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  • Brewchin@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldPride wins!
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    6 days ago

    An important question, usually conspicuous by their absence with confirmation bias-related posts. But in this case, the source is provided. You can check for yourself and let us know, if you have a Xitter account to see the replies.

    Unless Elmo’s added yet another layer of enshittification. It’s hard to keep up.








  • TIL this is a thing. I started doing that over 30 years ago with SLS and Slackware when that was the only choice.

    This was pre-PnP (also pre-JPEG!), so you had to know all the addresses, IRQs, DMA info, etc, of your hardware or you’d get… unexpected results. make it and they will come…

    After countless distros and flavours over the years, I still use Debian for servers and now use EndeavourOS for desktop/laptops.





  • I think you’ve got the right approach, FWIW.

    Not sure that big business favouritism is the intent, but it’s definitely more lucrative for them. Especially with Vimeo and other alternatives out there.

    I remember when streaming took off in a big way - some on YT and others on justin.tv (later Twitch and now Amazon’s Twitch) - and I thought you’d have to be objectively bonkers to rely upon an opaque and ever-changing algorithm for your financial future. Some have gamed it well, but it’s pretty easy to see how they’ve survived - fake shock/reaction content, alt-light or worse content, polarising opinion, thinly-veiled advertorials, and so on.


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    • uBlock Origin: Ads be gone. You need to select/add the blocklists you want.
    • Privacy Badger: Automatic tracker blocker with no configuration required.
    • Cookie AutoDelete: Saves cookies for the pages you want it to, and nukes everything else.
    • Firefox Multi-Account Containers: Keep your activity in separate silos. That Banking container cookie won’t be visible to that Porn container’s JavaScript, Meta’s container can only see Meta’s stuff, etc.

    I use a bunch of others, but the above are my bare minimum.

    Don’t believe anyone who tells you that one extension does everything.