What does referencing mean exactly?

Sometimes HTML email comes with the logos and objects needed to render it, sometimes not. When the objects are included it’s possible to render the message while offline. In the case at hand, the logo was not included and the HTML body defined a logo with that unique URL inside img tags.

In the very least, if we assume the tracking is appropriate and that it’s consistent with the privacy policy and ToS I agreed to, I would still find it objectionable that a government would conceal the fact that they are using a tracker pixel/image by withholding the content-length header. The gov should be transparent about what they are doing. They should even disclose in each such message “we have a tracker pixel in here”, for transparency which should not be an issue if it’s legit. I personally need the content-length header because I’m on a shit internet connection and have a need to know how big something is before I fetch it. So I’m disturbed that all Cloudflare sites (which is like ½ the web now) withhold the content-length header. The agency at hand is sloppy with privacy and probably sloppy with everything. It’s not necessarily malicious but nonetheless I’m not going to lower the standard by which they should be held to.

emoji works, just not pics. But thankfully someone on a proper connection handled it.

I would ditch an app that can’t handle text. You want a screenshot of what, curl’s output? I’m on a shitty connection with images disabled so it’s a bit of a hassle and uses my allowance.

bleepingcomputer·com ← cloudflare site. Should be prefixed with web.archive.org/web/ or cautioned.

Love the suggestion. That’s actually a great nuclear option. They would have to be understanding in most contexts. Although in the case at hand I will have to reveal that I use Tor which would probably cause a bit of confusion. And considering what a mess HTML looks like in my MUA (mutt, a text client).. well, could be a disaster.

IMO part of the fix for that is liberating psychedelics. There has been some research finding that if someone takes psilocybin (shrooms) before they reach the age of 35, they are significantly more open minded for the rest of their life. Though I’m not sure how they controlled for the question as to whether the drug makes people more psychologically flexible or whether they are more psychologically flexible in the first place if they are willing to try it.

Either way, it seems to naturally follow that conservatives proportionally tend to avoid psychedelics. It’s anecdotal but my fellow psychonauts are all liberal.

s/exit/edit/ ↑ I’ll write my corrections like this in situations where I cannot edit the content.

Ideally there would be a service that expands on what downinspector.com does. Something that tries to access an URL from various kinds of IPs (CGNAT, Tor, VPNs, public libraries, various regions) to establish whether or not the file is reachable by all people. Then ideally lemmy could be coded to treat links based on whether exclusivity is detected.

In principle this would be in the domain of the #OONI project. But I doubt they have anything like this. E.g. OONI tracks whether a country blocks a domain (https://explorer.ooni.org/domains), but not whether a domain blocks a country.

web enshitification warning: use lynx to view that page unless you want to get clobbered with shitty anti-popup popups and cookie walls.

Well, actually I was just now able to edit some titles of posts. So not all posts are treated equally. But note as well timing is irrelevant (I still cannot edit the post above).

In fact the post I linked is not special. I just now tried to make a small edit to the post I am replying to, and it again had no effect.

thanks for the tip but that’s not either. I tried each ram stick independently as well as with no ram and it was the same every time.

A paper on Secure E-voting Using Homomorphic Technology.

I just have to say that must be the shittiest font I’ve ever seen used for academic research. I might still read it since it’s only a few pages!

I had an extremely slow kitchen drain recently where a liter of water took a couple hours to drain. Every week I poured boiling water into the drain pipe that came out of the wall (bypassing the trap), waited ~30-60 min for the temp to drop a bit before giving a dose of enzyme-based cleaner so the enzymes had a warm start and could chow down on whatever was in there. After a month or so there was no noticeable progress. Snaked it. The snake made it all the way to the main pipe but strangely did not clear it. So I poured in ½ liter of sulfuric acid and let that sit for hours. Still not clear. Then I plunged the line with the acid in it using the kind of plunger that attached directly to the pipe. That cleared it. I have no idea what the clog was.

Now I run the dishwasher on the highest temp as a preventative measure. The lowest temp (50°C) is good enough for the dishes but I figure the highest temp (70°C) will help maintain my crappy kitchen drain pipes. It’s unclear to me if I’m wasting energy or being sensible. IIUC, the 70°C temp setting is for pans (which the dishwasher maker expects to be greasy). The clog that I cleared was from the previous tenant (a young student, probably careless and not knowledgeable about drains). The only grease or oil I put down the drain is residual after a bulk of it goes to the compost.

I’ve heard that argued both ways. Some people claim it cleans the lines. But my instincts are to agree with you. If the coffee ground gets greasy that would seem to give it a chance to stick in the pipe or simply stick to existing grease. OTOH, grease in the pipes can be melted by pouring boiling water down.

Since coffee is great for compost, the bulk of my coffee goes to the plants or to the compost. But I’m still keen to clean with it. Not much is needed for cleaning. 2 pinches is enough for one arm pit, or two hands. Some coffee grounds stick to my filter after shaking the bulk of it into a plant so I end up rinsing those down the drain as well.