I just updated to Firefox 148. Very happy to see the "AI kill switch" in the settings. One thing that bothers me, though, is the new "Do you want to see the weather for your location?". And even more bothering are the answer alternatives:

• "Not now"
• "Yes"

well how about adding a "No, never"?

Does anyone know which settings to modify to eliminate this weather stuff altogether? Cheers!

Edit: Searching for "weath" in about:config brings up a set of options, many of which can be set to false. But I'm happy if anyone here has extra tips or advice.

Edit 2: According to some replies, this is something that's been there before v148. Useful tip from a reply: see the "edit" button on the bottom right of Firefox's about:home page.

I really like this community, and thank everyone for posting always interesting pieces and news. I have a "meta-question".

The community description says "A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.". What about technology satire, or funny pieces about technology? Does the description above implicitly disallow them?

Cheers!

Scenario: you'd like to post to a community. The post would contain some funny satire related to the community topic. Some communities accept this and they state it in their description (sidebar). But it isn't clear whether that's OK for the community you want to post to. What to do?

This is an example where a "meta-discussion" would be useful: you could just ask in a meta-thread if it's OK to post. It looks like there isn't something like that on Lemmy though, or am I mistaken? What's best to do then? contact a mod?

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/24468965

Recently some other partic­i­pants in the type-design industry asked me to endorse a letter to the U.S. Copy­right Office about copy­right regis­tra­tions for digital fonts. The impetus was a set of concerns arising from ongoing rejec­tions of font-copy­right regis­tra­tions and a recent opinion in a case called Laatz v. Zazzle pertaining to the infringe­ment of font copy­rights.

I didn’t add my name to the letter. For several reasons. First: I avoid doing free work for bigger compa­nies. Second: I’ve never regis­tered a copy­right in my fonts, so the rele­vance seemed faint. Third: digital fonts (prob­ably) aren’t protected by copy­right, so the whole premise of the effort seemed fatally flawed.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/59381417

I often need to allow some randomly selected port to be open (tcp & udp) in the Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW), while some app is active. Then I'd like to close it. The port number is written in a file, say portfile

At the moment I'm doing this manually: read the number, then call sudo ufw allow xxxx/tcp in a terminal. Later on, delete the port rule with sudo ufw delete [rulenumber].

I'm trying to write a bash script to do this in a more automated way. It's easy to read the number from the flie as a variable, then call ufw with that number (provided the script is started as sudo).

What's not clear to me is how to delete the UFW rule once the application is closed. I could start the app within the bash script itself. Maybe it'd just be a matter of waiting for it to finish?

I'm very thankful for suggestions and ideas – and learning more about bash tricks :)

I often need to allow some randomly selected port to be open (tcp & udp) in the Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW), while some app is active. Then I'd like to close it. The port number is written in a file, say portfile

At the moment I'm doing this manually: read the number, then call sudo ufw allow xxxx/tcp in a terminal. Later on, delete the port rule with sudo ufw delete [rulenumber].

I'm trying to write a bash script to do this in a more automated way. It's easy to read the number from the flie as a variable, then call ufw with that number (provided the script is started as sudo).

What's not clear to me is how to delete the UFW rule once the application is closed. I could start the app within the bash script itself. Maybe it'd just be a matter of waiting for it to finish?

I'm very thankful for suggestions and ideas – and learning more about bash tricks :)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/59202834

On matters like VPN providers, DNS providers, and similar topics, often one would like to find websites with recommendations and reviews from other people, especially testers or "experts". But it's SO difficult to find trustworthy websites! The vast majority appearing on searchers are clearly built by untrustworthy parties, or biased by commissions. A good one is https://www.privacyguides.org/ Do you know of any other good, trustworthy ones?

On matters like VPN providers, DNS providers, and similar topics, often one would like to find websites with recommendations and reviews from other people, especially testers or "experts". But it's SO difficult to find trustworthy websites! The vast majority appearing on searchers are clearly built by untrustworthy parties, or biased by commissions. A good one is https://www.privacyguides.org/ Do you know of any other good, trustworthy ones?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/58902343

https://theonion.com/tips-for-using-ai/

https://theonion.com/tips-for-using-ai/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/58653784

Hi! Has anyone here watched both the original Urusei Yatsura from 1981 and the remake from 2022? How do the two compare? I'm curious to hear about impressions and opinions.

I have been re-listening to the soundtrack of the original series, and many scenes came suddenly to mind. It was absolutely hilarious; I could compare it with Konosuba, but with ten times more craziness...

(If you also long for the soundtracks: https://archive.org/details/urusei-yatsura-ost Check out this as well, faithful companion since 2000: https://www.furinkan.com/uy/)

Hi! Has anyone here watched both the original Urusei Yatsura from 1981 and the remake from 2022? How do the two compare? I'm curious to hear about impressions and opinions.

I have been re-listening to the soundtrack of the original series, and many scenes came suddenly to mind. It was absolutely hilarious; I could compare it with Konosuba, but with ten times more craziness...

(If you also long for the soundtracks: https://archive.org/details/urusei-yatsura-ost Check out this as well, faithful companion since 2000: https://www.furinkan.com/uy/)