AntEater

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[–] AntEater@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 weeks ago

Too much risk of spiders back there!

Found the Australian.

[–] AntEater@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago

What's the academic terminology for "go pound sand"?

[–] AntEater@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

30 years using Linux - most of that time as a Linux sysadmin. and this is unfortunately true. I got on the Apple ecosystem 20 years ago because I wanted to removed the sysadmin work from my non-work time and it does that quite well. I find most commercial technology to be a faustian bargain with my free time vs. my ethics.

[–] AntEater@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

Pay or fuck off, no ads.

Contrary to what you seem to have understood with my previous post, I'd be absolutely fine with this.

[–] AntEater@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I will block any and every ad I possibly can using all technology available to me. Does that break someone's business model? Too bad. Do I care if all this glorious ad-sponsored content goes away forever because of the actions of me and others like me? Not even a little bit. In fact, I will welcome the day that ad blocking gains enough momentum that it causes businesses to go under or restructure their entire operational model. If ads are the only way something can exist, then it deserves to die.

In case it wasn't clear enough: I don't care.

I've been working in the IT/Internet industry for over 30 years, in one form or another. I understand how things work and I probably have a better perspective than most on how dysfunctional we have become.

[–] AntEater@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

AdGuard (app & DNS) does a decent job on iOS.

[–] AntEater@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I wish Mozilla would just strip all the extraneous junk from Firefox aside from what is truly necessary for web browsing. No crypto, no Pocket, no chatbot integration, nothing AI related, etc. Any and all additional features should be implemented via optional plugins. They could rename the project something like Phoenix or Firebird or something like that.

[–] AntEater@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago

org-mode is awesome for many reasons, but the similarities/overlap with markdown are an incidental benefit. I wouldn't learn org-mode for that reason, however there are many other good ones that make it worthwhile. I've been using it for years for my own project management, tasks tracking, notes and many other things - it's one of those rare tools that can do many things incredibly well.

[–] AntEater@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's more a system of an abuse and profit than speficially "medical". That anyone gets better is purely a marketing/sales feature.

[–] AntEater@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

I hope they listen to him and/or he starts directing how they should do things from the ground-up.

I hate Windows and would love to see ruined too.

[–] AntEater@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

I don't know about your TV but that cat rules!!!

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