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That’s slightly different and more often than not completely ignored. This is a better alternative: https://feddit.nl/comment/1153941.

That already exist: https://community.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/firefox-cookie-banner-handling/. There is also a flag to enable it in the GUI (to let it appear in the settings).

That’s not necessarily true: https://arstechnica.com/google/2023/06/googles-bard-ai-can-now-write-and-execute-code-to-answer-a-question/. If the question gets interpreted correctly and it manages to write working code to answer it, it could correctly answer questions that it has never seen before.

His what?

Some of those options exist in Bash too, but need to be enabled in your profile: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Shopt-Builtin.html. Bash is also more like to be available on random machines that you have access to. Lastly, if you’re working a lot with Bash scripts in your (work) environment you might feel more at home using Bash in interactive mode too.

Those are just some counter arguments for the sake of completeness. I think zsh is great, even though I personally don’t use it (yet).

Sure, but that’s not how it has to be. In my country it’s illegal to discriminate based on sexual orientation and she would win the case hands down. The same goes for race, religion, etc. Which is not to say that the schools aren’t allowed to have an opinion about it, but when it comes to action, it ends where it interferes too much with the other person’s freedom. I like it that way, but I realize that it’s probably not compatible with how Americans interpret freedom.

I’m using Kagi, which aggregates search results from several search engines (including their own), but without the ads, with less crap and with features like searching for literal strings and promoting/demoting certain websites. It’s a paid service, though, but I like it enough that I’m ok with that.

If there’s anyone that hates what Red Hat has done here, it’s me, but what AlmaLinux is doing is exactly what Red Hat was aiming for according to their statement, which is that clones would use CentOS Stream as their upstream and develop and contribute their own patches instead of copying RHEL bug-for-bug. The other reason is of course to convert people that need that bug-for-bug clone to paying customers.

With SUSE having announced a RHEL compatible alternative, I’m hoping that some people/businesses will consider switching their environment over to them as a more OSS friendly competitor that also offers support. If that distribution gains some traction, I foresee that some of the clones might use that as their upstream and that OEMs will follow suit and test their drivers on those distributions. There are enough people/businesses that are reliant on a mixture of RHEL and Alma/Rocky and for those life got a bit harder because of RHEL’s actions.

The next release of Fedora will ship DNF5 as the default package manager, which is supposed to be much faster.

Russell was tried for his unlawful escape, and this time, another 45 years were added to his sentence.

In my country the act of escaping from prison is not punishable (doing illegal things while escaping is). I’ve never realized that that’s not the case in all countries. Escaping is considered to be a natural act of pursuing freedom and it’s the task of the prison system to keep it from happening.

The base os is immutable, but you can still change configuration files, compile and install local software (but not in the immutable directories), install desktop environment extensions, add custom repositories, etc. You can also layer packages, but most graphical software is best installed as flatpaks (but not mandatory). So it depends on what tinkering means for you. If it means messing around with binaries in the default locations, like /usr/bin, then it’s not for you, but for many other things there is a way, it’s just a matter of getting used to the separation between the immutable base layer and the things that you build around and on top of it.

This is the golden combo in my opinion. uBlock Origin is an excellent adblocker and it works best with Firefox. The built-in privacy features of Firefox are also decent, even when left at the default settings.