Edit: found two original sources, no good summary article yet though https://twitter.com/octoeduardo/status/1340076579108646913?s...
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy....
Edit 2: the original study PDF is only 8 pages and is an easy read; dunno the policy on linking to scihub here but here you go, I’ll delete if needed https://sci-hub.se/downloads/2020-12-19/fd/10.1002@ecy.3266....
(That being said, it's a good opportunity to update my list of Sci-Hub domains – just to make sure I don't accidentally use any, of course.)
Make a mobile-friendly, text-only version with no ads:
x=$(echo y|tr y '\004');
z="<p class=.sc-77";
curl https://gizmodo.com/octopuses-like-to-punch-fish-new-research-suggests-1845929379/amp \
|sed "s/$z/$x&/g"|tr '\004' '\n'|sed -n "s/<\/p>.*/<\/p>/;/^$z/p" > 1.htm
firefox ./1.htm"Oh, Twitter is a cesspool!" Agreed, don't use it.
"Oh I hate Instagram influencers!" Don't use it.
"Fuck Facebook." Great, don't use it.
"Windows 10 is awful." Other alternatives are available.
I know what people will say. "Hurr durr, I can't quit it for XYZ reason". Fine, you can judge that for your own life. But I will say that life is SO much better when you are able to deploy this absolutist hammer with a force of an anvil. I DON'T use Facebook or Twitter or Instagram so I just don't know how much of a cesspit those places really are. There is SO much life to live beyond staring at a rectangular lamp. As my mum says, if it's a chronic problem, either accept it or find a coping mechanism.
For over a year I was bombarded IRL with ads in public spaces promoting some influencer instagram.
Sometimes you can't escape.
I am just railing against the (perceived) lack of consideration given to the all-in solution of not using services that are not satisfactory. I think people have way more agency in the matter than they appreciate.
It's crazy to think that you are not allowed to complain about things if you are using it. Arguably that's the most valid critique.
It’s a point where you can apply aforementioned anvil (something I frequently make use of) and just not buy/play any game that doesn’t work on linux.
Nonetheless, I've done my fair share of Linux gaming, and I'd never ever recommend an average gamer to put Linux on their rig.
I agree, but sometimes you just cannot. In facebook case - it basically killed most of internet forums as people switched to facebook groups. My experience is with car restoration/old car aficionados forums that were replaced by fb groups, but I'm sure it also aplies to other. So now you cannot find anything as they are not indexed by google, facebook search just sucks and if you set up you own forum then people just don't use it as it's "to much hassle" to open one more tab. And if you're in market for some exotic part fb is your only choice nowdays. Second thing, I don't remember where (maybe here?) I've read article how guy missed his childhood friend's funeral, because he has no faceboook account, and it was the only way that family informed his friends - by posting on fb that he died.
1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2551106 Bloggers, journalists and their believers refer to the www as "the internet".
Also, SponsorBlock for YouTube to block sponsors inside videos, and even uMatrix if you want to globally disable JS and select which sites do use JS.