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But what about 1 year ago?

I block all canvas requests. When I can no longer do so, I will just try to use the web less.

Hypocrisy is really not as useful as people think. Imagine if some man, who beat his wife, made a career of talking about the important and harrowing issues of domestic abuse. Peop…

It's been done before, and continues to be done in some places. It requires high group trust, and a strong group identity.

I cannot imagine the answer is strictly just one of those two. Young men in particular who have no prospects can and nothing to domesticate them (parents, jobs, relationship prospe…

That crowd doesn't -- but they often do the following: - reject all 3rd party cookies - selectively refuse to load 3rd party domains - block javascript - block webgl - block webrtc…

There are places where 20% of society (or more) are unemployed. They're not nice places. They're run by gangs or warlords. They're the kind of place where teenagers sit on steps an…

Thank you. I had previously assumed that everyone did share my exact values, and that I could merely introspect and then successfully understand the perspective of any person on ea…

I wonder if this also means that a normal user with a privacy-focused browser also gets this version. I can't see the point (except for click fraud?) of showing ads to AI, so it fe…

I'm also not advocating for this. I strongly believe that there's not much we can do about a lot of these things. The world is going to move on an be worse, and most people will bo…

Well if all I had were the best movies before 1998 I would still have a really awesome movie collection. Books fall into a different category in mind. They're leisure but are also …

How many games do you need in your life, though? I'd say the top 500 games on the GoG catalog would be more than a lifetime of gaming. That's not even including open source or rom …

>With Microsoft, you will be forced to consume some second-rate engineer's unmanaged, Or, you'll find the official Microsoft documentation, but will just be out of date, or wrong, …

Well in fairness so long as you describe the goal as "largely destroying the frontal cortex and all the functions that go along with it," then lobotomy is incredibly sound.

People don't know how to turn the ratchet back. It's pretty maddening. Think about it: when people go to a cabin in the woods, quite a bit of what they do is just live without tech…

I didn't mean to sound rude at all :(

I think very few people are thinking about the harder economic arguments here. We know that if companies are drawing prices, they'll do it in the way that most hurts the consumer a…

Even if we take your point that internet may be disappearing. A good way to brace yourself is to expand your scope: books, exercise, hobbies, etc. (and probably download a few roms…

> Patreon only works for famous people This is flagrantly false, and I suspect you've never had the chance to glimpse at the entire catalog. Quite a lot of it is _distasteful_ but …

I really do understand your sentiment, but please remember that "meatspace" is the whole world. You can hate stupid marvel movies and chain department stores all you like, but the …

The internet of the future is an IQ test. Are you smart enough to get in, do your work in a focused manner, and get out so that you live your life? Many, many people will fail this…

>And as a counterexample: some captchas require you to compute something expensive to prove you're not a llm scraper or whatever. I've never run into one of these. What do they ask…

This is called a "ClickFix" attack. There is really _never_ a time when a CAPTCHA will require you to execute code on your machine. The attack is basically getting someone to accid…

What would stop people from shifting to different kinds of wealth transfer? Extreme investment in education, squirrely work-arounds, nepotism, etc? I don't see how you can attempt …

>oh my god can we stop acting like the only possibilities are american "capitalism" or soviet "communism", it's exhausting No way -- I threw in 1600s Europe as well as subsistence …