JoshMnem

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by JoshMnem 9y ago
> the majority of users doesn't care about this Only because they don't know what is going on.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Try umatrix. https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Like Android.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
The net effect is possibly negative. Here is some reading: https://news.utexas.edu/2017/06/26/the-mere-presence-of-your... https://www.wired.com/story/our-minds-have-been-hijacked-by-...
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
I agree that large-scale machine learning is a bigger risk, but there are people who personally creep around in others' personal data.[1] Also, it doesn't need to be just a few people looking at your private data. One early wors
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
I don't know much about it, but Mozilla is working on this: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/29/announcing-the-init...
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
> having nothing to hide Everyone has things to hide when malicious people control the machine. Even with companies who you might view as benevolent, you don't know who will control those companies in the future. > ...understandi
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
I'm still baffled why anyone would put those voice-activated devices in their houses. Smartphones are bad enough, and I'm hoping to get rid of mine soon.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Safari is the worst by default. I don't have any Apple devices, but when I look at screenshots of Safari's URLs, they are not full URLs. Also, it looks like you can't show the full URLs on iPads or iPhones. (You can on Firefo
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
> this assumes we burn stupid shit browsers that look to mangle URL bar by removing data from it That's just about every browser now. I think that full URLs are only available in Firefox, and only if you set `browser.urlbar.trimURLs
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
It looks like there is an 8 second delay in the style element with the attribute `amp-boilerplate` that makes AMP pages extremely slow when 3rd party JavaScript is blocked (as it should be by default).
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Are you loading that in a browser? My browser reports 12 requests and 1.06 seconds for your first link, but it doesn't render anything for about 8 seconds. Clarification: block the JS files from loading from the CDN, like it's don
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
I wish people would stop linking to AMP pages. They take about 8 seconds to load on non-mobile browsers with JS turned off.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Your brain. If you offload too many tasks to computers, those skills will weaken.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
> If you misconfigure the mail will be retried for about 4 days That's a good point that I didn't think of. Maybe I'll tinker with it when I have a little free time. I would also like to learn how to use Mutt.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
That sounds great. I don't think I would have the extra time required to learn how to do it though. Also, if I lose emails during the learning process, it could be a disaster.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
It's a good idea, but I don't think that it will stop being influenced by ads. Human behavior is contagious, and advertisers know that. That's why actors in commercials pretend to be just another person like the viewer while
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
> It’s astounding when people think that advertising doesn’t affect them. I know that advertising affects me. That's one of the reasons why I block ads at every opportunity.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Do you run your own mail server? I'm not opposed to the idea of trying it, but it seems like it would require a lot of work, and the potential for losing critical emails would be higher. It definitely sounds fun though.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
That looks like fun, but also like it requires running your own mail server. :) I use Thunderbird filters to sort incoming emails, but it's still out of control. In 1995 there wasn't this kind of email overload.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
I don't think that mailing lists work well any more. I've tried to subscribe to some, but they get buried in my inbox, and I'm so tired of emails by the time I get to the list messages that I usually just highlight them all a
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
I think that most ads aren't leading people who desire a product to that product -- they are creating desire for products that people don't really need. Most of the ads I see at the moment are on YouTube/Gmail and they are fo
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
It's on desktop websites too, like YouTube (add to watchlist), and the delays are longer than 200 ms.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Try to load an AMP page with JavaScript turned off. It can take many seconds, and there is no loading indicator.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
Saving 10% on a keyboard on a very rare occasion isn't worth the dangers of advertising (privacy, malware, brainwashing).
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
I'm never thinking about buying anything that I see in an ad. I don't own much more in life other than some books, my computers, and a few clothes. I prefer to take my own initiative on what I buy, and the less I buy, the better.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
> People mostly install adblockers to block really annoying ads.* Many people use ad blockers because they want to block all ads. There are many reasons to block them, including malware, privacy, and brainwashing. If ads works to manip
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
That is one thing I dislike about sites that show no loading bar. On a slow connection it's impossible to tell if the page is still loading or already failed. It's also one of the irritating things about "Material Design&quot
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
All calendar calculation is done with techniques and/or memorization. All pi memorization is done with mnemonic techniques. I've been in that scene for 7+ years and have never seen a credible exception.
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by JoshMnem 9y ago
I'm not sure who is repeatedly downvoting my comment above. If you want to see what kind of (supernatural) evidence Treffert uses for his claims, you should read the linked article very carefully and also read his book, Extraordinary P

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