You are assuming here that I know what I want. What if there is no obviously correct answer, and even in the Everett branch that generates the optimal content for the file I’ll still think it can be improved and tell it to destroy the universe?

What if there is no correct answer?

I just use this:

#!/bin/bash

keep_generating=1
while [[ $keep_generating == 1 ]]; do
    dd if=/dev/random of=$1 bs=1 count=$2 status=none
    echo Contents of $1 are:
    cat $1
    echo
    read -p "Try generating again? " -s -n1 answer
    while true; do
        case $answer in
            [Yy] )
                echo
                break
                ;;
            [Nn] )
                keep_generating=0
                break
                ;;
            *)
        esac
        read -s -n1 answer
    done
done

What do you mean by “improving”? This alarming warning appears because Firefox requires permissions. Let us look at the permissions listed there:

1. “User device access”. From the docs, I’d say the browser needs it for rendering?
2. “Download folder read/write access”. This one is obvious - the files you download with your browser go there.
3. “Can access some specific files”. This one, I’ll admit, is a bit cryptic - what files does it need to access? But this one is on Flatpak for making the permission so general.

App permissions should not be about “this app cannot be trusted because it asks for scary scary permissions”. They should be about “take a look at the list of permissions the app requests and determine whether or not it make sense for such an app to need such permissions”.

Nearly every app should have a warning

No. If you put a warning on every app (except for the most trivial ones that don’t actually do anything useful) then the warnings mean nothing. The become something more than ass-covering legal(ish) BS.

Some drugs help, but only if you can get the person organizing the meeting to take them.

“XL bully dogs”? Have we stopped saying “pit bull” because of and I never got the memo?

You got it backwards. It’s not about the people - it’s about the principles! What do you think the US cherishes more - medicine or guns?

If they talk about the USA - then yes. Not because the government loves its citizens and respects their rights - simply because it hates China.

Wasn’t that lemmygrad?

I’m confused. I thought lemmy.ml was like lemmy.world and lemm.ee - one of these big “general purpose” instances that new users would pick if they don’t have a specific reason to pick a “specialized” instance? Since when they did become warring factions?

No. Sorry. This is Cold War II.

If you use Edge than you probably use Windows, which means that Microsoft can already mine your data. I guess it’s better to have your data mined by only Microsoft than to have it mined by both Microsoft and Google?

Whether it really happened or not, I think enough time has passed to allow rebuilding it several times over.

I wanted more workspaces, so I decided that ~ is 0, - is 11, = is 12 and backspace is 13.

In the decision, Fleming found law enforcement used “the guise of a rehabilitation service to entice the parents of a troubled child to engage in a process that resulted in potential harm to the child.”

Could this new development mean that it is possible that his reign may not be a bit shorter than his mother’s?

I wish Lemmy showed you more of the context than just the last reply.

You can keep pressing on “Show context” to load more replies, up until the top level one.

You use the word “Republicans”, which indicates that you understand, to some level, that a country can have more than one political party. The next logical step would be realizing that this principle can apply to countries other than the United States. Can you do it?