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Adguard Home running on a Raspberry Pi. Point your router at it for DNS, works like a charm. Two years now, and it consistently blocks 48% to 54% of all the trash, including _all_ …

> Everyone uses an agent harness to code this days No we don't. I don't care what's at stake; I will never use spicy auto-complete.

> picking a fight with the one company that actually seems to be trying to play > it straight in this sector (Anthropic) https://stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-happened-to-thenumbe…

I could not agree more. You might love him, you might hate him. But he was a fixture in the Golden Age of Personal Computing.

In my case it's Windows 7. I have to override the useragent in Firefox nowadays; Hacker News now rejects any attempts to login or browse the site if I don't fake the browser userag…

Fabrice Bellard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard

GeoSpoof could not be installed because it is not compatible with Firefox 115.37.0

On the sites I visit often I use uBlock Origin to make fonts large enough for me to read (damn you, presbyopia!). Otherwise I use Ctrl-+ to increase the font size (Daring Fireball,…

Have my angry upvote. :-) One of my faults is "When somebody tries to explain something I hear 'A' and everyone else in the room hears 'B'". And vice-versa. But if someone can iter…

Wow. Possibly the worst dickover[1] I've ever encountered. [1] https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/what_is_a_dickover

> now that he is on the wrong side of 90, he is not that interested anymore I'm going to be 70 in November, and I can't wait to retire ... hopefully in 6 months, but chances are I'…

uBlock Origin. Right-click, Block Element, click "Create", done.

Microsoft Teams. The poster child for web-based UI crap.

Mine would be "helicopter shots" when I'm watching the evening news. I don't want to watch 45 minutes of "live coverage" from a news chopper hovering over a building on fire (or, f…

I stand corrected! My memory is pretty vague on this, but I was pretty sure Joel had said something very close to this in one of his blog posts in the early 2000's, but it looks li…

Joel Spolsky. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

> anatomy Autonomy? [autocorrect strikes again! :-)]

I wish our Lambdas would spin up faster, but otherwise I've been very happy with them over the past six years. We seldom run over the free tier limits, and when we do we get a bill…

Thank ghod I'm retiring in six months. I'm very thankful I came of age during the golden age of personal computing. I was able to own my own computer(s) and earn a living writing s…

Will Atlassian be harvesting code and content from private Bitbucket repositories? The wording in their policies and FAQ's is vague, so I'd like to get a definitive (Yes / No) answ…

Browse to https://www.whatismybrowser.com/guides/the-latest-user-agent... and copy the latest UserAgent string for Google Chrome. In Firefox, about:config > general.useragent.overr…