LunchMoneyThief @ LunchMoneyThief @links.hackliberty.org

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Settings templates with user.js are Firefox's saving grace.

Best of luck on your 'nix journey.

I2P eepsite

Same for cars.

Why do we need a new model every year?

Automotive design has been functionally complete since decades ago.

Based Germans know the inherent dangers posed by Intel Management Engine.

Apparently I would make a really awesome moderator because seeing gore and shit doesn't "scar me for life". In fact, I seek it out out of morbid curiosity. Too bad I don't have the requisite lust for power needed to be a moderator.

Thank goodness the clouds parted and his holy billionaire visage emerged with the gift of [angelic chorus] vaccines otherwise we would all be dead now (and he wouldn't have made a 20 to 1 return on investment). Thank god for billionaires and their unquestionable wisdom.

Wake me up when they start producing chips without Management Engine

The schoolyard bullies are fighting each other again.

If I threaten a politician to kill them

Implies that the threat itself is what kills them. Or that the intention of making the threat is that they will die as a consequence of receiving the message.

English is a Subject-Verb-Object language. What you should have said was:

If I threaten to kill a politician

Web browsers are beginning to feel that way these days.

Routers: anything supported by OpenWRT.

Apparently the ISP modem-routers being supplied these days have virtual assistants embedded (you vill use our spyware and you vill be happy!).

Banjo

His younger sister will be Kazooie

Whole home cleansing. They send a guy out quarterly who assesses each room and blows sage around hot spots. My home isn't very active but I sleep better at night knowing that there aren't dark energies in risk corridors.

Horses were domesticated some 6000 years ago. I feel so old!

FWIW you're talking to someone who doesn't even have a credit score. You might see such things as a self-handicap, but I consider it an accomplishment that I'm very proud of.

You won't do it.

Privacy Badger has historically allowed tracking until it successfully identifies a domain as a likely tracker. Like the air bags going off after you've already wrapped your car around a telephone pole. But it's now been changed and is now closer to a list-based tracker blocker (enumerate badness):

Privacy Badger no longer learns from your browsing by default, as “local learning” may make you more identifiable to websites.

They've since corrected one of the core issues with PB by doing so, but it still it is very weak. To see why, please glance through The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security.

uBlock Origin in advanced mode, with default-deny rules (only allow assets by exception) is going to be much stronger at blocking crap.

Personally, I use uMatrix with pretty much all asset classes blocked by default. I never see popups. I never see banners begging "please allow our cookies, pleeeeaaase!".

This is because conservatives are technologically impaired.

Because I frequently use mpv, yt-dlp or a combination of both, the value I find in Invidious is in being able to conduct video searches against Youtube. And luckily that still works on public instances.

To be fair, I don't go around in public telling everyone "I don't have a cell phone btw". So I suppose we are easy to miss.