Truck_kun @ Truck_kun @beehaw.org

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I know nothing about it. I know there are a group of extensions people generally use, and I feel like I've heard that name.

I stick with what I know and trust reputation wise. uBlock Origin is known and trusted far and wide, and any technical community should have at least heard of it.

NoScript back in the day was pretty well known, but I don't think it is so well known now days; in large part because until you configure it for each site you visit, it makes every site unusable... the number of websites that don't make use of javascript for some critical site functionality are almost 0 nowdays. It just cannot be recommended to any non-technical user; they might figure it out, but it is so frustrating for every site you visit to require configuration.

I haven't used noscript in a long time, but it is the only way I feel truly safe on the internet.

That said, I would never recommend it to the average non-technical user.

Average user, I would direct to uBlock Origin (make sure it is Origin, from gorhill or raymond hill, preferably from the extensions shop for your browser with lots of ratings).

For anyone inbetween uBlock Origin and noscript in techinical skill, I would recommend uBlock Origin + uMatrix (from the same developer). Has a small learning curve, but provides decent protection from 3rd party sites.

If you want protection from first party sites though... noscript all the way.

If you are an adult, and clearly an adult, then it's probably too old.

I'll still give you candy if I answer the door, but that is probably where you might creep some people out, or they give creeper vibes and don't trust answering the door.

That said, in my own experience, you are too old to trick or treat once you pass about 5'6" (~165 cm).

I remember finding out I was too old. After an event, some friends wanted to go trick or treating. I was in high school still, but just shy of 6 feet. Female friend the same age was just over 5', and another female friend that was a few years older was about 4'9".

Anyways, they trick or treated fine, and I got stares, and clearly treated differently. Clearly trick or treating is not about age, but perceived age. (and effort. If you're short and all covered up in your costume, no one will know or care... long as your voice isn't boss baby)

Privacy.com links to your bank account, and creates individual virtual credit cards that locks to the merchant upon use, or can be single use. You can put a limit based on: per transaction, per month, or cumulative total; you can also pause, or close the card any time.

More banks are beginning to offer virtual credit cards as well, but I don't know how common they actually are.

Beware that some vendors do not accept privacy credit cards, and privacy may block some merchants that are known to generate a large number of declines (like shady porn subs, or onlyfans).

Also, some in person vendors will not accept a virtual card, and will require physically swiping a card in person. So, this would be more in a situation that the vendor offers online registration of some kind where swiping is not available.

(My auto insurance company had no problem just reading the card information off my phone, but my local car wash insisted they needed the card (but accepted if I registered online instead))

Edit: (this post is entirely from a USA perspective) but also be aware of terms of contract. you may still be liable for additional fees, even if you stop paying, if your contract term is not up, and you signed for a specific term, or have early cancellation fees. They can still legally collect on the contract, just they will have to seek payment by another method. Also, be aware of your state laws; some states limit contract terms, such as California:

"The duration of the contract may not exceed three years, and the contract may not require payments for longer than the term of the contract.5 That means that a four-year contract would be unlawful, and that a two-year contract requiring payments for longer than two years also would be unlawful. It also means that "lifetime contracts" are prohibited. The contract must state the length of the contract term in a size equal to at least 14-point type, above the place for your signature.6"

Source: https://www.dca.ca.gov/publications/legal_guides/w_10.shtml

Well, here's hoping New York's plan is implemented and successful. If it can lead California to pass single payer, and even better, have an interstate compact, it would be nice.

I'm in California, and they worked on a bill, but failed to bring it for a vote a couple years ago. Democrats are in full control of our state, with almost no possibility of Republicans being able to pick up the seats needed to oppose them, so responsibility fully lays on Democrats shoulders for this.

I'm hoping for the public to push their own proposition, but I've yet to see it happen.

Thanks for the recommendation.

I believe it adds some features above Firefox's defaults, but for anyone reading that doesn't know, Firefox does have a feature

"Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed." under "Privacy and Security" in settings -> under the "Cookies and Site Data" sub-section.

They also have a "Manage Exceptions" button to build a whitelist and blocklist of websites to always allow cookies and site data, or always block cookies and site data.

For those looking for more extreme add-ons are a great idea, but always prefer built-ins when available/sufficient.

I'm fine with just using Private browsing in my case. My wife knows I look at porn, but I don't want it to be in her face if she ever uses my computer.

... Are there people out there expecting more than a private/incognito session not saving your session data when you end it?

That is the sole reason I use private mode, because I don't want it to save cookies/cached/temp files/history locally for whatever I'm visiting.

While I'd love for the country to implement it, I will settle for my state implementing single payer as a starting point. You'd think it'd be easier at the local level, but seems almost as impossible.

"Proton shader precaching eliminated the stutter that plagued that game at launch, so it didn't happen on Linux."

I've been meaning to ask, and it probably should be it's own thread, but when launching a game and it says 'Processing Vulkan Shaders', does allowing it to partially process do anything.

