux computer? in ~tech

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    There's also https://distrosea.com/, which let's you just try them in a web browser!

    There's also https://distrosea.com/, which let's you just try them in a web browser!

    8 votes

  18. Comment on Help choosing a new linux computer? in ~tech

  19. Comment on Help choosing a new linux computer? in ~tech

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    Ventoy is also pretty nice because it creates a multiboot drive, meaning that you can basically just put many ISOs into a folder on the flash drive and choose any one of them during boot

    Ventoy is also pretty nice because it creates a multiboot drive, meaning that you can basically just put many ISOs into a folder on the flash drive and choose any one of them during boot

    2 votes

  20. Comment on Help choosing a new linux computer? in ~tech

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    Yeah, it's a pretty nice choice and commonly recommended. But you can try loading a bunch of different Linux ISOs onto a USB stick with a tool like Ventoy, and then just playing around with them a...

    It looks like Mint/Cinnamon is a good basic choice to start with?

    Yeah, it's a pretty nice choice and commonly recommended. But you can try loading a bunch of different Linux ISOs onto a USB stick with a tool like Ventoy, and then just playing around with them a bit in live mode without installing just to get a basic feel of the UI/UX you'll get.

    4 votes