The Facebook/Xwitter/Instagram icons are still ubiquitous on far too many web pages, and I really don’t understand why they’re still there. These services have proven time and time and time again to be toxic in so many ways, and don’t even add any sort of value to the organizations that still use them.

Whatever you may think of NPR, when they finally left Xwitter (or were thrown off, I don’t remember) they found that there was a negligible drop off in traffic to their site. Toxic, and not even worth the effort, not for NPR, and I bet for a lot of other organizations as well. Why don’t they wake up?

I remember a while back reading a number of similarly-themed articles whose authors would complain about how they were “trapped” by Facebook/Twitter/Instagram, not realizing, or not even making the effort to realize, that there were already a number of alternatives like Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, and so forth. Every time I read one of these articles (I can search for them if anyone is interested, but I suspect folks on Lemmy have encountered at least one or two in the past), a little voice in my head said "there’s an easy way to solve this . . . " So either people in general just want to have something to complain about, or are just plain stupid. Grrr.

EDIT: One of my favorite uses of uBlock Origin is using it to remove Facebook/Xwitter/Instagram (and sometimes even BlueSky, depends on what mood I’m in) links from webpages that still have them. It does seem like the “f”, the bird/x, and the camera icon thingy are at least less prominently displayed than they used to be, if nothing else.

Iceland, maybe?

To answer my own question, I just learned about the xprop WM_CLASS command. Run in the terminal and then click on the window you’re having trouble pinning.

On the, I guess, “readout” next to WM_CLASS, it should tell you the correct name of the window for the purpose of naming the .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications. In the case of Krokiet the correct name is “linux_krokiet_x86_64.desktop,” not something I would have ever guessed. Then the app will appear on the menu with the name “linux_krokiet_x86_64.desktop,” however, you can then use the menu editor to rename it to your liking, it pins, and then everything is peachy and the world is forever filled with rainbows and light.

Thanks to @Optimal@lemmy.org & @davel@lemmy.ml for these 👍👍

To answer my own question, there’s KashCal, but I’m not sure I want to share my email password with another app . . .

TMA-1.

Switch to LibreWolf?

Wouldn’t it be nice to live in a country you could be proud of?

There’s this, but I tend to think of 60 Minutes as a program to scare old people (older than me! 👴)

I can still get to it; maybe it depends on where you’re trying to access it from?

For better or worse, Trump is in the process of destroying the federal govt. Isn’t he also then kind of degrading its ability to spy on its own citizens?

Anything on lifehacker 🤦

Herzlich willkommen! 🙂🇩🇪

(according to DeepL—hope I got this right!)

That’s a question only Uatu can answer.

I must say that from the Zapruder film, it really does look like he was shot from the front the second (?) time.

Somewhere down the JFK assassination documentary rabbit hole, I remember one commentator saying something like “we’re trying to determine the reality of an event from a series of two-dimensional moving images,” or something along those lines.

Anyway, noodling about this probably isn’t the best use of my time . . .

There’s Dailymotion, though it’s not open source or federated.

Another thing is that Oswald wasn’t just some random hick . . .

Getting into crackpot territory here, but I think the assassination might very well have had some connection to MKULTRA. The CIA destroyed all the files related to this, and so unless they missed some, we’ll probably never know for certain.

Actually, you can use Signal for this, if you have it on both your phone and laptop, and use “note to self.” I prefer this because it’s very straightforward and isn’t bogged down with a lot of extraneous extra features that other notetaking apps I’ve tried tend to have.

😡