Quail4789

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Do you want good products? That happens through telemetry. Simple as that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Nothing wrong with Invidious and everyone will need to use it when the ad injections start but claiming your app is better than FreeTube because it's written in Rust makes no sense when it can't ever stream in the same quality consistently.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd expect free software people to not have the funds to sue corporations. Are there any examples of these major lawsuits I can take a look at? I do remember a telecom company in France was fined quite a large sum but that was reported as a rare incident.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

FreeTube streams from googlevideo. This app is a frontend for Invidious AFAICT. Different stuff. Streaming googlevideo directly is the only method that works properly on 1080p+. Also, this doesn't work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Hm, Discord didn't have anything registered there. After some digging, I found about:debugging#workers which does list Discord stuff under "Other Workers". It's unsettling to see there's no way to force confirmation and/or disable these stuff. I use Discord when I have to every once in a while. I don't want their code running all the time in my browser..

edit: you can disable service workers with dom.serviceWorkers.enabled = false but this has no effect on Other Workers.

edit2: uBlock can disable Other Workers by setting the filter ||$csp=worker-src 'none' in My Filters and enabling Suspend network activity until all filter lists are loaded in Filter lists. It funny how this "trick" is written for Chromium-based browsers with the note that Firefox allows global disabling of service workers when the sites can just register a different type of worker with no way of disabling them. I am sure the api is less powerful than service workers bla bla bla, let me decide what runs on my browser without needing third party tools, please.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I have notifications turned off globally. The notifications I'm getting are in-app notifications.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

man, this is cringe..

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

there's a security researcher in the US currently being sued by some state because he downloaded breached data from TOR that the state was saying didn't leak.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

unfortunately.. noone seems to stop and think for a second why Meta would maintain an infrastructure/team, spending millions upon millions to provide a service that seemingly has no monetization built-in.

 

I have recently realized that I will occasionally hear notification sounds from applications that I had previously opened but no longer has any active tabs (email client, discord, etc.). I'm assuming this means they are allowed to keep some sort of connection in the background until I close all Firefox windows. Is this a bug or a "feature"? How do I turn it off? I don't want any application running at any capacity except when I have tab(s) open for them.

Solution:

Hm, Discord didn't have anything registered there. After some digging, I found about:debugging#workers which does list Discord stuff under "Other Workers". It's unsettling to see there's no way to force confirmation and/or disable these stuff. I use Discord when I have to every once in a while. I don't want their code running all the time in my browser..

edit: you can disable service workers with dom.serviceWorkers.enabled = false but this has no effect on Other Workers.

edit2: uBlock can disable Other Workers by setting the filter ||$csp=worker-src 'none' in My Filters and enabling Suspend network activity until all filter lists are loaded in Filter lists. It funny how this "trick" is written for Chromium-based browsers with the note that Firefox allows global disabling of service workers when the sites can just register a different type of worker with no way of disabling them. I am sure the api is less powerful than service workers bla bla bla, let me decide what runs on my browser without needing third party tools, please.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I'm asking global override vs application manifest (not application override). So the app asks for access to home/some-dir but I have a global override that blocks access to home entirely.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

how do credit agencies even work? what data do they collect and how?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

So I need to go look at what filesystem each app is requesting and manually disable that on top of disabling home access entirely? What's the point of being able to do filesystem=!home in the global config?

 

If I globally disable filesystem access to home (i.e. filesystems=!home;), and an app declared that it needs home/some-dir, do I need to explicitly prevent access or do my global settings take precedence?

 

I am on a shared network. I'd like to self host services and access them from all my devices but I do not want these exposed to other people in my network. I've noticed that I can just change the port mapping in Docker to <Tailscale IP>:<port>:<port> from <port>:<port> and it just works. Works as in the service is accessible from my Tailnet, inaccessible from the local network or the internet. Is it really this easy or am I missing something? Just sounds too good to be true so I am suspicious it might somehow be insecure.

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