If you customize nanorc then you can also point and click with the mouse and highlight text and copy/paste like it was a GUI from the terminal. Most people shiting on Nano just never learned it because they learned the editor they are familiar with. Same reason I shit on vim.

I didn’t saw it was dangerous only that it was similar to MS GDID, and it is.

Wow that went dark quickly. Not sure any of that was warranted

I’m not technically inclined enough to harden against that, nor do ai really have the inclination. But here is a thread on that topic where I even heard about it.

!privacy@lemmy.ml

https://lemmy.ml/post/49710604

See discussion below. I’m making it up obviously

That’s fair. I didn’t mean MS was the threat actor, just the seed from which this grew. I definitely take that back after reading up more on where machine-id grew out of.

However, I don’t concede that machine-id is theoretical for user fingerprinting. Any software installed can read it, especially a browser. That’s the vector for tracking across the web. Do I have instances of this occurring, no. Seems plausible and the more we can sandbox things, especially “web browsers” (untrusted app runners more like it) the better.

If you started a project, wouldn’t you list your server up top? The fact they changed it should tell you all you need to know. Also it’s their instance, they can do with it what they want. That’s like saying someone painted their house a color that is questionable. Block it and move on.

Sorry I just don’t think it’s right to pass judgement on people for doing what they want with their project or instance especially when they designed it in a way that anyone can set up their own instance do do what THEY want with their own.

Lemmy.ml is like 8th in the list on join-Lemmy.org. Doesn’t seem to be pushing?

their admins will see your comments elsewhere, then find any/all comments on their instance and either harass you or ban you.

Citation lemmy.ml admins do this please? Also isn’t this technically possible with every single instance of Lemmy?

Absolutely zero reason a init system needs admin date of birth. Yes separate issue entirely, but it’s showing a trend and the direction things are headed.

https://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_473

Cost of doing business

machine-id

If any of your Linux machines use SystemD, then Microsoft has done that then there’s something to be aware of with those machines. SystemD has a global system ID that can be used like the Windows GDID apparently.

Edit: not MS

Ansible

Yea I am pretty sick of that shit too. That’s honestly why I have stayed on mine for so long.

https://hexbear.net/u/unperson

I’m sure that explains it. I didn’t realize programming.dev blocked hexbear. Kind of stupid honestly. It’s a great community but has it’s quirks for sure.

There’s another comment in this thread by user unperson that I was building on, hence referring to their comment. You asked where m3u8 came from, it’s another comment in this thread. Since it’s a derogatory term, it’s possible you have filtered their comments.

Edit: why are you assuming I am trying to offend anyone?

unperson mentioned

Feed the m3u8 into yt-dlp and it should handle it.

Feed the m3u8 unperson mentioned into yt-dlp.

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