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  • The fingerprint comes from your client.

    So, if you use a browser, it will give away your operating system and quite some stuff more.
    Pretty much every site you visit can do this, learn more about this here:
    https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

    Persistent cookies can track you over different sites, that check for this cookie.
    It’s not like the cookie has a life of its own, but different sites can check for that cookie and then they can report back to a server, so this server knows which sites you’ve accessed.

    If you’re using a client app, like the official Reddit app, on your smartphone, it will have some permissions requested and that will be the data it has access to.
    If it is running always in the background and has access to your location data, it potentially track your real world location.
    If it wants to be linked with your Google/Apple account, it (maybe? (probably depends on the range of access requested)) has access to your real name.

    But else, it can “only” gather data, that will help to identify you again - but this you is only your username.
    Although I’m not sure how Reddit currently handles registrations, and if they now demand some real name.

    But for example with browser fingerprints, they can with some probability identify the device again, but can’t really say who you are - like with a real name.

    But every service you visit in the internet, independent of by browser or app, will see your IP - your numerical internet address, with which your devices communicate with any other device in the internet.
    So, if you access a homepage, the web server will reply to your device by using your IP address, because that’s where the request came from and else it wouldn’t be able to send you the data you requested - like the data (text, images, code) of the homepage you want to access

    The relation between your real name and the IP is known by your internet service provider (ISP) and for example law enforcement can get access to your real name, when they have your IP, but a typical homepage can’t get to that data.

    So they’ll know that you accessed their homepage twice (and maybe some partner Homepages, with which they share this data), but they can’t really say who you are in the real.

    For quite some time private IPs were also dynamic. So with every dial-in you’d get a new IP.
    By now this isn’t the case anymore with my providers and connection types.
    I’m still paying for a (rather) stable IP though, so I can access my server reliably with the same address - but you can also set up a script that updates a domain (like a www/“Internet” address) and you don’t need the IP, just like you can access google.com without knowing the IP of that server

    Ok, that has gotten a bit off of topic, but I hope, it brought you some more understanding how those things work

    If I got your question completely wrong, sorry.
    Maybe I can give you better information, when you clarify where I went wrong
    If someone sees, that I’m providing wrong or outdated information, please correct me :⁠-⁠)





  • Waking up without alarm to go surfing?
    Where the fuck happens that?
    Usually we need to get up at fucking 7 to catch the early good waves and that’s in the single week we can afford to be somewhere at the beach

    And I know, that is already a high level of complaining, but c’mon, you can’t just sleep and go surfing whenever. The sea dictates and that’s part of the experience to feel like the little thing surfing a ball of energy in an unforgiving sea, that doesn’t give a shit about your preferences.

    Do I only go to the wrong places or is this just part of her bullshit?









  • Had the same question, until I’ve read your comment

    For everyone else with the same thought:

    Quick context: Neovim 0.12 (released March 29) ships built-in treesitter support, a native plugin manager, and native LSP completion. The nvim-treesitter maintainer had been rewriting the plugin to require 0.12 - and documented this clearly. Users kept demanding backward compat with 0.11. Maintainer burned out and archived it. The Hacker News thread sided overwhelmingly with the maintainer. Hard to disagree.


  • True that…
    Happens too fucking often as well

    I’m currently hunting a bug that happens like every 1000 iteration of the thing happening.
    Like, I’m telling the hardware to do something and it works pretty much all the time, but over the day, the errors add up
    I have no clue why it happens, but can’t really turn up the debug logs that much, because with so many things happening, I’d produce like a shitload of data.
    But I can’t really narrow it down otherwise

    And it seems we’re in the same kind of shit business ;⁠-⁠)
    Real time processes and automation, with customers having problems at night shift, because the maintenance guys during that shift are usually not as good - or it’s just bad luck

    At one of my last business trips I was already at the airport on my happily way home, when I’ve got call.
    Needed to get my luggage back, new rental car and get a place at the hotel.
    Just to discover, that after 15 years the hardware acted up in a way it never did before.
    At least I could now include a warning message, if this weird situation ever happens again, but that was a tough one to swallow…



  • We seemingly have a different opinion, what we regard as ‘fun’ ;⁠-⁠)

    Stuff that can’t be reproduced and “only” comes up because of some timing issue/race condition is often the most shit to hunt for

    I’m currently in such an adventure - and I thought I had it…but the statistics show, that it only got better, but didn’t catch all of the occurrences…