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Firefox with uBlock Origin slow on some sites
  • So, it sounds like this isn't expected behaviour? Now that I've gone looking for examples, I can't find any. Maybe there was some temporary problems yesterday..

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  • Firefox with uBlock Origin slow on some sites

    I'm using Firefox with uBlock Origin on both android and windows. I'm finding more and more sites that are very slow to load, or won't load at all. Yet when I open them in Chrome they work fine. I'm assuming the sites are just failing because of the privacy protection features of ff+ubo, and I'm happy enough to just avoid these shitty sites in general. But - I'm just checking to see - is this expected behaviour, might I have configuration issues?

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    Bison, Antelope Flats, Grand Teton National Park. January, 2019.
  • I opened this and quickly closed it again as the mindless scrolling encourages us to do. But, I knew I saw something and reopened it.

    This is beautiful

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    Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive”
  • Once an end-to-end, encrypted, connection is established between a pair of peers then anything can be sent through it. The establishment proces is generally facilitated by a server of some description so neither peer needs to allow inbound connections. (I'm a long, long way from being an expert on this and happy to be corrected - but this seems like network fundamentals?)

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    Please recommend a middle- to high-end hydraulic disc brake set with a Flat-mount caliper
  • When I was shopping for brakes, years ago, lots of told me SLX has all the quality/power of XT or XTR but they're a tiny bit heavier and don't have the prestigious badge. I went with SLX and have been very happy.

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    What is the best concert you have ever been?
  • Wow my memory is bad - I'd forgotten I had seen them live until I read this. I had to look up their tour history to figure out that it must have been the Momentary Lapse of Reason tour. Listening to their albums now I much prefer the earlier stuff, but they still put on a good show in '88.

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    What is the best concert you have ever been?
  • I don't know Bauhaus well - Bela Lugosi's Dead was on a mixtape I got from someone, and I enjoyed it, so I listen to them a bit. But I imagine they would be awesome live - I'm jealous.

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    What is the best concert you have ever been?
  • Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, supported by Screamin' Jay Hawkins, at the Coogee Bay Hotel in 1985, or maybe '86.

    Arrived nice and early, just the right amount stoned, and got right up front leaning on the stage.

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    Doing my bit?
  • I thought I was doing well with 8 down and 20 up! In my defence - a lot of the stuff I'm seeding is old (10+ years) and I'm the only seed.

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    Press "F" to shove a veteran
  • Agree the editing looks good, but I don't feel the template fits. I don't think the orange one is capable of the realisation and self reflection depicted in the last panel.

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    Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse.
  • This makes me so angry. I have a nice Sony TV that I paid a lot (for me) of money for in 2021. Since I bought it they've been sneeking in more and more ads - when I bought was just when they started with the viewing "recommendations" (even though the things they recommend were often on services I didn't subscribe to), then some of the recommendations started to be for Kia cars etc. and now just last week we got a fucking full screen, with volume, ad for a McFlurry when we turned it on!

    I'll be pulling my old NVIDIA shield out soon. I'm hoping there is an ad free android tv I can flash onto it and put the TV permanently on HDMI 1.

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    The spies in your home: How WiFi companies monitor your private life
  • Where I live I have a choice between symmetric 1Gbps Bell, ~100/20Mbps Starlink or a local wireless provider that sells packages up to 50Mbps down and unspecified up, but is actually more like 5Mbps.

    I'll stick with Bell.

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    The spies in your home: How WiFi companies monitor your private life
  • It has no bridge mode. It has a DMZ function, but it is not reliable. I just use it as a router and dhcp server. I use my own access points for wifi. Unless I use a VPN they can see all my traffic anyway so I'm not really losing any privacy by using their router.

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    The spies in your home: How WiFi companies monitor your private life
  • Sometimes you have no choice. I'm on Bell Canada fibre and as far as I've been able to determine there is no way to connect to that fibre other than their modem/router.

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    Can we get a "block all non-english/non-default language communities" button?
  • I recently learned this, and changed mine to English only. I still see non-English communities in All. I suspect it's up to community owners to set the language of their community and a lot don't?

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    Global population density
  • Nothing that exciting. I just live in a very small community, quite a distance from any larger community, and I'm pretty sure that at the scale of that map - my community doesn't exist. If I zoom in enough, maybe there's something there, but I think it's digital compression artefacts.

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    Global population density
  • India has 17% of the world's population - on a scale like this image, that's not far off "about half"! It looks right to me.

