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by coldpie 1y ago
I mean sure I guess, do whatever you want. I will always have uBo installed and I prefer to have less software on my machine (fewer things to go wrong), so uBo's list plus Firefox's protections is good enough for me. > if it tu
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by coldpie 1y ago
You think these websites give a shit about your privacy because you clicked on a div with a "No" in it? Not a chance. It's like asking thieves to promise not to steal from you. Protecting users is the browser's job: htt
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by coldpie 1y ago
Thank you. Sounds like the search results are not actually much better on Kagi, but the features around search such as blocking domains is where you find the value. That would explain why I didn't see much of a difference when I tried
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by coldpie 1y ago
Use a better browser: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
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by coldpie 1y ago
Could you give some examples of specific queries (like, tell me exactly what to type into the search bar) where you find Kagi returns better results than Google or DDG? I tried Kagi a couple times and didn't notice a significant diffe
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by coldpie 1y ago
uBlock Origin already has this. Enable the "Cookie notices" and "Annoyances" filters in uBlock Origin's settings. Bonus pro-tip: Firefox for Android supports uBlock Origin, which means you can get rid of these godaw
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by coldpie 1y ago
In what scenarios would I need to know the answers to those questions?
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by coldpie 1y ago
> There is a temptation to just turn the rules off Definitely, though I have seen other solutions, like inserting non-printable characters in the problematic strings (e.g. "/etc/ho<b></b>sts" or whate
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by coldpie 1y ago
In my state (Minnesota), there is no free online filing for state income tax. You either pay for one of the online filing softwares, or print the sucker out and mail it in. I choose the latter :)
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by coldpie 1y ago
> would be a massive improvement This is where we disagree. It would be a small improvement at best. Most of what you're pointing out are the awkward corner cases that just don't come up or, like you said, we already have other
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by coldpie 1y ago
Yeah, every system has pros & cons. I think the lack of an approximately-one-foot (30 cm) unit in metric is clumsy to work around, and I think degrees-C are too wide. We can argue about the details if you find it fun ("yards in a m
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by coldpie 1y ago
The Something Awful forums.
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by coldpie 1y ago
That would also be reasonable, sure. Triple the cost though!
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by coldpie 1y ago
The trouble is there is just very little gain. It really just doesn't matter. All the systems are fine, they all work. If you come live here, you'll adjust after 2 years. If I moved to Europe, I would adjust in 2 years. Once in a
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by coldpie 1y ago
> Perhaps the FSF got confused about which license the author was referring to When no version is specified in the request, returning the latest version seems like a reasonable thing to do.
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by coldpie 1y ago
Definitely, and architectures back then were far less standardized. The Xbox 360 was a big-endian PowerPC CPU, the PS2 had a custom RISC-based CPU. On the desktop, this was still the era of PowerPC-based Macs. Far easier (and I would argue
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by coldpie 2y ago
Honestly? I just drive over to Best Buy now. Yeah it costs a few bucks more and I have to leave the house (this is actually a good thing), but I can be certain that the box on the shelf that says "surge protector" is actually a su
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by coldpie 2y ago
As far as I know, CodeWeavers was not involved in that project: > We did not work with Apple on this tool https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/mjohnson/2023/6/6/wine-come...
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by coldpie 2y ago
> I was so excited about the Vision and desperate to get one. Finally my company has bought one for testing and I’m honestly not sure what to even use it for. This is the VR experience, yup :)
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by coldpie 2y ago
The Retronauts podcast recently had an excellent episode about type-in computer games, and modern efforts to preserve them: https://retronauts.com/article/2367/retronauts-episode-677-t...
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by coldpie 2y ago
The hesitance around that time to prosecute political leaders who were obviously breaking the law is, I think, a big part of what lead to our current era of political leaders who are now, in effect, entirely above the law. James Clapper&#x
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by coldpie 2y ago
Yeah, I said I was stupid. What's their excuse? :)
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by coldpie 2y ago
My experience talking to big corp IP lawyers is they have a set of policies ("open source bad; protecting our IP good") and will make up any justification to support those policies, even if their justifications are plainly incorre
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by coldpie 2y ago
Agreed. I think one of the big problems with current social media is that they are person-focused instead of topic-focused. This is backwards. This means if I want to follow a cool woodworker because I like their woodworking, I also see the
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by coldpie 2y ago
Eh, just use the (L/A)GPL. It's already well understood and established; humans and well-meaning businesses can use the software ethically; corps won't use it even though they could because their intellectual property lawyers
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by coldpie 2y ago
> My sense is that Twitter’s fall was an opportunity for a lot of people to just drop out. Yeah, that was the case for me. I used Twitter quite a bit from about 2012 through 2020, but I was already phasing it out when the takeover happen
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by coldpie 2y ago
Install an ad blocker, friend!
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by coldpie 2y ago
Thanks, the two sentences you quoted are way more relevant to the problem than the entire Guardian article. I'd be interested to see the peer reviewed studies backing up the numbers proposed in the linked Act. I didn't see a study
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by coldpie 2y ago
Yeah, you're on the right track now. What you need to do next is provide evidence for your arguments: > there is a ton of exposure that constitutes inappropriate risk Like what? What are the harms that are caused by the too high lev
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by coldpie 2y ago
Agreed. My point is this study & this article are not making the case for the policy change that the authors desire.

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