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by apecat 7y ago
While it looks frivolous, that's probably some kind of attempt to attract... common people to the news front page. We don't have access to BBC's analytics so it's hard to determine if this technique manages funnel the un
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by apecat 7y ago
Yeah. If your ISP is manned by dipshits, they won't like Tor relays, just because. It's also worth setting up a Tor relay to use a different external ip address. Because VPN/Procy whitelists employed by dumb web firewall prod
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by apecat 7y ago
Yeah. It's a term we've got to live with though: it's too widely used in media. That's why news and public service actors with global ambitions launching onion services is likely a huge net gain in the long run.
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by apecat 7y ago
This is a double-edged sword. I can admit up front that don't have a very flattering view of the most popular British commercial news outlets. But they're popular. So, in a way, if BBC wishes to remain accessible among people who
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by apecat 7y ago
These proxies can appear useful, but I'm just going to drop by here to say that this a particularly bad idea to spread among non-technical people. I've seen these proxies bleed into more problematic Tor use cases among vulnerable
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by apecat 7y ago
You absolutely should use Tor for regular non-logged in browsing if you can bear the slowness. Exit bandwidth is limited, but I'd say being a needle in the haystack of people who actually need the privacy is a net benefit. I'd jus
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by apecat 7y ago
In terms of non-exit Tor relays, it doesn't. In fact, for anyone looking at your traffic, Tor relaying is opaque, unlike legal torrents. As for exits, you'll be dealing with abuse reports from countless parties, including the off-
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by apecat 7y ago
Nah https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-ons-firefox-ios
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by apecat 7y ago
I speak Finnish, and if I'm 'google cancelled my main account'-level pissed, I just might pick a username very much like that for a site I don't really want to be on in the first place. Maybe a cultural thing. So that ar
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by apecat 7y ago
I'm game. What should the monthly price be though? Considering that it needs to make actual money (and the streaming royalties for music are kinda expensive).
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by apecat 7y ago
Sigh, yeah, that's actually a great point. Wonder how many great pairs of ears have been ruined by opening a random youtube tab while Spotify is playing with the quiet normalization mode enabled. And just like the PS4 example, it'
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by apecat 7y ago
Yes! Which is why you won't hear me waste a whole lot of breath yammering about lossy compression. I'd sure pay Spotify extra for lossless, because I'm weird in ways I'll reveal below, but I agree that people should give
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by apecat 7y ago
Please don't underestimate the value of metadata. While it's true that the big platforms dominate web use today, don't forget that the concept of metadata includes when you actively surf on the information superhighway. Tha
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by apecat 7y ago
Looks cool, but feeling slightly twitchy about going anywhere near that with my Google account after last week's news https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21247759
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by apecat 7y ago
Yeah, Grammarly is creepy as hell. I've explicitly banned it (and similar services) at work. As for Youtube music, yup, that's undeniably a good deal. The music services should watch out, especially in younger demographics (I&#x27
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by apecat 7y ago
Yes, on desktop. Harder to achieve with the mobile app. And as it happens, I don't use a desktop OS to play stuff that helps me fall asleep.
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by apecat 7y ago
I normally don’t mind YouTube ads all that much, and I don’t see them on desktop browsers anyway. However, I was bombarded with ads for NordVPN and their crap made me so angry it pretty much sold me a paid YouTube membership. Hard to relax
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by apecat 7y ago
> Much of the web is moving over to https Yes, but US consumer ISPs, to the best of my understanding, still have this nasty habit of tracking and injecting code whenever they feel like it. HTTP is still a thing. Also, if the point is to
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by apecat 7y ago
I find NordVPN's marketing reprehensible. Too many claims and broad strokes about the "anonymity" their service can provide. While I certainly would recommend that US consumers use a VPN router to prevent their ISP from selli
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by apecat 7y ago
This could spice up the next Tame Impala[1] or St. Vincent[2] tours. Mentioning them because both Kevin Parker and Annie Clark tend to be interesting in their guitar engineering, while creating popular, accessible and increasingly synth-dri
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by apecat 7y ago
Mm, I referred to 'fluency' as a sliding scale, which I think is a thing. But anyway, there we probably have it, your vacations as a child. No lifehacks can beat exposure to language at a young age, I guess. SAD. Waiting for the d
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by apecat 7y ago
...or hot potatoes. Anyway, add the Vigesimal system for numbers above 49 and you're really off to the races https://www.kbh-sprogcenter.dk/en/blog/learn-danish-numbers/ For the sake of hilarity, let&#x2
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by apecat 7y ago
Out of curiosity, how did you go about picking up this fluency in Estonian? Are there any good sources of particularly easy Estonian to get started? I'm semi-interested. Granted, I'm also super lazy, but Finnish and Estonian shoul
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by apecat 7y ago
well, you're not wrong
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by apecat 7y ago
What, will you refuse to help me if I call you in deep distress and said that "xcode command line tools is failing to update because of the nginx 503 errors clearly visible in Safari"
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by apecat 7y ago
As a Swedish speaker, I get this deeply rooted feeling of righteous indignation about not understanding spoken Danish. I'm only half-joking. As a Finnish speaker, I don't get that feeling with Estonian. The written form is differe
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by apecat 7y ago
Long-term vise I think this is a dubious solution to "set up and forget", or advise people with few resources or limited Linux skills to use. Mail in a Box makes it seem passably easy to someone with basic skills to get everything
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by apecat 7y ago
Finn here. Finlandization is absolutely a thing, it's even mentioned OP's Fine Article on Finnair Flight 915 ;) National-level Finnish politicians still weigh their statements on matters such as the imperialist endeavors of our be
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by apecat 7y ago
Aand my Mistape is refreshed for this week now.
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by apecat 7y ago
That seems like a dream setup indeed. What can I say, try to get as many people as possible to enjoy it!

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