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Brave Browser gets language and font fingerprinting privacy protections
(ghacks.net)
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5y ago
Apart from the obvious Orwellian scenario of airbrushing things we don't like out of history, I think it's a useful feature. Maybe it might be a troll tool, but too many times I made an embarrassing typo that I couldn't cope
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5y ago
Cyberpunk aesthetics are mostly hidden IMHO. I saw a few Youtube videos of chip factories that make flash drives, SSDs and integrated circuits, etc and was amazed at the efficiency & precision of the robots that make them. If you want t
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vmoore
5y ago
Yes. And MC personally replies to each email I send, which is refreshing since most services offload support to a separate paid-for service.
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Free HTML Templates 2022
(htmltemplates.co)
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Grugq / Quotes
(github.com)
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Font Famous – The free vector logo font for showing off your press
(fontfamous.com)
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vmoore
5y ago
Yes but would you have to create a new account for each time you do that to avail of that offer with each new account?
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vmoore
5y ago
> Are we slowly drowning in subscriptions? Depends on how much of a minimalist you are. Now and then I go on a 'subscription spree' depending on how much disposable income I have at any given moment, then nuke all the subscript
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5y ago
uBlock Origin blocks Spotify ADs entirely (including audio-based interruptions). One less subscription to worry about! You have to use the Web Player however for this to work, not sure about doing this on mobile Safari or if the web player
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5y ago
> I frequently cancel subscriptions to services I don't use often and just re-subscribe when I want them again I do this too. One trick for this is to use a 'virtual card' or disposable CC for subscriptions (With Revolut y
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5y ago
> and doing the job of two people Frontend coding will only get you so far. Eventually you will have to tinker with APIs. I prefer the JAM stack personally, and there's many tools you can offload backend mechanics to, and you don&#x
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5y ago
No more chicken kievs (it's their only export)
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> these squatters make me sick That's only validating them. The whole idea behind the word 'domain' is that you own it. If they get scooped up by 'squatters' then they have every right to use that domain for what
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5y ago
Protonmail, Tutanota
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5y ago
Erm, no, I execute on all my bookmarks and put them to use. Because I said I would. I don't use an app for bookmarking, just a massive 10000+ list of URLs in a boring text file that I revisit constantly to GTD. As for exobrains, yeah I
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Does the UK Think It Can Police the Internet?
(theengineeringmanager.com)
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5y ago
Standard Notes. Can't recommend it enough. Does one thing well, and uses encryption unlike other offerings like Evernote. I revisit it every two weeks or so to make sure I executed on my TODO lists. I'm often surprised at how much
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vmoore
5y ago
Personally I like the JAM stack. I refuse to learn things like React as I don't consider myself a pro, and React is a pro-tool. It's like bringing a gun to a knife fight IMHO.
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5y ago
When I go to buy a book, I buy a book with the hope it will make me grow as a person. That said, there are many books that implant mind viruses into the reader and the reader uses the book as an ideological weapon against reality. They take
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Opera – Spyware Watchdog
(spyware.neocities.org)
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I managed to successfully register a Twitter account without having to verify myself with a phone number. Not sure how I managed to do that, but I have a number ready to provide them if they randomly decide to ask for it. You can get away w
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The Magpie Developer (2008)
(blog.codinghorror.com)
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Enso OS – Believe in Greener Computing
(enso-os.site)
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I once renamed a Ubuntu .ISO file to favicon.ico and placed it in the root. Some greedy bots choked on it, others had more sense and timed out.
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> at least some parser will choke on them Ah the never ending joy I get by putting a 1GB file as the robots.txt or even having a 1GB `favicon.ico` file.
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5y ago
> webmasters put a lot of weird crap in robots.txt Even stranger things can be found in a `humans.txt`[0] file! [0] https://humanstxt.org/
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5y ago
Maybe it's just aswell planets with life are unimaginably far apart. What if some virulent pathogen got loose and got onto other (close) planets? Earth is going through a global pandemic now. If we make close contact with advanced inte
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5y ago
> even wordpress.com I much prefer a self-hosted WP instance over the wordpress.com offering. WP.com injects tracking cookies and ADs in their free tier, and even with a paid version with your own custom domain, there is still some track
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5y ago
In a big text file, with raw URLs. I don't care that I can't view it on mobile. Most of the links come from my mobile device anyway via iCloud sync. I have a browser addon that copies all open tabs and coverts them to raw URLs,
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