It does make sense from the perspective of "destroy the public's perception of 'unsafe' USB storage so that we can push them to use our 'safe' cloud storage (on our terms) instead".
Disallow corporate entities from owning residential property.
And tax the shit out of second (and third and beyond) home owners. If you don't reside there it is absolutely a luxury. Nobody on the face of this Earth needs more than one dwelling.
Not a bother at all! I have used uMatrix for several years now. It is no longer actively maintained, but has an absolutely unrivaled grid interface (hence Matrix) that comprehensively lays everything out into columns and rows.
Rows represent the different domains and subdomains that a webpage loads assets from.
Columns represent the different types of assets individually.
Sane, strict rules that can be set within the My rules page:
Or these can be set with the graphical matrix grid with global scope selected, then click on the lock icon to make it persistent.
What uMatrix does that uBlock Origin does not (or the authors refuse to integrate into uBlock Origin):
Cookie handling. uMatrix is particularly intelligent about cookies in that it will still accept cookies from sites, but never release those cookies back out to web servers (when cookies are blocked).
CSS handling. IIRC uBlock does have some rudimentary all-or-nothing css blocking but cannot do so granularly.
An awesome, fast, easy to check at a quick glance visual interface.
Unfortunately, uMatrix has been left to bitrot, so I've been closely watching the development of xiMatrix which replicates the idea and extends it to also handle remote fonts and inline scripts. (But still needs further development before I can consider it a drop-in replacement IMO).
It can and does continue to grow. We do not delete content. There is a trove of old (not recently acquired) files on these drives that several members have not gotten around to yet.
I am currently trying to devise a system wherein these different drives can be synced across geographically distant locations. Like a bi-directional rsync system which doesn't remove extraneous files from the destination.
Firefox does everything anyone needs to do. I don’t understand how some people struggle so much.
I've always wondered what it is that people are doing when they say that FF is too slow or inadequate in some way. But elsewhere in this thread to be found:
There’s only like one notable website I’ve had to use chromium for instead of Firefox.
The website for recalibrating a Google Pixel’s fingerprint sensor. I’ve had to use that website twice, and I just used Microsoft Edge to do it since I can’t uninstall it.
Absolutely wild.
I would use firefox, but youtube is basically unusable on it.
Why would you ever want to allow the execution ofadobeDatalayer_bridge.jsadobe_analytics_bridge.jsglobalstore_bridge.js?Good example of third party trash hiding behind first party domain.
There has been some back and forth between Goolag's countermeasures and Invidious' countermeasures before arriving at the current situation, Invidious seemingly having lost the battle.
From their git issue tracker:
Hello,
Sad news for everyone. YouTube/Google has patched the latest workaround that we had in order to restore the video playback functionality.
Right now we have no other solutions/fixes. You may be able to get Invidious working on residential IP addresses (like at home) but on datacenter IP addresses Invidious won't work anymore. (Some datacenter IPs may still work, but that's a matter of time until they don't anymore.)
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This is not the death of this project. We will still try to find new solutions, but this might take time, months probably.
The problem I've run into is versioning, determining which collection is most "ahead". We've had a large drive which was once used collectively by my family, but with everyone moving around it's been demoted to a more downstream status.
The non-capitalist solutions have been here all along, mostly things licensed under copyleft. But people just need to have the wherewithal to actually use these solutions.
The pioneers of this dirty business were overwhelmingly founded by ex-Israeli signals intelligence personnel,
That's interesting. Must be a coincidence.
and related Clinton-era initiatives, like the failed Clipper Chip program, which would have put a spy chip in every computer, and, eventually, every phone and gadget:
"Don't worry, guys we tried to backdoor all devices but failed, see?"
Meanwhile, Intel ME, AMD "Secure Processor", and ARM "TrustZone":
Aside: I am surprised to see people (on the fediverse of all things) hating on cryptocurrency. Where did this sudden turn of perception come from?