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  • Just wait or switch distros. All the security updates they hold hostage for money come eventually. If you’re not a bank or wanted by a major world power, I doubt anyone is going pwn you with a security fix Ubuntu is slow walking to force people into pro. Since they started that shit I don’t put Ubuntu on new hardware, but I’m not going to purge servers I have it on because I’m worried someone’s going to deploy a sub-month old vulnerability against me as a rando doing nothing important.





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    2 days ago

    Kiiiinda true but only with boomer-era on-disk printed at a factory Waterfall. Also everything after agile is just copium for an over professionalized world in which craftsmanship itself had given way, undermining the very concept of expertise so everything is junior devs and now ai






  • It’s not 100% the case that EVERY extension will. A completely local extension that doesn’t ever hit the web or change page layout won’t, but how many of those are there? Anything that changes how you view a page will subtly impact what the server sees in your request, or at least CAN see via javascript, which can be used towards fingerprinting – and because everything is so monopolized, anything making a third party call related to the page is potentially resolvable based on IP and timing because like four companies run everything and share an unknown subset of their data on you. Since your data is the new oil, there’s a robust incentive for ad companies to really break out all the stops trying to fingerprint everything about you. It’s not LibreWolf’s fault, it’s just the incentives that exists out there plus how the web works.