From the series “Bumper Stickers that Cause Rear-End Collisions”

“Basically invented” here meant the last huge leap

That is not what “basically invented” means.

Sorry, but English-speaking countries have basically invented “narrative manipulation”.

You have no idea how wrong you are. I could claim it was the roman catholic church and there’d probably still be older examples. More likely, no entity “basically invented” it.

Nothing against you personally, but this is not the edgy take you think it is.

Oh, I forgot. The point is that it’s actually nice sometimes to have alternative pages in smaller languages on niche subjects, explained better to my own taste.

No, the point is that there are countries where people speak these languages and they want to read things in their own language. Sheesh.

@Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it

Running Debian Stable, I have installed ungoogled-chromium which is also in the repos.

But Librewolf is my main browser, Chromium a rarely used secondary.

What I’m talking about is how these blocklists are used by many other browsers/softwares (e.g. Firefox) as well.

Same when you try to deviate from the approved path of email providers or, dog forbid, even self-host email.

This is why I always switch off that “block potentially dangerous sites” setting in my browser - it means Google’s blacklists. This is how Google influences the web beyond its own products.

edit: it’s much more complex than simple blocklists with email

I have to admit I presumed I’d be starting from a point where people know that web sites are not actually inside their devices.

Of course many don’t know what AWS is but honestly it isn’t that hard to explain/grasp.

I don’t repair my peers’ Windows computers, but I feel a bit of responsibility in being the one who tries to explain shit like that in understandable terms.

and the borders inside a borders?

What is that? You mean padding?

Sheesh, even the fraud is a rip-off.

That’s a concise summary of the past weeks in the Divided States of NA.

Important aspect: the people who are currently keeping the country hostage remain entirely unaffected by it.

As soon as you leave the big languages, esp. English, Wikipedia can be very problematic for all sorts of reasons.
Mostly because of a lack of eyeballs.
But it doesn’t end with merely badly written/generated content but also with narrative manipulation that - unlike in the English version - remains unchallenged.

I sometimes use pv for that:

Shell pipeline element to meter data passing through

Commands are often run over high speed ssh or telnet sessions, causing Command Fault Heat State Exception (CFHSE) errors due to overbauding.

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A Java/Swing GUI front-end for the “ed” line editor. This enhances the classic “ed” editor by wrapping it in an easy to use GUI. The GUI provides tunable options such as sound effects, themes, and has an awe-inspiring monochrome splash screen.

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No shit, I’m going to need the l33t script though.

AirBnB also destroys communities by pushing rent for affordable living spaces. 1st hand experience.

This is good to know, but bit . ly already got your precious data at that point.

Browsers can also be configured to do this by default - or possibly only for bit . ly with some addon.

bit(dot)ly is just a link shortener; my guess is that the promised documentation is indeed behind it.

But - and I’m just spitballing here - by going through a third party, they can collect precious user data for which they probably have a contract with MS, which brings me back to my original comment.

Neither of your screenshots is showing ads?

If a for-profit org gives something out for free, even if its OSS, you are likely contributing to their profits in different ways.

This one surprised me:

Otherwise I’m pretty much within the average. Except I don’t work in IT, but I already knew that makes me an outlier.

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