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  • If you take nothing else from this thread: That’s not “just autism”.

    And the goal of working with a professional wouldn’t be to “delete your autism” like holy shit lmao that is so off base I would think you were a shitposter if I hadn’t met other people like you before.


    There are dangerous thought patterns, shit that does nothing but erode your trust in the existence of an external reality. I don’t have the proper words to describe the level of danger to yourself and those around you that you can cause if you don’t believe foundational aspects of external reality.

    This is really something you need to discuss with professionals.


  • Buddy, given your relatively basic questions and how you’re posting to every single fucking vaguely relared community, I would highly suggest you do some studying on just… basic computer concepts and how to use them. Not sure what resources are out there anymore, but maybe some basic “these are the parts of a computer, these are programs and how they work” stuff from the 90s. They used to do middle school classes on how to properly use google and other seaech engines to find trustworthy information for citing in research papers. I seriously suggest you start there.

    Then, after you understand the basics maybe you start trying to understand how all of that works in regards to security and the concept of trust in the software you install and run.

    Spoiler alert: Computers are not designed with any sort of “zero trust” architecture like you seem to be shocked that they don’t have. Things are not sandboxed, segmented, or otherwise prevented from accessing other stuff as a general rule.

    This is why one of the bare minimum basics is “don’t run anything you don’t trust”.




  • You might have better results working with a doctor and getting perscriptions for the mind altering drugs that assist you.

    Trying to trust your own brain to self assess what works and doesn’t while actively messing with its chemistry it uses to do that assessment… it can work, but it’s definitely choosing to do it on hard mode.



  • Harsh question: Do you have a real need to prevent this data from being collected, or are you investigating just for funsies best practice advice? There are a lot of posts like this where people overestimate the threat model they have and insist on needing to block things that are nearly impossible to, or at least have significant tradeoffs like you are dealing with now.

    Javascript is also not the only source that sites can use for these pieces of info from your machine. Local time in particular can be estimated by looking up the rough location of your IP address then matching to a time zone.


    Anyway.

    I would assume you could technically fork localCDN (replaces remote javascript libraries with local copies) and then manually edit the local javascript library copies to remove the calls you are concerned about.

    There’s also options like uBlock Origin’s methods of only whitelisting specific scripts. Much more flexible than NoScript. You can block scripts that are third party and only allow site specific ones fairly easily, without digging deep into the settings.

    Bear in mind that your specific combination of installed extensions can also be a unique identifier though.












  • So this is your project? Judging from your username here and the test messages shown in your screenshot here and on the Github. Nemesis.

    Brand new lemmy account with only this post on it.

    And the entire Github codebase is made up of a single commit of all the files 2 hours ago as of the time I’m commenting.

    As I’ve said before with similar posts from (I believe) other users/coders: just be up front about if something you’re posting was your weekend project or just something to fill out a portfolio.


  • And you haven’t responded to any of what I wrote, in order to keep pushing the racism angle. You certainly aren’t doing yourself any favors.

    If you can’t see how posting a thread asking people what they do and what they make could be controversial (even without the potential race angle or the “I make a shit ton of money” angle), you must be very insulated from the world.

    Job markets are crap almost universally, definitely in the US and from what I can gather also in Europe. Average yearly wage for the US was significantly less than a third of what you say you make last I checked. Six figures is a major career goal for most people. Just getting above $100k a year is seen as a pretty big accomplishment. And you’re going to strut in claiming 3.5x that and just go “I see no way how this could be construed as anything but an attempt at conversation”?

    To be fair, I’ve personally known people like you in real life. College friend who was the son of a doctor with his own practice, inviting us out to dinner at a place that “wasn’t too expensive”. At the time (2010), $25 a plate was expensive for working adults, let alone college students.


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    There are a lot of new accounts that post weird questions like this to asklemmy, seemingly trying to bait out strong reactions by including some sort of “twist”.

    Relationship questions, but surprise, it’s an islamic marriage with multiple wives!

    Am I the asshole type question about raising children, but surprise, a buried lede that is right on the edge of “is this person abusing their kid, or just a hardass”?

    Is this a reasonable to expect from my spouse, but surprise, it’s an arranged marriage!

    Most of these posts are deleted within 24 hours, strongly suggesting that there is someone using sockpuppet accounts to bait out engagement. Fuck if I have any clue why. There is a distinct pattern that your post falls into.

    I appreciate that the mods are finally doing something about it, just making a comment to remind people to excercise common sense.

    Lemmy has a bit of a schism with some extreme leftist groups practically worshipping the Russian and Chinese government. So your inclusion of it makes this post appear to be another one of those “slightly engaging, but surprise thing that probably shouldn’t be contreversial but sure will be!” posts.

    And even assuming good faith, this is just a humblebrag thread. “Look at how much I make!”







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