Noscript has 100k users on chrome, 240k on Firefox, according to their respective stores. I don’t know if thats total downloads or active installations though.

Ublock origin lite is 19M on chrome.

There are ~6B global internet users. So definitely more than 1:100k, but still very unique.

So they are very different scales.

Adblock, incognito tabs, VPN. Probably other good alternatives as well.

If they can’t sell you ads, fingerprinting you doesnt gain them much.

And if you can reset/perturb your fingerprint enough via incognito/vpn, they can’t track you for dynamic pricing shenanigans.

Blocking JS is a fingerprint, and a pretty unique one. If you care about your privacy, forget about fingerprinting and instead mitigate its impacts instead.

When shaking their hand, a little tongue will go a long way to show them that you’re a team player. /j

Relax, deep breath, and take your time answering questions.

Good luck!

I have converted some tuya bulbs in the past, but its never been a good time. The exploit methods tend to get patched, so I had to open the bulbs and solder wires to flash, and the bulbs don’t go back together nicely. Better to just avoid that headache imo.

Yeah, there would be a lot of potential for leaks, but if they are one-time-codes that wouldn’t be too bad.

Esphome or ZigBee bulbs are the way to go, avoid tuya for WiFi bulbs

https://www.athom.tech/esphome

ZigBee bulbs I have gotten from aliexpress, they are usually pretty good, but you’ll need a ZigBee antenna or bridge.

Tuya require a cloud connection, so best to avoid.

I’ve had the same though re. shipping addresses, but I don’t think it scales well. You’d need every postie to have an online device that allows them to link QR code/uuid code to the real address, and delivery just gets a lot harder.

In Australia, AusPost allows you to generate a “virtual” PO box, which is a lot easier to deal with, but you have to go to the post office to pickup.

Your website is dead.

If the merchant is hoarding the data, they want to do it. If they want to do it, why would they use your framework?

Also, merchants need your name and address to ship the product to you…

KYC is not just for funsies, they are legal requirements for a lot of businesses. If they don’t legally have to store information, they can just choose not to. It doesnt require a framework, Lemmy manages just fine without storing personal data.

Ha, I still hand write most of my code, i used it for that repo to try out local LLMs. Know thy enemy.

I did hand-polish that code as well, just the initial pass was slopped together.

Its just reading the commit history. It doesnt read the files at all. So it only finds overt slop, anyone who does their commits manually would pass completely.

Edit: https://slopscore.ava.pet/repo/https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fcameroncros%2Fedgy-table

This repo is 100% slop (its mine, I know what I did), and it gets marked clean.

For me, my parents are 20mins away by car. By bike or public transport its 3 hours. There is simply no way for a public transport system to beat the flexibility of a car, and there are very real scenarios that make a car extremely useful.

Trips to bunnings/home depot are also easier with a personal vehicle.

That said, we should still strive to minimise car usage as much as possible anyway.

Are you sure about that? The cars left over would probably skew harder towards work trucks and people carriers, which can’t easily be replaced by bikes. So it might actually get worse.

They aren’t mutually exclusive, macbooks are thin, light and last. Pricy as fuck though :/

I’m guessing your email and some passwords were leaked recently. The scammers are hoping that you:

a) have a chatgpt account already

b) are lazy with your passwords and reuse them across services.

Or

c) will click on of the verification code links and let them in

If they get lucky, they get an openai account in your name that they can fraudulently abuse. It costs them basically nothing to try, and theyll be doing it across millions of accounts.

Its cheaper than a new laptop :/

The CMOS battery is a small button battery that holds a little power to make sure the bios settings aren’t lost. Google your laptop model, it might be an easyish fix.

Sidestepping the “chiropractors are not doctors” issue, is clinic not just a plural of doctors? 1 doctor = doctor, 2 doctors (and/or nurses) = clinic?

Could the CMOS battery have died in your laptop, which has caused it to not detect the SSD? I have seen a dell laptop do that, and the AHCI/RAID setting caused it to not boot as well. Perhaps check if your BIOS setting for UEFI boot/legacy boot setting has also changed?

As for replacement, a new SSD is a cheap debugging step, and worst case you can put it in an enclosure and use it as a portable disk. I would try replace the SSD (after ruling out the legacy boot settings).

I don’t think laptop prices are coming down any time soon, so if all else fails, you may just have to suck it up. Perhaps checkout second hand marketplaces?