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  • I would get 12mm screws of the same thread pitch (M2 is common) and file 0.5mm off the ends.

    If you don’t want to file them by hand, you could ask someone with access to a grinder for help. They could probably do it in a few seconds if the screws are not stainless steel. Your local bicycle shop might have one, since this is a fairly common operation on spokes.


  • This article mentions using Global Privacy Control as a replacement for Do Not Track, but doesn’t bother to explain what GPC does. Its adjacent article incorrectly claims that GPC uses the DNT: 1 header field, fails to explain further, and links to a Mozilla page that doesn’t explain it, either.

    Even the GPC web site fails here, offering several pages of vague, abstract fluff about their intentions and a useless document full of marketing industry acronyms, without anything substantial about how it works. The single mention of a spec fails to state where to find it. The closest it comes is a tangential sentence containing a broken github.io link.

    Finally, and only because I happen to know github.io’s URL format, I was able to guess my way to an organization page, and from there to a project page, which has a README file containing a footnote linking to the proposed spec:

    https://w3c.github.io/gpc/

    Geez… it’s as though the people involved don’t want anyone to know how this proposed safeguard is supposed to work.

    After reading it, it looks like these are the main differences in Global Privacy Control vs. Do Not Track:

    • Replaces the DNT: 1 header field with Sec-GPC: 1.
    • Adds a javascript property to indicate the same thing.
    • Does not honor preference changes after the first navigation to a site. (Having changes respected apparently requires clearing site data from the browser and reloading. A helpful browser might prompt the user to do this.)
    • Defines a way for sites to indicate that they are aware of GPC (but does not require them to honor it).
    • Expresses a wish that your data not be shared, but says nothing about it being collected.
    • May be considered legally binding in some jurisdictions. It’s not clear whether the few that currently recognize it will enforce it in any meaningful way.







  • Neither isolates everything. Both have some isolation features. The features enabled by default vary from package to package, so you would have to look at the permissions on each package to find out.

    For a bit more isolation than a flatpak/snap, I suggest creating a separate user account for running chromium (or any other moderately nosy software). Note that linux lets you log in to two accounts at the same time, each with its own desktop, and switch between them. Check out your desktop environment’s “switch user” function.

    For even more isolation, you could run chromium in a hypervisor-based virtual machine.







  • Probably because we don’t all have the energy to respond to every single inappropriate post. It’s tiresome, and many of us are busy.

    Also, lots of people see these posts by browsing their subscription feed, and don’t always notice which community each one comes from, so an errant post is easily overlooked if they’re also subscribed to a community where it would be appropriate.

    I do see some downvotes on an OpenAI post, though, so it hasn’t gone unnoticed. Don’t think you’re being singled out. It’s just that there are a lot of these lately, and the issue hasn’t been resolved yet, as you can see from the post I linked above.