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You'd think the "think of the children" gag has already more than served it's purpose in this world, but then stuff like this pops up...

Oh the irony of fate...

I can't recommend PIA anymore after the acquisition. It used to be my choice ever since using a VPN became a necessity, but these it's Mullvad for me. They're relatively transparen…

A commenter below us put it rather nicely: "Advertising is a huge business predicated entirely on manipulating people to make purchases they otherwise wouldn't, surgically exploiti…

I strongly believe that advertising by definition is unethical in all of it's forms and "block" ads to the best of my ability, in real life as well. I do not view ads that reach me…

I agree with everything but the latex part. Something like HTML 3.2 is a better fit for hypertext documents. There's no need to re-invent anything, only remove the feature creep an…

For those who may not know, this is a front-end to LibGen. I like the search feature more and use it now and then, but for me the 5-downloads-per-24h limitation is usually quite li…

I dunno. I had my doubts for the longest time but recently I've started, little by little, placing my bets on Flatpak. Snap can go to hell, for reasons exhaustively discussed here …

A good refresher as to why a netflix subscription isn't worth my time or money. Gonna add these to my seedbox for that sweet sweet ratio though.

I've read about this so much, I wonder if B/W printers have anything similar? Is there a secret yellow cartridge somewhere in my printer that I don't know about?

I used to use scanners, until I bought a new Brother laser printer and discovered that the scanner feature requires a proprietary driver on the computer end. It's sad as Brother pr…

It's pretty cool. When you think about it, the backslash is kind of a useless character, apart from windows paths and escapes I can't think of much use for it, both of which are ra…

First off, do yourself a favor and avoid snap like plague. It's vendor lock-in and horrible. I use flatpak precisely as you describe. It's for graphical desktop applications, "apps…

I wonder what likes and dislikes are even for. They don't generate income for channel owners afaik, nor do they affect the recommendation algorithm for users, also afaik. Only view…

This is the right way to go. Teach, don't block. You fuck up your relationship to your kids if you force them to keep secrets from you and constantly "fight" against you. Because t…

What do you think should be done? What methods are there, besides harsh economic sanctions, to control entities which break regulations and detriment free society? Clearly somethin…

This is inexcusably disgusting. Reminds me of the bullshit Amazon feeds their employees about unions.

I belong to the camp that believes in using the defaults when it comes to ciphers. I am not an expert in cryptography, nor do I like copypasting stuff I don't fully understand. The…

The way to fix this, along with most issues I see in modern web search, is for search engines to penalize SEO swindling heavily instead of rewarding it. I dare say it's one of the …

I don't personally keep in touch with people so I can't really say how it's like, but I do know that it's popular around my neck of the woods. On par with whatsapp, it feels like.

I sincerely hope this does not work and they continue to carry the stigma they've rightfully earned.

A little bit off-topic perhaps but I have to take the opportunity to mention how much I love James Grime and his videos on numberphile. In my opinion, he has the most entertaining …

As a Japanese learner, this has been a massive disappointment in unicode for me, and a pain in my ass. It has sort of formed into a challenge for me, trying to get the characters t…

I, for one, do not like this. Software that doesn't exist on your computer, but instead gets ephemerally downloaded from a server somewhere when you wish to use it, is about as ant…

This has largely been my experience as well, also using Fedora but I doubt that matters much. I rarely have issues, in comparison to the endless stream of ACPI and other hurdles ot…