A well-timed cat poster can have the same effect. The problem is, if there's little substance to the message, the effect is short-lived. The key to running a good cat poster business is spacing out the shallow messages, you can even reuse them if they're slightly reworded or just spaced far enough apart.
Fuck that, I have a better regulation: Targeted ads are illegal, punishable by death. Let's force a different (I don't care if it's "better") business model.
It really is the best. No need to create and maintain another account, no need to reskim over read/intentionally skipped entries, filters for things you know you want to always skip.
What is it that's only allowing you to play audio from a single source at a time? On my desktop that sound just plays over other sounds, nothing pauses. I hate auto-play media as much as the next guy but your real problem is an awkward configuration or oddly limited device.
Do you know if installing Portacle will mess with any existing configurations of those things on Linux? In particular Emacs. I have everything backed up but, since I only plan to play with CL, I don't want the headache if it does.
While it seems inevitable, I really hope there's going to be a way to do all this without having to authenticate and link a name, credit card and cell phone. I really don't like the idea of not being to travel more than a few miles without being tracked, I hope enough people feel the same way.
"You shouldn't evaluate the validity of an argument based on where it comes from"
Then why is his name is in the title? He's not the first person to make these points. The only reason The Guardian has to publish this over the thousands of other sources of the same opinion is his name. That was my only point. I didn't even read the article because I already disagree with the premise, give more control to the wrong people, just like with DRM. Regulations become legal "weapons" just as often as they actually help society. When they do, its usually the existing big companies that can A) afford to comply and B) know how to exploit the regulations to burden their competitors.
Does anyone care about his opinions on this kind of thing? He fought to put DRM into every browser, you can't come back from such a poor political move.
Anything at a custom domain that doesn't look direct to an individual (e.g. not realname@domain.tld) is a big hint to spammers that the owner uses a catch-all and thus any address will get the job done. I suppose you could go with a whitelist for every random address you give out and blacklist the ones that misbehave, but that's a lot of work and, since every company misbhaves these days, including entities like banks, you'll likely miss emails you actually need.
I bit the bullet and registered with my real email address. The email from solani reiterates "If you don't want to use your real E-Mail-address, please use an address from the top-level-domain ".invalid""
Where/how do I do that now that I've registered? They don't seem to understand that, to me, giving them my real email address just to sign up is the same as "publishing" it.
I think so. A few days ago someone posted something [1] about how they use their own sub-domain to alias CDNs so they can simply update DNS records to easily fix issues with a CDN site suddenly moving or disappearing. I argued that this breaks any chance for content to be pre-cached before a user visits your site for the first time but I walked away convinced that this one-of-many use cases for CDNs isn't all that useful in practice. Alias real content providing CDNs all you want, but if you want to alias an ad network to get around my proposed rule, then you risk your entire domain getting blocked by the likes of uBlock Origin.
I'm not an expert in any of this. I'm not even remotely sure what I'm proposing is possible or would be effective. I just want to start a conversation because I know what I don't want and throwing ideas out into the wild is better than staying quiet. I know I have no interest in giving up any privacy for a potential few seconds saved on load time for a site I'm not sure I even want to visit in the first place. Load times should be the burden of the site owner. Ideally that would be optimized by serving only what is absolutely necessary to get me to the thing I wanted to see. Not that plus the 10 other things you and/or third-parties decided they deserve to serve and hope my machine has pro-actively pre-fetched so I don't perceive the shit-show going on behind the scenes. Given all the details of how this stuff works, I don't think most users would volunteer for it either.
I bought a raspberry pi specifically to run pi-hole, with the assumption it would be able to YT ads but, as far as I can tell, it doesn't. It's been good at blocking in-game ads though. Another bummer is that it only works on my home network.
"If you do not wan't to publish your e-mail address, you can use pseudo.address@example.invalid or any other address ending with the top level domain .invalid. This namespace has been reserved for this purpose."
Tried to register with x@x.invalid and got "Too bad, we won't be able to send the password to that address." Am I missing something? Do you first have to register with a valid email and then change it to a .invalid address?
Does that block YouTube app ads? I use Firefox and uBlock Origin on Android, I use YouTube through that and I don't install any apps with ads. But my family seems to be unable to give up using the YouTube app and every time I see my kids wasting another 5 seconds of their day waiting for that skip button, I cry a little inside.
Advertising _without tracking_. Advertising was done that way for all of human history until recently. Take away their ability to run arbitrary code on users machines and the problem is completely solved. There just needs to be an advertising company that steps up to the plate and says: We will get your ads to eyeballs and _we_ will ensure sites are holding up their end of the deal instead of deferring that role to user machines. You won't be able to track users, but you never should have been allowed to do that anyway.
HA! That made me think of what might be an interesting feature on a forum, if the parent gets downvoted, all the children do as well. Might prevent feeding trolls or expanding off-topic conversations.
Just keep in mind anything simpler likely has additional attack surfaces. e.g. Anything that's cloud based, browser plug-in, centralized, etc. all bring the standard attack surfaces in that domain. Still, it's probably better than what most people do, same user name/password combo everywhere.
Any reason Signal isn't available through F-Droid? It may be unjustified but I'm not a big fan of installing privacy conscious apps through Play.
Edit: Wait, haven't installed anything yet, but I read the getting started guide. I have to sign up using a phone number? That throws all expectation of anonymity and thus privacy out the window.
Are you sure this move isn't just a business practice we're all too stupid to realize we should be against? I'm not. I'm not touching it. Maybe if it goes GPL.
And I assume the reason they don't just say the Getty battle is the reason for this is due to other legal concerns about libel and slander. Even if we find alternatives to Google Image search, the alternative will get stuck in the same impossible situation eventually :/
Doesn't that kill the possibility that a visitor will already have common content cached when visiting your site for the first time? I know that's not the only reason to use a CDN, but it's a pretty big one.
I like touchscreen devices for infrequent input interactions. If my screen is already unlocked and the app I need is already open, for consumption based applications like article reading and video watching, it's great. But as soon as I get an on-screen keyboard, I end up frustrated very quickly.
I don't want a company that releases a "privacy focused browser" with telemetry enabled by default deciding which tracking is "ok" and which isn't. I love Firefox compared to other browsers but there's definitely some user-hostile choices being made at Mozilla and I'd rather they just not get involved in ad blocking (other than ensuring the add-on architecture allows proper blockers to do what they need to get the job done right).