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by nopcode 4y ago
Apple offers a Content Blocking API which is leveraged by most apps and similar to mv3. Most of these apps (now) also include a JavaScript extension to block the harder ads (eg youtube). This a recent development that apple seems to encoura
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by nopcode 4y ago
There's very little incentive to actually "solve" the problem.
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by nopcode 4y ago
While we’re at it, can we do the same for loading screens? I’d like to know my DNS is hanging rather than something completely made up, Discord.
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by nopcode 4y ago
This could also tackle the “right to access” aka “right to export” in the EU GDPR.
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by nopcode 4y ago
Took me a while to to get into discord UI too. Sucks getting old doesn't it?
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by nopcode 4y ago
why dont you turn the left monitor vertically?
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by nopcode 4y ago
Not on apple and probably only 30Hz with windows. 4 x 1440p@60Hz is ± 26.6 Gbps which is really pushing it for displayport 1.3
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by nopcode 4y ago
The Verge did a comparison: https://www.theverge.com/23170431/raycast-how-to-macos-searc...
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by nopcode 4y ago
I read just as much hocus pocus articles about "gut bacteria" then any "fad diets", and it all seems to boil down to "it looks important but we don't know how it works".
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by nopcode 4y ago
> It's weak non-science. This type of restriction is often more about the mental, "lifestyle" part than biology. It's an alternative to calorie-counting, you automatically eat much less. I went meat-only for a few mon
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by nopcode 4y ago
Not sure why you would care so much but this is pretty close: https://www.rtings.com/tv/tests/ads-in-smart-tv
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by nopcode 4y ago
I really like the idea of Orion (I refer to it as a "superuser safari") and would gladly have paid for it if it had been necessary. Not a fan of subscriptions though, I was hoping for something more akin to what most MacOS-softwar
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by nopcode 4y ago
> feel a little extortion-esque But she profits greatly, and is getting banned with cause. She also went out of her way to meet up with those people and slept with them. It doesn't even sound like there is a clearly stated quid
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by nopcode 4y ago
I would consider dropping notion for this if there was a good Windows cousin.
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by nopcode 4y ago
When flying private, my pilot told me: “just press this button when I have a stroke or something”. Almost 20 years ago. Ignorance is bliss I guess.
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by nopcode 4y ago
For those using Windows, macOS and Linux regularly with Keyboard/Mouse I recommend for mac: CursorSense to customise the acceleration graph (or disable). SensibleSideButtons so you can use mouse4/5 in the browser. ScrollReverser s
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by nopcode 4y ago
I run a few Rails apps with about 200 weekly users total all on OpenBSD. I much prefer it over my Debian experience. But I have to say Fly.io and Render look very good. I believe that jcs runs pushover on OpenBSD.
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by nopcode 4y ago
Two of the four homes already have a faraday cage :) It was built by a german chemicals company and the reinforced concrete blocks signals.
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by nopcode 4y ago
I preconfigure all windows machines in my family, and take away their local admin rights. No crapware installs, no disabling of updates or defender. No microsoft accounts. They get firefox browser with adblocker preinstalled. I manage their
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by nopcode 4y ago
Threat is not the only factor. The control (entering a PIN) has a cost (it's tiresome) and only a certain risk reduction value (if they can steal my key, they can probably steal my PIN).
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by nopcode 4y ago
I've worked in multiple European environments (gov & private sector) that mandated usage of European anti-virus & firewalls. In finance I had a client that didn't trust any vendor and asked me to reverse engineer VPN appli
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by nopcode 4y ago
$1 per hour is a good rate. I compare it to the cost of other forms entertainment (cinema, theme park, gocarting, sports event, …)
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by nopcode 4y ago
A better phrasing is whether they offer a competitive advantage.
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by nopcode 4y ago
I first heard about this on JRE and subsequent articles based on JRE. However, China did pass "Recommendation Algorithm Regulations"[0]. Not sure if enforced. ByteDance does operate a separate Chinese app specifically for kids[1],
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by nopcode 4y ago
airsoft
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by nopcode 4y ago
Access to the laptop could also be completely unrelated. The threat actor used a breached Thin client to access Okta...
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by nopcode 4y ago
In EU, the GDPR closes this loophole: > Where that other processor fails to fulfil its data protection obligations, the initial processor shall remain fully liable to the controller for the performance of that other processor’s obligatio
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by nopcode 4y ago
They could just state that there was also a successful login. So far they don't do that.
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by nopcode 4y ago
> The opposite phenomenon—an uphill road that appears flat—is known in bicycle racing as a "false flat". This phenomenon is very common here in the Low Countries. These destroy the noob cyclists.
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by nopcode 4y ago
> After Crimea invasion, as an example. After Russian influence over American election. There wasn't that much bloodshed in Crimea. And to be honest, nobody really knew if the people there were pro or anti Russia anyway. Russia

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