bardan

I have used Growl for a very long time, and went to lengths to keep it as part of my environment. I'm surprised they held on for as long as they did as it seemed the exact thing that Apple has been trying to torpedo for the last decade, "consistent UI" and all.

Tridactyl worked for me better than any alternatives, but qutebrowser (https://qutebrowser.org/) was built for this kind of browsing and is more configurable. Unfortunately it doesn't have good plugin support, although I believe it does have an inbuilt ad blocker.

But what if at some point somewhere down the line someone forgets to sanitize the output? Surely better procedure to sanitize at both ends. Nobody is perfect.

I think they have just been joining the most active torrents on popular trackers. You can't watch for what somebody torrents just with their IP address, you have to be watching the torrent itself.

Who says they need to defend themselves? If I come across somebody making unreasonable demands I ignore them.

Zeronet feels too monolithic to be an effective web replacement to me, given it's almost all delivered through that its frontend. I'm more interested in systmes like ipfs

> There’s a lot of story or visual lulls where if I don’t have a second screen, I’ll just end up wandering away from the TV and won’t finish the show.

I think a lot of people feel this way, and not to place too much faith in TV show writers but this seems like a shame as it limits what experiences can be delivered by the medium.

This is exactly what has happened with movies, as well. At some point in the 2010's I noticed that in many movies I watched almost every shot was in motion. No moment of stillness or quieter reflection, just constant noise and motion, even in movies I thought were particularly good like the new Mad Max movie.

I think it's essentially a battle being fought between screens: the movie can't let the modern audience's attention waver for even a second, otherwise they might look down at their "second screen", lose track of the plot and consequently believe the movie wasn't that great.

This sucks because restful or reflective moments can give you a sense of sheltering, or the calm before a storm (for example), but you just can't get that feeling without moments where the camera calms down and people stop shouting.

It was backscatterer.org. I seem to recall it was in the low hundreds, but it was quite a while ago now.

It was backscatterer.org. I don't recall how simple the fix was, but I couldn't find much information on it at the time. The list appeared last in the blacklist tools so I figured it was a fairly new thing.

My mail server got blacklisted because of backscatter. That is where the sender sends spam to an address that doesn't exist on your server, but they also forge the "from" address, so the "this message could not be delivered" response, complete with the spam message, is sent "back" to the forged address (the spammers real target)

It took several months or a large payment to the people maintaining the blacklist for my server to get unblocked (it wasnt critical so I didnt pay). Seemed like extortion to me, but Google and others respected this particular blacklist.

Im not sure if this list still exists. It was on the blacklist checking websites at the time

Maybe we could say there are varying degrees of clickbait, but any headline that calls attention to the fact it is omitting important information has to be considered clickbait.

I'm furrowing my brow at this one:

"A file is unable to be restored from tape due to several device and media errors. What is most likely the cause?

Media errors usually indicate that the tape media is damaged, or that the tape drive heads need cleaning."

I've read a few of the questions from other categories and I really can't say any of them have been "awesome".

I finally switched to LineageOS yesterday after hearing this news and it's working fine. It feels great to have a Google-free phone, but I'm shocked by how many Android apps require Google's proprietary services to function these days.

But isn't that also the point? A combative culture would intimidate people who aren't up to snuff yet. The people contributing are more likely to be those who are confident enough in their abilities to know they don't deserve any of the community's scorn.

Seems like a moot point given that proprietary isn't free to begin with.