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shadow-banners have no spine ;)

fuck-shadow-banners@gmail.com (fake email)

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rastafang··on [dead]
got to love the portrait mode in that video... /s
rastafang··on FOIA requests show Apple’s emails pitching state agencies on IDs and Wallet app
> Hey, at least they're not requiring a chip implant.

Baby steps...

rastafang··on Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow
Firefox mobile did the same kind of stuff... They disabled most extensions, there is only about 15 left... I still have Firefox Mobile v68 installed for this reason.
rastafang··on ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store
Firefox addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amp2html/
rastafang··on Some newer HP printers will not print or scan without an HP Smart account
Printers are getting less and less relevant, how can they get away with this? I'm really happy with my cheap HP LaserJet M15 B&W printer though...
rastafang··on Imgur Acquired by Medialab
> There's still a ton of political posters who never tag, but you can mute them.

not really scalable

rastafang··on Imgur Acquired by Medialab
add ads to pictures... that's what everyone else is doing
rastafang··on Imgur Acquired by Medialab
Time to get a new gimp addon ... also hopefully Flameshot will switch to another service.
rastafang··on Imgur Acquired by Medialab
https://picc.io/6SgIC3X.jpg
rastafang··on Fallout begins for far-right trolls who trusted Epik to keep identities secret
so according to this, users of Epik are to blame, and not the hackers who published the data?
rastafang··on All Assange news story hidden on reddit.com/r/worldnews
Sorry the wrong search link was posted because it got modified by HN's algo, this one should be correct: https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/search/?q=assange&sort=re...

dang, can you fix it?

rastafang··on Google CEO allegedly sought to keep Incognito mode issues out of spotlight
my password manager makes the login process pretty fluid... but either way, incognito is not regular browsing... it is supposed to forget cookies and such tracking mechanism.
rastafang··on All Assange news story hidden on reddit.com/r/worldnews
Sorry the wrong search link was posted because HN's algo modified my post automatically (or a ninja mod), this one should be correct: https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/search/?q=assange&sort=re...
rastafang··on Lawsuit filed against Tesla after accident that injured 5 police officers
It takes a police
rastafang··on How great is the great firewall? Measuring China’s DNS censorship [pdf]
I want an in-and-out-app-specific firewall on linux and only then, I will be happy... something a lot like https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch/
rastafang··on What will programming look like in 2029?
about the same as in 1980
rastafang··on UK fuel shortage worsens as industry chief warns ‘people will go without’
what about toilet paper?
rastafang··on Google CEO allegedly sought to keep Incognito mode issues out of spotlight
> That's a feature I appreciate.

do you work for google?

rastafang··on Firefox Addons Unable to Update, Undisclosed AMO Issues
I think that Mozilla are trying to make addons disappear.... they started with Firefox Mobile, only about 10-15 addons are available now (which is why I use an ancient version of Firefox Mobile).

They are getting a lot of money from Google, so it MIGHT be a request from Google.

rastafang··on Google CEO allegedly sought to keep Incognito mode issues out of spotlight
But it would have been fairly easy to not use words with opposite meaning of what you mean?
rastafang··on Google CEO allegedly sought to keep Incognito mode issues out of spotlight
1984 has become reality (most predictions in the book), we need a new goal.

https://www.planetebook.com/1984/

rastafang··on A hamster has been trading cryptocurrencies in a cage
Returns are pretty close to just holding Bitcoin...
rastafang··on Google CEO allegedly sought to keep Incognito mode issues out of spotlight
That Google is tracking everything you do on the browser is the problem here, not incognito.
rastafang··on Facebook Has Been Working on BOLT'ing the Linux Kernel for Greater Performance
The URL is not correct, it should be: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Facebook...
rastafang··on Developers fix multitude of vulnerabilities in Apache HTTP Server
Not impossible that your web server was 100% secure, but I doubt it because I think that I have never seen a server that didn't eventually need security patches.
rastafang··on Developers fix multitude of vulnerabilities in Apache HTTP Server
> In exchange you are safe from of all those : vulnerabilities in the wild => script kiddies => mass exploitation => your are hacked type of situations.

Not sure about that... You might commit some of the same mistakes that they did

rastafang··on A single person answered 76k questions about SQL on StackOverflow
Yeah, web developers need to realize that they put captchas even where not needed, and Google takes advantage of that.
rastafang··on China declares cryptocurrency deals ‘illegal’
I don't know where you got that 5% from but either way, you sound like you fell in the 95%.
rastafang··on Breaking the 100bps barrier with Matrix, meshsim and coap-proxy (2019)
> It's rather sad to dismiss Matrix (or even Element) as a whole due to bugs on one specific app on one specific platform.

I still use Element/Matrix because I like the mission but I have a Linux computer and an Android phone, so I use the clients that are available.

rastafang··on China declares cryptocurrency deals ‘illegal’
They wanted to buy more Bitcoins...
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