Posts by cmeier@hostux.social
(DIR) Post #AQlZLmBkEHtD0a9euO by cmeier@hostux.social
2022-12-19T13:44:52Z
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@valere I'm looking forward to this movie. I grew up in Oak Ridge, TN and knew many people who worked on the bomb project. Among those scientists, there was both pride and ambivalence about their accomplishment. Hopefully the movie will capture both of those emotions.
(DIR) Post #AVQd8Km729CzvYRx2m by cmeier@hostux.social
2023-05-08T00:38:52Z
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@LoriQuaid It is way more complicated than the epoch times reports. See: https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2023/01/fact-check-cleveland-clinic-preprint-study-does-not-prove-risk-of-covid-infection-goes-up-with-each-vaccination.html
(DIR) Post #AVWQB7013jqiBKzpLc by cmeier@hostux.social
2023-05-10T19:41:57Z
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@valere I run Asuswrt-Merlin on the home router and then run Diversion. Diversion has a list of names that it writes to the router's /etc/hosts file. When a request that is in the hosts file hits the router's DNS, Diversion sends the request to a simple web server on the router that returns a blank html page. Whatever URL has requested the page (e.g. youtube asking for a url containing the ad script) seem to be happy with the empty ad script page. PI-Hole also does same. 1 fix for whole home.
(DIR) Post #Aaf1jNVGxn8fd6FOgi by cmeier@hostux.social
2023-10-11T12:40:50Z
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@stux I want to *read* about the details of security vulnerabilities, not watch a youtube video.
(DIR) Post #AbbGioDPD4eOSMzftI by cmeier@hostux.social
2023-11-08T15:02:10Z
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@galdor > Trying to stop users from doing something through usage restrictions in free software is as ineffective as pushing on an object through a long, straight, soft piece of cooked spaghetti.-- Richard StallmanAlthough he was speaking about license restrictions, the statement could as easily be applied to software that will only import an allowed list of extensions. Seems oddly inconsistent if #emacs does this with sqlite extensions.
(DIR) Post #AbbX8Ngs37bEzGzXGa by cmeier@hostux.social
2023-11-08T18:01:29Z
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@amszmidt @galdor > we do not want our software to be used to subjugate users, e.g., by loading non-free extensions...Should it really be up to #emacs to decide what a user can or cannot easily load? IIRC, Stallman use to rail about "fascist limits" (by which he meant things like arbitrary line lengths) and this strikes me as a kind of fascist limit imposed by free software which says "we won't make it easy to work with $X just because we don't like $X's license."