TheGreatFox

@TheGreatFox@lemmy.world
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Joined 1 years ago

Running scripts from a random comment is risky if you don't know how to check if the script is safe (and someone asking how to activate windows definitely doesn't). Better to just link the massgravel Microsoft Activation Scripts (MAS), as the top comment did.

Kahn Academy is neat. And free. I discovered it back when Brilliant was being shilled everywhere online years ago.

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My ublock origin icon has been at a steady 0 ads blocked in my entire time browsing Lemmy. It feels weird.

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Well, you see, the CEO really wants another mega-yacht. So obviously, decreasing profits by actually paying their workers a reasonable wage is bad, it'll delay the purchase of the yacht by days. Multiple days even!

First time I've seen a comment so good that not only does it get upvotes, it has a negative number of downvotes,

Anyone know how that is even possible?

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Mine now has a "2" on lemmy.world due to blocking cloudflareinsights. The cost of DDOS protection I suppose.

I expect adblockers will find a way around that. If nothing else, AdNauseam should work, as it tells the site that you clicked all of the ads it's blocking (making it much harder for them to build a profile on you).

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old-reddit can still do it while logged out. It's only new-reddit that requires logging in.

It got my OS right, but browser wrong. Tested both Librewolf and Vivaldi, which it sees as Firefox and Chrome.

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The main problem is that his videos are like "I saved 1000 kids from the orphan grinding machine!", and I'm just like, why is the orphan grinding machine even a thing.

Like when he restored sight to 1000 blind people. It's a good thing, but also, it's a drop in the bucket and why isn't public healthcare doing that for all blind people?

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Wasn't he going to sue Threads for "stealing their talent" (hiring some of the massive amounts of programmers they got rid of)?

Did he ever go through with that, or did his lawyers manage to talk him out of it?

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No, this is Patrick!

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Dinosaurs, while neat, do not bring sufficient profits for the offense industry.

That #1 is close to my own reason - a few small communities I'm part of, with very little fediverse activity.

Always using an adblocker of course, having one is basic internet safety, and it reducing reddit's profits is a nice bonus.

The best part about that meme background? It's from a yugioh card.

And not even one from the actual card game. It's only appearance was in the anime, once, 17 years ago.

Is it trying to download the install files? That requiring a login makes sense.

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Yeah. And those were major extinction events.

Reminder: The other pieces deferated Zuck. He did not defederate them. This means other pieces are unaffected by anything he does, but he is still affected by them... and by the mold.

And the mold has just destroyed Zuck's disguise.

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One of the hidden rules of anarchy chess: No take backsies.

lemmy.ml doesn't have easy signups the way lemmy.world does.

Though I do have accounts on a few different instances, just in case. And so I don't get blinded by light mode when links send me to another instance.

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Yes and no. It's harder, but even with an adblocker, your internet signature (things like browser size, are you blocking ads, did you send a "do not track" header, etc) is enough to identify you in a lot of cases. AdNauseam goes the opposite direction, instead of hiding your data, it fills their data collection with so much garbage that they'll have a hard time figuring anything out about you. From what I understand, it doesn't actually load the ads, just sees where the ad points to, and tells the ad provider that you clicked it while at the same time blocking it. So it would be very slightly worse in terms of performance and data usage compared to uBlock Origin, but not in any noticeable way, since the stuff it sends is much smaller than any actual content.

Yeah, Vivaldi is the best chromium-based browser. Personally, I use it a secondary for sites that were made to only display right on chromium browsers. Librewolf, a privacy-focused fork of Firefox, is the one I use as a main browser.

Are there any torrent clients that don't have that? qbittorrent has it, and even the ancient utorrent had it.

Problem is, you don't become a billionaire without massive amounts of exploiting people for profit, and someone like that isn't going to support Lemmy since there's no profit to be had. There are no left-leaning billionaires, only neo-liberal billionaires.

Upvotes do go through most of the time from what I've seen, but it can take a minute or two to realize it

They're probably talking about Geiru Toneido, a clown girl from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice.

Those were advantages, not drawbacks.

Zuck got defederated by the other pieces last turn. He can move there, but will fail take any pieces.

I have a youtube tab open, it's currently at 498 blocks. After writing that, 503.

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dealing with ads

Just use an adblocker. It's basic internet safety at this point. I recommend ublock origin. If you're on mobile, android's version of firefox can use it as well.

If "socialism" means holding companies accountable for their actions instead of letting them do whatever they want, sign me the fuck up.

Totally. But doing the most ridiculously impossible BS is part of the fun.

I've also got 300, no clue what to do with it. Maybe give out 3 random silvers? Not that it does anything.

It registered, I see the downvote. The reason you don't see downvotes on most comments is that most people here don't give them out for no reason, so there just aren't any to display.

Pretty sure the negative downvotes weren't intentional manipulation, my best guess was some cross-federation code interacting weirdly. Though it's fixed now anyway, you responded to a comment that was 17 days old.

A normal move? We don't do that 'round these parts.

This includes the mold's game of life progression working in reverse.

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The world will be fine.

Humanity on the other hand...

The kings saw what was going on and noped out back in move 9. They're currently in disneyland.