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Bear costume used to stage car break-ins for insurance payouts, investigators say in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin unavailable for comment.

Possibly too esoteric a reference but if you know, you know etc.

Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon? in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 2 days ago

The people leaving Twitter right now want Twitter minus Elon. That's Bluesky. They've heard a couple of their Twitter follows mention it and they've gone to their app store where they find an app called Bluesky, install it and easily join and start using it. Once they do they are finding it pretty straightforward to find people they used to follow on Twitter.

That's all people want.

The Temple of Satan gains ground in Chile as faith in traditional religions wanes in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, we broke away from TST in around 2018. Too centralised, too controlling, with concerning owners. We also have a couple of US Orders these days (Steel City in Pittsburgh and House of Heretics in Seattle).

Is Reddit going to remain the primary space for this community? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And it'll stay that way until people use, and keep using, this space. So, to use an overused phrase, be the change you want to see :)

The Temple of Satan gains ground in Chile as faith in traditional religions wanes in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 week ago

Hence why the Satanic org I'm part of are currently running our Satan Not Hatin' campaign :)

Trying to Help in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How To Make An Apple Pie From Scratch has the recipe for that.

(Seriously, it's a great read - one of my favourite popular science reads since, well, since Sagan.)

Tony Todd, star of Candyman, dies aged 69 in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Farewell to the flesh :(

The Temple of Satan gains ground in Chile as faith in traditional religions wanes in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 1 week ago (6 children)

They are not TST-affiliated, more like an old style LaVeyan group.

The Satanic org I'm a member of also have a Chilean Order and I know the two orgs have talked but their LaVeyan-ism (i.e. libertarian/Ayn Rand type of Objectivism) doesn't really align with us.

Support local bands in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I unplugged the bassist but noone ~~noticed~~ cared.

It's because of Gerald's Game, isn't it? in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago

+1 for The Terror. That and Carrion Comfort are my two favourite Dan Simmons novels.

It's because of Gerald's Game, isn't it? in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 2 weeks ago

Notice how its the only copy? All the others on that table have small stacks. It's like someone got it off the shelves deeper into the shop and then their nerve failed them.

Diving Into the World of Lemmy in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There was some talk awhile ago of the devs maybe extending feeds beyond Communities to Posts and Comments too but I don't think it ever got off the ground. Would certainly be way easier to do what I think you want if they did exist.

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Melania Trump passionately defends abortion rights in upcoming memoir (www.theguardian.com)
 

Melania Trump made an extraordinary declaration in an eagerly awaited memoir to be published a month from election day: she is a passionate supporter of a woman’s right to control her own body – including the right to abortion.

“It is imperative to guarantee that women have autonomy in deciding their preference of having children, based on their own convictions, free from any intervention or pressure from the government,” the Republican nominee’s wife writes, amid a campaign in which Donald Trump’s threats to women’s reproductive rights have played a central role.

“Why should anyone other than the woman herself have the power to determine what she does with her own body? A woman’s fundamental right of individual liberty, to her own life, grants her the authority to terminate her pregnancy if she wishes.

“Restricting a woman’s right to choose whether to terminate an unwanted pregnancy is the same as denying her control over her own body. I have carried this belief with me throughout my entire adult life.”

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Strange sudden issue rendering pages (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/librewolf@lemmy.ml
2 comments fedilink
 

Two days ago, LW started behaving very oddly. It suddenly stopped rendering pages - but only on some sites. For example, the default Lemmy skin is fine but the Alexandrite skin is not. The BBC website doesn't work either. A few others seemingly totally random.

The domain resolves and it makes the initial connection and then it takes up to a minute of doing nothing and then just craps out, unable to render the page. Checking the Inspector reveals no errors or warnings and the network inspector is making a connection but not loading anything other than headers and basic tags.

The page presents no errors it just shows a blank screen. <html> <head> and <body> tags load but nothing else.

All these pages work fine in all other browsers I've tested in (floorp, Mullvad, vanilla FFox and Brave).

