monopoliessuck

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by monopoliessuck 4y ago
My favorite is the question and answer area where they answer "I don't know".
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by monopoliessuck 4y ago
Agreed, and that's if they review the product at all. Lots of reviewers talk about the delivery, how Amazon Prime bungled the return or even a completely different product; all completely unrelated to the actual features of the product
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by monopoliessuck 4y ago
Right, thanks. Fixed
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by monopoliessuck 4y ago
Oh, of course. You can compare external product numbers, but often these aren't updated when things change. That's not even getting into buying Levi 501's from Kmart will get you an inferior product compared to buying them fr
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by monopoliessuck 4y ago
There are some good reviewers out there yeah. Sadly, they often rely on the creator's passion moreso than getting paid by their audience to provide a service. Youtube ad revenue and Amazon affiliate links are keeping these people'
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by monopoliessuck 4y ago
We really just need a group like ConsumerReports, Labdoor, WireCutter or something that actually digs into the quality and claims of devices. Very few people are going to buy 30 competing options as well as a known good control and compare
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by monopoliessuck 4y ago
It was a slow boiling. Today, there's no way to install an unsigned extension in Firefox at all, you now have to use Developer Edition binaries. For a company that says the end user should be the decider and hold the keys, Mozilla sure
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by monopoliessuck 4y ago
I mean, it's not just Google that does this nor is this an Alphabet invention. This is merely Assimilation 101. The "Chinese patience" towards heterogeneous minority groups and their customs is a commonly referenced one, but
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by monopoliessuck 4y ago
This is great. I encountered a few bugs, but overall this was just fun to use. I particularly liked getting this prompt a few volleys in. The AI decided she was done with speaking Spanish... except, not really. > her (translated): Wow, I
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by monopoliessuck 4y ago
Firefox supports (many) browser extensions.
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by monopoliessuck 4y ago
I've been using this[0] which works with regex patterns. It doesn't work on Firefox mobile, but then neither does OP's extension. 0: https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector
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by monopoliessuck 4y ago
Historically and for most people, pies were baked as a way to stretch foodstuffs. "Sugars" were added to make meat and other ingredients that turn sooner more palatable. Lots of baking before refrigeration was done with an eye tow
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by monopoliessuck 4y ago
There's lots of practical implications to measuring in halfs indefinitely. See my response to the sister comment. Hex exists because binary switches are simple to manufacture and simple to reason about, but we've been halving meas
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by monopoliessuck 4y ago
Sure and I agree with you, except base 16 is binary reducible all the way down which isn't a small thing. The Imperial or US standard systems of measure rounded the horses on halving in an awkward way because halving is intuitive. 1&#x
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by monopoliessuck 4y ago
I use uBlock Origin to block all Javascript by default with custom rules for websites that need it. IMO, articles aren't websites that need an exception, but that's changing more and more every day. I'm definitely not their t
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by monopoliessuck 4y ago
Thanks for the archive.ph tip! That's a pretty neat trick. I'll try that out going forward.
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by monopoliessuck 4y ago
Tangential, but why is it so hard in 2022 to make your simple article load without JavaScript? No reader mode either.
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by monopoliessuck 4y ago
Just install GrapheneOS on your Pixel and call it a day. You'll be better of than anything browser based on iOS, talk about software limitations...
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by monopoliessuck 4y ago
I agree with you, but think 16 would be a better base than 12 as it's binary reducible all the way down. It doesn't have a factor of three, which can be useful, but being able to natively understand and do math in a hex base would
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by monopoliessuck 4y ago
You can do this with uBlockOrigin. It provides a drop down for disabling js per domain. I run with js disabled by default just via uBO alone.
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by monopoliessuck 4y ago
GrapheneOS has "Network" as a permission you can disable per app like any other permission. This is such an obvious and purposeful omission in stock Android's permission model. I see NetGuard was mentioned in a comment, but i
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by monopoliessuck 4y ago
I love your app's fidelity. My main issue with healthcare/nutrition software is always ads, trackers and selling of healthcare data. I'd seen the multi-seat Pro version before that makes promises, but stupidly hadn't not
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by monopoliessuck 4y ago
I use this[0] on fDroid. And there's a fork[1] you can build from source with macros. It's minimal and pulls from the OpenFoodFacts db. No profile and zero mothership. OpenFoodFacts supports barcodes, but it hasn't been imple
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by monopoliessuck 4y ago
> If there were proper protections in place to protect privacy it doesn’t matter whether the violator is a government or commercial enterprise. Legislative privacy protections make it impossible for you to sign certain things away contra
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by monopoliessuck 4y ago
I realize this. I'm not saying I avoid the bot net completely -- no one does and it's only getting harder to do so. This is a result of people I know installing LinkedIn on their phones with my number in their contacts. It's
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by monopoliessuck 4y ago
People don't have a choice about giving information to governments. There's a fourth amendment for a reason so I'm obviously anti dragnet. Private parties though may opt into providing anything legal to other private parties
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by monopoliessuck 4y ago
Perfectly? There's no "download video" button on Firefox, but there is one on Chrome. Looks like the minified source is checking the userAgent in a few spots. I don't know if that's genuinely an issue with Firefox&#
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by monopoliessuck 4y ago
That's up to the individual. I mean if you exclusively buy Jif peanut butter are you "boycotting" Skippy? For me, there are just better options with better track records and less drama -- like it's not even a contest. Ta
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by monopoliessuck 4y ago
It's not just an "open-source dev team". They're maintaining a distribution. They've decided to manage their own packages in parallel to upstream and provide a user-script install helper they expect you to use. Conv
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by monopoliessuck 4y ago
I was burned pretty hard by Purism and no longer trust the company. Pine64 though I loved. I have an original PinePhone, the postmarketOs community edition unironically. I have been cheering Pine64 for a long time since, from the outside, t

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