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I can (it's really obvious here) and wish I couldn't. Every time I run into something I might wanna read, but it turns out to be LLM "assisted" writing after I've already invested …

Before anyone gets too excited about ntsync, the performance gains are (with few exceptions) mild, usually in the lower single percentage range. These extreme gains are the result …

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It's certainly distracting and toggle would be nice, but a uBO filter does the trick in the meanwhile. ||tonsky.me^$websocket,1p

Just letting you know, both stylish extension and with it userstyles.org have been largely left behind by the community due to past transgressions like tracking site visits. While …

The no-addon workaround for this is to right click any tab, first select all tabs and then bookmark all tabs. Give the folder a name and open it in the bookmark manager. Now you ca…

Here's the original source by the author: https://scribe.rip/@bobbyrsec/the-dangers-of-googles-zip-tld... While I think that we really don't need a .zip domain, this trick falls ap…

For those who haven't played the game, it should be noted that the game is nothing like what the pitch implies. PS:T is a well written and introspective RPG and in this capacity it…

While I'm not sure about the privacy advantages, setting network.dnsCacheEntries to 0 will prevent firefox from caching dns. There's no appreciable difference in response time on m…

I was about to write up this exact post, almost verbatim. Excellent game sense can seem like you're able to predict the future. Someone who thinks they're "bad at FPS games" usuall…

Relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/1288/ https://xkcd.com/1625/ https://xkcd.com/1679/ This is one of those things you'd better do with a userscript instead of yet another addon. Way m…

I'm probably not the first to point this out, but isn't this crossing the spam line pretty hard? https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=singularityhub.com

This comes down to what you care about. Third party tracking is largely stopped by uBlock Origin, which is my primary concern. If the server I'm currently on does anything to analy…

A nearly ideal way to do this on Firefox is to combine https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Dont-Care-About-Cookies (which is a maintained fork of the original I don't care about cookies …

> Wikipedia is already full of boring and random stubs, I don't see the obsession editors have with making sure that a person is "important enough" to have an article. I feel like …

https://git.sr.ht/~edwardloveall/scribe made the occasional consumption of medium content a decent experience for me. Pick an instance (or selfhost) and set your browser up to auto…

It can be done, but don't attempt this unless you're ready to fix a ton of tiny problems all over the place. Backup your data and move it over to a fresh installation instead.

Regarding GNU Parallel, the nag screen got patched out on Debian due to not being GPL compliant, for now. There's some back and forth "because the citation notice is not part of th…

> Never changing the defaults is like living in a motel your whole life. Seldom changing the defaults is like being at home in many places.

The answer to this is sponsorblock, which has reached a state where it takes mere minutes, sometimes seconds, for someone to mark the relevant segments in a new video. And it's not…

https://packages.debian.org/sid/firefox Many disagree with this stance, but Testing is in an awkward position and I generally steer people away from using it over Stable or Sid bec…