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what if instead of breaking encryption and violating privacy rights, we had governments enforce the death penalty for people that rape children? Why are we trying to violate the re…

can confirm.

I don’t trust the US government and would prefer to wait and see if there are side effects. Are there risks to taking a vaccine that was rapidly produced? We won’t know until we kn…

I've moved it elsewhere, thanks! I didn't mean to upload that page yet, got careless and hadn't refined it.

I emailed her in response to the Snowden revelations back in 2013. I noticed some similarities in her format. Here's what she emailed back: ------ Dear Cale: I received your commun…

As others have pointed out, you could use a static html page, vanilla js, etc, but ignoring this, I see value for future learning. Sure, there are alternatives, but it looks like t…

Used Adguard for about 2.5 years, and literally switched to NextDNS yesterday after reading this article. I've got a blog post about DNS ad-blocking [0], updating stuff now and the…

Same here. I'd got an iPhone 7 with 128GB for only $100 used, on Craigslist. I only buy used phones now, and I never spend more than $200. The market is always saturated with used …

Modern sites are so bad that anything else is "genius." IMO the site needs parallax scroll and hamburger menus. /s

I use the basic HTML version, which is much faster. You can change your default here: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15049

I've used online printing for my cell phone, even pictures from latest iPhones, and they look grainy at 4x6 or 5x7. Maybe it's just a poor printing service. But I spend a lot of ti…

With a larger sensor, you don't have to compress the image as much, so you can record more detail per unit of area. If you take two pictures of the same scene, one with a small sen…

Been wondering about switching to X-Pro2 or X-T2 from Sony a7ii. I can't afford to own both. Any thoughts, or just keep the full frame sony? I don't have any native lenses for eith…

uMatrix is great for blocking 3rd party stuff globally in your browser. Outside of the browser, I rely on DNS blocking rather than modifying hosts files. Wrote a little post about …

I'm so done with Apple, but more generally, with cell-phones. I was very excited to have Signal available back in 2015, but when I learned about cellular baseband processors and DM…

Here’s my take on minimalism, expressed as website design goals: https://www.calebyers.com/blog/website-design-goals.html

Absolutely. Notice how Gabriel Weinberg is spamming his DDG search-engine. Nothing against DDG, but this is a shady tactic for promoting your business. https://www.quora.com/profil…

DuckDuckGo is an offender here. Drives me nuts. See Gabriel’s profile on Quora: https://www.quora.com/profile/Gabriel-Weinberg

Never written a line of perl in my life, but this seems like total satire. They talk about “machine learning” trends and apps and putting classes in “every school.” It’s exaggerate…

It’s a shame they don’t allow female nipples but allow male nipples. Clear cut sexism, and is there no way to sue them?

You are correct, and I reached out to the author about fighting their bogus claims. He wasn’t interested, but this was a while ago. Perhaps if this new parody font fights them, he’…

you're limited to what Apple has allowed you to have. Search app store for content blockers. This "story" [1] by Apple contains most popular, and I've used Ka-Block! and Ghostery L…

After Apple destroyed safari extensions and forced everyone to use declarative net requests, there are few options. I’m pretty sure Ghostery is now unable to perform the analytics …

Definitely worth reading all 3 before you come here and comment on the subject. My takeaway is that the company needs to come clean, or it’s going to snowball into disaster.