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by snailmailman 3d ago
When Google broke the original uBlock origin and made people switch to uBlock Lite, I found out about the change because my grandmother called me in a panic. She saw an ad like the one in this article on her Facebook page and clicked it, th
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by snailmailman 3d ago
Google can reply and confirm whether or not a report did anything? I’ve never seen that. I report ads on YouTube all the time. I’ve reported ads for illegal drugs, illegal firearms, pornography, and all sorts of various scams. I’ve seen s
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by snailmailman 5d ago
Interesting! I’ve definitely seen and noticed this but never looked into it further. The Wikipedia page has an example image that aligns with my experience pretty well. I get migraines and weird visual auras with them sometimes. I assumed t
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by snailmailman 7d ago
While at launch Face ID did not work in landscape, it does now. I can unlock my phone with my face in both landscape and portrait, although I guess not upside down? That might only be because I’m on an iPhone though. iPads might be more fle
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by snailmailman 7d ago
Interesting that there seems to be no FaceID? They only mentioned TouchID. I assume it’s a limitation of the under-screen camera. They’ve been doing Touch ID instead of faceID with some of their products a few times, I think some of the iPa
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by snailmailman 11d ago
The article uses "posting about race" in the headline, but makes it pretty clear in the content that he is pushing racist white supremacist ideas.
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by snailmailman 14d ago
Is there any ad targeting that is good? The main place I see ads is YouTube on iOS. I used to have ad targeting turned off, but I’ve since opted into all of googles tracking and ad-targeting, in attempt to curate the ads I see and improve
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by snailmailman 18d ago
Well, it closes the apps somewhat arbitrarily, but they definitely arent all open. If the most recent app is a resource-intensive game or something it will more aggressively close things. but you can have more open if they are all lightweig
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by snailmailman 18d ago
At least on iPhone, it basically doesn't do anything. Apple aggressively kills all background apps automatically. the "open" apps in the switcher are almost always just screenshots of previously-open-but-now-closed apps. if i
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by snailmailman 19d ago
I think it goes back further than 1998. Several old systems had special memory locations where the numbers written would then read back changed. The Apollo Guidance computer for instance didn’t have a shift-right or shift-left cpu instructi
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by snailmailman 20d ago
I forget exactly which antidepressant I was on, but when i finally stopped taking it, i was instructed to reduce dosage by half a pill every two weeks. Anecdotally, that was not anywhere close to slow enough. I had panic attacks almost ever
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by snailmailman 20d ago
Lots of projects run their own git or forgejo or similar. I run my own private forge, and it has a higher uptime than GitHub. (A shockingly low bar, tbh) It’s surprisingly simple to setup, and the hardware requirements are pretty small for
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by snailmailman 22d ago
One of the many reasons I stopped using the platform is because after Elon took over, my carefully tuned algorithmic feed stopped showing me content I was interested in and instead promoted bigots and nazis into my feed. Nearly all of the a
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by snailmailman 29d ago
There have already been stories about meta contractors being able to watch the footage people are recording with the glasses. Recordings included people undressing, on the toilet, and other explicit stuff. https://www.yahoo.com&#
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by snailmailman 1mo ago
Spotify uses this and it annoys me all the time. If you screenshot what you are listening to, after the screenshot is taken spotify will open a full-screen popup to "share" the song you are listening to. This is quite dumb, especi
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by snailmailman 1mo ago
This page is just asking people to upload PII? Without any information about the technology or why it should be trusted? Is it doing the redaction locally? is it selling all my data?
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by snailmailman 1mo ago
In addition to that kind of “benign” tampering, there was also tampering other webpages to insert the name of the person who was doing the exposé on archive.is. Either to slander that person further (in addition to the DDOS archive.is was a
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by snailmailman 1mo ago
This depends a lot on the game and the situation. If hidden well enough i suspect it can play well. I really enjoyed the difficulty of Half Life Alyx for instance. I was saving my resources carefully because they seemed very sparse. But the
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by snailmailman 1mo ago
Sexualized? It’s just a cartoon/anime character holding a magnifying glass
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by snailmailman 1mo ago
I’m mostly fine with this. Their free teir was crazy generous. 24GB of ram for free is a lot. They were a very popular host for free Minecraft servers because of it. Their communication about this change has been pretty awful. It began with
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by snailmailman 1mo ago
I wish it was a problem with my vpn/exit node. But I get these captchas when I’m not on a VPN. I assume it’s just because I don’t login to Google and I enable tracking prevention stuff in Firefox? But that’s really only on my desktop
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by snailmailman 1mo ago
I’ve always been tempted to set up SearXNG, but all the search engines already make me do captchas and anti-bot checkboxes every few searches. Wouldn’t a meta search engine run into the same issues? Or if I had a local server scraping sea
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by snailmailman 2mo ago
The big one that annoys me is YouTube. There are exactly 3 results for any given search and then it reverts to an algorithmic feed based on your interests. This seems at least sometimes different now and for some results it gives exclusi
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by snailmailman 2mo ago
Seeing lots of glowing reviews of this feature. Unfortunately it does not work for me. If anything, the dots just distract me or make it worse. Glad it works for some people though! Weird how our brains work. Surprising to me that some smal
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by snailmailman 2mo ago
From what I understand the Bluetooth is required to ensure proximity. It isn’t actually used to transmit anything of vital importance. The QR is doing most of that. It’s just there to prevent scanning the QR through a video call and logging
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by snailmailman 2mo ago
This is good in theory but in practice doesn't always work. It isn't just a QR code like I would like it to be, its a QR code and you need bluetooth. Maybe there is a hypothetical world where bluetooth drivers actually work on
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by snailmailman 2mo ago
An anonymous answer to a question is more trustworthy to me. They have no reason to lie. They are usually answering out of kindness. At least they used to be. Now it’s often actually bots advertising a product or pushing something, preten
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by snailmailman 2mo ago
Apartment advertisements are already doing this. With the caveat that the sense of scale (and literally everything about the apartment space tbh) can be entirely tampered with. Oh yeah, this tiny apartment can definitely fit all this furni
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by snailmailman 2mo ago
Weird that it’s inconsistent Works fine for me in desktop Firefox. But on mobile iOS the “whole video within a jpeg” is 3 frames, all of which are nearly entirely solid color brown->orange->red with a vague cat silhouette. The color c
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by snailmailman 2mo ago
I’ve always been under the impression that Signal is for secure, private chats and group chats amongst friends and small groups. While telegram is often used more like discord or irc, with “secure” and “private” group chats that are extreme

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