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  • It’s interesting to me because while it’s mostly correct in each instance I tried it (phone, desktop) it actually gets some pertinent information incorrect.

    For one, it only recognized the one monitor I had the browser open on, I have four monitors, so it got the resolution correct for a single monitor, but fails to capture the others, and so technically if I opened it on a different monitor with a different resolution (I had two that have different resolutions), that aspect of the fingerprint should change.

    Secondly, when I went to this link from my cell phone it registered it as me typing the link in by hand while on PC it correctly registered where the link originated from (here on lemmy). Although I was using Jerboa on Android so perhaps it can’t read link origin from Jerboa (which is good).

    Finally, it registers my Wayland session as X11, although I’m not sure if that’s a current limitation of browsers since Wayland isn’t the dominant compositor yet and perhaps hasn’t been added to browser user-agent info yet.



  • This is the only reference I can find to said connection anywhere, so I’d put this squarely in the rumor category. Further, none of the names in Mambo No. 5 match the names any of Clinton’s accusers, only Monica.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20000815061133/http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/08/14/convention.music/index.html

    Tuning out Monica

    Lyrics turned out to be a problem in choosing the convention theme song. Convention producers had selected Lou Bega’s “Mambo No. 5” because it was up-tempo and popular, like “The Macarena,” the Democrats’ convention theme in 1996.

    But the chorus of “Mambo No. 5” refers to a girl named Monica.

    Convention planners initially thought they could just rewrite the lyric, but late on the eve of the convention, they re-thought the whole idea.

    “That’s out now,” said Wheeler, whose orchestra rehearsed the song. “That will not be played at all.”

    Convention producers are now looking for another song - one just as catchy, but without a catch - that will rally the party faithful, inspire the crowd and get the campaign off on the right note.