Details: LibreWolf 128.0-2 (flatpak) on LMDE (Faye).

Any clues, pointers or advice very gratefully received. I love the browser and have it set up just how I like it so don't really want to switch to another.

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Meta gave Netflix and Spotify access to users private messages (arstechnica.com)
 

in 2018, Facebook told Vox that it doesn't use private messages for ad targeting. But a few months later, The New York Times, citing "hundreds of pages of Facebook documents," reported that Facebook "gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages."

Surprising? No. Appalling? Yes.

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Reommendation please: backup software/script that can be scheduled and encrypts (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
 

As per title really. I need a backup solution for backing up my home directory to an external USB drive that;

  1. I can schedule to run x times per week
  2. Encrypts the contents (into an encrypted zip file is fine)
  3. Puts the encrypted backup onto an external USB drive
  4. Keeps the last x amount of backups.

I've found loads that can do one or more of these things but not all of them. I really like LuckyBackup for example but it doesn't encrypt. I just want something I can set and forget.

System is LMDE 6 (Faye).

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Putin says he prefers Joe Biden over Donald Trump in the White House (www.bbc.com)
 

"Speaking to Russian TV in an on-camera interview on Wednesday, Mr Putin said Mr Biden's leadership would be better for Russia because he was a "more experienced person, he is predictable, he is a politician of the old formation"."

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Mullvad Now Self Hosting Support Emails (mullvad.net)
 

A week or so ago, a blog post was posted in this Community calling out Mullvad for using GMail as their email provider. Wasn't the greatest blog post in the world and didn't approach Mullvad for comment or explanation. Anyway, looks like Mullvad heard about it and responded.

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UK Gvmt Say Mask Wearing At Protests Will Soon Be Illegal (www.theguardian.com)
 

"Protesters who wear masks could face arrest, up to a month in jail and a £1,000 fine under proposed measures that human rights campaigners claim are pandering to “culture war nonsense”.

Police in England and Wales will be given the power to arrest people if they are wearing face coverings at specific demonstrations, the Home Office has said."

Been a bad 18 months or so for privacy in the UK. Online Safety Bill passed, the right to take strike action curtailed, people in receipt of benefits (including disabled people) will soon (as from 2025) have their bank accounts open to the government, the right to protest curtailed and now this.

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Cryptographers Just Got Closer to Enabling Fully Private Internet Searches (www.wired.com)
 

" three researchers have crafted a long-sought version of private information retrieval and extended it to build a more general privacy strategy. The work, which received a Best Paper Award in June 2023 at the annual Symposium on Theory of Computing, topples a major theoretical barrier on the way to a truly private search."

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Readers of the Farseer Trilogy - need something explaining (major spoilers) (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
 

I'm on Book 3 and Fitz has reached Jhaampe and they're all heading off to the Mountains to find Verity.

I don't get why Kettricken is so angry with Fitz. Hobb presents it as totally understandable with no real explanation and I have no idea why she's so pissed off with him. I've either missed something or not understood something - can anyone explain please?

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Bitwarden Privacy Software Stack Survey (forms.bitwarden.com)
 

From their Masto acct:

"It’s almost #DataPrivacyWeek - vote now for your favorite data privacy tools in this 1-minute survey! "

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The Internet Is About To Get Weird Again - Rolling Stone article (archive.ph)
 

It's not solely about the fediverse, but it is mentioned.

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Switched to LMDE and love it (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
 

No hate to Ubuntu LTS (my old OS) as I think for an entry to Linux, it's about the best there is, and then I just got used to it and then I started getting more and more annoyed with Snaps.

FFWD a couple of years and I decided to switch to Mint but I wanted something that was entirely free of Snaps, not just blocked, so LMDE seemed the best fit. I get all the good bits of Mint without the Canonical enforced stuff. It's been running a week now and after plenty of tweaks (installing Gnome for example) looks and feels exactly how I wanted it without interference from Canonical.

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