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Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible

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  • Google's recruiting standards must've dipped because I can't fathom a Googler would be this ignorant. You know there are competing search engines, right?

    • Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible

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  • The EU has a PPP GDP of $24.05 trillion compared to the US' $25.4 trillion. That is a market of significant size and leaving it will affect Google's bottom line.

    You can compare Alabama and France all you want, that is irrelevant. Or should I perhaps start comparing Mississippi and Luxembourg?

    Lastly, I don't know if you've noticed but Google isn't the only search engine in existence. Bing, Qwant et al. will gladly fill the void that Google leaves behind.

    • What are your opinions on this?

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  • I also like "carpenter helper", makes you wonder if regular carpenters are affected differently...

    • Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible

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  • The EU has a larger population than the US, that's not a market you just leave. Also, Europe is not the same as the European Union.

    • Hard Drive Encyption

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  • Also, it's just a normal security measure. If pirating is illegal in your country it will always be better to encrypt the incriminating material in case of a search warrant.

    • Setting up your own VPN

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  • Tbf, a lot of applications and tools provide installation scripts in lieu of more elaborate manual setup. Doesn't make it safer, but if you want to install something, you have to trust the source with shell access at some point anyway.

    • [Meta] Decronym is now running on /c/selfhosted

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  • I'd suggest adding high availability for HA

    • Non right-wing tech podcasts?

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  • It's called moderation and without it, discussions devolve into ad hominem - as you proved.

    • Suboptimal ways to respond to a public security incident

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  • You could try using a VPN or some other kind of proxy which wraps your SSH traffic to prevent packet inspection. Then it should look like normal UDP traffic ;)

    • Anyone using rustic?

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  • Imagine a world where we're all using 30 year old software because it "still kinda works".

    restic is living proof that is neither 30 years old nor "kinda works". It also doesn't suffer from typical memory access problems because it's not written in C.

    Given that this whole post is about restic, this felt relevant to point out. You're apparently not talking about rewrites in Rust in general, but rather rewrites in Rust of software the likes on GNU and the Linux kernel.

    • Anyone using rustic?

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  • restic is 8 years old though

    • Random Question: is it weird I don't like pair programming?

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  • One person doing the coding and the other just watching or doing nothing doesn't sound like pair programming to me. That's just working alone with someone else in the room, of course it's not enjoyable.

    Pair programming requires a fitting task and some basic rules, most importantly that the person at the keyboard doesn't just type as they please without consulting the other person - otherwise they'll quickly be programming alone.