• Install the edit-server package for emacs (M-x list-packages, wait for the emacs package manager to load the list, go to edit-server, hit “i” to flag for install and “x” to execute, or M-x package-install and just type out “edit-server”).

Jokes on you, I already mapped M-x package-install to S-p i.

But that also sounds interesting. Will definitely try it out (and if its just for writing Lemmy comments)

Will definitely look into it. Currently Emacs and Firefox are about my main applications I use (except spyder, which is a python IDE)

Thats exactly the kind of stuff I meant.

They are, the small difference is, that they are trying to do it with rat neurons if I remember correctly.

Damn, didnt know you could do that. Will definitely look into it.

Vim and emacs are really worth it when you do a lot of writing and editing (whether it be code or text). If you only occasionally edit config files nano is completely fine. However I do recommend to learn stuff like exiting and saving in vim because no matter what, about every single distro has some form of vim so you might encounter it in imporant scenarios and then you know your way around.

I will also info dump this to people who dont know what emacs is.

Rectangles: http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/emacs_string-rectangle_ascii-art.html

How do you fuck up so badly?

Just had a random occurance of pipewire not allowing me to switch my audio back to my headphones (played some music through speakers before) through the settings. Had to switch it using the terminal but then it worked. Took about 10 minutes to figure out

Main problem is, when you are tall (1,92m to be exact) and Its almost impossible to find anything that fits.

Last time I had to buy pants I visited like 6 different stores in the next (quite big) city and I could not find a single pair of pants that was ling enough and did not cost 100€ per pair. I exclusively looked in the men’s section, since there is no chance I Am ever going to find something in the women’s section. After a frustrating day I just ended up ordering online.

You’re welcome :3

I think you misunderstood me there. It was literally just “input any name” and that name was then displayed with an animation. They did not collect any information about the people who used this.

The contact information were the contacts from the person who normally uses said iPad

About your question regarding the “free coffee”: Always remember, when you have to input your personal data to receive something for “free” youre not getting it for free, but you become the product. Personal information are quite valuable and you should watch out what information you give out and to who you give it out. In the best case they are just using your information to send you advertisements about e.g. their new super special limited time offer. In the worst case they will outright sell your data to data brokers.

While you are at it I also highly recommend UBlock Origin. Probably like the best ad Blocker out there.

One thing I should also maybe add about disabling JavaScript: Some websites “need” JS to have even the most basic functionality. So if a website does not work the way it should he, you should try to (maybe even just temporarily) enable JS for that specific site.

That’s what liberation from oppression looks like or so…

/s

Well, shaking hands may also come from alcohol (not sure how much that is the case with other drugs too) withdrawl, but idk if those two are different (in the “type of shaking” they exert)

One tip I can give is, that disabling JavaScript (for Firefox theres an add-on called no-script that does this) gets rid of quite a lot of unwanted stuff on websites.

For removing paywalls there are tools like 12feet.io or the internet archive where you can archive websites to remove paywalls.

In theory theres also archive.today, bit they started to redirect visits to their website to Wikipedia to DDOS them, so its better to not use their service.

Mildly related (maybe not), I have had friends who recommend certain medical shows to me to watch. I have given them a try, but then I get bogged down by how overdramatised they are with the music, and “Um… They’re not going to revive anyone with those weak compressions.”

In my last 3 years of highschool I had a class that taught the basics if law. All in all it was a great class, that taught me a lot of valuable information, but it also absolutely ruined every depiction of court trials in movies and TV, since I now know what it looks like in reality.

I work in IT, so if I ever walk upon a tablet (or something similar) that is accessible to the general public my first instinct is to check if they did care enough to properly restricted access.

Story time: Me and some friends met in Berlin last year and while walking through a mall we stumbled across a “presentation” from Lego. Basically it was a giant screen with an IPad connected to it and you could type in your name, select an animation and it would then display it on the screen. Nothing fancy and probably quite fun for kids. However, I guess you can imagine what happens when about 7 IT nerds see an unattended IPad in public. We of course tried to check, if we could get access to other programs we were not meant to get access too.l or exploit the programming in any other way (AS example inserting funny things like “null” into the name field). After some experimenting, we found out that if you pressed for a longer time on the field where you could insert your name the option “autofill” and “share” popped up. This meant, that you could theoretically insert and open files through this and you could also share contacts. This meant, that we just discovered the about 200 contacts, that were saved in the iPad. This meant, that if we wanted we could have just write down information like name, phone numbers and E-Mail adresses. There were also separate groups of contacts called “family” and “work”. We of course did not do anything with it and reported it to the person attending everything, but I think that person did not realised, that its bad to expose all of someone’s contacts to the general public saying things like “It was meant for kids” and “no one would do this”. Well, guess who didnt stop a group of adults trying to break the software on that tablet.

Also I think I dont really have to say, that I usually experience physical pain when I see how movies depict programming or hacking like its something you can do in a few minutes. And its usually even worse, when any form of actual code plops up in a movie and you realise, that they are either doing updates on a Linux system or its code that doesn’t even have a correct syntax and matches the corresponding action even less.

2 was my first thought too, but maybe its better that I didnt had my egg cracking while I was still living with my parents (the funny thing is, that I still had my egg cracking while staying at my parents place between semesters) and going to school.