To put it in perspective, let’s assume 10W lights (there are stronger and weaker ones, but it’s a good number for a strong LED bulb).

If you leave 5 of them on unnecessarily, for 5 hours a day, that’s 0.25 kWh. Repeat for 365 days a year, and it’s 91 kWh.

If you live in Germany (notorious for high electricity prices), that’ll be… about 40 EUR per year.

I see two three pin 3.5mm stereo plugs (one of them color coded for the headphones and one for the mic), and zero 4-pin combo plugs?

mild_shock.jpg

Smoke is mostly particulates, I think, and most of it will absolutely stick to the jacket and spare the clothing below.

Enforcing DRM has a big downside: it paints a massive target on the DRM implementation, and it will likely end up getting broken.

No, the network effect is too strong. Deleting WhatsApp is cutting off the primary/only way to contact many friends (in countries where it’s the primary messenger), and a mild form of “abandon everything and go live in a monastery”.

uBlock Origin explicitly advises against this. If it’s the only content blocker it doesn’t currently have issues with YouTube, if you have multiple you’ll probably hit the “disable your adblocker” warning.

The first three are using identical techniques so combining them is of very limited benefit. They’re mostly there to cover software that doesn’t have an ad blocker.

I’d stick with just ublock origin.

Removed by mod

In this case, I’d say the censorship worked in favor of Hamas, and while “poorly moderated” platforms did give them the opportunity to spread their “propaganda”, Hamas used it to show everyone their true face. The result of the propaganda was people who were previously sympathetic to the Palestinian’s cause we’re now calling for Gaza to be turned into a parking lot.

I also find it rather rich that the article is complaining about misinformation when most of the press printed the lie about the hospital attack as if it was a fact.

Oh, I absolutely understand that a lot of tracking is stil possible. But in practice, it’s usually handled by third parties via a script loaded from a third party domain, because doing any of the smarter stuff would require a) a competent IT team b) the marketing team talking to them constantly.

Much easier to just slap another tracker into Google Tag Manager.

Of course this doesn’t help against tech companies. YouTube, Facebook, Reddit etc. will most likely track your views based on the requests, which you can’t avoid. But this takes care of 90% of the tracking, and most importantly, it removes the “everyone tracking you across every site you visit” aspect of the ad surveillance industry.

uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger.

Can’t fingerprint my machine if your fingerprinting script never loads.

There is an universally available subscription that applies to all services, costs $0/month, refuses donations, and is called uBlock Origin.

Haven’t noticed any of the YouTube issues either so far.

20% of their revenue comes from the EU, almost all of it from ads. I’d argue that complying with the law would cost them more than a quarter of the EU ads revenue, without affecting their costs much -> that’d be 5% of global revenue. Breaking the law still pays.

Also, how do you conclude that 448 million people paying 90 EUR per year, for a total of 40 billion EUR, wouldn’t offset a 4.66 billion USD fine?

If the fine was 4% of global revenue every month, sure. So far it looks like it’d be every 3-5 years though…

Just seeing the renaming bullshit they pulled off (really? renaming an existing project AND renaming a different thing to the old name?!?) is enough to avoid both projects. Anyone who creates confusion like that will also make other unsound decisions.

A monumental amount, or a tiny tax if the abuse doubles their profit…

If you store them separately (or use U2F/WebAuthn/security keys), yes - it gives you some protection you if your password manager gets hacked.

If you just store them in the same password manager - no (except that some sites require it or create additional pains in the ass like forced e-mail based 2fa unless you have 2fa already).

Have you read 1984? The UK was always using it as an instruction manual and trying to do their best Airstrip One impression.

The biggest problem is that it uploads your entire contact list and thus social network to Facebook. That alone tells them a lot about who you are, and crucially, also leaks this information about your friends (whether they use it or not).

With contacts disabled it’s a pain to use (last time I tried you couldn’t add people or see names, but you could still write to people after they contacted you if you didn’t mind them just showing up as a phone number).

It still collects metadata - who you text, when, from which WiFi - which reveals a lot. But if both you and your contact use it properly (backups disabled or e2e encrypted), your messaging content doesn’t get leaked by default. They could ship a malicious version and if someone reports your content it gets leaked, of course, but overall, still much better than e.g. telegram which collects all of the above data AND doesn’t have useful E2EE (you can enable it but few do, and the crypto is questionable).

I would love to see a 3D geolocated trajectory. The videos didn’t seem to make sense to my eyes, but trying to estimate 3D movement on a 2D video in the dark with no references is entirely pointless, and I’m not even sure I looked at the correct alleged rocket.

I’m not saying that I doubt the “Palestinian rocket” explanation, it seems like the most plausible theory right now, I’d just like to see what I misinterpreted or misestimated.

Israel promised radar data, did they share any publicly?

I’m somewhat familiar with the problems behind Trust & Safety, and this game depicts them well, although of course simplified.

You may also like https://novehiclesinthepark.com/ which shows how ridiculously hard it is to write a policy and/or enforce a policy consistently.

Whenever you see a bullshit decision from a tech company, remember those two games.