Isak Andic, the 71-year-old fast-fashion mogul from Turkey and Spain, was traversing across the cavernous area of Coves del Salnitre in Montserrat when he "slipped and fell from a 500-foot cliff." His son, who was with him, called emergency services at about 1 pm on Saturday, but Andic died at the scene.
If people dont care enough to mess with their browser settings thenselves, then they can either a. join a privacy-focused Mastodon instance
"Joining a privacy focused instance" is exactly an opt-out approach so the answer is exactly the same is before, opt-out is the wrong chocie.
live with the fact that choices are being made for them. People need to take actions for themselves, we cant treat everyone like babies.
It's not that choices are being made for them, it's that they are adversarial choices. There's a difference between "treating everyone like babies" and being on their side. Users who want sites run by predatory jerks already know where Elon's site is. The fediverse's main appeal afaict is that it's run by people who aren't like Musk and Spez. That is, its operators can be trusted more. They should be looking out for the user. They should make choices for the user that the user would want them to make. Otherwise there is no point to it.
This article looks good: https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/ :
The people running the majority of internet services have used a combination of monopolies and a cartel-like commitment to growth-at-all-costs thinking to make war with the user, turning the customer into something between a lab rat and an unpaid intern, with the goal to juice as much value from the interaction as possible.
I've only started reading it though. Anyway, if the fedivese has anything to offer, it's a respite from that. Stop trying to ruin it.
The referer header tells the site which specific users and which specific clicks came from lemmy world. That's flat-out invasive. Revealing the number of users (as Mozilla wants to do) is also invasive even if it doesn't single out the user (of course that's much less direct and people usually tolerate it until they become attuned to the issue).
The thing to ask yourself when site X wants information Y is "what does X want to do with the information?". If the answer can possibly be "something bad", then X should not get the information unless the user opts into sending it. That is even if it's statistical or aggregated information. Being included in the count is like casting a vote for X, which (as we see with Trump getting elected) can have significant effects even with no identification of the individual voters.
E5 because it supportsECC memory.
Someone suggested AWS S3 but that is ridiculously expensive. How much viewership do you expect? Self hosting is not that expensive unless you have big volume. Or you could just seed some torrents. I would stay away from "platforms" since afaict they all have the same disease as youtube, just in its less advanced stages.
What is the problem? That the reigning world champion isn't also the highest rated player (or strongest player when there wasn't a serious rating system)? That has happened many times before, even not counting the PCA-FIDE title split era. Think of Karpov in 1975 when Fischer was in the background like Carlsen is now.
As for Caruana and Nakamura, well, they played in the same Candidates' as Gukesh. They didn't win it and Gukesh did, so what do you want to happen?
Only nerds do stuff like mess with their browser settings through about:config. The bulk of activity is from people who don't mess with those settings and don't stay aware of what's going on. Those are the ones who the info gatherers want to observe, so that's why the system should be opt-in in every case, and it's also why they want it to be the opposite.
There are in fact many extensions designed to suppress or rewrite headers, most notably cookies, but also proxy headers and other things like that. Stripping out privacy invading (or in this case revenue redirecting) query parameters is another thing that extensions can do, and there are various extensions for that too, including apparently ublock origin (UBO).
UBO is not able to rewrite urls completely (a deliberate decision to protect users from accidental or intentional security breaking rules appearing in rule lists) but there are other extensions that do that too, like changing www.reddit.com to old.reddit.com, or bypassing google redirects and link shorteners that snoop on user activity. The web is a predator-prey ecosystem (users are mostly prey) and it is necessary to respond to new hazards as they appear.
It's not entirely clear, but it appears to be up to the instance operator.
Better ask whose benefit the system is being run for in that case. If I want a system run by Elon Musk then I already know where to find one.
Unfortunatly its a cost we must accept since the justification makes it worth it.
That's for the user to decide. The devs should not presume to make it on the users' behalf.
I'm not affected by the visuals afaict. I do wonder about the air. I always wear an N95 respirator in any store and that helps filter pathogens. I haven't brought a CO2 monitor or anything like that though. I have been wanting to do that.