yzb

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by yzb 8y ago
It's not strange. These organisations have always existed to push mass media. It doesn't matter to them whether it's false information or not, but they are scared of not being able to control the information.
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by yzb 8y ago
I am terrified of Microsoft going this route, since they make my OS of choice. I could expect Google doing this kind of stuff, like deciding what sites I can visit or what people I can contact using Gmail (examples that have yet to happen,
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by yzb 8y ago
I use eBay mostly for the resellers, i.e., when I need to buy some Chinese crap but I can't wait 2-3 weeks until it arrives here, so I buy it from some reseller in my country. Back in the day, before aliexpress, it was good too because
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by yzb 8y ago
Unless you're using a platform where you can't run an ad blocker (and I can't think of any), a hosts file (or a pihole) is a hamfisted approach compared to having ublock origin.
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by yzb 8y ago
Just put the domains in your ublock origin list. That way, if you visit those pages, you will be displayed a page that says that the site was blocked but you have a button to temporarily override the block.
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by yzb 8y ago
You should've linked to the https version of the page so the dozens of icons load faster (because of http2 multiplexing) https://win98icons.alexmeub.com/
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by yzb 8y ago
It doesn't say anywhere, not even in the title, that Google employees are forbidden to use the word "family". According to TFA: >The tech giant experienced a backlash from its own employees in March 2017 after a presentati
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by yzb 8y ago
You can't escape Gmail because you'd lose your address, and you can't escape Maps because the alternatives suck. On the other hand if I don't like Supermarket-X, I can go to Supermarket-Y
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by yzb 8y ago
They are nothing because they don't exist. When was the last time you saw a pro-Google/Alphabet article?
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by yzb 8y ago
No no, I have everything on my hard disk. I don't save anything to the cloud, I don't trust it. Someone may hack my accounts or the cloud itself and see my files, or they could ban me for storing things they don't approve of
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by yzb 8y ago
Millenial, and yes, I used youtube-dl. My "Favourites" playlist on youtube is full of videos that have been deleted or that were posted by accounts that were deleted or banned. But they are still safely stored on my hard disk ;) W
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by yzb 8y ago
He should not call something "salty-ass junk" if he wants his "work" to be respected.
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by yzb 8y ago
Yep
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by yzb 8y ago
Funny you'd say that. I keep a folder with gigabytes of youtube videos I downloaded in the event that they are removed from youtube. And, to tell you the truth, a chunk of them have actually been removed from youtube over the years!
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by yzb 8y ago
It's better because it's free, as opposed to the rest of options that you've mentioned which either a) cost money or b) force you to listen to ads. (Pro-tip: if you use https://open.spotify.com/ with a free a
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by yzb 8y ago
Will this allow you to run several profiles side by side using the same version of the browser, like with Chrome?
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by yzb 8y ago
It indeed is a tool that can be used by all camps, but the organisation that controls it has made it clear that only people in the "libertarian" part of the political spectrum can use it.
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by yzb 8y ago
You had a radical change of government recently, so I guess it's a matter of time to see if people like it or not.
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by yzb 8y ago
Is iMessage even a thing outside the US? Everybody in Europe uses WA or Messenger, at least
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by yzb 8y ago
Would be nice if banned subs appeared in a different colour.
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by yzb 8y ago
This is similar to the MongoDB vs Amazon feud: Unity took a bad decision to protect their product and now they are paying the consequences.
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by yzb 8y ago
I think roads are not a place for cyclists to be. For the security of everybody only motorised vehicles should be able to use them if they have no bicycle lane.
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by yzb 8y ago
Doesn't surprise me that drivers hate cyclists so much.