I can’t believe it took me until current year to get onboard with the concept.

Bless Aaron Swartz. 🙏

Hard to dispute.

What a fucking troglodyte. Immagine being the leader of another country and having your country invaded and some feckless moron you went to for help (because the guy that invaded you is their fuckin’ enemy) and he tells you that you should be “happy” to give away the majority of your countries natural resources for help from them.

It’s just beyond mentally retarded. There’s not a spec of intelligence to be seen–and MAGA is going to eat this giant turd like “lol daddy Trump doesn’t take any shit!!!” like are you fucking kidding me?

He’s being a bully. It’s like if your kid was getting his ass beat every day at school and he asked another kid for help and the kid was like “Yeah, sure. But you have to give me your lunch money every single day for the rest of your life” and when your kid is like “wtf” the kid he went to for help was like “FINE, GET YOUR ASS KICKED EVERY DAY, SEE IF I FUCKING CARE!” and people praised that behavior…

Freezing an app in an non-root fashion doesn’t do anything special. It’s moved to a different location and is effectively “removed” from a runnable state. The OS shows it as disabled/removed, but the files are still there. Newer versions of android (14+) will recognize applications it thinks are necessary (like this one, from Google) are moved/disabled and will pull a new apk during the upgrade process. It effectively re-installs the app.

I’m frankly flabbergasted to not see the US on the list.

Perfect time to check out AdGuard Home. Trivial to install locally. Probably took less than 3 minutes to install and get it operating. Hardest part was updating my router config. (Goddamn Google WiFi!)

Then you can focus on getting a better browser. Support libre software and check out LibreWolf.

This is incorrect. It’s installed silently via a background OTA. It’s never installed purposefully through the google play store.

If you freeze via non-room methods, updating the apk will re-enable it. So it’s the same situation as just removing the apk–it’ll basically re-enable itself.

Seems to be innocuous, but there’s no harm in removing it. Next update, it’ll be returned, so the better solution long-term will be (if you’re rooted) is to use an application to freeze it, which effectively disables it and it should survive and update. If you delete the app, a new update will put it back.

Microsoft: Copilot is the future! /s

Vim is the preferred experience, so it’s for end users. Unless you have a system with no real addons and classic *nix environment, you’re almost always going to be using Vim. Alpine linux is a good example of a stripped down environment that still uses Vi.

Not to imply that Vi is perfect, but Vi is perfect. What do you need an update for? /s

bro tryin’ to summon a demon… /s

Name five Congressmen from the Bush Era.

Name five Congressmen from the Reagan Era.

Name five Congressmen from the Nixon Era.

You could honestly name 5 current congressman and run a decent chance of being right… /s

Caddy. Hands down. No question.

Everything else works fine. Caddy works fine as well, but it’s also super easy.

I heard it’s insecure to self host sites without Cloudflare because you’re exposing your ip address and leaving yourself vulnerable

There’s a lot more to it, and this is only a small part of it, but yes. This is technically true.

but is it really bad to self host without Cloudflare?

Cloudflare is nice to have, but it honestly sucks. I run a private dns stub resolver with my own blocklists (because I don’t trust anyone else to do it) and I have Google DNS, Cloudflare DNS, and a few other DoH resolvers as the upstream source. My stub resolver is set to send requests to all the upstreams at once, and to take the results of the one that responds first. Tracking through prometheus shows that Cloudflare has not once (!) had its results chosen because its average RTT is 700ms. Everyone else is in the sub 100ms range.

Cloudflare was cool until it got popular.

Very true: https://truthout.org/articles/tooth-decay-rose-in-canadian-cities-without-fluoride-rfk-wants-this-for-the-us/