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by r3bl 8y ago
AdNauseum[0] hides all the ads from you, but clicks them in the background to increase noise ratio. As you might assume, it's not available in the Chrome's extension store. I've used a similar add-on for Google search (the ad
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You'd be absolutely right. Here are two statements for comparison . They're similar in context: both were published after a major crisis, during the pressure from the legislators, but before they actually talked to the lawmakers:
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> I need my phone to just work. I love the Linux desktop, but I just don't see how they can get a new mobile platform able to compete with iOS or Android. Who says they need to compete with them at all? This isn't a big company
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It was moved from January 2019 (in the original kickstarter), to April, to Q2, and now finally to Q3. That's a quite significant delay, but I personally don't mind as long as the final product arrives by the end of the year.
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Yes, movies and TV shows with children under 13 are widely-accepted, but being widely-accepted doesn't mean it's morally alright. There might be a time in which we reject such content just as we did with prior widely-accepted beha
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> Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't YouTube require you to be at least 13? You need to be over 13 (or above, depending on the country) to create an account. There's no limit on the content itself. In my opinion, t
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We'd need either 13 countries or any number of countries that represents 35% of the EU population to oppose this law. Last time, it was 8 countries representing 27% that opposed it. A handy voting calculator[0] gives us about 23.88% of
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...no? You create a virtual "VPN" that filters out traffic based on hostnames. DNS requests that are not on the blacklist get forwarded to your DNS of choice. Other adblockers for non-rooted Android (like NetGuard) work in the sam
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In an ideal case, no. In a not-so-ideal case, one with the push access could theoretically replace any package on your system with a malicious version that you would pick up automatically using apt upgrade . I'd trust PPAs more if the
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A stupid workaround I use: I copy-paste some sentence from a book into my note taking app, and search for that same text on my other device. Note-taking is easier to sync than reading positions themselves. Calibre saves the reading position
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This video was incredibly disturbing . I could not sit through in one go. The ease of ending up in that wormhole is fucking disgusting to me, but it is also precisely what happens when the algorithm's ultimate goal is "max consum
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Only if both the company and the registry give enough of a shit. For example, microsoft.ba has been sqatted since 2006. Despite Microsoft having a presence in the country, they still can't get .ba thanks to an incompetent registry in c
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So does setting up Let's Encrypt + automating the renewal, and you don't have to spend a dollar in those 5 minutes.
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A company owning whitehouse.com and a government entity owning whitehouse.gov? I'd call that working as intended.
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Scroll to the footer and you'll see that this is Ghostery's website. I wouldn't really call promoting their own product on their own webpage an ad.
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To shutdown Windows 8 (not 8.1), you had to swipe from the right to bring up the "charms" thing and that's where the shutdown option was. I remember myself having to search for "how to shutdown Windows 8" and feelin
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They do have at least one Pulitzer prize winner (Mark Schoofs, their head of the investigative reporting division). He didn't win that Pulitzer in BuzzFeed, but prior to that. It's his Pulitzer that gets associated with BuzzFeed (
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You don't need an email address to sign up, let alone anything else. Personally identifiable information are more valuable than those that are not. That's not a surprise.
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Bone loss, changes in bone structure, muscle atrophy, and changes in the inner ear are just some of the suspected negative effect of spending extended periods of time in weaker gravity. They'd have to spend hours each day working out t
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It was overlayed with a giant ASCII-art styled to write "1984".
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> If someone in the EU was in the same situation I'd like to see what their data download looks like given the new privacy and data rules under GDPR. Once an EU citizen contacts them and requests the dump, they get redirected to the
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For a website trying to convince me it's good to host my projects using it, it was incredibly complicated to get from the homepage to any repo to see it in action (note: on a phone). I've opened the homepage, didn't see any
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Let me guess: you've switched from yellow light to white light? White lights emit more blue light than yellow lights, which can negatively affect your sleep. It's the real-world equivalent of uninstalling redshift/f.lux on yo
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Geert Wilders is a leader of the largest opposition party. He's a big problem for sure, but can't be compared with places like Poland, Hungary, Serbia, and others that already have autocratic leaders for years. Western Europe saw
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Third party email services have an import feature and you can set up forwarding of all emails from Gmail to your new address. That alone allows you to make a move today (from my experience, it takes less than an hour), and then you can move
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> ...or you'll never get a driver to accept the ride. Uber drivers don't see your destination before they accept the ride. They see the pickup address, customer rating, and the type of the ride (UberX, UberPOOL, UberSELECT).
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It offers ads based on your search term, not your browsing history.
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It's not directly related to the story, but Write.as federates the content to Mastodon and others in the fediverse.
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May I ask why?
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> I dreamt about it I would not believe that this was possible if the same thing didn't happen to me. Also about World of Warcraft. Just once. The next day I got bored killing creatures on some side quest, a thought came through my

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