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Re:McDonald's Just Dropped a Brand New Game Boy Game in 2023 on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @02:37PM (#36330543)
That's right, Global Gladiators > https://www.guardiana.net/MDG-Database/Mega+Drive/Global+Gla...

A cool game, fun and dynamic, with a bonus stage where you have to pick up garbage falling from the sky faster and faster, and sort it for recycling.

Because, yes, it was a game that wanted to brainwash you into thinking McDonald = environmentalism. What a joke.

Re:Userscripts Are Fun and Are Still Very Much Relevant on Friday April 17, 2020 @06:53AM (#22897901)
Startpage: "You can’t beat Google when it comes to online search. So we’re paying them to use their brilliant search results in order to remove all trackers and logs."

Searx is a meta search engine. You can gather results from gogle.

Re:Userscripts Are Fun and Are Still Very Much Relevant on Friday April 17, 2020 @06:37AM (#22897816)
Why use a userscript when you can use a search engine that is not from a spyware company? Like Startpage, Qwant, Duckduckgo or Searx? Alleluia, direct links out of the box.

For youtube, why not give Invidious a try (ok, it has its downs)?

Sometimes, the best solution to "hostile websites" is to not use them in the first place (or use their proxified versions).

Re:Redirect Detective on Saturday October 20, 2018 @09:44PM (#18266380)
It doesn't find a redirect when I input, you know, a google result: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Re:GDPR: Programmatic ad buying plummets in Europe on Saturday May 26, 2018 @08:22AM (#17161664)
But is everyone really using ad-blockers? I thought it was obvious, like you, I mean, why wouldn't people use ad-blockers and keep living inside a garbage typhoon? Then, I saw some "studies" [1] saying the total of users relying on ad-blockers is ridiculous, like not even 1/5. It's baffling but seems like most people are still struggling against pop-ups.

[1] https://pagefair.com/downloads/2017/01/PageFair-2017-Adblock... (If this study lies, what wouldn't surprised me to the slightest, it would be by inflating the numbers, considering they sell counter-measures.)

Re:A Spectator Who Threw a Wrench in the Waymo/Uber Lawsuit on Friday December 08, 2017 @03:09AM (#15877405)
media.autoplay.enabled = false on Firefox made my days so much brighter. Even on youtube, not having channels autoplaying some default video was a fresh breeze. You don't have to be on the lookout anymore each time you feel some sound or video might jump at your ears.

Talking about wired, it is SO GOOD to read "We're sorry, something went wrong." when their videos fail to deliver their crap to you!

Re:Firefox will soon flag sites that have been hacked on Sunday November 26, 2017 @09:10PM (#15784315)
>Hacked sites, on the other hand, might not be too thrilled about a feature that will shame them about their previous lax security.

A simple flag doesn't reflect the quality of the security. You might not have a flag with terrible security simply because no one cared until now when a website might have invested tremendous efforts in security and meet doom because hackers were numerous, obstinate and smarter. Security is a difficult matter and doesn't make you "lax" because of a breach. I hope the plugin will be descriptive because I don't see that in the readme.

I would be more or equally interested by a plugin shaming websites who store passwords in plain text, restrict characters to 20, prevent you from using nothing else than letters and digits, etc. You could use pwned db to gather intel on the actual level of security of a website and flag them if they use outdated hash algorithms or other bad password storage practice. That would be more objective and force websites to fix their crap.

Re:An alternative to burial and cremation gains popularity on Saturday October 21, 2017 @08:00AM (#15521590)
I thought you were completely dissolved to the core making some kind of primordial soup, it was beautiful, until I read there are still bones at the end they can put in an urn. Could be better. The device is still worth it. Maybe the 500k model can do it? I like the fact you go into the sewage system or be used as fertilizer (if you are a pet). At the end, you can be drunk or eaten by other people.

Only beaten by: A/space burial to the sun or frozen in the middle of total vacuum B/cryo C/science.

Btw, it's the mobile version of the page. Here is the full one: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/business/flameless-cremat...

Re:I Quit Facebook on Monday October 16, 2017 @06:21AM (#15482171)
I hear a lot about facebook but I almost never run into it though I feel like I am literally living inside internet. It amazes me how something I can literally not see any presence can have presumably such huge importance in the cyberworld. Google, I get it, twitter, I get it, facebook... nope. Looks like big inflated wind to me (or quite crafty salespersons).
Re:A new photo of Mars from the Hubble Telescope on Saturday May 21, 2016 @02:26AM (#11743466)
There was a lot of "great times" if we are talking about tech development. It was also a great time to board a locomotive at the beginning of the XIX century. Then, I think a great time not too abstract would be to actually go to Mars more than looking at pictures.
I think it already happened with a troll baiting racists. He waited for a lot of RT then changed the source of the embedded racist picture with something like "I am a big disgusting stupid racist". Something like that. It was a good one, though.
It reminded me that project of mine to inject some CSS into Hacker News because how useful this website is, it is truly ugly. My eyes are killed after one hour of reading.
Re:Save Firefox on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @08:07PM (#11680407)
I didn't have to turn this on. It's in Content section by default...

