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by pwg 4y ago
With uBlock Origin in default "deny all javascript" mode I was able to read the whole article and did not see a single ad.
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by pwg 4y ago
Cookies first appeared in Netscape on Oct 13, 1994 [1]. In 1994 the 'web' was a very different place and the current environment of web tracking and invasive advertising companies simply did not exist. And no one saw the privacy
903.
by pwg 4y ago
Just use yt-dlp ( https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp ) and enjoy a, mostly, ad-free experience. Mostly because downloading the video can't remove ads the creators inserted into their footage before they uploaded to y
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by pwg 4y ago
At least eternal-september and nntp.aioe.org are free access -- but both have text only newsgroups, no binaries groups.
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by pwg 4y ago
When you boot into single user mode, all your normally mounted disks, other than /, are not mounted. The reason it is on / is so it is always available when / is mounted, and also available when / is the only disk mounte
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by pwg 4y ago
On most Linux distributions it is the home directory of the superuser (the one also named "root" in most instances). The reason given for why it is in / instead of /home/ is so the root user has a home directory eve
907.
by pwg 4y ago
Or average Joe Teenager installs a Linux distribution, which then provides bash, perl, awk, Python, C, C++, often Tcl/Tk, etc. and usually includes one or more editors for creating source files. All without "pull[ing] in hundreds
908.
by pwg 4y ago
Presently using F-Droid on an Android without root -- it works just fine without root.
909.
by pwg 4y ago
The page at the link that @onphonenow provided details numerous ways, written into California law, that a pedestrian may not always have the right of way.
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by pwg 4y ago
The cookie banners are not present to ask to set cookies, the GDPR allows for "necessary" cookies. What the banners are for is that the GDPR requires permission to set tracking (advertiser) cookies, not that any banner text actual
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by pwg 4y ago
Personally I don't know, as I use K-9 Mail from F-Droid. But from the viewpoint of an advertising company, keeping the option open to insert ads, even if they may not be doing so at this time, is in their best interests.
912.
by pwg 4y ago
> Why would google care about the email client people use. Because the "client" is where advertising can be most easily inserted to monetize that user.
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by pwg 4y ago
Running uBlockOrigin in default deny all javascript and I got to read the article with zero ads.
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by pwg 4y ago
> I have an alternative approach that I discovered recently while building a microscope with a webcam driven by linux. Do you have a web page somewhere describing your linux webcam microscope?
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by pwg 4y ago
With a Kill A Watt (or similar, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_A_Watt ) meter, you don't have to estimate power usage, you can measure the actual power usage.
916.
by pwg 4y ago
Another idea would be to contact the Computer History Museum and see if they want a donation: https://computerhistory.org/
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by pwg 4y ago
This seems to be an artifact of OS's that also decide that "window on top must have keyboard focus" (i.e., MSWin is very bad in this regard). Because the pop-up dialog must be "on top" to be a pop-up, the OS&#x27
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by pwg 4y ago
rm -rf /path/to/delete/ * Note the space between the last / and the * This will recursively remove the directory /path/to/delete and remove every file/directory that matches * in the cur
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by pwg 5y ago
Binance is blocking usage of Binance to exchange cryptocurrency for other assets. Note this part: "Binance blocked the account of the Kremlin spokesman’s daughter when she tried to use the exchange" "blocked the account"
920.
by pwg 5y ago
You certainly /can/ self host. I've been self hosting my own email since circa 1999 on my home internet link. I've been through four different ISP's in the ensuing 22 years, but email still flows. What often happe
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Bitcoin mining devastated this New York town(technologyreview.com)
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by pwg 5y ago
Also, if you set your namespace path like so: namespace path {::tcl::mathop ::tcl::mathfunc} Then you get very LISP like math operators % set x [+ 2 3 [- 5 20]] -10 and math functions % set x [abs -12] 12
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by pwg 5y ago
ublocking the ads is not always effective - downloading the video is always effective unless the creator stuffed their own ad into the video before uploading. You can also watch it in a proper player that gives you more control over playbac
924.
by pwg 5y ago
Want to watch, without an unskippable commercial or two in front, and without commercials in the middle interrupting the video? yt-dl.
925.
by pwg 5y ago
Overlaps with libmicrohttpd: https://www.gnu.org/software/libmicrohttpd/
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by pwg 5y ago
> How do you manage to get around that if you must? Use an older crypto library or an older browser version from when that crypto was supported.
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by pwg 5y ago
> it's pure the guy with the more money wins From the seller's viewpoint, this is exactly the intended result. Get the highest possible price -- which equates directly to "guy with more money wins".
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by pwg 5y ago
> What prevents someone from securing the system by putting a limit on the number of login attempts Because, as I stated in another comment in this thread: That is not how passwords are cracked in today's environment. In today'
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by pwg 5y ago
That is now how passwords are cracked in today's environment. In today's environment, someone obtains (via hacking or bribes) the internal password hash list, and then runs the list through a system such as this one: https:/
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by pwg 5y ago
> why does compressibility matter in terms of password security? It does not. The amount to which it can be compressed is a proxy for internal redundancy. And a 'password' with a lot of internal redundancy is easier to genera

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