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I don't think I've found amazing things recently. Things worth using and things better than the alternative and things that are promising to maybe one day be great, yes.

But I'll single out one little thing: dust. https://github.com/bootandy/dust

Dust is meant to give you an instant overview of which directories are using disk space without requiring sort or head. Dust will print a maximum of one 'Did not have permissions message'.

Dust will list a slightly-less-than-the-terminal-height number of the biggest subdirectories or files and will smartly recurse down the tree to find the larger ones. There is no need for a '-d' flag or a '-h' flag. The largest subdirectories will be colored.

It's like a killer combination of du and sort oneliners that actually shows me what I want to know: What's the big stuff in this dir.

What is your favourite open source software that you discovered in the past year, that you can no longer live without? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Depends on the machine and.. maybe other things. I used to think that, too, but on my current machines I can step backwards just fine.

It's probably a much more intensive operation requiring processing a lot of the file from before and throwing away current buffers or something.

There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. in c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

It was not. 30 years ago, it would have been very good, though, as a lot of media was still SD.

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Cyanide & Happiness: Redditor (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 month ago by XTL@sopuli.xyz to c/reddit@lemmy.world

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https://explosm.net/comics/reddit#comic

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Microsoft violates children’s privacy – but blames your local school (noyb.eu)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by XTL@sopuli.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ca

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GDPR rights are being ignored. In practice, this leads to a situation where Microsoft is trying to contractually dump most of its legal responsibilities under the GDPR on schools that provide Microsoft 365 Education services to their pupils or students.

Trying to find out exactly what privacy policies or documents apply to the use of Microsoft 365 Education is an expedition in itself. There is a serious lack of transparency, forcing users and schools to navigate a maze of privacy policies, documents, terms and contracts that all seem to apply. The information provided in these documents is always slightly different, but consistently vague about what actually happens to children’s data when they use Microsoft 365 Education services.

Maartje de Graaf, data protection lawyer at noyb: “Microsoft provides such vague information that even a qualified lawyer can’t fully understand how the company processes personal data in Microsoft 365 Education. It is almost impossible for children or their parents to uncover the extent of Microsoft’s data collection.”

Felix Mikolasch, data protection lawyer at noyb: “Our analysis of the data flows is very worrying. Microsoft 365 Education appears to track users regardless of their age. This practice is likely to affect hundreds of thousands of pupils and students in the EU and EEA. Authorities should finally step up and effectively enforce the rights of minors.”

As the terms and conditions and the privacy documentation of Microsoft 365 Education are uniform for the EU/EEA, all children living in these countries are exposed to the same violations of their GDPR rights. Therefore, noyb also suggests that the authority should impose a fine on Microsoft.

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Thagomizer (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 5 months ago by XTL@sopuli.xyz to c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer