Scary_le_Poo
@Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org
- Comment on Movie Theaters Post Warnings Against Crazy ‘Minecraft Movie’ Screenings: ‘Screaming’ and ‘Taking Part in TikTok Trends Will Not Be Tolerated’ 1 week ago:
Because someone has to clean that shit up.
- Comment on cool kids club 2 weeks ago:
They get rabies just like anything else. However, their body temp is so low that rabies cannot survive.
- Comment on I don't know who needs to hear this, but DO NOT EVER expose Jellyfin to the internet 2 weeks ago:
Does your friend have a static IP? Unlikely considering that you have to pay extra for a static IP.
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- Comment on Elon Musk says X hit by 'massive cyber attack' as users unable to log in 5 weeks ago:
He is going to say Ukraine did it and use this as an excuse to shut off starlink for Ukraine.
- Comment on Mickey 17 is a big middle finger to space-obsessed strongmen [Review] 1 month ago:
Tbh kinda boring
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 month ago:
It’s a long road and it’s tough, but you can do it!
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 1 month ago:
Have any of you FUD shoveling geniuses considered that this is because Firefox uses encrypted DNS by default?
- Comment on Google continues pulling the plug on Manifest v2 • The Register 1 month ago:
Nice FUD you got there.
- Comment on Algorithms are breaking how we think - Technology Connections 1 month ago:
Grayjay. Nuff said.
- Comment on WordPress leader Matthew Mullenweg exiles five contributors • The Register 2 months ago:
I’m afraid to mention my framework anywhere. The documentation leaves a lot to be desired, but it’s honestly pretty perfect for a majority of use cases.
It even supports plugins and short codes.
Super secure as well so that’s neat. I had always planned to make a post about it but the lack of thorough documentation keeps me from it.
That said, there are a zillion of frameworks out there and some of them are ridiculously cool.
- Comment on Germ Blaster 4 months ago:
I feel like calling you out because your story is obvious bs.
- Comment on Germ Blaster 4 months ago:
I’m not defending it, as it needs no defending. You are right to be defensive about your nasty ass hands though. How are you gonna wash your hands, use a blow-dryer, smell your hands and realize that they stink and come to the conclusion that the blow-dryer is the reason your hands stink.
Telling on yourself a bit here.
- Comment on Germ Blaster 4 months ago:
This is a skill issue.
- Comment on Germ Blaster 4 months ago:
Then the hand dryer is not your problem. Try using soap next time.
- Comment on Path of Exile 2 now in Early Access and it works on Steam Deck / Linux 4 months ago:
Now with twice the grind and exponential XP (aka your time) loss when you get ganked.
- Comment on Germ Blaster 4 months ago:
This has been debunked btw. Fwiw, there is a huge behind the scenes fight between big towel and big airblow.
I’m not kidding. But basically drying via air is much more hygienic in actuality.
- Comment on You don't need to answer this 4 months ago:
Dunno what made you think people aren’t happy he was murdered. I’m quite pleased that he got what was coming to him. He has destroyed countless families and relationships. The only injustice is that we can’t reanimate his corpse and kill him again.
- Comment on No NAT November: My Month Without IPv4 4 months ago:
IPv6 blows. A.k.a. how to solve a network issue in the dumbest way possible.
- Comment on Joe Biden pardons son Hunter in final weeks in office 4 months ago:
The pardon was because the Republicans undid his plea deal that the department of justice had agreed to. THAT was corruption. Political opponents should not be able to break up an already done pleas deal. The plea deal was fair and Biden said as much, but when Republicans broke up the deal, that’s when he decided to issue the pardon.
You really should read more than the headline.
- Comment on Request for aftershave recommendations 6 months ago:
Supply.co had been fucking amazing. My GF got me it for Christmas last year and I just ran out of the shave balm. It’s so great!
For something more store bought, bevel shave gel and bevel aftershave lotion balm from target is also excellent.
- Comment on OpenAI Is A Bad Business 6 months ago:
GIGO.
- Comment on OpenAI Is A Bad Business 6 months ago:
Garbage in garbage out. You give a shit prompt, you generally get a shit answer.
- Comment on Steam will let you sue Valve now 6 months ago:
People like you are why the rest of us can’t have nice things.
- Comment on TikTok must face U.S. lawsuit over the platform's viral “blackout challenge” that several parents blame for their children’s deaths, an appeals court ruled 7 months ago:
Come on dude, you know exactly what he meant. Social media is a broad category, but when someone mentions it in this context, it’s very clear what they mean.
- Comment on Valve bans keyboard automation in Counter-Strike 2 update 7 months ago:
“oh, geez, that’s terrible.”
- Comment on The spies in your home: How WiFi companies monitor your private life 8 months ago:
The modemrouter has a bridge mode.
If the absolute worst happens, you can always Just double nat. Annoying but it’s fine.
- Comment on Fallout TV Show ... not vibing with eps 1,2 ... what am I missing? 8 months ago:
You should watch till like the 4th episode I’d say. There is a lot happening that doesn’t have context until a bit later one. It’s an excellent story, but it is a slow burn.
I’ve never played any of the games
- Comment on [Discussion] What did you think of Matrix 4? 8 months ago:
I enjoyed it
- Comment on What a week 8 months ago:
It is not targeted advertising. There is an entire writeup about it that you haven’t read (obviously). You clearly have no idea how it works.
Advertising tracking, but less creepy
First, we need to go over Firefox’s Privacy-Preserving Attribution, or PPA for short. Marketing attribution is the process for tracking how many sales, conversions, or other goals originate from a given advertising campaign. For example, when Nike releases a new pair of shoes, it creates multiple ad campaigns to market those shoes on TV, Instagram, and so on. Attribution is how Nike tracks how many shoes were purchased from a given advertisement.
The most popular way to track attribution right now is with individual tracking. For example, you might click on a web ad for the Nike shoes, and a cookie is stored in your web browser. If you buy the shoes, Nike’s store might check that cookie, so it knows which ad was responsible for convincing you to buy shoes. There are many other ways for attribution to work, but most of them use individual tracking like cookies, which allows other information to be collected with the marketing data. For example, Nike’s marketing people might want to know which ad you clicked on and your estimated age, so they know which demographics are buying the most shoes.
Mozilla’s PPA aims to build an attribution system without the creepy individual tracking. Sites can ask Firefox to monitor attribution for advertisements, and then later ask for a report, which is only provided in an anonymized collection “combined with many similar reports by the aggregation service.” For example, instead of Nike getting something like, “Billy Bob, aged 29, was one of 728 people in June who completed a purchase from the Instagram ad,” Nike would get something more like, "47% of the people who clicked the Instagram ad in June completed a purchase."
There are other privacy and security measures in Privacy-Preserving Attribution, and Mozilla’s support page and Andrew Moore’s blog post explain it in more detail. PPA seems like a decent idea to track the effectiveness of ads without compromising user privacy in any meaningful way. spacebar.news/mozilla-firefox-privacy-preserving-…
Now that you know better, please stop spreading bullshit.