Warframe for me will quickly jump to 33%, then do about 1% per 10-20 seconds. I don't want to wait 10+ minutes to reach 100%, but does letting it get to like 40-60%, then hitting skip, at least keep the processed sharers, or does it skip/dump and process on demand? Basically, is Immediate skip vs giving it a minute or two before skipping worth anything?

That their local representative was anti-gun control before this shooting affected his own local area, only proves your point more. That he changed his opinion is a good thing, but too little too late.

Very impressed that he publicly came out to accept responsibility for the Maine shooting with his previous opposition to gun control though, and is now advocating for it.

Unfortunately, it may take several shootings in all the representatives' and senators' home towns that are in opposition to actually flip them (even then, it wouldn't change many of their minds, unless it actually personally affected them), and the country shouldn't have to suffer that. It likely will literally take a constitutional amendment to prevent the supreme court from overturning any legislation enacted (or at least stripping it down to become fluff legislation with little meaning, or effect).

I've been getting similar spam text messages for the past month or so.

Always immediately block and report as spam, but assume it's constant rotating numbers, as I get a few per week.

Appears to be a common, and annoying scam. I'm on android, and they usually do a good job detecting/not showing spam. Hope Google steps up their game on this one.

Oh yeah, Release Candidate is here. Does that mean they've fixed the heating issues of the Beta (Original PS5)?

In all seriousness, it's essentially the same console, just a little smaller. Nothing to be excited about, as if it's the PS5 Pro. Not only is it a little smaller, but it also is more expensive. Might be better in some aspects, might not, I don't know that at this point in time.

I guess if anything, it has slightly more storage... but I've already paid for a faster and larger capacity M.2 upgrade, so kind of a moot point?

Nothing of the sort on your behalf. I learned something, just it seems so dumb that before the Spread Firefox campaign in the early 2000's, they put so much thought into such an abbreviation. It must have been an internal thing, that the regular populace never really adopted.

Speaking of... apparently the Spread Firefox campaign was often abbreviated SFX... makes sense based on the context provided from your post, but I would never in a million years associate SFX with that... I'd think "Sound Effects" or something.

I feel like I wasted 60 seconds... now 120 seconds of my life reading and typing up this reply.

Who is abbreviating Firefox? Who capitalizes FireFox this way, and why would it really matter to anyone.

And who made the decision to abbreviate it Fx... that's a horrible decision.

JavaFx is what first comes to mind to me, but it's such a common abbreviation, as others have pointed out.

I use Voyager, but am assuming this isn't an app feature, but a Lemmy feature.

Under Blocks & Filters, there is a Keyword filter.

I would suggest anyone trying to avoid the topic add related keywords to your filter. If something comes up after that, examine it, determine why it made it past your filter, and add necessary additional words if needed.

Of course it is major world news, so if you want to see updated news about it in your feed, that's not doable, but people don't have to read the comment thread.

I am an Apollo Reddit migrate, and to allow my wife to function, I had an extensive keyword filter in place for her, anything relating to violence (shootings, sexual assault), politics (mentions of certain politicians, or political topics), horror stuff, sexual content, and words she finds generally offensive. It really made such a difference for her, whereas she could never function in such a social platform (without affecting her mental well being) without those filters.

The key feature I am waiting for is the ability of users to block/filter whole instances/servers on their own, as that would allow participating in more difficult nuanced topics like this, while mass filtering communities whose user base one finds to behave badly, or be generally offensive/trollish.

I've not played counter strike in 20 some odd years, or so, but if it's anything like I remember, then yeah, that sounds accurate.

The Counter Server community was friendly enough though.

Seeing 5 rapid fire posts for 5 discussion threads for the first 5 episodes of a single series show up on all.

It is the first week or two of a new season, so there's been anime blessings to watch a plenty, but my eyes glaze over and I pay little attention to the posts because it looks like spam, but also triggers the 'spam, block the community' response.

One of the manga subs also recently went through the same bot situation, and decided to turn off the bot, except for maybe a few weekly posts for a couple top series.

Looking through the first 20-30 newest posts, seems like this is a bot community devoid of life. Then suddenly, it looks vibrant with actual posts from users, then there's some more bot posts, almost looks like the bot was off for some time and allowed users to actually participate with their interests.

I'll be blocking the bot, but this is all more feedback for thought on what the community looks like from a users perspective.

I don't science anymore, but living in a F country, I keep in mind for conversions:

0C is freezing point of water ~32F 20-22C is room temp ~68-72F 30C+ is Unhappy temperatures/hot.

Really only things I need to remember, and gradient based off of. It can get up to 45C where I live, but that would never be important to me. I hate the heat, if it's 30C+, the degree to which it is hot matters little, I'm going to just want to stay out of the sun or go inside.

Really? I primarily hear about American, Chinese, and English tourists behaving badly.

I don't actually travel, or encounter a lot of German people; what exactly is it that German tourists do that portray them so poorly?