mcovey

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by mcovey 9y ago
Infrastructure support is not there yet either, which is kind of a political issue as well, but also a future need.
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by mcovey 9y ago
Might as well, it's basically useless. Very few sites support it, major ad networks instead have an opt out [1] that nobody knows about and if you block 3rd party cookies, isn't relevant anyway. Blocking trackers remains the end u
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by mcovey 9y ago
I searched "jobs near me" in Firefox and saw nothing special. Apparently it only works in Chrome based browsers. Even if I paste the URL of the special jobs result page back into Firefox, I get redirected back to a standard Google
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by mcovey 9y ago
I have to keep reminding myself that I don't need to jump onto every bandwagon. When I feel like some part of my workflow is too outdated or too broken, only then is it time to learn something new. I read about Vue and React, but I sti
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by mcovey 10y ago
I've never found one place to keep everything, so it goes into many different places. The only thing I need to remember is where everything is, which is a significantly shorter list than what everything is. I mainly use Fastmail.com, P
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by mcovey 11y ago
I love Pinboard, it's been the right thing the whole time, with no uncomfortable changes or redesigns. The few extra features I want, I've added myself with userscripts and userstyles, and my own massively customized bookmarklet.
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by mcovey 11y ago
I am sick of Bill. We need to vote him out of office.
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by mcovey 12y ago
I thought I was pretty clever when I figured out I could "block" calls to my dumbphone by adding a contact prefixed with "zzz" and setting their ringtone to a silent audio clip I recorded. I wonder if there's an And
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by mcovey 12y ago
>Also, many people are more idealistic in their youth - before they have families, careers etc and before putting food on the table becomes a bigger priority. That is why it is easier to protest as a college student, than as a 40 year ol
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by mcovey 12y ago
I'm not sure how this will bode for my own extension, which I maintain for my own private use to do whatever comes to mind, like redirecting certain pages, applying userscripts and css files, and some other customization. Also I wouldn
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by mcovey 12y ago
I'm also a RefControl user, I've blacklisted only about 15 sites. I'm surprised how little the Referer header matters these days. Of course it should never matter at all, it's so easy to spoof.
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by mcovey 12y ago
Check out Policeman: https://github.com/futpib/policeman It's similar to uMatrix and is under very active development.
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by mcovey 12y ago
I've always had good enough results just using "vim <(man -Pcat man)"
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by mcovey 12y ago
They're hidden behind an about:config flag - media.mediasource.enabled The latest version of developer edition/aurora just enabled them by default, so version 36. They may be only ~12 weeks away from becoming default in the stable
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by mcovey 12y ago
RMS has said he doesn't mind using ATMs that use non-free software because he can't be responsible for what other people run on their devices. If we consider the website a service, where the javascript runtime is isolated to the w
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by mcovey 12y ago
I get that it's just republishing stuff that's already available via RSS, but an RSS feed for the site itself would be nice to have.
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by mcovey 12y ago
I've noticed that I get the house numbers when I leave 3rd party cookies enabled, and a much harder, often impossible captcha when they're disabled. Since leaving them off doesn't break much else, I do, and just fill out the
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by mcovey 12y ago
Tracfones are subsidized though, they give them away for almost nothing because people buy minutes for them, and they're almost useless without minutes unless you just want it to call 911.
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by mcovey 12y ago
It is! And I wish more sites would make it accessible like it used to be by just going to m.domain.tld rather than user-agent sniffing, because I often prefer the simpler mobile version I get when I spoof my user agent from the desktop.
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by mcovey 12y ago
TBB is just a repackaged Firefox, I don't think they make any changes or patches to the actual browser code like that.
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by mcovey 12y ago
Or even easier than maintaining such a database, just allow users to whitelist certain locations they frequent, with a training mode to easily set it up: start recording, go about a normal day, stop recording and save.
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by mcovey 12y ago
> considering the "fire-hose" nature of typical RSS feeds, there needs to be an intelligent layer that sits between it and the user for it to be useful. I have to disagree with that, I enjoy my RSS feeds uncensored, if a feed h
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by mcovey 12y ago
I think they have to break the laws in order to have standing to challenge them.
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by mcovey 12y ago
It really does get quite amusing when you see "oh, two blocked scripts and one looks like their CDN, no problem" and temporarily enable them. Then the page reloads and 13 more scripts are blocked, so you make some reasonable guess
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by mcovey 12y ago
>but what if a government is elected that decides that reproductive rights, equal pay, race equality, pot legalization etc. are an issue...Are you still ok with back doors? To statists, the state is infallible. If race inequality is the
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by mcovey 12y ago
that's an interesting one. I usually use a single quotation mark when searching a URL since Google doesn't interpret it as "verbatim" anymore and seems to just discard it.
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by mcovey 12y ago
"Hive is the first free unlimited cloud service in the world." Sure it is.
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by mcovey 12y ago
You can find most clothing produced in the US so at least you're mostly guaranteed that the workers were at or above minimum US labor standards. And chances are any cotton/wool are of domestic origin as well.
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by mcovey 12y ago
In French some adjectives come after the noun, some come before, and even though my French is not that great, I know enough for some reason to have that gut feeling that "le grand rouge <noun>" sounds weird, and it should be
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by mcovey 12y ago
I bought a Netgear wifi-to-ethernet adapter when I switched to Linux. For desktops, it's an ideal solution: zero-maintenance, the computer just knows eth0 has a connection from somewhere. It has a web interface to set up connections. T

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