Brewchin

“This is illegal!”

Bung in the post

“This is legal… for a fee!”

If the punishment is a fine, it is targeted at those who can’t afford the brib—I mean fee.

I mean… what kind of person tells another that they’re having fun the wrong way? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Great video. (For those unaware, the video’s title is just copying the one used by a UK newspaper when the game was released).

Parallax was one of my favourite C64 games, and Sensible Soccer and Cannon Fodder were my favourite Amiga 500 games. Just amazing.

Growing up outside the UK, I was completely unaware of the Daily Star’s manufactroversy and the RBL’s IP-related histrionics.

The whole full circle thing aside, I’m delighted we’re still able to do this 🖕🏻 with the current protocols.

My choices > your shareholders.

As someone once said about director’s cuts with films: they’re a double-dip scam.

If the cinema and home media releases were the same, they’re just trying to make you buy the same thing twice by pretending that this is what the director really wanted it to be. The distributor really likes your credit card.

Having said that, Taylor Swift has something like 28 versions of the same album out and her stans are going crazy for it, treating them like they’re Pokemon.

Whatever floats your boat. 🤷‍♂️ Don’t let this old dude yuck your yum.

I definitely admire the integrity and the effort.

But, economically speaking, you get what you incentivise for: if you can game the system and get the click/eyeball ratio, then they’re going to do that.

Nice. But as a BitWarden user, it’s useless to me. I’ve never put all my eggs in one account basket.

Passwords on one service, MFA on another, email on yet another, etc.

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.

If the SIM standard didn’t change every few years, presumably for the same reason CPU pin-count changes ($$$), this might be a great phone for international travel, protests/marches and such.

As for Snake: meh, it’s fun, but it’s easy enough to code for yourself… Angela Yu’s “100 Days of Code” taught me that. ;)

Using systemctl restart NetworkManager will likely do it for you.

Or the more traditional ifup/ifdown method, but if you’re remotely connected that’s likely to give you a Bad Time as you fall off the network… :)

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.

If using Firefox:

• 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.

First line of the article:

Two of the biggest deepfake pornography websites have now started blocking people trying to access them from the United Kingdom.

This isn’t (yet) the UK blocking access to them as part of a Great Firewall of Britain thing. This is the sites themselves blocking visitors from the UK, the same as porn sites for various US states.

As with porn sites, it’ll be using the geoIP tag of your IP address, which is notoriously unreliable, especially near geopolitical boundaries.

Using a VPN or even a third-party (rather than your ISP’s) DNS server will often get around them. However, doing so will eventually probably get you in trouble.

Another subscription model, you mean?

This is, sadly, accurate. Telling someone to use an OS/platform that isn’t connected with a brand they recognise seems to send many people into a tailspin.

I’ll refrain from the obvious “They Live” cynicism…

Where I grew up, there were signs on highways and such saying “Police Aerial Surveillance”, “Police Speed Traps” or whatever. I never found one that didn’t have “Pigs In Space” scrawled on it.

If you don’t get the reference: The Muppet Show.

Decades later, and halfway around the world, I’ll look up at a police helicopter and think, “Oh look: piiiiigs in spaaaaace.”

Great advice. For me, it’s the irreplaceable data first, and then stuff like configs and credentials/keys.

My borg-backup (to my NAS) config is “My Documents” type files, /etc stuff I’m likely to customise, and home stuff except the stuff like “*Cache”, “*Storage”, assets/icons/history/recent/blah. It’s tedious to fine-tune, but I figure too much is infinitely better than too little.

If I want to be able to do an image-based restore, then I’d use a different tool. But life’s too short for that.

When I’m outside my home network, I rely on Tracker Control (installed via F-Droid) for most traffic. And the usual uBlock Origin and such for my mobile Firefox browser.

Exactly. This kind of thing is just a tax they have to pay, unless they can convince a court otherwise. Unlike normal tax.

None. And any that were damaged by it were pedo guys and it never happened.