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thowawatp302··on YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
Your analogy is terrible. GET requests can be denied.
thowawatp302··on YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
That’s how google set up this relationship with their users.

“What goes around comes around,” shouldn’t be surprising.”

thowawatp302··on Joining Apple Computer (2018)
Idk 2003-2009 was very much the days of the sort of malware and spyware that showed developers in a company didn’t deserve rights anymore
thowawatp302··on The scientific “unit” we call the decibel
Exactly! It makes sense in context.
thowawatp302··on Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests
If AI isn’t either of those things, then what is it?
thowawatp302··on All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding
Wait which innovations were these?
thowawatp302··on What Is Entropy?
Over long enough scales there is no conservation of energy because the universe does not have temporal symmetry.
thowawatp302··on Garfield Minus Garfield
> Waiting ages for basic serif pages to load over your 56k (or 128k connection if you were rich and had ISDN)? Nope.

> Downloading tracks from KaZaa/WinMX/Limewire/Napster for a million hours only for them to be some warped shit that the studios planted? Nope.

I was there too, and realized that these sort of reductions in speed made one far more mindful of what one was doing

> Almost everything about using the Internet is better today IMO. Faster, prettier, more secure and more cross-platform

This too is particularly debatable. Applications are thin wrappers around web browsers, there are constant annoyances (want to receive notifications for this webpage? Not now? We’ll ask you later.) I bet if I pulled someone from 2005 they’d look at a lot of things on a current website and see malware. And is it really more cross platform when we’ve achieved that by having less platforms?

thowawatp302··on I don't like traveling anymore
My traveling taught me that people are the same everywhere, but now that I know that, I no longer want to to travel just travel.

It’s more of a reminder of that

thowawatp302··on I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad
Nah, personally? I know it’s possible, I’ve done it, and I just do not care anymore.

not worth it

thowawatp302··on Digital Archivists: Protecting Public Data from Erasure
I’ve had the idea of recreating tv channels on my plex server by using tv guide data from the late 90s early 00s

The insurmountable part of that project would be getting the guide data.

You don’t know what other people will want in the future

thowawatp302··on Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water
Why is it less cynical, what does the scale of the US have to do with it?
thowawatp302··on I asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car
> One is that not all of christendom subscribes to the view that it was literally one man, some take a less literal view.

That is such a tiny minority I’ve never even heard of that until now

thowawatp302··on Cross-Platform P2P Wi-Fi: How the EU Killed AWDL
It’s really not, I’ve had disproportionately more USB-C ports go dodgy because there was repeated tangential force on the cable plug than I had with lightning
thowawatp302··on ChatGPT can't kill anything worth preserving
Cool you have more than the one canard from IBM for five computers that became triple the amount?
thowawatp302··on The IndieWeb Doesn't Need to "Take Off"
Browser toolbars came from shady websites, not limewire. Limewire was for Trojans Source: I was doing amateur mallet research 20 years ago
thowawatp302··on 'More than a hint' that dark energy isn't what astronomers thought
> Dark energy, the new measurement suggests, may not resign our universe to a fate of being ripped apart across every scale, from galaxy clusters down to atomic nuclei.

Wasn’t ‘the universe won’t end in a “big rip” the widely held idea?

thowawatp302··on What made the Irish famine so deadly
Low compared to what? How much is low?
thowawatp302··on Bispecific antibodies potently neutralize SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern
None of the titles of studies provided on that page support the assertion that the money was spent “for making mice transgender.”
thowawatp302··on Harvest the sun twice: Agrivoltaics promises sustainable food, energy and water
What does “problematic” even mean here?
thowawatp302··on The man who spent forty-two years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool (1993)
You can’t ever roll rent forward into the new purchase. That’s not the same for a mortgage
thowawatp302··on But good sir, what is electricity?
It didn’t
thowawatp302··on I found a backdoor into my bed
Why is it false?
thowawatp302··on NAT Is the Enemy of Low Power Devices
If IT doesn’t want random things plugging into the network? That’s what 802.1x is for
thowawatp302··on Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights
Yeah but it ain’t Threads
thowawatp302··on Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan airport
Yeah no it wasn’t just three, actually listen to the ATC auto between PAT25 calls into the controller and the crash — not to mention it’s still far more than a single aircraft on a remote planet
thowawatp302··on Avoid ISP Routers (2024)
If you can’t actually refute this then why say anything in the first place?
thowawatp302··on Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan airport
Weather. How often do weather events change the entire traffic flow into a train station?

I’ve heard ATC swap landing and takeoff directions in the space of 10 minutes because of weather

thowawatp302··on Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan airport
Oh you mean the kind that has no conflicting traffic in 0.5 to 2.5 AU?
thowawatp302··on Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan airport
Yes, having tried to listen to ATC with an SDR— the public recordings are made from antenna that placed near the airport, while the official recordings are made from the feeds that the ATC is listening to— and those antenna have their lobes pointed toward the sky.
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