I’m a Christian and software engineer; I create random graphics projects and websites. Feel free to ask me for help with programming, or about my faith!

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • My computer was taking too long to start up, which I interpreted as failing to boot, but in hindsight was probably just my hard drive being slow. So, I booted into recovery mode, and ran an update. At one point, apt said “there are unnecessary packages” and would I like to remove them? I figured that apt knew better than I did (after all, maybe a package dropped a dependency), so I said yes.

    It was after I noticed the very large number of packages that I suspected I messed up. Turns out, apt uninstalled the entire desktop environment, and network manager, so I had to boot into a USB drive with Network Manager installed, chroot into my main drive, and reinstall plasma. As a bonus, I think I missed the main group for the plasma desktop and only installed only most of it, so some of my extensions just didn’t work anymore.


  • Not all ad blockers remove elements from web pages, and if they acted that predictably you could detect the ad blocker by detecting whether an expected element is hidden.

    I have not looked through an ad blocker’s code, but I don’t believe it is that simple.


  • KiranWells@pawb.socialtome_irl@lemmy.mlme🚫irl
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    1 year ago

    This already exists - @soatok@furry.engineer’s blog already has a popup about not having an adblocker, although it is easy to dismiss. It’s probably a bad idea to block content based on not having one, as detecting ad blockers is a losing battle (as YouTube is learning).