akalsz

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by akalsz 6y ago
Yes, and it's absolutely solvable by bots (there's even a browser plugin for it[1]) so it isn't available if Google decides you are one. But it does work if you aren't that suspicious, so most of the time it should let b
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by akalsz 6y ago
> reCAPTCHA > anonymous Pick one. reCAPTCHA is based on tracking users in countless unknown ways, which is why it's basically unusable with any kind of known proxy (i.e. Google usually classifies Tor users or users from 3rd world
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by akalsz 6y ago
I do suggest Wine, actually. I've just ran Sekaiju with it and it happily played a random MIDI file I selected after changing the output port in settings to TiMidity++ (the first dropdown list in Setup->MIDI device and instrument-&g
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by akalsz 6y ago
> This company is the absolute height of hypocrisy, hubris and deception. Welcome to surveillance capitalism. "We are watching you" doesn't sell as well as "We are connecting people".
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by akalsz 6y ago
Your proprietary code analogy is incredibly weird. Why would anyone need gofyourself-dl to download your container code? And what does Google have to do with the creation of youtube-dl, which is used to download stuff hosted on Google'
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by akalsz 6y ago
An alternative: https://github.com/soimort/you-get
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by akalsz 6y ago
Lynx is great, but I personally prefer w3m[1]. Of course it's still quite limited without css/js, but it renders websites way nicer (with shiny html features like frames, tables, etc.), and even supports displaying images. With th
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by akalsz 6y ago
> But we should be honest about the shortcomings. Desktop Linux is not secure and you only have privacy if you trust all of your applications. No operating system is secure when it comes to installing untrusted applications. The strength
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by akalsz 6y ago
> You can block requests to Google Analytics, but blocking requests to Cloudflare essentially means blocking the Internet. Checkmate content blockers ;-) You can still mostly evade their tracking: they're intentionally letting the T
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by akalsz 6y ago
> Yet compared to many other large companies, Cloudflare has been a company with at least a respectable reputation and track record. Has it? See the following page (which also contains complaints about unsolicited e-mail, among others):