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The-Old-Hackeron uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook

I use a browser extension called F.B. Purity. It's worked across multiple browsers for years.

https://www.fbpurity.com/

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The-Old-Hackeron Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024)

The Farsi word div may be related to the English word devil.

The-Old-Hackeron Jerry and Marge Go Large

I've read this story before but it's worth a repeat.

The-Old-Hackeron Is there anything you wish existed?

A decision undo button.

The-Old-Hackeron LinkedIn is a cesspool of scammers and identity theft

Yep, that happened to me too. The biggest joke was that LinkedIn forced me to create a password before I could delete the profile they'd created without my permission. This happened after I'd visited several LinkedIn links on my Pixel phone so they grabbed my Google email address and used that. Bear in mind also that I'd been retired for about six years at that point.

The-Old-Hackeron Halvar's Guide to Entrepreneurship

"Great people are sometimes oddly-shaped"

Great people are racehorses, not donkeys. And racehorses tend be skittish. But they win races for you.

The-Old-Hackeron Halvar's Guide to Entrepreneurship

We used to do this in the software documentation team I worked with for 9 years: we would discuss something verbally, then the person who'd called the discussion would summarise the conclusions in an email to team members. They could then edit the summary as needed. It really helped further down the line as a communal memory device.

The-Old-Hackeron The war on terror primed America for autocracy

Rosa Brooks, the author of the piece, is American.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Brooks

The-Old-Hackeron Show HN: Are You in the Weights?

Secret Santa!

The-Old-Hackeron Big tech apps that make life easy are scamming you

Source headline: Big Tech, big cons: Scammers are hiding in the apps that make your life easy

The-Old-Hackeron Virtual OS Museum lets you relive over 600 operating systems on your desktop

https://archive.ph/85isU

The-Old-Hackeron Notable Properties of Specific Numbers

A wonderful rabbit hole for anyone fascinated by number properties. Focusses almost entirely on positive real numbers.

The-Old-Hackeron Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys