You don't need a fancy solution to randomly add latency -- just do what I did and sign up for Cox Internet.
or any internet provider in germany.
I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit
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Not an uncommon practice, Jeff Atwood calls it "hellbanning": https://blog.codinghorror.com/suspension-ban-or-hellban/
No, he calls it slowbanning. Hellbanning is when you let them keep posting but other people can’t see the posts. Hackernews hellbans as well and you can see the comments from the deplorables if you turn on “showdead” in your profile.
I know that as shadowbanning. This is one of my favourite reddit posts on the subject:
https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/351buo/tifu_by_postin...
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#183I'm a self-diagnosed completionist and I hate the infinite scroll so much that I developed a mental habit that helps me work around it. When I visit a site with infinite scroll (e.g. YouTube or new Reddit) I immediately scroll down until the first loading spinner (e.g. by pressing the End key). At this point I stop and go back up processing the items in reverse order. This might sound silly, but it gives me a sense of completion and a natural exit point once I get back to the beginning.
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No joke. We burn a bunch of lightbulbs with candle powers measured in the hundreds, have several kinds of entertainment of the highest quality that's ever existed anywhere available at the literal press of a button or with the right spoken command, have a librarian-scribe who can fetch us most any info we like nearly instantly even if it's just a passing whim, our food is abundant, cheap, outstanding, and for all but…
> for all but the poorest can be cooked and delivered by others on a fairly regular basis. kitchens are expensive. the historical urban poor often lived in a corner of a room and bought their food from someone who had a kitchen. it makes eating home cooked meals feel absolutely decadent! (one thing i haven't yet understood: food was cheaper than a penny, but there were no farthings or ha'pnies till much later. indeed…
They used to cut coins in halfs, fourths, and maybe smaller to get lower denominations.
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#186It seems like this kind of thing is much easier if one has a considered purpose and direction in life, that let one derive joy from making stepwise progress toward those: a vision, strategy, goals, tasks. We all have to choose what we love the most, and implement that in our daily decisions & acdtivities. Whether one is religious or not, I have written about this more, at a simple, I hope skimmable, site: http://lukecall.net/e-9223372036854588981.html .
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#187Any recommendations for a Firefox alternative to Crackbook Revival?
One out of the box option is Dev Tools > Network and there's a Throttling dropdown on the right. Set it to something like GPRS and watch the added latency.
This applies for all sites though, whereas you want it for specific ones like reddit
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
No joke. We burn a bunch of lightbulbs with candle powers measured in the hundreds, have several kinds of entertainment of the highest quality that's ever existed anywhere available at the literal press of a button or with the right spoken command, have a librarian-scribe who can fetch us most any info we like nearly instantly even if it's just a passing whim, our food is abundant, cheap, outstanding, and for all but…
> for all but the poorest can be cooked and delivered by others on a fairly regular basis. kitchens are expensive. the historical urban poor often lived in a corner of a room and bought their food from someone who had a kitchen. it makes eating home cooked meals feel absolutely decadent! (one thing i haven't yet understood: food was cheaper than a penny, but there were no farthings or ha'pnies till much later. indeed…
I imagine that you could run a tab with your local grocer and settle up for full pennies later.
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Please tell me how you configured LeechBlock NG. I tried the delaying mode, but only works for the first visit of a domain? Once I've waited those seconds for the page to load I can mindlessly wander around for hours if I don't close the tab.
I think that is the point. It doesn't block the website entirely lest you go and disable the extension. It's designed to frustrate you slightly.
I see. Not very functional for those who have tabs for these sites permanently open.
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#190Interesting. I'm surprised this actually works for people. For me it would it would just make me waste more time, and turn browsing into a stress multiplier instead of a stress reliever. I favor extensions that give an alert or block the site after a certain time. More effective and less anger inducing for me personally.
This is basically an application of CBT, so it's not surprising that it works.
Make room for yourself to notice you're doing something you don't want to do aka mindfulness and that space allows you to change your behavior.