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Close. hunter2
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I first used Safari on Windows around 2006. Put me off forever. You just need Firefox and the extensions that mean ads are never seen. That said, take a look at https://nextdns.io
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Years ago, working in a group home for people with learning disabilities (irrelevant to this) Charge Nurse gets an anguished phone call early morning, at home, from the female overnight staff. She was terrified that she was haemorrhaging. C
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Pathetic headline. Quote from the article: "He likes to celebrate each win with “just a kebab and a can of Tango, to be honest,” he said, referring to a popular orange soda." So he does not 'live' on them. And he is 16,
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Substack faces user revolt over anti-censorship stance on neo-Nazis(theguardian.com)
32 points by markx2 3y ago|52 comments
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This was my tipping point to cancel Prime which I have had since 2005. Freevee was bad enough, Prime delivery? I can wait. Prime music? Do not use. Books? Easy to find elsewhere. Gaming? I have too many on Steam. Photos? Onedrive + iCloud w
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When I was younger and possessed good eye / hand co-ordination along with a better ability to concentrate I got the Space Shuttle launch ending in one of the Tetris modes. These days? not even close. There were some games - Nebulus on
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Cats Filled the Prison. Then the Inmates Fell in Love(nytimes.com)
2 points by markx2 3y ago|1 comments
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No paywall: https://archive.ph/T4jCE
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Thanks - will look into that.
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Agreed, but which one? As I have said I see no effect on my browsing so I'm happy to just let things lie. Maybe one day I'll find a good in-depth comparison article.
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I have to temp-trust some elements in NoScript, then look in uMatris for the specific items I'll set to green. That probably sounds like a hassle and I get that. But I've been doing it for so long it's the norm. If I need to
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Archive Page Bypass Paywalls Clean CSS Exfil Protection Decentraleyes DDG Privacy Essentials Ghostery NoScript Privacy Badger Privacy-Oriented Origin Policy Stylus Tampermonkey uBlock Origin uMatrix Yes, there is overkill in there but that&
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Firefox user since before it was Firefox. Daily: Firefox with probably too many blockers, tampermonkey, umatrix, Stylus. I aggressively block any and every element on sites I visit regularly. You get no stats from me. Also daily: Firefox De
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My eldest daughter knows her way around cars, and she refuses to buy any car that has any sort of computer in it. She knows how to change this, repair that, fit whatever and is very happy doing that. But she also knows that as a female if s
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I qualified as a nurse - Registered Nurse Mental Handicap - RNMH - here in the UK in 1989. Many of those I cared for needed regular blood tests. Esp those prescribed lithium and other anti-convulsants so that the drug regime was within ther
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Comment Filters and Elections
2 points by markx2 3y ago|0 comments
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https://archive.ph/SCyXk
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He closed a video game shop decades ago. His games could sell for $1M(washingtonpost.com)
12 points by markx2 3y ago|16 comments
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More recent: “KLF Kare is a multinational franchise that provides branding solutions for independently owned care homes.” https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/nov/28/the-klf-care-h...
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"New Zealand, considered by some to be the ideal place to wait out an apocalyptic event, is now riddled with bunkers for the tech elite. Recently reinstalled OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has an arrangement with Peter Thiel, first revealed to
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Ex-Automattic person here. How is it at fault? I have no idea. But hey, it's a WP site, with Jetpack and I'm sure with Automattic's 'shadow site' ability they can diagnose it. They - Automattic - as I have said coul
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Blame WordPress / Jetpack. I am a follower of her site for years, have all her books. What crashed her site I have no idea but it has never been the same since. It's a shame that Automattic - who created Jetpack - never reached ou
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"And my main point is that poverty and privilege are largely accidental. You don’t choose to be born into an income bracket, a country pile, a housing estate, a double barrelled name or a damp tenement bedsit. But ignorance is a choice
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I lent there many times a couple of years ago. I always insisted that I was only paid back what I had lent. I stopped doing this when I was not paid back several times in a row. As a frequent reader what I noticed was that people were repea
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Alkali metals in water – Chemical elements: properties and reactions (2:28) [video](youtube.com)
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Was there ever any doubt about the status of Die Hard?
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> You have to log in on their computer to enable it, and if they play a game from your library you can't play it at the same time (same as with a physical disk). If you are family sharing then you cannot play ANY other game if someo
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https://dudeism.com/takeiteasymanifesto/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dude-Ching-New-Annotated/dp/1539451... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Incomplete-Dudeist-Priests-Handbook... The a
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The scale of the time and money put into Formula 1 tyre development is amazing: "The design process took in more than 10,000 hours of indoor testing, more than 5,000 hours of simulation, and more than 70 prototypes developed virtually,

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