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I rarely get focus stolen on Windows 10. They now make it very difficult for applications to do this (see the allowed conditions here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win…

I use gnome evolution. It's not great but it gets the job done; much better than Claws.

Here's an additional problem with using your own domain: some websites (Discord for example) require you to contact support using the email tied to your account. Many corporate sys…

What is the best approach to dealing with this problem as an individual? Gmail? You might randomly get locked by some AI algorithm (or you might get banned!), or something else goe…

My project here is similar: https://github.com/user234683/youtube-local It keeps everything in the browser while still being local to the machine

The term you want to search for is "Telematic Control Unit." If there's a fuse for it (or if you can remove it entirely), that should take out most of this stuff. I found this thre…

Somewhat related self-plug: Self-hosted browser client for watching YouTube anonymously (Python): https://github.com/user234683/youtube-local It supports downloading all the raw fo…

This is a good time to consult Chesterton's fence [1]. If you go up to something that's existed for thousands of years, and find it tempting to declare it pointless cruft that shou…

> Toyota couldn't push out a fix. They had to issue a recall and have a technician update the software whenever that car ended up being serviced. This gives all the more incentive …

> does Youtube actively do anything to prevent such clients from existing? Not really, no. Though they took some kind of legal action against Hooktube I remember. > Will they one d…

> "For basically all of history, using reason would get you killed." Relevant to this is the analogy by Phil Goetz of reason as a memetic immune disorder [1]: > The reason I bring …

> applying a tax to people in Denmark won't result in the externality being internalized in Nigeria What if Denmark imposes a tariff equal to the tax on imported plastic goods from…

More broadly, even in systems such as Windows, arbitrary programs have way too much access to the system, especially the filesystem. A lot of effort is put into patching exploits t…

uMatrix can protect against this if you block third party everything by default (which I do).

As you demonstrate, there's not always a clear-cut distinction between OOP programs and non-OOP programs. Sure, the Linux kernel uses some OOP concepts, but it couldn't be describe…

I've had this question in the past and I found this post helpful: > The fundamental answer to all of this is that the profits must be shared with shareholders at some point. This i…

> I really love the idea that pure mathematics and nature are the same thing This might not be what you mean, but there is a philosophical position that holds that all mathematical…

> Google gives me bad results. It ignores some of the words in my queries This is the problem I've been having with DDG, where it will aggressively rewrite my search into something…

How much more secure would it be for precincts to phone in the results? Phone numbers are trivial to spoof. Perhaps the party headquarters could call the precincts instead of the p…

>A competent developer will show you a blank page and explain that you need to enable Java Script I completely disagree with this, if I'm understanding you correctly. As someone wh…