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> most idea i have seen, like a tor browsing, is focusing on changing fingerprint and not so much on making fingerprint non-unique.

Not sure if I exactly understand what you're trying to say here, but the Tor Browser itself certainly focuses on making its users' fingerprints identical. At least it's the only browser I know of that passes fingerprint tests (Panopticlick and friends) with JavaScript enabled.

I would guess that the amount of people who care about which keyboard layout they use, don't use the local keyboard layout, and require appropriate labeling of keys (i.e. don't touch type) at the same time isn't that high. I can imagine how annoying it must be to be in that group, though.

I still wonder how that detection thing works. My custom Firefox setup with requests proxied through Tor passes as the TBB, but copying the same request as a curl command somehow doesn't.

Yeah after years of suffering from reCAPTCHA I'm somewhat thankful for hCaptcha. It is still annoying (especially Cloudflare's integration which seems barely compatible with the Tor Browser's cookie and circuit management), but at least I don't have to switch exit nodes twenty times just to have a chance of my solution being accepted (like with reCAPTCHA).

Or if you prefer JavaScript, try qjscalc from QuickJS [1].

[1]: https://bellard.org/quickjs/

> I have sort of a weird grip but can type at about 80-90wpm on my phone with enough accuracy that autocorrect works the majority of the time.

I'm quite curious about your `weird grip'; 80-90 wpm on a touchscreen sounds absurdly fast.

Couldn't the poster set a password instead of a cookie, which they could then use for comment moderation on that post?

> which was/is interpreted by some to be an endorsement of deplatforming.

How else could one interpret it? I'm genuinely curious, as I thought they were pretty clear about it (emphasis mine):

> We need solutions that don't start after untold damage has been done.

> Changing these dangerous dynamics requires more than just the temporary silencing or permanent removal of bad actors from social media platforms.

> Additional precise and specific actions must also be taken:

I normally use the Kanji draw [1] application which is also surprisingly good at recognizing what I'm trying to input. Not nearly as forgiving as Google's solution [2], which I sometimes have to fallback to, but usually it works if I can at least roughly guess what the official way of drawing a character is and check for inexact matches. Plus it's FOSS.

[1]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ch.seto.kanjirecog/

[2]: "Note that this will NOT work - at all - if you don't know basically how to draw kanji. If you just draw something any old way that looks like it, it certainly won't be recognised."

Well the Hungarian one feels like somebody took every single word in the essay and replaced it with the first result from a rather small dictionary.

Google Translate produces a better translation (which is of course still awful), but I have a feeling that the one in question was made by an earlier version of Google Translate as well.

I don't really get the outrage, I've always been perfectly fine being addressed by the government and other organizations without the diacritics in my name. In fact I far prefer that to their placement being mixed up by human error (or a wrong diacritical mark being used, etc).

Disabling JavaScript should work.

And this is exactly why I enabled the global "Disable JavaScript" option in uBlock Origin. The frustration these popups constantly cause far outweighs the slight annoyance of having to re-enable JS for some websites (and you can ask uBO to remember those anyways).

For me it's the other way around, in the search bar it does nothing but it does pause videos.

I believe that these conventions (at least for dates) are indeed the most practical for their respective languages.

Take for example "October the third, two thousand nine" (10/3/2009, MDY). In German one would pronounce this as "der dritte Oktober zweitausendneun" (3.10.2009, DMY). In Hungarian "kétezer-kilenc október harmadika" (2009. 10. 03., YMD). All of these pronunciations reflect the order numerical dates are written: using any other convention would simply make them less natural to pronounce.

Now it is certainly not unheard of that the order of pronunciation also changes (see the British "the third of October"), but changing language is a lot harder ­ in some cases impossible without breaking grammar ­ than changing written numerical representations.

> THIS is the stuff that should be on hacker news!

If interested, see previous discussions of APE:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24256883

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25556286

uBlock Origin also has a "disable JavaScript" button - I simply press that and reload.

http timeouts, but https and gopher both work for me:

https://forthworks.com/retro

gopher://forthworks.com/1/retro

That makes sense then, w3m's inline image option was probably disabled for OP and the other two can't inline images at all.

w3m indents stuff correctly for me, using the version maintained for Debian: http://github.com/tats/w3m

Try nitter: https://nitter.snopyta.org/_paulshen/status/1346583010691321...

Or setting your user agent to Googlebot/2.1 for Twitter should work as well[1].

[1]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tats/w3m/master/doc/README...

Isn't what you're calling a free will just the influence of your previous experiences? Which would mean that there should theoretically be a way for powerful advertisers to avoid people from obtaining such experiences in the first place.

Sure the technology seems to have a long way to go. But would it not being real really matter once you could no longer tell the difference?

Either way, when the alternative is loneliness, depression, and eventually suicide, I find the AI solution to be way more humane.

See also: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/funnies.html#idp501...

> This is about Safari, which is not about preventing you from "running any code Apple didnt sell to you in the first place". It's about security/privacy.

I might be misunderstanding you, but isn't this "security/privacy" argument basically "end users can't be trusted when it comes to installing extensions that respect their privacy, so let's get rid of potentially malicious extensions with arbitrary content blocking logic and enforce our single way of content blocking instead"?

Which certainly sounds like preventing the end user from "running any code Apple didnt sell to you in the first place".

Gemini is more like a modern Gopher than a web replacement. Well it's described as something inbetween, but I personally see the end result to be far closer to the former.

That's not enabled by default, you first have to flip the "Encrypt All Sites Eligible" switch.

For email mutt is obvious, but I also recommend aerc, though it's still beta and does crash sometimes. And I'm writing this from w3m, in which you can just navigate to a textarea and write to it in your $EDITOR. For general browsing it's not that great due to its lack of js/css support, but I find it great for commenting on forums which usually still work with html forms. Interestingly, w3m used to work with gmail as well, but sadly you can no longer log in without javascript.

It's not so much different from the sighted reCAPTCHA+Tor experience, it just wastes less of your time by straight up telling you you're a bot. Also, for some reason, if you press the audio challenge button through Tor, it immediately bans you from the image selection one as well.

They can't be distinguished from bots with tracking, and tracking is pretty much all v3 does. Google doesn't seem to care about collateral damage, I suppose it's the "why use VPNs/proxies if you have nothing to hide" mindset.