joshchandra @ joshchandra @midwest.social

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Huh? I don't judge drug users; I judge the substance itself, which should be banned.

It's not "drugs and alcohol"; it's "drugs." Anything else only means alarmingly successful marketing.

I'm not against mind-altering substances! If people need relaxation through a mind-altering substance, marijuana has consistently proven to be far healthier overall, since you can't overdose on it and there is no hangover if used correctly. Alcohol, on the other hand...

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/alcohol-and-your-health-risks-benefits-and-controversies-202501273088

https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohols-effects-health/alcohols-effects-body

I didn't mean "evil" from a morality perspective, but was describing how damaging it is to people's health: https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-alcohol-consumption-is-safe-for-our-health

I indeed rarely do, funnily enough, and haven't owned it in my home for years!

That means they'd be even worse off than us in any attempts to go spacefaring, right?

Good. Alcohol is evil anyway.

It's-a me...

Since it's already a Pandora's box as it is, at least open-source is the least-worst way to go. All closed-source models are evil(er).

It wasn't her phone that did it:

"Some sort of recording software was used in the car — that in itself is a breach of my privacy," she said.

The lesson is to avoid these services if possible or communicate sensitive info silently/by text when you're not in a trusted vehicle.

Yes, I'm experiencing this through the example comment. Great example, by the way!

True, there's no way to do a clean merge like we can with multiple KeePass password databases... or can we?

By the way, I now use AdNauseam, which is a uBO fork, but I can't find how to access the color grid in your screenshots. Would you happen to know how to get to it?

Are you willing to share what any of these "custom additions" means?

Interesting. Is there a way to port NoScript settings into uBO?

I'm too stupid impatient to understand complex coding concepts...

Interesting, then this is better than NoScript. I'm just a bit rattled by the uBO soft-takedown by Manifest v3 or whatever it was that had happened last year and am concerned about uBO, like, dying or something. What do you think is its future? If it still seems stable enough then I guess I'll drop NoScript for it.

And then on that note, would you be willing to share your settings of the scripts you've deemed comfortable, as a shortcut for other newbs like me who are just getting on board with all this? It'd be much appreciated if so! Either way, thanks for sharing.

Yeah, it's getting addicting! I just found so much JS that is totally unneeded to watch Paramount+:

What the hell is all this crap? Man... so much tracking going on. All the DEFAULTs are blocked and the TV I'm watching still loads perfectly fine. And if you try to go to the stepcattle.com one out of pure curiosity, uBlock warns you against it, yet robots prevent any info on it from appearing in search engines... capitalist bastards...

Wow, incredible! Thanks, I had no idea.

Hmm... how can I check?

Gmail, Google Voice, Google Calendar, and WhatsApp Web are always pinned. Everything else is contextual!

Add the add-on/extension NoScript to her browser and at least have it block fbsbx.com, which seems to be totally unnecessary to allow, as the rest of the website seems to still function perfectly fine.

There are attendees who are both younger and older than me (mid-30s). To be fair, the group already gets <10 people per event on average, so I don't think I could risk the slice right now. If we grew to over double that, then maybe I could revisit the topic.