stjohnswarts

hace 3 añosdiscuss

did that with a showerhead, $80 on amazon, $30 on aliexpress, and it's actually quite well made (real metal) and seems to be great so far after a year. I'm sure there are a lot of duds though and it's caveat emptor, do at least a little research if you can find anything.

stjohnswarts

hace 3 añosdiscuss

It's a shame that something as basic as using a keyboard with a computing device can be copyrighted/patented. It's absolutely ridiculous.

stjohnswarts

hace 3 añosdiscuss

https://hckrnews.com/ is my go to, I have it set to top 20/day otherwise I'd be on hacker news way too much/too long. It's a self limiting thing.

stjohnswarts

hace 3 añosdiscuss

been doing the same with pop_os (regular releases not the LTS)

stjohnswarts

hace 3 añosdiscuss

hostile design, maybe? i use pihole and ublock and it's really rare that I see an ad on any of my devices. What am I doing wrong?

stjohnswarts

hace 3 añosdiscuss

Eh, while billionaires enjoy privilege in the West, oligarchs literally run gangs, murder people on the regular, and support Putin's attempted genocide of Ukraine. I would say that's definitely comparing grapes and oranges.

stjohnswarts

hace 3 añosdiscuss

They have though. They showed they don't care about borders and that if they're successful in Ukraine then they will just keep trying in the next nation over. Tyrants are never happy and always need more to conquer and to control. You can't just let them roll over other countries because they're a "super power" because evidently they aren't since Ukraine with help from the west is at least keeping them at bay.

stjohnswarts

hace 3 añosdiscuss

however for hackers it's pretty interesting to see the code as an example of what apple/google/amazon/facebook are up to when it comes to tracking/sending ads/privacy invasion techniques. We are all quite aware of Russia's attempted genocide of Ukraine.

stjohnswarts

hace 3 añosdiscuss

Kind of funny to see how quickly authoritarianism can destroy something that was profitable and usable. I used to use the image search sometimes when google was failing miserably and it worked pretty well. I'm afraid to visit there now as it's not unlikely they could inject a virus into your system.

stjohnswarts

hace 3 añosdiscuss

Noscript requires too much effort. Ublock origin hits that sweet spot of install, configure, forget.

stjohnswarts

hace 3 añosdiscuss

You don't need pihole. there are adblockers on iOS. They aren't as flexible as ublock on android but they're 98% there and good enough with the added advantage that google isn't spying on your every move and sending it back to the mothership.

stjohnswarts

hace 3 añosdiscuss

meh there are adblockers on iphone that do about 90% of what ublocker does (defaults, not tweaked). Good enough for me to not have google in my life.

stjohnswarts

hace 4 añosdiscuss

I agree RAII at a minimum should be available, but why not just use c++ at that point? I'll just go to something like zig or rust that is established and has thousands of libraries available.

stjohnswarts

hace 4 añosdiscuss

And that's fine! That's the beauty of the freedom of choice. I can take my business elsewhere and the company that banned the mullvad IP can have one less potential (but not really a) hacker to worry about.

stjohnswarts

hace 4 añosdiscuss

95% of the time, sure. You will hit some companies that will ID it as VPN and refuse though. I just don't do business there and send them an email to update their security policy and I'll try again at some future date. I even have a template email that I keep just for that purpose.

stjohnswarts

hace 4 añosdiscuss

nah just get the first one and reply unsubscribe in the subject and body, you'll be fine.

stjohnswarts

hace 4 añosdiscuss

I think any successor company will be aware that probably 50% would quit right away. It's reputation would plummet like a piece wise linear cliff.

stjohnswarts

hace 4 añosdiscuss

Mullvad is getting so successful, I'm getting a bit worried about security/honeypot/buyouts status :( and I just bought a full year subscription.

stjohnswarts

hace 4 añosdiscuss

Calling it useless is a really big exaggeration. The license is applicable to both software running on the server and on your client (browser) so I have no idea how you can say it is "useless". Maybe less powerful is what you're looking at? I mean security is orthogonal to "free as in speech" software. I would interpret RMS for the person writing/using the software on the server moreso than the person logging with a browser.

stjohnswarts

hace 4 añosdiscuss

Yeah RMS definitely is adding a moderating factor with the license to ensure that the software stays open unlike MIT/BSD where you just have to note that you're using it to those you are distributing it to and include any copyright notices of the authors (and the license notice of course)

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