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Contra Chrome, a comic about Google Chrome(contrachrome.com)
19 points by bigbugbag 4y ago|7 comments
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by bigbugbag 5y ago
considering it sends your unique ID (or download token) during installation, when you disable settings after installation, it's already too late. it seems there's actually a way to turn it off before installation using enterprise
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by bigbugbag 5y ago
I tried that, and it is a time consuming and tedious process which I eventually failed.
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by bigbugbag 5y ago
this: https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/brave.html this: https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/blob/master/app/trac... also this: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by bigbugbag 5y ago
I've been using librewolf for a while after experiencing issue with waterfox. it is not really a full fork of firefox, it's firefox with a few patches applied and sane default configuration.
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by bigbugbag 5y ago
waterfox and librewolf. then otter, seamonkey, falkon, k-meleon, srware iron, qutebrowser, comodo dragon and comodo icedragon, dooble, midori, epic. not sure if maxthon and Avant Browser are still a thing
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by bigbugbag 5y ago
ever heard of waterfox or librewolf ?
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by bigbugbag 5y ago
a browser who does not develop their own code base but reuse google's, with a business model based on monetizing users attention to ads network while pretending to protect privacy and block ads. I wonder what could go wrong here ? mayb
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by bigbugbag 5y ago
Modern firefox is called librewolf or waterfox. It respects privacy and works quite well (Actually much better than chrome based browser on my machine). Mozilla management seems to be the issue, not firefox itself.
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by bigbugbag 5y ago
The list of things you have to toggle in about:config to have sane defaults is mindboggling and librewolf offers this out of the box. And instead of the bad UX about:config page, every tweak is in a configuration text file and you can easil
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by bigbugbag 5y ago
Have you heard of freetube[1] ? I find the experience way better than vanilla youtube in a browser. It allows to remove all youtube annonyances (autoplay, comments, suggestions, ads, in video ads, and more) and tweak a number of things. Onl
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by bigbugbag 5y ago
Came here to state the same, for a few years my firefox fix was to use waterfox[1] instead of firefox. And now my best firefox fix is to use librewolf[2] instead of waterfox instead of firefox. I had enough of mozilla treating me and my bus
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by bigbugbag 5y ago
Turns out the same recently surfaced for French fusion experimental reactor ITER. https://reporterre.net/Stress-peur-pression-le-difficile-quo...
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by bigbugbag 5y ago
From I understand, China's foray in EPR was simply a move to leech the technology from France to improve their own ability to build nuclear plants. A few people were vocal about this before it happened, and things did not go well for t
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by bigbugbag 5y ago
What I find incredible is that this reactor is going online at all. Okiluoto started in 2003 and was supposed to cost 3 Bns and be ready in 2009. it took 18 years instead of 6 and total cost is difficult to know exactly but is over 12 Bns i
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by bigbugbag 5y ago
also France stopped 13+ nuclear reactors mid-winter which really did not help. But defects were found that would jeopardize the current evaluation to renew the certification for using them for 10 more years, so the decision was made to stop
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by bigbugbag 5y ago
Actually, no. The only climate compatible way is not an alternative on demande source of energy, but the other way around: adapt our energy consumption to its availability and significantly lower our energy use. (see this 2009 piece by low
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by bigbugbag 5y ago
Not so sure: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30657725 Also we already have a similar level of wrongdoings with the French EPRs.
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by bigbugbag 5y ago
We've seen similar scandals for EPRs in Flamanville and Okiluoto, forged document to fake certification of vital components of the plants, unqualified workers, lack of planning, lot of outsourcing,… it should be documented on the relev
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by bigbugbag 5y ago
THe current report on Areva ability to build plants has been the object of a public statement by Bernard Doroszczuk, head of ASN (nuclear safety atuhtority) in newspaper Le Monde[1] He basically says that France is currently or close to be
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by bigbugbag 5y ago
Taishan 1 has been shut down last summer due to what seems to be a design fault and may not be restarted. It is feared that all other current EPR suffer the same design mistake, but there are currently no plan to stop them.
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by bigbugbag 5y ago
Could have used a better and more descriptive title. https://gdpr-txt.org/ is a proposed standard to help hosting providers with GDPR compliance by providing detail on the data collected by softwares.
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by bigbugbag 5y ago
This might be of interest for people posting on youtube and wondering about peertube: PeerTube Guide for YouTubers Made Easy https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2020/05/peertube-guide-for-youtub...
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by bigbugbag 5y ago
Not sure what you criteria for "real community" is, but AFAIK there are already communities using this technology. The micro-payment as opposed to ads model already exists on third party services such as utip, tipee, onlyfans, etc
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by bigbugbag 5y ago
Youtube is such a platform, odysee and that sort of things are, peertube is not. Peertube is the free software anyone can use to host video content in a decentralized and federated manner. It's akin to what the personal blogs were on t
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Second data wiper attack hits Ukraine computer networks(therecord.media)
4 points by bigbugbag 5y ago|0 comments
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by bigbugbag 6y ago
I'm not surprised. Online reputation is making and breaking, shaping people and businesses. This kind of behaviour is rampant, you even have individual resorting to harassment of people who disagree or said something they don't li
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by bigbugbag 6y ago
Facebook has not changed a bit, it was a glorified birthday reminder capturing as much personal data as possible and it still is. Well except maybe that at some point it started to aim at replacing the internet on order to keep the investo
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by bigbugbag 6y ago
Facebook is entirely designed around this, being used by facebook without falling to this would mean an incredible mental load and fatigue that would take a toll on your ability to properly function through the day. getting rid of facebook
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by bigbugbag 6y ago
The fun part is that whatsapp is actually preventing people like from communicating with friends and family. My phone happens to a smartphone that's not running windows/apple/google so whatsapp never bother to release for thi

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