You can block specific posters and communities, but so far keyword filtering is only possible through specific phone apps.

I think an instance admin was working on something for doing that natively though.

If you take nothing else from this thread: That’s not “just autism”.

And the goal of working with a professional wouldn’t be to “delete your autism” like holy shit lmao that is so off base I would think you were a shitposter if I hadn’t met other people like you before.

There are dangerous thought patterns, shit that does nothing but erode your trust in the existence of an external reality. I don’t have the proper words to describe the level of danger to yourself and those around you that you can cause if you don’t believe foundational aspects of external reality.

This is really something you need to discuss with professionals.

Buddy, given your relatively basic questions and how you’re posting to every single fucking vaguely relared community, I would highly suggest you do some studying on just… basic computer concepts and how to use them. Not sure what resources are out there anymore, but maybe some basic “these are the parts of a computer, these are programs and how they work” stuff from the 90s. They used to do middle school classes on how to properly use google and other seaech engines to find trustworthy information for citing in research papers. I seriously suggest you start there.

Then, after you understand the basics maybe you start trying to understand how all of that works in regards to security and the concept of trust in the software you install and run.

Spoiler alert: Computers are not designed with any sort of “zero trust” architecture like you seem to be shocked that they don’t have. Things are not sandboxed, segmented, or otherwise prevented from accessing other stuff as a general rule.

This is why one of the bare minimum basics is “don’t run anything you don’t trust”.

You might have better results working with a doctor and getting perscriptions for the mind altering drugs that assist you.

Trying to trust your own brain to self assess what works and doesn’t while actively messing with its chemistry it uses to do that assessment… it can work, but it’s definitely choosing to do it on hard mode.

If you unironically have trouble believing in the persistance of things outside of your own immediate senses, please go talk with your therapist more.

That’s kind of base level underpinnings of your existence and how you interact with the rest of the world shit.

Harsh question: Do you have a real need to prevent this data from being collected, or are you investigating just for funsies best practice advice? There are a lot of posts like this where people overestimate the threat model they have and insist on needing to block things that are nearly impossible to, or at least have significant tradeoffs like you are dealing with now.

Javascript is also not the only source that sites can use for these pieces of info from your machine. Local time in particular can be estimated by looking up the rough location of your IP address then matching to a time zone.

Anyway.

I would assume you could technically fork localCDN (replaces remote javascript libraries with local copies) and then manually edit the local javascript library copies to remove the calls you are concerned about.

There’s also options like uBlock Origin’s methods of only whitelisting specific scripts. Much more flexible than NoScript. You can block scripts that are third party and only allow site specific ones fairly easily, without digging deep into the settings.

Bear in mind that your specific combination of installed extensions can also be a unique identifier though.

Absolutely, as a slight counter to my ADHD and laziness. I find it harder to say “let me sleep fifteen more minutes” when the timer or alarm isn’t a round number.

I’m already seeing a permutation of this at my workplace with Microsoft’s low/no code automation frameworks. Power Platform I believe is the name. Also seeing it with some other proprietary automation tools.

While I respect the motivation of these business folks to try and automate their processes, it’s distressing watching these people slap together something of equivalent quality to what I’d expect from freshman in an intro to programming course (I’ve been an assistant for some of those classes, it’s not pretty) and then try and balance all sorts of business critical stuff on top of their mess.

What is extra frustrating is that we already have in-house software devs for this sort of stuff. They’re already understaffed, but this motivation for automation could be a perfect opportunity to right-size that team, build a proper “tech project management” group, and really start to lean hard into making the best use of all these tools. Instead, a few enterprising project managers took a single continuing education course for some proprietary automation software and somehow got the office politics clout to spin it into an entire department based around their little pet system.

Meanwhile I’m sitting here in Systems Admin and Enterprise Architecture land watching these half assed “solutions” eating absurd amounts of resources to do shit that could be accomplished with a small DB and maybe 1k lines of code.

No, you cannot have a VM with a fucking 1TB drive. We’ve seen the files that go into and out of your current systems and if you found some way to bloat those into anywhere close to 1TB then something is seriously wrong.