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm

media.eme.enabled to false to disable EME if you want to tweak the config.

Re:Save Firefox on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @05:45PM (#11679591)
You can test your convictions by disabling DRM content in Firefox. Uncheck "Play DRM content".

Unfortunately, convictions won't have consequences on future decisions because the standard is here and the more you wait the more it becomes embedded. W3C allowed it to come to light when various plugins wouldn't make DRM viable or at least more difficult to implement and reach general agreement. Now, even if you can opt out with Firefox, Netflix really don't care about that because you decided to disable it so you are a bad client anyway. I understand why the article is talking about pop-ups because the moment Firefox decided to implement it, we lost the fight. I use Firefox but lately, I am saddened by their lack of strong convictions and how they tend to follow google a little too much. (At least, FF sandboxed the CDM, while not perfect, the other browsers didn't do it, isn't it?)

Re:Advertising cannot maintain the Internet on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @11:24PM (#11672455)
I am always comforting myself by thinking that idiots who want to tweak my brain were throwing a lot of bucks to display ads blocked by my adblock extension. I am more concerned about how they track us to not display ads, in fact...

I don't remember the last time I saw an ad against my will, and if I actually saw one, I think my brain filtered it just by the power of my revulsion. That said, I am aware that it works at a subconscious level not always like you want but the antidote is to fully use conscious processes in suspicious mode when buying something, isn't it?

So, let them pay the internet? If not, you really need your product to have a value that exceed its digital form, like you can see with Steam who appeal to players by connecting games to social. Or you need to be really pedagogic and make the purchase an active act of support.

Blendle is on the right direction with centralization + micro-payments but it should add a social layer where users could build another public identity with their stories listings, allowing them to comment, creating thematic feeds, make them addicted with superficial achievements, like I said: extra value other than just paying for something digital. I am not saying that's what I want.

Re:“Facebook has destroyed the open web” on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @06:53PM (#11671333)
Only fools believe (listen) a thief. As much as any PR guy.
Re:Self-host analytics for better privacy and accuracy on Monday May 09, 2016 @07:22PM (#11664061)
"Self-hosting analytics for better privacy and accuracy."

Then why using google fonts which is listed by Disconnect.me (used by Firefox) as a tracking domain? Isn't that paradoxical?

Ask HN: Best resources for running a Linux dedicated server?

I never touched Linux but I plan to rent a dedicated server for running a website on it and I fear doing a lot of wrong things. What did you read at first, up to mastering that field, especially on a security point of view?Keep the list simple, focused on the essentials from noob to wizard, with no overlapping docs. It can be books (books are great), pdf, webpages. French resources would be...

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In Firefox, you can disable media.autoplay.enabled (false) for html5 video. Flash should be disabled by default I think but you can make it dependent to click-to-play.

I agree with everybody, it's such a lack a respect for the user. People using that trick (like youtube gesman pointed out) don't think of you as individual but as receiver/consumer/goods/idiot. If it uses sound, it can even be dangerous if you are using headphones.

Re:MIT announces campaign for a better world on Sunday May 08, 2016 @04:46PM (#11655729)
I am raising funds for a better world too. 1$ million required. It's for blablabla humanity blablabla challenges blabla climat blabla together. My paypal account is [email protected].
Re:Hackers are the new lawyers on Friday May 06, 2016 @09:32PM (#11647896)
When you will design the login button of your site in development with "Open the nExt", you will know for sure you have been influenced. When you start praying Lain before accessing any network, it's time to call a doctor.
Re:Hackers are the new lawyers on Friday May 06, 2016 @09:05PM (#11647830)
I am disappointed. I thought "Lawyers are the new Knights" was a Serial Experiments Lain reference. Nothing new under Neuromancer's sun.
Only your second point is valid to me and not worth the use of the system by itself. This is not worth the encapsulation around your acquaintances you are supposed to cultivate the relation face to face, not through a "wall" and mediocre public interactions.

There is a lot of means to communicate and coordinate things efficiently (it was already possible before facebook) and the "fine control" over your "present yourself" is either an illusion or proof of your superficiality. I think it is the point around what facebook was built: the superficiality of people and their need to show off everywhere and think of themselves as some public figure. I guess that's also why instagram and selfies are so popular. It's all about network connection, not about the meaningful content the network is supposed to carry.

I still don't see ANY value in using facebook besides giving to the market my personal data. I just don't understand why this is so popular.

If I wanted to use a social network, I would use one where I can contact new people of interest, not the one I can talk with when I open my window but I won't because I use facebook.

Re:Craig Wright Is Not Satoshi Nakamoto on Monday May 02, 2016 @07:07PM (#11616493)
The perfect proof: a guy whose blog is titled _Dr._ Craig Wright and has a huge picture of his ugly face as a banner (look at that "about" section > pretty hard to fix those pictures more than two seconds) can't be a guy who used a pseudo for years and created something that would give the fame he seeks.

Psychology > cryptography.