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  • As long as they're not shitty mobile games brainwashing the kids with inappropriate and intensely manipulative ads. If you have kids that are playing lots of mobile games, consider keeping them safe from predatory advertisers by installing DNS-level ad-blocking. RethinkDNS is very easy to set up on Android, and while NextDNS is a bit more complicated, it should work on any platform that allows you to set a custom DNS.

  • Biden administration moves toward allowing American military contractors to deploy to Ukraine
  • It's absolutely insane that we have to talk about winning swing states instead of just having everyone's voice matter and vote count equally. Trump lost the popular vote in 2016 and his presidency was illegitimate. We will never have a functioning democracy as long as we have the electoral college.

  • OneDrive automatically backups folders in Windows 11 without users' permissions
  • If Microsoft was a smaller company, this would completely ruin them and the next headline would be them declaring bankruptcy after failing to fight off 50,000 lawsuits. Fortunately for them, laws don't apply to companies their size.

  • Good = Boring = No Corporate News Story
  • Until it actually happens, I'm very cynical. It sounds great, but so many things sound great and then just never go anywhere. It doesn't mean anything at all if it doesn't actually happen.

  • The Internet is becoming genuinely unusable without an ad blocker
  • It really depends on the content being served. Even with JS, a website is just a bunch of text on its own and should be pretty cheap to serve, but a website with just text and no media is out of the ordinary and very limiting. You expect wikis to have a fair few pictures and some sites even have legitimate reasons to be serving videos. The sites that autoplay some random bullshit video when you open them absolutely are bringing those costs on themselves, though.

  • escape rule
  • The way it was explained to me was that regardless of gender, if you see someone in the woods, there might be other people nearby and they might pose a serious threat to you. Bears don't really gang up on people, so you should be okay if you keep your distance.

    I don't know whether or not I agree with that risk assessment, but I can see that it comes from a logical standpoint.

  • Since Brave is apparently absolutely terrible, is Vivaldi any better IF YOU CAN'T USE FIREFOX*?

    I daily drive Firefox, but more and more websites are starting to break without Chromium, so I still have to occasionally switch to get something working. I was using Ungoogled Chromium until I realized that there was no easy way to update it when that pixel-stealing exploit came out a while back.

    To be clear, I'm not talking about stock "no settings changed" Vivaldi. With that requirement, even Firefox could be called invasive! What I want to know is if Vivaldi is relatively safe to use with all the telemetry and stuff disabled in the settings and using any necessary extensions.

    Thanks!

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    Is anyone else getting server issues?

    For the past couple of days, I've been getting timed out or needing to wait a very long time for things to load. Did we get another influx of users from Reddit? I haven't seen any announcements. I love this instance and its federation policy because I can just filter out specific instances myself on Boost, so I'll only switch if I really need to.

    Just tried to post this and got a time out error. (3x)

    Now 400 rate limit.

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    Is it just me, or is Play Store making it harder to scroll when ads are on-screen?

    I normally use the Aurora frontend, but I used Google's app to check something. I couldn't help but notice that when I swiped and then let go, the page would barely move past the point I had let go. It had no momentum whatsoever. As soon as I got past the ads, scrolling was back to normal and the exact same flinging motion would send me down by at least a screen's worth.

    Has anyone else noticed this?

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    i just want to say how much I love having separate upvotes and downvotes.

    It's very nice to see that X people liked a post/comment and Y people disliked it instead of just having a singular "goodness/badness" rating. It (literally, in a mathematical sense) adds a whole new dimension to post ratings and gives us a more nuanced understanding of people's opinions. Plus, it feels a lot better to see that 5 people agreed with you and 7 disagreed when you made a controversial statement instead of just seeing a score of -1 telling you how bad you are.

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