PowerBI especially, they keep sending all their queries to the first gateway server we built instead of spreading them over the multiple ones we have. The end up maxing out the RAM and bringing the primary gateway down. Now, it should automatically offload new queries to the other gateways when one gets full, but queries are handled by batch, so if one batch is too big it can’t split that batch over multiple gateway servers. We’ve reached the point where we can’t just add more resources to the VM, they need to split shit up better.

So I guess all this is to say that it’s already happening to a limited degree. I don’t enjoy being a gatekeeper, but so many fucking people need so much more training before they start trying to automate shit, and the ever increasing marketing of “you don’t need to have a single coherent thought in your head to become a process efficiency master” is fucking poison.

What’s the saying? Rather have a lazy smart person than an industrious idiot?

Yeah, but they’ll still create a shadow profile on you and track your data anyway. Have a friend with an account? Your name and phone number is known to them. Even without a true identity attached, they will track you from your own devices, and then correlate that with everything else they can at every opportunity.

Also, Facebook is preinstalled as a system app (cannot be uninstalled without adb) on various manufacturer’s and carrier’s android builds.

This is just “android sticks allow sideloading apps”. Nothing Amazon specific to any of this.

Lately Ars Technica seems quite intent on losing any quality they had.

What kind of boot licking, inaccurate, non-news shit is this?

The only potential reason for this article is farming engagement bait clicks from people who don’t know shit about fire sticks, and from people like us stunned at the stupidity.

It would help to know what in particular you were trying to post and where (including instance for the more generic communities like music).

Nine times out of ten when someone posts a complaint this vague it’s because they know it wouldn’t be received well if they were direct about it, so you’re already starting off at a disadvantage here unless you edit that info into your main post.

Lastly, if you want to just post with very few rules or mods to hold you back, there’s a whole massive network of imageboards for you. 4chan is back up, it didn’t die from the hack a few months ago (for better or worse).

There’s been a decent amount of discussion online that when you are already in a relationship, you’ve been “vetted” so to speak. Obviously bullshit, as what your current partner may find acceptable can have jack to do with what anyone else finds acceptable. Also, if you have a break up, somehow you’re no longer vetted because clearly you have some problems if you had a break up.

It’s all pretty/petty bullshit but it’s definitely a thing. Even my clueless ass has noticed it. Women are more comfortable around me now that I’m obviously taken (wedding ring). Not that they weren’t before, but diving into deep/private conversation stuff at a far faster rate. Like I pride myself on being trustworthy and a good listener, but you gotta chill.

That increased comfort also includes more comfortable to make passes at me. No thanks, wife and I aren’t looking for a third.

Only thing I could suggest is to make sure your DKIM and SPF stuff is set up right, but that only effects other email servers accepting mail from yours.

Yes, the price is the point. Excel (Office) is that dirt fucking cheap, industry standard, and comes with a bunch of other shit included that can be legitimate value add for a small business.

If you’re at a firm that has legitimate need for specialized accounting software, you’ll have enough money to get those. But even those generally export to Excel format. Without outing myself too much, I’ve had comsiderable exposure to financial tech over the last decade and less than 10 specialized accounting softwares I’ve seen couldn’t export to Excel. All of those still exported to csv, or “software agnostic excel” if we want to bend things a bit.

The power of being industry standard for going on 30 years now cannot be overstated.

Do you somehow think that if you just fake the technical requirement for this .lpf file it will be smooth sailing?

What happens when this gets caught by an actual human being?

Is that not a core use case of Lemmy? Just make a community for your theme and post the links.

I believe either. In Jerboa (what I’ve got handy at the moment) it’s under Settings, [your account name]'s settings, and then its in the middle of the whole bunch of switches towards the bottom.

There’s an option to hide bot posts in your settings. So far everyone is playing nice and labeling their bots as such, so that’s probably the easiest way at the moment.

It’s how they kept everything from dying when they killed third party apps. They openly banned and replaced mods that were keeping their subreddits locked. It was a shitshow, but unfortunately reddit still exists.