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  • I'm not vegan, but I'm trying to reduce my meat consumption. Unfortunately I really like snacking on pepperoni sticks - I like to tough, chewy texture and the spicyness. When I search for vegan pepperoni substitutes I can only find things intended for making pizza etc. Any suggestions for vegan snacks similar to pepperoni sticks?

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    I'm a retired Unix sysadmin. Over the years I've built things in COBOL, FORTAN, C, perl, rexx, PHP, visual basic, various Unix shells and maybe others. Nothing has been a real "application" - mostly just utilities to help me get things done.

    Now that I'm retired, and it's cold outside, I'm curious to try some more coding - and I have an idea.

    The music communities here seem to post links to YouTube. I generally use Lemmy on my phone but don't use YouTube, or listen to music, on my phone if I can help it. I'd like to scrape a music community here and add the songs posted to a playlist in my musicbrainz account.

    Does that sound like a reasonable learner project? Any suggestions for language and libraries appreciated. My preferred IDE is vim on bash and I have a home server running Linux where this could run as a daemon, or be scheduled.

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    I'm retired spend most of my time in my workshop or doing maintenance on outbuildings on our rural property. I really like Dickies Duck Logger pants, but they seem to wear out quickly. I have three pairs that get worn almost constantly in rotation. The oldest pair is now just over two years old and is worn out - I've repaired the seam in the crotch once, but now the fabric either side of it is thread bare. My phone has worn trough the bottom of the right front pocket.

    Are there similar pants that will last longer, or am I expecting too much?

    I'm in Canada.

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    I'm trying out Nextcloud to use as on my home server. It looks great, but seems way overkill for just two users that really only want the file sync. capability.

    As I'm reading I'm seeing references to WebDAV and it seems that the Nextcloud file sync. server might be "just" a WebDAV server? If it is, might it be possible to point the Nextcloud sync. client (on Windows and Android) at an appropriately configured Apache or nginx server?

    The reason I'm asking here, rather than just trying for myself, is that I have no experience with WebDAV and have no idea what an appropriately configured server might mean in this situation. I'm happy to go do the required learning to make it work - just looking for someone to tell me it's not possible before I put too much effort into it.

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    I'm a retired Unix admin. It was my job from the early '90s until the mid '10s. I've kept somewhat current ever since by running various machines at home. So far I've managed to avoid using Docker at home even though I have a decent understanding of how it works - I stopped being a sysadmin in the mid '10s, I still worked for a technology company and did plenty of "interesting" reading and training.

    It seems that more and more stuff that I want to run at home is being delivered as Docker-first and I have to really go out of my way to find a non-Docker install.

    I'm thinking it's no longer a fad and I should invest some time getting comfortable with it?

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    Up until now I've only seen suggestions for content offered by the various streaming services. Today I started getting ads for a Hyundai car!

    I tried to log a support call with Sony but they said they couldn't do anything without a photo of the offending ad. I now have a photo so will try again tomorrow. I know a single support call won't do anything (though I intend to be very persistent), but if enough people log formal complaints maybe Sony will "talk to" Google.

    I know this is deep first world problems territory, but I feel really betrayed having a device I paid $2,300 for being used to shove ads in my face.

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    Silver fox enjoying the sun in my yard. Photo is a bit soft because I had to shoot through a dirty window.

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    Learning to describe taste

    I know this is a tiny community and my chances of generating significant discussion are small, but we have to start somewhere.

    I like beer. I am lucky enough to have a lifestyle where at the end of most days I get a chance to sit with a beer and listen to some music. I like to try different beers and most times I go shopping I get a mixed 6 pack. If I find something I like I might get a few more of them next week etc.

    Last weekend I was buying beer at an unfamiliar location, it was crowded and I just wanted out so I grabbed a 12 pack of Alexander Keith's IPA (I'm in Nova Scotia). The main reason I went for the 12 pack of mass produced was cost - buying individual cans of craft beer I'm paying $4-$6 per can - it adds up.

    Now we finally get to to reason for my post - I'm really not enjoying the Keith's IPA and I don't have the language to describe why. I can't say any more than it tastes watery and reminds of other cheap mass produced beers.

    I've been to tasting sessions where the server describes the tastes of the various beers on a flight etc., but the information doesn't get retained. Maybe I'm not supposed to share my tasting experience with anyone? Any suggestions for reading, or other experiences, that might help me improve my beer language?

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